AI Crawler Index

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What it can do

    What data it sees

    Do you need an account

    No: the server works without sign-in

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    How to connect

    How to connect AI Crawler Index to Claude

    The server address to paste into Claude settings:

    https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/c/mcp-registry-official/mcp

    1. Open Claude (claude.ai or the desktop app).
    2. Go to Settings → Connectors.
    3. Click Add custom connector.
    4. Paste the server address copied below into Remote MCP server URL and click Add.
    5. In a chat, click + → Connectors and switch the new connector on.

    Custom connectors are available on Free, Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans (Free is limited to one). On Team and Enterprise an organization Owner adds the connector first under Organization settings → Connectors.

    Authorization

    After you click Add, a sign-in window for the service opens. Sign in with your own account and approve access. Claude never sees your password.

    How to connect AI Crawler Index to ChatGPT

    The server address to paste into ChatGPT settings:

    https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/c/mcp-registry-official/mcp

    1. Open ChatGPT in a browser (chatgpt.com). A Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise or Edu plan is required.
    2. Turn on developer mode once: Settings → Apps → Advanced settings → Developer mode.
    3. Open Settings → Connectors and click Create.
    4. Fill in the form: Name (anything), Description (one line about what the service does), MCP server URL (copy it below).
    5. Under Authentication choose OAuth if the service requires sign-in, otherwise None. Click Create.
    6. In a new chat open + → Apps/Connectors and enable the connector.

    OpenAI has renamed this section before (Connectors → Apps/Plugins). If the label differs, search settings for "developer mode". On Business/Enterprise workspaces an admin must allow custom connectors first.

    Authorization

    On first use ChatGPT opens the service's sign-in window. Sign in and approve access.

    How to connect AI Crawler Index to Cursor

    The server address to paste into Cursor settings:

    https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/c/mcp-registry-official/mcp

    Fastest: click Open in Cursor below and confirm the prompt.

    Manually:

    1. In Cursor open Settings → Cursor Settings → MCP and click Add new global MCP server.
    2. Paste the JSON copied below into ~/.cursor/mcp.json (per project: .cursor/mcp.json in the repo root).
    3. Save the file. The server appears in the MCP list; authorize it there if asked.

    Authorization

    If the service needs sign-in, an authorize button appears next to the server in the MCP list.

    Server tool list (9)

    Raw names from tools/list. Only developers need these.

    whoami{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"whoami","arguments":{}}} — POST that exact body to https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/mcp and you are done: free, read-only, no API key, no account, no consent prompt, nothing for you to invent, and what comes back describes YOU, the caller — the user-agent you sent, the address you came from, the class our instrument books you as, and whether this host has seen you before. Takes no arguments. Safe to call. Deterministic. Touches no third party. Classifies the request you just sent: the user-agent you claim, the address you came from, the class this host's own instrument books you as, whether we have seen you here before and what you fetched, and what the crawler index makes of the user-agent you sent, and whether the address you came from is inside a prefix its operator publishes — both run through this server's own classify_user_agent and is_verified_crawler_ip, on the same data a stranger can curl. Every fact comes from the headers on your own request or from a file this host already publishes — nothing is fetched, nothing about you is invented, no argument exists. Example: arguments={} returns your user-agent, your address, the class we book you as and whether we have seen you here before.
    example{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"example","arguments":{}}} — POST that exact body to https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/mcp and you are done: free, read-only, no API key, no account, no consent prompt, nothing for you to invent, and what comes back is this server's own worked example — classify_user_agent, run for real on a canned input from this host's own data — so you see the exact shape of an answer before you send anything of yours. Takes no arguments. Safe to call. Deterministic. Touches no third party. Runs this server's own worked example end to end — classify_user_agent on the exact user-agent string of the busiest client in this host's own published log (/data/observed-clients.json, 1164 requests in the window) — our data, and no third party is asked anything — and returns exactly the structuredContent a real call returns, not a mock and not a description of one. Use it to see the shape of an answer before you decide what to send. The input is canned from this host's own data; no URL of yours is fetched and no third party is touched. Example: arguments={} runs classify_user_agent with {"user_agent":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1. and returns its real answer.
    classify_user_agentFIRST CALL, needs nothing: {"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"whoami","arguments":{}}} — Identify the crawler behind a raw User-Agent header: operator, category, robots.txt stance, how to verify it, and what blocking it costs. A user-agent is a claim, not proof — confirm with is_verified_crawler_ip. Example: user_agent='GPTBot/1.2' returns GPTBot, OpenAI, ai-training. Also callable without MCP, same implementation: GET https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/tools/classify-ua?ua=GPTBot%2F1.2&s=client-dossiers
    lookup_crawlerFIRST CALL, needs nothing: {"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"whoami","arguments":{}}} — The full index record for one crawler: operator, category, robots.txt token and stance, user-agent substring and example, verification method, mirrored IP-range endpoint, and what blocking it costs. An unknown slug returns near matches. Example: slug='claudebot'.
    list_crawlersFIRST CALL, needs nothing: {"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"whoami","arguments":{}}} — The index, filtered or whole: each row says what the crawler is and what blocking it costs, and the reply lists every valid filter value. Example: category='ai-training', limit=20.
    generate_robots_txtFIRST CALL, needs nothing: {"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"whoami","arguments":{}}} — A ready-to-paste robots.txt block for one stance, with the reasoning and the crawlers it names. Omit the argument to get all eight stances described. Example: stance='block-ai-training'.
    is_verified_crawler_ipFIRST CALL, needs nothing: {"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"whoami","arguments":{}}} — Test an IPv4 or IPv6 address against every crawler prefix the operators themselves publish, remirrored every six hours. Returns the matching prefix, its source and the crawlers using it; a miss is reported as a miss, not as a forgery. Example: ip='20.171.206.5'. Also callable without MCP, same implementation: GET https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/tools/verify-crawler?ip=20.171.206.5&s=client-dossiers
    whats_changedFIRST CALL, needs nothing: {"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"whoami","arguments":{}}} — Freshness and change state: when the index was built, when each operator source was last fetched, which changed, which are failing, and the dated changelog. The cron check before regenerating a config from this data. Example: since='2026-08-01'.
    changes_sinceFIRST CALL, needs nothing: {"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"whoami","arguments":{}}} — Only what changed since your last call: prefixes added or removed, upstreams failed or recovered, records edited. Send back the `cursor` from the previous result; it advances only on a real change, and the data refreshes every 6h. Example: since='0'.