TechSnif is answering right now. Last checked 11 min ago. 47 installs a week from npm. It exposes 13 tools.
Agent-first tech news: ranked story clusters, coverage and discussion links, trends, and events.
The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private.
Installs per day
peak 19 · avg 6 · +44% w/w
a month agotoday
Uptime history
60 days of history · worst day 93%
60 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
13
Tools
read from the server
224 ms
Response time
average over 24h
47
Installs / week
npm and PyPI
This one has been quiet for a while
Quiet is not dead — but it is worth knowing when it wakes up, or when someone else takes it over. We watch the repository and tell you either way.
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 mcp --transport http https://mcp.techsnif.com~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp": {
"url": "https://mcp.techsnif.com"
}
}
}~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.mcp]
url = "https://mcp.techsnif.com".cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp": {
"url": "https://mcp.techsnif.com"
}
}
}.vscode/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp": {
"url": "https://mcp.techsnif.com"
}
}
}This one needs environment variables set before it will start:
TECHSNIF_API_URL (Override the TechSnif API base URL (defaults to https://api.techsnif.com)).
The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.
Available tools 13
Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on.
If a tool disappears, we record the date.
articles
get_articles
List TechSnif editorial articles (original coverage written by TechSnif). Filter by category (AI, Startups, Venture, Robotics) or tag, and paginate with offset. Use get_article for the full body text.
search_articles
Full-text search over TechSnif editorial article titles and excerpts, ranked by relevance. Returns article summaries with category, tags, and publish dates. Use get_article for the full body text, and paginate with offset.
story
get_story
Get full details of a story cluster by slug, including all coverage links from every outlet (TechCrunch, NYT, TechSnif, etc.), direct URLs to social discussion posts (exact tweets, Reddit threads, LinkedIn posts, Bluesky posts), and the full TechSnif article text if available. Use this to answer "show me the tweets about this story" or "what outlets covered this". Filter discussion by platform, coverage by publisher, or use brief mode to skip the article body.
get_story_timeline
Get the ranking history of a story cluster by slug: a time series of snapshots with rank, headline tier, commentary count, and coverage count at each point. Use this to see how a story rose, peaked, or faded across the news cycle.
trending
get_trending_articles
Get trending TechSnif editorial articles from the last 48 hours, ranked by coverage heat and recency. Use get_article for the full body text.
get_trending_stories
Get story clusters gaining momentum right now, ranked by velocity: how quickly coverage and discussion grew within a recent window. Each story includes its velocity score plus commentary and coverage deltas. Use get_story for full detail.
article
get_article
Get a full TechSnif editorial article by slug, including the complete body text.
changes
get_changes
Get story cluster changes since a timestamp: newly appeared clusters and updates to existing ones, each with a change type, a change time, and a story summary. Poll this to stay in sync with the TechSnif feed without refetching everything; pass the returned nextCursor as the next "since" value.
entities
list_entities
List the companies, people, and products TechSnif tracks across story clusters, with story counts. Only entities linked to at least one story are returned, most-covered first. Pass a returned slug as the entity param of get_top_stories to pull every story about that entity.
leaderboard
get_leaderboard
Get TechSnif source or author leaderboards: which publications and journalists drive the most tech story coverage. Rank by story count over a 7-day, 30-day, or all-time window, optionally filtered by topic.
stories
search_stories
Full-text search over story cluster headlines and excerpts, ranked by relevance. Returns matching story clusters with coverage links, discussion link counts, and TechSnif article references when available. Use get_story for full detail and article body text. Optionally filter by publisher and paginate with offset.
tech
get_tech_events
Get upcoming tech industry events (conferences, summits, expos) with dates, locations, and URLs.
top
get_top_stories
Get tech story clusters from across the web. Each story aggregates coverage from multiple outlets (TechCrunch, The Verge, NYT, TechSnif, etc.) and includes links to social discussion (tweets, Reddit threads, LinkedIn posts). Sort by rank (prominence) or newest (most recently seen). Optionally filter by headline tier (1=standard, 2=major, 3=top story), publisher name, discussion platform, topic, or a "since" timestamp, and paginate with offset. Use get_story when you need full details or article body text.
Endpoints
| URL | Transport | State | Latency | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://mcp.techsnif.com | streamable-http | answering | 114 ms | 11 min ago |
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TechSnif — questions
Answers built from our own checks of this server.
What can TechSnif do?
It exposes 13 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_article, get_articles, get_changes, get_leaderboard, get_story, get_story_timeline and 7 more. 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 →
What is TechSnif mostly used for?
Its tools cluster around story, trending and articles. That is what this server is built to work with — the grouping comes from the actual tool names, not from a category we assigned.
Is TechSnif working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 224 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
Is TechSnif still maintained?
The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private. We show this because it changes what you can expect: an unmaintained server may keep answering for months and then stop without warning.
How do I connect TechSnif?
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 TechSnif need an API key?
No. TechSnif completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 13 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is TechSnif?
It answers our handshake in 224 ms on average, which is faster than 56% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
How many people use TechSnif?
The npm package @techsnif/mcp-server was installed 47 times in the last week. Week over week that is +44%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.