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Tako MCP Server

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Tako is answering right now. Last checked 9 min ago. It exposes 4 tools. Last commit 11 Sep 2026.

Give your agent web search and authoritative datasets: S&P Global, FRED, OECD, SimilarWeb & more.

Uptime history 52 days of history · worst day 93%
52 days agonow
96.7%
Uptime 24h
88 of 91 checks
4
Tools
read from the server
358 ms
Response time
average over 24h
6
Stars
last commit 11 Sep 2026

What changed 25

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 9 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

11 Sep a tool changed version
10 Sep a tool changed version
9 Sep a tool changed version
7 Sep a tool changed version
4 Sep a tool changed version
2 Sep a tool changed version
1 Sep 2 tools appeared tako_contents, tako_graph_related
1 Sep 2 tool descriptions were rewritten tako_available_data, tako_search
1 Sep 2 tools changed the parameters they ask for tako_available_data, tako_search
1 Sep a tool disappeared tako_answer
and 12 more, back to 9 August 2026

Tako does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 98.3% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Three servers free · no card

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 9 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add tako-mcp --transport http https://mcp.tako.com/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tako-mcp": {
      "url": "https://mcp.tako.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.tako-mcp]
url = "https://mcp.tako.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tako-mcp": {
      "url": "https://mcp.tako.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tako-mcp": {
      "url": "https://mcp.tako.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 4

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

tako
tako_available_data
Find what data Tako holds on an entity or a metric, and the canonical name it holds it under. Best for: coverage questions themselves, or a metric's canonical name before a priced search. Put a company, person, or place in `q` to list the metrics tracked on it; put a metric in `q` to list the entities it covers. Add `metric` when you know the measure — you get the resolved pair and a ready-to-run `next_call`. Search on the canonical names it returns, not your own phrasing — `tako_search` matches the graph's names, not yours. A name here means the graph tracks it, not that a card exists. If the follow-up search comes back empty, say Tako has no card for it rather than rephrasing the query. Hand a node id to `tako_graph_related` to see what else connects to it.
tako_contents
Fetch the full content behind a url: a web page's text, or an exportable Tako card's data rows. Batch up to 10 urls in one call — each one is billed and fails on its own. Fetch only cards that `tako_search` marked `exportable: true`. Rows bill per 1,000 delivered, so set `max_rows` when the recent rows are enough. If a page is long, such as a filing or an annual report, set `query` to get back only the passages that match. Best for: reading one source in full — a page you need to quote, or the rows behind a card you need to compute over.
tako_graph_related
Explore what a graph node connects to — its metrics, the entities a metric covers, competitors, industry, index membership, and sources. Two modes. Pass `node_id` alone for the map: every relation group with its key, label, total, and its first 3 names. Pass `relation` to page one group, where each item comes back with the id that explores it. Read a key off the map rather than guessing — an unknown key returns an empty group, not an error. Best for: expanding a node you already resolved. Resolve a name to a node id with `tako_available_data` first. A metric listed here means the graph tracks it, not that a card exists — `tako_search` is the final check.
tako_search
Search Tako's data graph and the live web in one call: many results at once, as structured cards plus web results, with the top card rendered inline as a chart. It finds data; `tako_contents` fetches it. Each card carries a headline value, node ids, and a url — pass the url to `tako_contents` for rows (`exportable: true` cards) or a web result's full page text. When `exportable` is false the rows are locked — read the headline value from the card's `description`. Best for: breadth — fan out several narrow queries in parallel. Each query resolves one metric — for one entity, or a comparison set ("Apple revenue", "Nvidia vs AMD gross margin"); several metrics or topics in one query retrieve poorly. To learn what Tako covers, or a metric's canonical name, run `tako_available_data` first, then search on the canonical name it returns.

Tools removed

Tools this server used to expose. Anything built against them stopped working on the day they went.

tako_answer
removed 1 Sep 2026

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://mcp.tako.com/mcp streamable-http answering 512 ms 9 min ago

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Tako — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Tako do?
It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: tako_available_data, tako_contents, tako_graph_related, tako_search. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Tako working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 88 of 91 checks got a reply (96.7%), average response time 358 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
Did Tako ever remove tools?
Yes. tako_answer is no longer exposed — we recorded the date each one disappeared. A tool vanishing usually means a breaking change for anything that depended on it.
How do I connect Tako?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Tako need an API key?
No. Tako completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 4 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Tako?
It answers our handshake in 358 ms on average, which is faster than 45% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
Is Tako open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript, 6 stars on GitHub and 1 open issue. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.