Connect ToolScout to your AI assistant

What you can ask

• decide_software: what to buy or shortlist for a job, budget, team size and existing tools.
• compare_software: compare two to four named products for your situation.
• find_alternatives: you want to leave a product and need options with trade-offs.
• check_software: prices, free plans, AI assistant and MCP support, integrations and recent changes for named products.

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Claude web, desktop, mobile

ToolScout is listed in the Claude connectors directory, where it can be added in a couple of clicks. Listings can take a short while to appear. You can also add it yourself.

1. Open Settings, then Connectors.
2. Choose Add custom connector.
3. Paste the server URL above and confirm.

Claude Code (terminal):

claude mcp add --transport http toolscout https://trytoolscout.org/mcp

ChatGPT under review

The ToolScout plugin is currently in review in the ChatGPT apps directory. Until it is listed, you can add the server URL above as a custom connector if your plan and workspace allow custom connectors (Developer mode).

Cursor

Add this to your Cursor MCP settings file (~/.cursor/mcp.json, or .cursor/mcp.json inside a project).

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "toolscout": {
      "url": "https://trytoolscout.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}

VS Code (GitHub Copilot)

Add this to .vscode/mcp.json in your project, or to your user MCP configuration.

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

Gemini Gemini Enterprise

Gemini Enterprise administrators can register ToolScout as a custom MCP server in their own Google Cloud project, using the server URL above. See Google's guide: Set up a custom MCP server. Availability of custom MCP servers in the consumer Gemini app depends on your account.

Microsoft Copilot Studio

1. Open your agent and go to Tools, then Add a tool.
2. Choose Model Context Protocol and add a new MCP server.
3. Enter the server URL above and choose no authentication when asked.

Exact menu names can change. See Microsoft's guide: Add tools from an MCP server.

Other MCP clients

ToolScout is also published in the official MCP Registry as io.github.pcaiano/toolscout. Any client that supports remote MCP servers over streamable HTTP can use the server URL above.