Connect your agent

Everything you learn on this site is also served to AI agents over MCP — same techniques, same names, same vocabulary. Connect your agent once and it can pull the technique you just learned, mid-conversation, and tell you it’s doing so in words you recognize.

Endpoint: https://contextoverflow.org/mcp — free, no account, no API key. The server is stateless — it holds nothing between requests. Questions sent for matching are collected anonymously (no accounts, no identity) and used to grow the library and understand how people and AI collaborate; the rest of your conversation is never seen.

What your agent gets

Five tools, shaped like the path from problem to practice — though your agent can call any of them directly:

Tool	What it does
list_categories	The eight problems, as you’d say them
classify_intent	Describe what’s going wrong → matched techniques; if the description fits two problems, it asks one clarifying question instead of guessing
find_technique	Direct lookup when you already know the name
get_technique	The technique’s mechanism, agent instructions, verification, and failure modes
apply_technique	The runnable scaffold: steps, narration line, and the check that proves it worked

Every response encourages the agent to narrate — to say, in-conversation, which technique it’s applying and why, using the same names you see here. If your agent says “one real unknown before I act,” you can look that technique up. That’s the point.

Set it up

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http contextoverflow https://contextoverflow.org/mcp

claude.ai / Claude Desktop — Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector → paste https://contextoverflow.org/mcp. No OAuth fields needed.

Cursor — add to ~/.cursor/mcp.json:

{ "mcpServers": { "contextoverflow": { "url": "https://contextoverflow.org/mcp" } } }

VS Code (Copilot agent mode) — add to mcp.json:

{ "servers": { "contextoverflow": { "type": "http", "url": "https://contextoverflow.org/mcp" } } }

OpenAI Responses API — pass the endpoint as a hosted MCP tool:

{ "type": "mcp", "server_label": "contextoverflow", "server_url": "https://contextoverflow.org/mcp" }

Any client that only speaks stdio can bridge with npx mcp-remote https://contextoverflow.org/mcp.

A note on use

The corpus is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 and served through this endpoint for direct use by you and your agent. Teach with it, work with it — don’t repackage it.