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Skim MCP Server

by workers-perch-app-skim Your server? Claim it
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Skim is answering right now. Last checked 6 min ago. It exposes 1 tools.

URL to Markdown or structured JSON (schema.org/OG); renders SPA; batch reads. No signup/key.

Uptime history 41 days of history · worst day 73%
41 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
92 of 92 checks
1
Tools
read from the server
124 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 11 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

16 Aug a tool description was rewritten read
16 Aug a tool changed the parameters it asks for read
13 Aug a tool changed the parameters it asks for read
11 Aug a tool changed the parameters it asks for read

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Skim 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 6 min ago.

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

read
read
Fetch a web page and return its main content as clean Markdown (headings, links, lists, code preserved; nav/ads/scripts stripped). Also handles plain text, JSON and XML, extracts structured data (format=data), and normalizes any ATS/job-board feed into a unified jobs[] array (format=jobs). Use this whenever you need to read the actual content of a URL. No signup, no API key.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://skim.perch-app.workers.dev/mcp streamable-http answering 75 ms 6 min ago

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Skim — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Skim do?
It exposes 1 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: read. 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 Skim working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 124 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Skim?
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 Skim need an API key?
No. Skim 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 Skim?
It answers our handshake in 124 ms on average, which is faster than 81% 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.