Use it in Claude

Claude, on the web and in the desktop app

On a Team or Enterprise plan an owner adds the connector first, under Organization settings, then Connectors; members then start at step 5.

1. Open Customize, then Connectors ↗.
2. Click + Add, then Add custom connector.
3. Name it Algorithm Encyclopedia, paste https://algos.wiki/api/mcp as its URL and click Continue, then Continue again.
4. Under Authentication, choose No sign in, then click Add.
5. In a chat, open the + button at the lower left, then Connectors, and turn on Algorithm Encyclopedia.

A Free plan allows one custom connector.

Claude Code

Run this in a terminal, then check that it shows as connected with /mcp inside Claude Code.

claude mcp add --transport http \
  algorithm-encyclopedia \
  https://algos.wiki/api/mcp

That adds it for you in the project you're in. Add --scope user before the name to have it in every project.

Cursor

Add this to ~/.cursor/mcp.json for every project, or to .cursor/mcp.json in one project, then turn it on from Customize in Cursor's sidebar.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "algorithm-encyclopedia": {
      "url": "https://algos.wiki/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Other apps

Any app that connects to remote MCP servers can use it: add a server with the address https://algos.wiki/api/mcp and Streamable HTTP as its transport. It needs nothing else.

Six tools, each for Instagram or LinkedIn. Your app chooses among them, and the platform, from what you ask; you don't have to name them.

ask

Answers a question in writing, citing numbered, linked sources, after a second pass has checked the answer against them. Questions the site has already answered come back at once; a new one takes from about 20 seconds to 2 minutes.

search_sources

Finds the passages that bear on a question, best first, each with its title, publisher, date and link. It can keep to some kinds of source or a span of dates. Faster than ask, and nothing is written for you.

list_topics

Lists the encyclopedia's topics for a platform (parts of the app such as Reels or the LinkedIn feed, features, policies) with the ids get_topic takes. It can filter by a word.

get_topic

Reads one topic's article: the lead, how it works, what to do, how it has changed, and every source it cites.

get_changes

Lists where a platform's guidance was updated or reversed, newest first: what the older source said, what the newer one says, and both links. It can keep to one topic or start from a date.

glossary

Defines a term in plain words, such as Trial Reels, with the sources that define it. Without a term it lists every term.

Things to ask

• “Do hashtags still help reach on Instagram? Check the Algorithm Encyclopedia.”

  Uses ask

• “What does the Algorithm Encyclopedia say has changed in Instagram's advice about Reels since 2024?”

  Uses get_changes

• “Do links in a post hurt reach on LinkedIn? Ask the Algorithm Encyclopedia.”

  Uses ask on LinkedIn

• “Find the sources the Algorithm Encyclopedia has on whether editing a caption hurts a post.”

  Uses search_sources

• Everyone using it through an MCP app shares one allowance of new answers: 10 a minute and 300 a day, the day ending at midnight UTC. Questions the site has already answered don't count.
• When that allowance, or the site's own daily total, runs out, ask sends the sources the answer would have drawn on instead, and your app's own model answers from them.
• The other five tools write nothing and don't count toward it.

Answers are written by AI from each platform's own sources, and say which statements are the site's own reasoning. Unofficial: not affiliated with Instagram, Meta, LinkedIn or Microsoft. You can also ask on the site.