Guides by TIC MCP Server

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Guides by TIC is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 5 tools.

Sourced guides to earning online, platform rules, and a check for AI-income offers. Read-only.

The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private.

Uptime history 30 days of history · worst day 3%

30 days agonow

21.7%

Uptime 24h

20 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

601 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Guides by TIC does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 20.6% 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 1 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add tic-guides --transport http https://tic-guides-mcp.vercel.app/mcp

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

https://tic-guides-mcp.vercel.app/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.tic-guides]
url = "https://tic-guides-mcp.vercel.app/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tic-guides": {
      "url": "https://tic-guides-mcp.vercel.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "tic-guides": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://tic-guides-mcp.vercel.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 5

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

offer

check_offer

Compare an offer someone was pitched (a course, a trading bot, a done-for-you store, a micro-SaaS dream, AI books, voice agencies...) with the 15 schemes in the Reality Check and the 'do not start' guides. Returns what was checked, what could not be checked, and the sources. Use before giving an opinion on any 'AI income' pitch.

platform

get_platform_rules

How a selling or posting platform works for small sellers: fees, house norms, what gets accounts removed, and whether automation or AI help is allowed. Platforms include Etsy, Gumroad, Fiverr, Upwork, YouTube, TikTok, Reddit, X, dev.to, Amazon programmes and more.

recent

recent_changes

Dated changes that affect people earning online (fee changes, new rules, headwinds and tailwinds), newest first, each with a 'so what' and a source. Optionally filter by platform.

way

get_way

Full detail for one way to earn (id from search_ways, or its name): what you sell, honest earnings note, one-time setup, the platform rules, a stop rule and risks, with the link to the public guide.

ways

search_ways

Search 40 sourced guides to earning online (selling digital products, content, services, resale, clipping, AI-assisted work). Filter by verdict, time per day, or free-to-start. Returns short cards with a link to each full guide. Use for 'what could I do with 1 hour a day', 'is X worth trying', or to list options.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://tic-guides-mcp.vercel.app/mcp	streamable-http	answering	69 ms	1 min ago

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Guides by TIC — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Guides by TIC do?

It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: check_offer, get_platform_rules, get_way, recent_changes, search_ways. 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 Guides by TIC working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 20 of 92 checks got a reply (21.7%), average response time 601 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

Is Guides by TIC still maintained?

The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private. We show this because it changes what you can expect: an unmaintained server may keep answering for months and then stop without warning.

The registry lists Guides by TIC 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 Guides by TIC?

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 Guides by TIC need an API key?

No. Guides by TIC completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Guides by TIC?

It answers our handshake in 601 ms on average, which is faster than 17% 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.