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Pica MCP Server

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Pica is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. 2 860 installs a week from npm. It exposes 1 tools.

manage your music catalog through conversation — works, recordings, credits, agreements, royalties

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

Installs per day peak 1 074 · avg 309 · -7% w/w
a month agotoday
Uptime history 7 days of history · worst day 0%
7 days agonow
0.0%
Uptime 24h
0 of 91 checks
1
Tools
read from the server
77 ms
Response time
average over 24h
2 860
Installs / week
npm and PyPI

Pica does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 7.7% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

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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 6 min ago.

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

Available tools 1

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

pica
pica_signup_start
[settings] Sign up for withPICA from inside the agent, without leaving the chat. Use this when the user wants to create a new withPICA account / catalog and you're talking to them through an unauthenticated MCP connection (stdio without an API key, or HTTP without a Bearer token). The tool mints a single-use signup link valid for 15 minutes — surface the URL to the user as a clickable resource_link. The link opens a page that verifies their email by magic-link, creates their organisation, starts their free runway (a non-expiring usage allowance — no day-count trial), and (for stdio) shows a connection key to paste into Claude Desktop's MCP config or (for HTTP) resumes the OAuth flow. For existing users, prefer pica_sign_in.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://withpica.com/api/mcp streamable-http answering 77 ms 6 min ago

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Pica — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Pica do?
It exposes 1 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: pica_signup_start. 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 Pica working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 0 of 91 checks got a reply (0.0%), average response time 77 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
Is Pica 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 Pica 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 Pica?
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 Pica need an API key?
No. Pica completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 1 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How many people use Pica?
The npm package @withpica/mcp-server was installed 2 860 times in the last week. Week over week that is -7%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.