# Show HN: I made an MCP server that checks 172 cloud and SaaS status feeds

> Source: <https://outagedeck.com/developers/mcp>
> Published: 2026-08-11 22:50:31+00:00

ChatGPT (Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise)

Settings → Connectors → **Add custom connector** → paste `https://outagedeck.com/api/mcp`

and choose No authentication. The server also exposes the standard `search`

and `fetch`

tools, so it can be used as a research source and every answer it gives carries a citable link back to the provider page or incident it came from.

Claude, on claude.ai and Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → **Add custom connector** → paste `https://outagedeck.com/api/mcp`

. The server needs no authentication, so the connector works immediately.

VS Code, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, Zed, and the OpenAI Agents SDK

All of them take a remote Streamable HTTP server by URL. Point them at `https://outagedeck.com/api/mcp`

in whatever the client calls its MCP server list. Clients whose connector layer only speaks Server-Sent Events are handled too: request `Accept: text/event-stream`

and the same JSON-RPC comes back as an event stream.