The Neural Net MCP Server

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The Neural Net is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 6 tools.

Sourced register of open-weight AI model releases and AI news. Every field cites its source.

Uptime history 21 days of history · worst day 0%

21 days agonow

3.3%

Uptime 24h

3 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

506 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

What changed 1

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 21 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

21 Oct a tool changed the parameters it asks for search_models

The Neural Net does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 7.0% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 5 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add model-register --transport http https://theneuralnet.com/api/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://theneuralnet.com/api/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.model-register]
url = "https://theneuralnet.com/api/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "model-register": {
      "url": "https://theneuralnet.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "model-register": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://theneuralnet.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 6

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

model

get_model

Get the full record for one model, including every field and the endpoint each field was sourced from. Use when you need provenance or complete detail.

models

search_models

Search the model register: open-weight AI model releases with exact parameter counts, architectural context length, licence and release date. Use this to answer questions about which models exist, how big they are, what they are licensed under, or what shipped recently.

news

search_news

Search stories published by The Neural Net. Each story is written from a primary source and links to it. Use for narrative context on a release rather than raw model facts.

recent

recent_releases

Models first recorded in the register within the last N days. Use to answer 'what shipped recently' or 'what is new in open-weight models'.

register_stats

Summary of what the register covers: how many models, field coverage, organisations tracked, and the inclusion rule. Use to judge whether the register can answer a question before querying it.

wire

get_wire

Everything The Neural Net harvested in the last day that it did not write up, grouped by source and linked to the original. Use for a broad view of current activity.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://theneuralnet.com/api/mcp	streamable-http	answering	120 ms	5 min ago

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The Neural Net — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can The Neural Net do?

It exposes 6 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_model, get_wire, recent_releases, register_stats, search_models, search_news. 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 Neural Net working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 3 of 92 checks got a reply (3.3%), average response time 506 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

The registry lists The Neural Net 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 Neural Net?

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 Neural Net need an API key?

No. The Neural Net completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 6 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is The Neural Net?

It answers our handshake in 506 ms on average, which is faster than 23% 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.