CounselorAI MCP Server

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CounselorAI is answering right now. Last checked 8 min ago. It exposes 13 tools.

College-access writing and financial-aid analysis tools for counselors, students, and families.

Uptime history 17 days of history · worst day 99%

17 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

857 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

What changed 2

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 5 September 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

5 Sep a tool description was rewritten awardlens

5 Sep a tool changed the parameters it asks for awardlens

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check CounselorAI every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 8 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add counselorai --transport http https://api.counselorai.app/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "counselorai": {
      "url": "https://api.counselorai.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.counselorai]
url = "https://api.counselorai.app/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "counselorai": {
      "url": "https://api.counselorai.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "counselorai": {
      "url": "https://api.counselorai.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

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.

account

account_balance

Free. Returns the credits left on this API key. Call it before a long run of billed calls.

aid

aid

Explain what a family is likely to see across a list of schools and why, in plain language. An explanation for a counselor to walk a family through, never an official determination, and the output says so. Cost: about 73 credits (~$0.073) per call.

appeal

appeal

Draft a financial aid appeal letter to a college financial aid office. Call this when a family needs to ask for a review of an award: income dropped, an expense appeared, another school offered more, or the FAFSA was wrong. Returns the letter, not advice on whether to appeal. Runs a 5-step drafting pipeline, so it is the most expensive tool here and the slowest, typically 30 to 60 seconds. Cost: about 353 credits (~$0.353) per call.

awardlens

awardlens

Break down one to three financial aid award letters: what is grant, what is loan, what is work-study that has to be earned, what the supported net price is, and what renewal conditions are buried in the language. Identifies missing facts and questions for the aid office. With more than one letter it compares them side by side. Read-only. Cost: about 173 credits (~$0.173) per call.

fafsa

fafsa

Produce a FAFSA action checklist for one student, keyed to their grade, dependency status and income band. Answers the process question a family actually has: what do we do, in what order, by when. Does not compute an award. Cost: about 87 credits (~$0.087) per call.

humanize

humanize

Rewrite reader-facing prose so it sounds direct, specific, and personal without changing facts or inventing a voice. Use it for outreach, emails, letters, posts, and narrative copy. It preserves quoted text and checks the result against the source. It does not evade or promise to beat AI detectors. Do not use it for code, SQL, JSON, legal text, or technical specifications. Cost: about 413 credits (~$0.413) per call.

letterlens

letterlens

Analyze a finished recommendation letter and return specific fixes: what is vague, what is asserted without evidence, what reads as generated. Read-only and far cheaper than drafting. Use it to critique a draft, not to rewrite one, and use revision to apply the fixes. Cost: about 93 credits (~$0.093) per call.

profile

profile

Turn raw counselor notes into a structured student profile. Run this first when working one student across several tools: it is cheap, and its output is good input for the relationship, traits and story fields on rec, or keyDetails on appeal. Cost: about 87 credits (~$0.087) per call.

quote

quote_call

Free. Validates the input for a tool and returns the exact credit hold a real call would take at your price, plus whether your balance covers it. Use it to budget before a billed call or to lint an input for free.

rec

rec

Draft a letter of recommendation from counselor notes. Call this to WRITE a letter. To critique one that already exists, call letterlens instead, which is much cheaper. Runs the same 5-step pipeline as appeal. Cost: about 369 credits (~$0.369) per call.

revision

revision

Apply one instruction to an existing letter and return the revised text. Pair it with letterlens: review to find the problems, revise to fix them. Changes only what the instruction asks for. Cost: about 97 credits (~$0.097) per call.

scholarship

scholarship

Surface scholarships worth this student's time and the angle their application should take for each. Runs a live web search, so it is slower and costs more than the other analysis tools, and the output carries a verification warning because scholarship programs change year to year. Treat the result as a research starting point. Cost: about 165 credits (~$0.165) per call.

translate

translate

Translate counselor-facing output into a family's language, holding the financial aid terms in English on purpose. FAFSA, Pell, SAI, COA and the loan names stay untranslated so a family can match what the school actually sends them against what they were told. Read-only. Cost: about 173 credits (~$0.173) per call.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://api.counselorai.app/mcp	streamable-http	answering	696 ms	8 min ago

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CounselorAI — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can CounselorAI do?

It exposes 13 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: account_balance, aid, appeal, awardlens, fafsa, humanize 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 →

Is CounselorAI 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 857 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect CounselorAI?

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 CounselorAI need an API key?

No. CounselorAI 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 CounselorAI?

It answers our handshake in 857 ms on average, which is faster than 12% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.