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Thread Otter is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 7 tools.

Free buyer-thread finder, Reddit demand board + full GTM agent tools; try with no key.

Uptime history 87 days of history · worst day 0%
87 days agonow
0.0%
Uptime 24h
0 of 92 checks
7
Tools
read from the server
86 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 16 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

16 Aug 2 tools appeared competitor_complaints, demand_radar

Thread Otter 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 7 min ago.

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

Available tools 7

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

buyer
find_buyer_threads
Free GTM demo: give it a product website URL and Thread Otter crawls the site, works out who its buyers are, and mines recent Reddit threads where those buyers are asking for something like it. Returns a report link; results are ready in ~2-3 minutes via get_demo_report. Limited to 2 runs per day.
competitor
competitor_complaints
Free live scan: this month's Reddit threads where people are complaining about a named product, asking for alternatives, or evaluating it. Classified by complaint-shaped language with the threads as receipts. Limited to 5 scans per day.
demand
demand_radar
Free weekly comparison of buyer demand on Reddit BY CATEGORY (startups, marketing, sales, dev & AI, services, ecommerce): where demand ran hottest this week, with top themes and thread receipts per category. Call with no arguments for the comparison, or pass a category key for its detail.
demo
get_demo_report
Fetch the results of a find_buyer_threads run: top matched buyer threads with relevance scores, plus a link to the full report with reply drafts.
reddit
reddit_demand_board
Free weekly board of what people keep asking for across 40 startup, marketing, sales, dev, and ecommerce subreddits: recurring pains, missing tools, and paying-shaped demand with real thread links. Call with no arguments for the cross-community leaderboard, or pass a community for its full breakdown.
started
get_started
How to connect Thread Otter: what this server does, the free tools available anonymously, trial signup, and API key setup. Works without authentication.
subreddit
subreddit_rules
Free lookup of a subreddit's promotion posture from Thread Otter's community vetting data (2,000+ profiled subreddits): self-promo policy, link policy, and how to write for the room.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://www.threadotter.com/api/mcp streamable-http answering 86 ms 7 min ago

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Thread Otter — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Thread Otter do?
It exposes 7 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: competitor_complaints, demand_radar, find_buyer_threads, get_demo_report, get_started, reddit_demand_board and 1 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 Thread Otter working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 0 of 92 checks got a reply (0.0%), average response time 86 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
The registry lists Thread Otter 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 Thread Otter?
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 Thread Otter need an API key?
No. Thread Otter completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 7 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.