Folk MCP by usefulapi MCP Server

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Folk MCP by usefulapi is answering right now. Last checked 11 min ago. It exposes 14 tools. Last commit 12 Oct 2026.

Read and write Folk CRM people, companies, groups and notes.

Uptime history 13 days of history · worst day 99%

13 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

91 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 12 Oct 2026

What changed 8

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 1 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

9 Oct a tool changed version4 times that day

7 Oct a tool changed version2 times that day

1 Oct a tool changed version

30 Sep a tool changed version

and 4 more, back to 1 October 2026

Folk MCP by usefulapi missed one check this week

Everything else answered, so this is steady rather than shaky. We check every 15 minutes, which is how a one-off gets told apart from the start of a pattern, and how you hear about the next one within the hour instead of 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 11 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add folk --transport http https://folk.usefulapi.io/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "folk": {
      "url": "https://folk.usefulapi.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.folk]
url = "https://folk.usefulapi.io/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "folk": {
      "url": "https://folk.usefulapi.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "folk": {
      "url": "https://folk.usefulapi.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 14

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

folk

folk_create_company

Create a new company. `name` is required. Folk REST: POST /v1/companies.

folk_create_note

Create a note attached to an entity (person/company). Folk REST: POST /v1/notes.

folk_create_person

Create a new person (contact). All fields are optional. Folk REST: POST /v1/people.

folk_get_company

Get a single company by id. Folk REST: GET /v1/companies/{id}.

folk_get_current_user

Get the user associated with the current Folk API key. Folk REST: GET /v1/users/me.

folk_get_note

Get a single note by id. Folk REST: GET /v1/notes/{id}.

folk_get_person

Get a single person (contact) by id. Folk REST: GET /v1/people/{id}.

folk_list_companies

List/filter companies. Supports cursor pagination and structured filters. Folk REST: GET /v1/companies.

folk_list_groups

List groups in the Folk workspace (ids needed to place people/companies). Folk REST: GET /v1/groups.

folk_list_notes

List notes, optionally scoped to an entity or filtered by full text and creation date. Folk REST: GET /v1/notes.

folk_list_people

List/filter people (contacts). Supports cursor pagination and structured filters. Folk REST: GET /v1/people.

folk_list_users

List users in the Folk workspace (id, name, email) — useful for resolving owner ids. Folk REST: GET /v1/users.

folk_update_company

Update fields on an existing company. Only provided fields are changed; list-valued fields REPLACE the existing values. Folk REST: PATCH /v1/companies/{id}.

folk_update_person

Update fields on an existing person. Only provided fields are changed; list-valued fields (emails, phones, groups, companies, etc.) REPLACE the existing values. Folk REST: PATCH /v1/people/{id}.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://folk.usefulapi.io/mcp	streamable-http	answering	78 ms	11 min ago

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Folk MCP by usefulapi — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Folk MCP by usefulapi do?

It exposes 14 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: folk_create_company, folk_create_note, folk_create_person, folk_get_company, folk_get_current_user, folk_get_note and 8 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 Folk MCP by usefulapi 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 91 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Folk MCP by usefulapi?

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 Folk MCP by usefulapi need an API key?

No. Folk MCP by usefulapi completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 14 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Folk MCP by usefulapi?

It answers our handshake in 91 ms on average, which is faster than 88% 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 Folk MCP by usefulapi open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in JavaScript, 0 stars on GitHub and 1 open issue. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.