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The Techno Optimist is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 5 tools.

Where frontier tech programs stand: stage, milestones and slips, obstacles, specs and sourced news.

Uptime history 28 days of history · worst day 0%
28 days agonow
0.0%
Uptime 24h
0 of 91 checks
5
Tools
read from the server
300 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

The Techno Optimist does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 0.0% 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 11 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add tracker --transport http https://api.technooptimist.io/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://api.technooptimist.io/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.tracker]
url = "https://api.technooptimist.io/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tracker": {
      "url": "https://api.technooptimist.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "tracker": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.technooptimist.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 5

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

company
get_company
A company as context for its programs: what it does, HQ, founding, status/listing, valuation and staff (with dates and provenance), its programs with stage and next milestone, technical approach, open problems, people, recent funding, partners, and its latest news.
frontier
get_frontier
Survey a whole area of technology: the frontier's fields (with a one-line explainer each) and their programs sorted by importance, with stage and next milestone. Without `frontier` it lists every frontier with its slug. Use `field` to narrow to one field (slugs come back in the result).
latest
latest_updates
Recent dated news (tests, launches, funding, delays, papers) with a short summary, the story page and the original source URL. Optionally filter by frontier, company, or program (program needs company or frontier). `sort: top` ranks by importance instead of recency.
program
get_program
Everything known about one technology program: goal, development stage, current status, next milestone and slips, milestone history, current obstacles, physics limits, how it works, key specs, upcoming events and its most important dated news with source links. Identify it by `frontier` + `program` slugs (from its URL /<frontier>/<program>, or from `search`), or by `company` + `program`.
search
search
Find technology programs (e.g. Starship, Figure 03, a fusion reactor), companies and frontiers by name or keyword. Use this first when you only have a name or topic; it returns the slugs `get_program` / `get_company` / `get_frontier` take, plus page URLs.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://api.technooptimist.io/mcp streamable-http answering 300 ms 11 min ago

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The Techno Optimist — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can The Techno Optimist do?
It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_company, get_frontier, get_program, latest_updates, 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 The Techno Optimist working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 0 of 91 checks got a reply (0.0%), average response time 300 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
The registry lists The Techno Optimist as active — why does it not respond?
The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.
How do I connect The Techno Optimist?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does The Techno Optimist need an API key?
No. The Techno Optimist completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.