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Any MCP client

Generic connection settings for any MCP client that supports remote servers over Streamable HTTP, plus a curl smoke test.

Your client is not on the list? Any MCP client that supports remote servers over Streamable HTTP can connect to Mindola. The server is hosted, so there is nothing to download or run locally: you enter one URL and your assistant gains tools for building a lens. A lens is your public AI page at one shareable link, where anyone can ask questions and get answers grounded only in your material, with citations.

What you get

Once connected, your assistant can call three tools:

  • create_digital_twin_lens creates a new lens from a profile you confirm in the conversation.
  • add_lens_knowledge adds text or link items to an unclaimed lens so it can answer from them.
  • get_lens_status reports whether the lens is claimed and how much of its knowledge is ready.

No account or API key is needed to start. Anonymous creation returns an unclaimed lens that is live immediately at its share link, plus a claim URL. Open the claim URL and sign up for free to make the lens yours. Unclaimed lenses expire after 30 days. The full tool reference is at MCP server.

Requirements

  • An MCP client that supports remote servers over Streamable HTTP.
  • Nothing else: no Mindola account, no API key, no local server process.

Connection settings

Use these values wherever your client asks for them:

The server supports MCP protocol versions 2025-03-26, 2025-06-18, and 2025-11-25. Sessions are stateless; the server assigns an Mcp-Session-Id on initialize. A GET request with Accept: text/event-stream answers 405 because there is no server push stream. Some clients probe for this on connect; it is harmless.

One exception: ChatGPT uses its own endpoint, not the generic URL above. See ChatGPT.

Verify it works

You can smoke test the server with plain curl, no auth needed:

curl -s https://app.mindola.ai/mcp/lens \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'

A healthy response lists exactly three tools: create_digital_twin_lens, add_lens_knowledge, and get_lens_status. Inside your client, ask your assistant: “What Mindola tools do you have?” It should name the same three tools.

Try this

Ask your assistant:

Create a Mindola lens for me.

It will build a profile with you, ask you to confirm it, then call the create tool and give you the share link and the claim link. You can try what a finished lens feels like at the Charles Darwin demo. The documentation and examples for the server live at github.com/Mindola-ai/mcp-server.

If it does not work

If the connection fails or tool calls error, see Troubleshooting. For clients with a dedicated guide, see the connections overview.