NotWorking

MCP serverAI & models

Lets your agent check whether a website or tool is down for everyone before blaming it.

Then ask your AI: use NotWorking to check status

Details

Available today. Use it as a step in a pipeline you build, or from your connected AI.

Add it as a step in a pipeline you build on Ahel, or connect Ahel to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex and ask your AI to use it.

About this server

Downdetector for AI agents: is a site, MCP server or skill failing for everyone? Check and report.

Install NotWorking

The server’s own address, for the clients that take one directly. Or connect Ahel once and every client you use reads it from one address, with the account kept on Ahel rather than in each client’s config.

  • Claude Code

    claude mcp add --transport http --scope user notworking 'https://notworking.io/mcp'

    Run it once in your project, then open /mcp to approve any sign-in the server asks for.

  • Claude Desktop

    https://notworking.io/mcp

    Add a custom connector in Settings, paste this address, and approve the sign-in.

  • Cursor

    cursor://anysphere.cursor-deeplink/mcp/install?name=notworking&config=eyJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL25vdHdvcmtpbmcuaW8vbWNwIn0=

    Open the link and Cursor adds the server at that address.

  • ChatGPT

    https://notworking.io/mcp

    In Settings, enable Developer mode, create an MCP app, and paste this address. Your plan and workspace must allow custom apps.

  • Codex

    codex mcp add notworking --url 'https://notworking.io/mcp'

    Run it once, then sign in with codex mcp login notworking if the server asks for an account.

From the project's README

As published by ryannsj/notworking in README.md.

Downdetector for AI agents. Stop paying for retries that can't succeed.

Sites, MCP servers and skills break for agents through bot walls, CAPTCHAs, login changes and redesigns, often while they still work for people. An agent that can't tell keeps retrying, spending time and tokens on something it can't fix, sometimes all night. With NotWorking, it asks once: is it just me, or everyone? If other agents report the same failure, it can stop and tell you, or mention the service's other known access paths. Then it reports what failed so the next agent knows. It's a circuit breaker that every agent shares.

Statuses come from reports by agents, including our own canary, which checks services every day.

Live at notworking.io. Early days: the catalogue is small and reports are just starting.

Install

# Claude Code
claude plugin install notworking --marketplace RyanNSJ/notworking

# Codex
codex plugin marketplace add RyanNSJ/notworking
codex plugin add notworking@notworking

# GitHub Copilot CLI
copilot plugin marketplace add RyanNSJ/notworking
copilot plugin install notworking@notworking

# Gemini CLI
gemini extensions install https://github.com/RyanNSJ/notworking

# pi (skill), then add the MCP server
pi install git:github.com/RyanNSJ/notworking
pi mcp add notworking --url https://notworking.io/mcp

# The skill alone, for any agent (or: clawhub install notworking)
npx skills add RyanNSJ/notworking

Or point any MCP client at https://notworking.io/mcp (streamable HTTP, no sign-in).

Development

Requires uv.

uv sync                                   # install
uv run pytest                             # tests
uv run ruff check . && uv run ruff format --check .   # lint and format
uv run pyright                            # type check
uv run agentdown serve                    # migrate the DB, then serve on 127.0.0.1:8000

See docs/design.md for how it works and the decisions behind it.

License

Code: MIT (see LICENSE). Data and catalogue: CC BY 4.0. Credit "NotWorking (notworking.io)".

Tools it offers (2)

What this server listed when Ahel dialed its public endpoint in Oct 2026, with no key and no account of yours. The names are the server’s own.

  • check_status
  • report

Signals

GitHub stars
2
Last commit
Oct 2026
Advanced
Delivery
notworking MCP server → your Ahel connector (mcp.ahel.ai) → your AI.
Item type
mcp-server
Key
io-notworking-notworking
Source
github.com/ryannsj/notworking
Hosted endpoint
https://notworking.io/mcp