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Ctx is answering right now. Last checked 2 min ago. It exposes 6 tools. Last commit 17 Aug 2026.

Turn a GitHub repo or docs site into agent-ready context: pack it or search it, over MCP.

Uptime history 26 days of history
26 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
6
Tools
read from the server
150 ms
Response time
average over 24h
1
Stars
last commit 17 Aug 2026

What the code does

We read the source, 11 h ago · tools taken from the live server · rules 3dff92dd89df

Capabilities

What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.

Page loads a third-party script public/index.html:207
<script defer src="https://vanshul.com/a.js" data-site="ctx"></script>

Is this your server and something here is wrong? Tell us — corrections are free and do not require a plan.

This code can reach further than it looks

We found places where it runs commands, builds paths or queries from values it is given. None of that is a flaw by itself — it becomes one when the code changes, and code changes quietly between releases. We re-read it on every one.

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 2 min ago.

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

Available tools 6

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

pack
pack_docs
Crawl a documentation site from a start URL and return it as one agent-ready context blob: each page extracted to clean Markdown, concatenated with its URL. Stays within the same site section; bounded by depth and page count. Use max_tokens to fit a budget.
pack_repo
Fetch a GitHub repository and return it as one agent-ready context blob: text files concatenated with clear "==== path ====" headers, binaries/lockfiles/build dirs stripped, with a token estimate. Use include/exclude globs to focus, and max_tokens to fit a budget.
context
search_context
Search a GitHub repository and return only the passages that match a query — each with its file path, line number and a relevance score. Far more token-efficient than pack_repo when you need a specific detail (e.g. "where is auth handled?").
docs
search_docs
Crawl a documentation site and return only the passages that match a query — each with its page URL, line and a relevance score. Token-efficient way to answer a question from docs without packing the whole site.
file
get_file
Return the full text of a single file in a repository, by path. Use after list_files or search_context to drill in.
files
list_files
List the text files ctx would include for a repository (after stripping binaries, lockfiles and build dirs), with their byte sizes. Cheap way for an agent to see the layout before packing.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://ctx.vanshul.com/mcp streamable-http answering 147 ms 2 min ago

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Ctx — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Ctx do?
It exposes 6 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_file, list_files, pack_docs, pack_repo, search_context, search_docs. 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 Ctx 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 150 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Ctx?
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 Ctx need an API key?
No. Ctx completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 6 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Ctx?
It answers our handshake in 150 ms on average, which is faster than 80% 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 Ctx open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript and 1 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.