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io.github.karank2512/tell-mcp

tell: buying signals with receipts

Is the tell MCP server down? No. It answered initialize and tools/list in the probe of 2026-10-30.

Ask tell which accounts are in market and why, with a receipt URL behind every claim.

alive probed 2026-11-15 · unchanged since 2026-10-30

5tools
1.4ktokens in Claude Opus 5.5
0.7 %of Claude's 200k window
0.6×the median server
2.9 sto initialize
7 msto list tools
Run it
uvx tell-mcp@0.1.0 (stdio, probed in a container with the network off)
Host
pypi.org
Reports itself as
tell
Capabilities
prompts, resources, tools
Instructions
467 characters
Of a 1M window
0.1 % of a 1M context window
Count
1.4k tokens in Claude Opus 5.5, exact, measured 2026-10-30. With the Claude Code prefix mcp__…__ on each tool name: 1.5k. The o200k_base estimate is 882. Counted again when the tool definitions change. Method.
Repository
https://github.com/karank2512/tell-ai
Website
https://github.com/karank2512/tell-ai/blob/main/docs/mcp.md
Registry
active, updated 2026-10-20 · registry entry
Changes
2 recorded, reachable in 2 of them. A row is added when the result, the tool count or the cost changes.

Most expensive tools

The Claude column scales the o200k estimate of each tool by this server's ratio of exact to estimate, 1.63×.

Tool≈ Claude tokenso200k estimateShare of this server
in_market38023326 %
events35822025 %
watch_accounts26716419 %
coverage21813415 %
explain21313115 %

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History

We add a row when the result changes. A server with no change keeps its last row.

ProbedResultInitToolsClaudeo200k
2026-10-30 07:51alive1.9 s51.4k882
2026-10-23 06:52alive2.9 s5882

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Stops answering, comes back, tool set or cost changes. One confirmation mail first, a stop link in every mail.

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