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PlainGrade MCP Server

by workers-mike-tusa-plaingrade-api Your server? Claim it
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PlainGrade is answering right now. Last checked 11 min ago. It exposes 1 tools.

English readability scores (Flesch, Flesch-Kincaid, Fog, SMOG) and text stats. Text never stored.

Uptime history 30 days of history
30 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
1
Tools
read from the server
166 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

What changed 4

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 16 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

18 Oct a tool changed version
16 Oct a tool changed version3 times that day
and 2 more, back to 16 October 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check PlainGrade every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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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 11 min ago.

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

score
score_readability
Compute readability scores for English text: Flesch Reading Ease, Flesch-Kincaid grade, Gunning Fog, SMOG, Coleman-Liau, ARI and a consensus grade, with plain-English interpretation, text statistics (words, sentences, syllables, reading and speaking time) and the sentences longer than a threshold. Read-only; the text is scored in memory and never stored or logged. Same engine as the PlainGrade JSON API (POST /v1/score).

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://plaingrade-api.mike-tusa.workers.dev/mcp streamable-http answering 140 ms 11 min ago

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PlainGrade — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can PlainGrade do?
It exposes 1 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: score_readability. 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 PlainGrade 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 166 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect PlainGrade?
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 PlainGrade need an API key?
No. PlainGrade 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 fast is PlainGrade?
It answers our handshake in 166 ms on average, which is faster than 79% 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.