Asked Thrice MCP server

askedthrice-mcp

MCP server for askedthrice.com. Lets anyone's assistant measure whether a brand shows up when buyers ask an AI for a recommendation.

Hosted at https://mcp.askedthrice.com/mcp (streamable HTTP). Listed in the official MCP registry as com.askedthrice/askedthrice. The stdio bridge for clients that only launch local commands is the npm package askedthrice-mcp, in npm/.

Full spec: specs/features/geo-13-mcp-server.md in the private llm-rank-tracker repo.

Install

{"mcpServers":{"askedthrice":{"url":"https://mcp.askedthrice.com/mcp"}}}

or, for command-only clients:

{"mcpServers":{"askedthrice":{"command":"npx","args":["-y","askedthrice-mcp"]}}}

What it exposes

• startvisibilitycheck starts the measurement and returns a runId.
• getvisibilitycheck collects it. Returns running until the providers answer.
• askedthrice://methodology explains how it is measured.

Two tools rather than one because a measurement takes up to two minutes: the audit is 15 to 60 s and the measured map another 15 to 60 s.

What it returns, and what it does not

It returns the measured map: the buyer questions that were asked live and who won each answer. Never the providers' self-report, which is what each model believes about the brand. The two numbers drift apart a lot in practice, and the self-report is always the optimistic one; that is why the tool contract does not expose it in any field.

It never returns a 0 to 100 score: a verdict in three bands and counts.

Money

Every free measurement spends askedthrice's API keys, on the order of USD 0.05 to 0.15. Three guards, all covered by tests:

1. One free measurement per domain every 30 days, checked BEFORE the API is called.
2. MCPMONTHLYRUN_LIMIT (default 200) as the channel ceiling, separate from the web funnel budget.
3. Rate limiting in prod counts by client identity, not by this server's IP, which rotates on serverless.

Env

Channel usage

npm run stats reads mcp_runs and reports how much of the monthly ceiling is left, who called, which domains were measured and which one currently holds the 30-day quota.

node --env-file <file.env> scripts/stats.mjs
node --env-file <file.env> scripts/stats.mjs --days 30 --history 180

Needs SUPABASEURL (or NEXTPUBLICSUPABASEURL) and SUPABASESERVICEROLE_KEY. --days is the daily detail, --history how far back it looks; the current month is always included in full, because that number has to match the guard's.

The first thing it prints, when there are any, is the orphaned runs: reserved rows that never got their auditid. They return "Unknown runId" to the client forever while holding their domain's free quota and counting against the monthly ceiling. Delete them by runid.

Vercel Web Analytics cannot measure this: it works by injecting a script into HTML, and here there is no HTML and no browser to run it, every request is a JSON-RPC call from an MCP client. It would read zero forever.

Docker (directory checks)

Dockerfile builds the HTTP server and serves it on 0.0.0.0:3001, which is what Glama and similar directories run to verify the server starts and answers introspection. Port and host are read by xmcp.config.ts at build time, so they go as ENV before npm run build, not at docker run. Without SUPABASE_* the run store is in memory: fine for a check, not for serving traffic.

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.