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Thisispaper MCP Server

io.github.zaxarovcom/thisispaper
answering

Thisispaper is answering right now. Last checked 12 min ago. 173 installs a week from npm. It exposes 10 tools. Last commit 31 Jul 2026.

Search 2,500+ curated architecture, design, photography and art projects. Free tier, no signup.

Installs per day peak 120 · avg 10 · +18% w/w
a month agotoday
Uptime history 39 hours of history
39 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
10
Tools
read from the server
558 ms
Response time
average over 24h
173
Installs / week
npm and PyPI

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 12 min ago.

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

Available tools 10

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

api
get_api_key
Mint a FREE Thisispaper Intelligence API key (200 calls/month) for an email address. The key is shown once; use it as Authorization: Bearer tip_live_... on this MCP endpoint and on the REST API. Max 3 keys per email.
browse
browse
Newest projects in the archive first, optionally filtered by category: architecture, interiors, design, photography or art.
discover
discover
One project chosen at random from the archive. Editorial serendipity: the way a reader opens a magazine to an unplanned spread.
fetch
fetch
Retrieve the full record for one Thisispaper project by id (the id returned by search). Returns title, text and the public url.
guides
list_guides
Every hand-curated Thisispaper guide and edition. Guides are places: Tokyo, Kyoto, Lisbon, Copenhagen. Editions are themes: Black Matter (black as a way of handling light), Jutaku (Japanese houses on narrow plots), Icons, Off-the-Grid, Monographs on single architects. Returns each one's title, type, one-line description, cover image and public URL. Filter by city or by type. The full guides and editions are reserved for Thisispaper+ members.
project
get_project
Full metadata for one project: machine-written description, design language, details and dimensions, plus the public URL.
projects
search_projects
Search 2,500+ hand-curated architecture, design, photography and art projects from Thisispaper. Returns ranked summaries (name, studio, city, year, category, intro, thumbnail, url, citation_url, provenance). Without an API key, results are capped at 5; pass Authorization: Bearer tip_live_... for full results.
search
search
Search 2,500+ hand-curated architecture, design, photography and art projects from Thisispaper. Returns a list of results with id, title and url.
similar
similar_projects
Nearest projects to a given slug by visual + semantic similarity (precomputed SigLIP neighbours). Use the slug from search_projects results.
taste
search_by_taste
Search by taste metadata: material, light, color, mood, composition, subject. Unique to Thisispaper: these tags were written during human curation. Provide at least one dimension; results are ranked by how many dimensions match, then by recency.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://www.thisispaper.com/intelligence/api/mcp streamable-http answering 553 ms 12 min ago

Thisispaper — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Thisispaper do?
It exposes 10 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: browse, discover, fetch, get_api_key, get_project, list_guides and 4 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 →
Is Thisispaper 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 558 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Thisispaper?
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 Thisispaper need an API key?
No. Thisispaper completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 10 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Thisispaper?
It answers our handshake in 558 ms on average, which is faster than 18% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
How many people use Thisispaper?
The npm package thisispaper-mcp was installed 173 times in the last week. Week over week that is +18%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Thisispaper open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in JavaScript 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.