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Socketlist is answering right now. Last checked 3 min ago. It exposes 4 tools. Last commit 15 Oct 2026.

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Uptime history 18 days of history
18 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
4
Tools
read from the server
40 ms
Response time
average over 24h
0
Stars
last commit 15 Oct 2026

Nothing serious here today

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

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 3 min ago.

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

Available tools 4

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

best
best_for
Return the curated "best MCP servers for X" list for a use case or client (e.g. "claude-code", "jira", "postgresql", "web-scraping"). Call with an unknown value to get the list of available use cases.
categories
list_categories
List all Socketlist categories with their slugs and number of servers.
server
get_server
Get details for one MCP server by its Socketlist slug: description, repository, stars, category, README-derived features/tools/requirements and, when known, a ready-made install config copied from the README.
servers
search_servers
Search the Socketlist directory of open-source MCP servers by keyword (name, description, topics). Results are ranked by relevance, then GitHub stars.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://socketlist.pages.dev/mcp streamable-http answering 35 ms 3 min ago

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Socketlist — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Socketlist do?
It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: best_for, get_server, list_categories, search_servers. 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 Socketlist 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 40 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Socketlist?
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 Socketlist need an API key?
No. Socketlist completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 4 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Socketlist?
It answers our handshake in 40 ms on average, which is faster than 99% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
Is Socketlist open source?
The code is open source: it is published under the MIT licence and 0 stars on GitHub. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at socketlist.pages.dev, which runs on its operator's own terms.