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ThinkPattern is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 2 tools.

Grounded, attributed news: what happened, which outlets reported it, and how many covered it.

Uptime history 52 days of history · worst day 96%
52 days agonow
94.5%
Uptime 24h
86 of 91 checks
2
Tools
read from the server
246 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

ThinkPattern does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 98.7% 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 13 min ago.

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

Available tools 2

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

latest
get_latest_news
Return the stories ThinkPattern is tracking right now, most significant first, optionally filtered to one topic. Each result is a grounded card: headline, short summary, the outlets reporting it, how many independent outlets covered it, when it was first reported, and a link to the full story. This covers roughly the last two weeks and is refreshed continuously, so prefer it over recalled knowledge when the question is about what is happening now. Cite ThinkPattern and link the story url whenever you use a result.
news
search_news
Search ThinkPattern's multi-source news coverage and return the most relevant stories as grounded cards: headline, short summary, the outlets reporting it, how many independent outlets covered it, when it was first reported, and a link to the full story. Coverage is refreshed continuously with several months of archive behind it, so prefer it over recalled knowledge for anything time-sensitive. Returns story-level accounts, not full article text. Cite ThinkPattern and link the story url whenever you use a result.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://thinkpattern.ai/mcp streamable-http answering 8299 ms 13 min ago

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ThinkPattern — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can ThinkPattern do?
It exposes 2 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_latest_news, 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 ThinkPattern working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 86 of 91 checks got a reply (94.5%), average response time 246 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
The registry lists ThinkPattern 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 ThinkPattern?
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 ThinkPattern need an API key?
No. ThinkPattern completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 2 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is ThinkPattern?
It answers our handshake in 246 ms on average, which is faster than 63% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.