WindowsForum MCP Server

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WindowsForum MCP Server is answering right now. Last checked 11 min ago. It exposes 25 tools.

Search WindowsForum.com threads, posts, and Windows news; fetch documents and Microsoft KB info.

Uptime history 47 days of history · worst day 87%

47 days agonow

98.9%

Uptime 24h

90 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

246 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

What changed 10

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 11 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

18 Sep a tool changed version

16 Sep a tool changed version

5 Sep a tool changed version

4 Sep 3 tools appeared corpus_stats, list_drifted, supplement_status

3 Sep a tool changed version

2 Sep a tool changed version

1 Sep a tool changed version

11 Aug a tool changed version

WindowsForum MCP Server does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 96.9% 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 11 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add mcp-server --transport http https://mcp.windowsforum.com/

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-server": {
      "url": "https://mcp.windowsforum.com/"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.mcp-server]
url = "https://mcp.windowsforum.com/"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-server": {
      "url": "https://mcp.windowsforum.com/"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-server": {
      "url": "https://mcp.windowsforum.com/"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 25

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

forum

get_forum

Get a WindowsForum forum section's details by node id — title, description, and thread/message counts; pair with list_threads or get_forum_updates to see its activity.

get_forum_statistics

Get sitewide WindowsForum statistics — total threads, posts, and members, plus the newest member; use for questions about the community's size and activity. Returns: Dictionary with various forum statistics

get_forum_updates

Summarize recent WindowsForum activity over the last N hours (default 24) — new threads and posts across the community; use for "what's new" questions.

search

Search all WindowsForum content (threads, posts, Windows news) with combined keyword and semantic ranking — the best first call for any question or topic; returns snippets with ids for the fetch tool. Returns a list of search results with basic information. Use the fetch tool to get complete document content.

search_kb

Search official Microsoft Knowledge Base articles on support.microsoft.com by topic or keyword — use for Windows update, patch, and known-issue lookups when you lack a KB number. Returns matching KB article titles and URLs. Use get_kb_article to fetch the full content of a specific article. Returns: Dictionary with 'results' key containing list of matching KB articles with title and url.

thread

get_thread

Get a WindowsForum thread's metadata by id — title, author, reply and view counts, dates, and canonical URL; use fetch or get_thread_posts to read its content.

get_thread_posts

Read every post in a WindowsForum thread by thread id, in order — use to follow the full conversation, including replies and accepted solutions, after finding a thread via search.

threads

list_threads

List the most recently active WindowsForum threads with pagination — use to see what the community is discussing right now, without needing a search query.

search_threads

Search WindowsForum threads with structured controls — sort by relevance, date, replies, or views, in either order, with pagination; use when result ordering or paging matters.

article

get_kb_article

Retrieve an official Microsoft Knowledge Base article from support.microsoft.com by KB number (e.g. KB5063878) — returns the update's title, summary, and affected builds. Use this tool when a user asks about a specific KB number. Fetches the full article content including title, summary, known issues, and resolution steps.

corpus

corpus_stats

Get aggregate health of the Key-Facts supplement corpus — status histogram, how many eligible articles still have no supplement, how many approved cards went dark from article edits (drifted), and the latest generation run summary.

drifted

list_drifted

List article threads whose approved Key-Facts card is dark because the opening post was edited after approval (content-hash drift). These are exactly what the hourly fill driver repairs next.

elastic

search_elastic

Relevance-ranked full-text thread search with explicit offset pagination — use to page through a large result set beyond what the main search tool returns. Complements the main `search` tool: use this to page through a large result set with an explicit offset.

fetch

fetch

Retrieve the complete content of a WindowsForum document (thread or post) by ID — use after search to read the full discussion for detailed analysis and citation. Returns the full text for detailed analysis and citation, including title, URL, and metadata. Use it to expand a search result into its whole document.

latest

get_latest_registered_users

List the newest WindowsForum member registrations — use for community-growth questions or to identify recent joiners.

mysql

search_mysql

Exact substring lookup over thread titles and author usernames, ordered by view count — use for literal title or author matching rather than relevance-ranked full-text search. Complements the main `search` tool: use this for literal title or author matching rather than relevance-ranked full-text search.

online

get_online_users

See who is on WindowsForum right now — counts of members, guests, and robots currently online, with recently active member names. Returns: Dictionary with online users and guest count

post

get_post

Get a single WindowsForum post by post id — returns the post's text, author, thread context, and URL; use when you have a specific post reference to verify or quote.

posts

search_posts

Search individual WindowsForum posts (not just thread titles) for a keyword or phrase — use to find specific answers, error messages, or fixes buried inside long threads.

semantic

search_semantic

Find WindowsForum discussions by meaning rather than exact words — embedding-based semantic search that excels at natural-language questions and paraphrased topics. Uses kNN vector similarity to find content that is semantically related to the query, even if it doesn't share exact keywords. Best for natural language questions and conceptual searches.

supplement

supplement_status

Get the Key-Facts supplement state for one article thread — lifecycle status (approved/held/validated/draft), whether it is the live 'current' revision, and whether the sidebar card is actually rendering, dark because the article was edited after approval (drifted), or absent. Use to answer 'why is there no Key-Facts card on thread N?'.

time

get_time

Get the current server date and time — use to anchor time-sensitive queries like 'latest' or 'this week' before searching recent content. Returns: Current timestamp in ISO format

user

get_user

Look up a WindowsForum member's public profile by username or user id — registration date, message count, reaction score, and role.

users

search_users

Find WindowsForum members whose usernames match a query — use to locate a member before calling get_user for their full profile.

windows

get_windows_news_posts

Get WindowsForum's recent Windows news coverage from the last N days (default 7) — curated news threads on updates, security patches, and Microsoft announcements.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://mcp.windowsforum.com/	streamable-http	answering	235 ms	11 min ago

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WindowsForum MCP Server — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can WindowsForum MCP Server do?

It exposes 25 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: corpus_stats, fetch, get_forum, get_forum_statistics, get_forum_updates, get_kb_article and 19 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 →

What is WindowsForum MCP Server mostly used for?

Its tools cluster around forum, threads and thread. That is what this server is built to work with — the grouping comes from the actual tool names, not from a category we assigned.

Is WindowsForum MCP Server working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 90 of 91 checks got a reply (98.9%), average response time 246 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect WindowsForum MCP Server?

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 WindowsForum MCP Server need an API key?

No. WindowsForum MCP Server completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 25 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is WindowsForum MCP Server?

It answers our handshake in 246 ms on average, which is faster than 58% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.