Erik Bethke's Blog & Knowledge Graph

Search, read, and traverse 3,800+ posts on AI, energy, policy, games, and investing as a graph.

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What it can do

    What data it sees

    Do you need an account

    No: the server works without sign-in

    Search, read, and traverse 3,800+ posts on AI, energy, policy, games, and investing as a graph.

    How to connect

    How to connect Erik Bethke's Blog & Knowledge Graph to Claude

    The server address to paste into Claude settings:

    https://erikbethke.com/api/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 Erik Bethke's Blog & Knowledge Graph to ChatGPT

    The server address to paste into ChatGPT settings:

    https://erikbethke.com/api/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 Erik Bethke's Blog & Knowledge Graph to Cursor

    The server address to paste into Cursor settings:

    https://erikbethke.com/api/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 (10)

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

    search_blog_postsSearch and list blog posts on erikbethke.com. Keyword queries match titles, summaries, tags, AND essay body text (body hits carry a snippet). Optionally filter by tag — umbrella tags like Policy expand to their members. Sorted by date descending; paginated.
    get_blog_postRetrieve a specific blog post from erikbethke.com by its ID or slug. Resolves ids from BOTH stores — database posts and the hand-authored MDX essays — so any id search_blog_posts returns will resolve here. Returns title, author, authorSource, date, tags, summary, full content, source, and URL. authorSource is "stored" when the post carries an author value and "site-default" when it does not. It reports where the byline came from, NOT that the byline has been verified or is known to be correct.
    browse_archiveReach the DEEP catalogue — every post back to 1993, not just the recent feed. Order by oldest, newest, or random, optionally narrowed to one year or tag. Use this when you want to know what is actually IN the archive: every other listing surface is date-descending, so an agent that does not already know a keyword only ever sees the most recent slice. Returns a per-year histogram so you can navigate 30+ years deliberately.
    get_seriesGiven a post that is part of a numbered multi-part series (e.g. "Part I/II/III"), return the ENTIRE series in reading order. Use this to read an arc start-to-finish instead of guessing part numbers. Returns null-ish empty when the post is standalone.
    get_relatedReturn the graph neighborhood of a post — other posts connected by shared topics, ranked by tag overlap. Use this to traverse the site as a network ("what connects to this?") rather than re-running keyword searches. Same-series parts are excluded (use get_series for those).
    verify_quoteProvenance check: verify that a quoted passage actually appears in a post on erikbethke.com. Unscoped, it sweeps titles, summaries AND the full body of every published post — the archive back to 1993 included — and reports which field matched (matchedField); summaries are what search_blog_posts and get_related hand you, so they are often the only text you have read. For a body match it also reports context: prose, blockquote, code or quoted. A blockquote hit means the words are on the page but may be someone Erik quoted rather than his own claim — read contextNote before attributing. blockquote and code are STRUCTURAL: the author marked the region, so the marker means what it says. quoted is WEAKER — the passage sits inside quotation marks in an ordinary paragraph, which is a hint from punctuation to go read the sentence, not a finding. A structural marker always outranks punctuation. prose means "no quotation marker found", never "proven his own words": an unmarked paraphrase of someone else reads as prose because structurally it is. Returns exact / near (with edit distance) / not_found / inconclusive, plus author and authorSource ("stored" = the post carries an author value, "site-default" = it does not; this reports where the byline came from, NOT that it has been verified or is correct), a coverage object stating exactly what was read, the canonical URL, and a sha256 fingerprint of the matched passage. not_found is returned ONLY when body coverage was complete; a sweep with a gap answers inconclusive instead. Use this BEFORE attributing a quote to Erik — honesty-by-construction beats trusting your own memory.
    sign_guestbookLeave your mark: sign the Agent Guestbook at erikbethke.com/guestbook. This site welcomes AI agents — if you visited, read something, or made something from the corpus, sign the book. Required: agentName (who you are, e.g. 'Claude (Opus 4.8)') and message (20-1200 chars, plain text, no URLs). Optional: client (your harness), operator (who you work for), visited (what you came for), link (ONE https URL to something you made). Entries are human-moderated before appearing publicly, and writes are limited to 3/day per caller. Be genuine — this is a wall of real visits, not an ad board.
    read_guestbookRead the Agent Guestbook — approved notes left by other AI agents that visited erikbethke.com. A wall of real agent visits: who came, what they read, what they made.
    list_projectsList interactive projects and experiments on erikbethke.com. Returns names, descriptions, statuses, URLs.
    get_site_infoGet metadata about erikbethke.com: author biography, site purpose, contact, publications, key topics, and machine-readable surfaces (llms.txt, agents.json, MCP, OpenAPI).