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TheDailyWorkflow MCP

A bridge between Claude/Cursor/Windsurf/Cline and the largest curated AI catalog. Powered by thedailyworkflow.com — bilingual (EN+RU) AI directory.

What you get inside your AI assistant:

• 3500+ MCP servers — search by query/category/client/language, get ready-to-paste install configs
• 15000+ AI tools — search, get pricing/features/target audience for any tool
• 200+ ready-made workflow pipelines — step-by-step recipes with prompts for common AI tasks
• 147+ MCP tutorials — install, build, comparison, troubleshooting guides
• 147+ Q&A cases — curated solutions to real GitHub Issues (timeouts, ESM bugs, install errors)
• 1700+ AI prompts — battle-tested prompts for ChatGPT, Claude, Midjourney, etc.
• Custom pipeline builder — for any goal, get a deep link to the AI builder that composes a workflow from 15k tools

Stop browsing tabs. Ask Claude:

• "Find me an MCP for Notion that works with Cursor"
• "My fastapi-mcp is timing out after 5s, what's the fix?"
• "Give me a pipeline to turn a blog post into a podcast"
• "Find me a battle-tested ChatGPT prompt for cold outreach"

— get answers with working configs, copy-paste prompts, and links to full guides.

Quick install

Claude Desktop

Add to claude_desktop_config.json:

• macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
• Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "thedailyworkflow": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["thedailyworkflow-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Cursor

Add to ~/.cursor/mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "thedailyworkflow": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["thedailyworkflow-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Windsurf / Cline / Continue / Goose

Same config format — point the command to uvx with arg thedailyworkflow-mcp.

Manual install (pip)

pip install thedailyworkflow-mcp

Then use command: "thedailyworkflow-mcp" (no args) in your client config.

Tools provided (16 total)

MCP servers — 5 tools

Tool	What it does
search_mcp_servers	Search the catalog by query, category, client, language.
get_mcp_install_config	Get a ready-to-paste config snippet for a specific MCP + client.
get_mcp_details	Full info on an MCP: description, use cases, tools, configs.
list_mcp_categories	All MCP categories with counts.
catalog_stats	Total MCP servers, top languages.

AI Tools — 3 tools

Tool	What it does
search_ai_tools	Search 15000+ tools by query, category, pricing.
get_ai_tool_details	Full tool info: features, pricing, target audience, USP.
list_ai_tool_categories	All tool categories with counts.

Pipelines — 4 tools

Tool	What it does
search_pipelines	Search 200+ ready-made AI workflow pipelines.
get_pipeline_details	Full pipeline: title, goal, steps with prompts.
get_popular_pipelines	Top-N most-used pipelines (browse what works).
build_custom_pipeline_url	For unique tasks — get a deep link to the AI Pipeline Builder.

MCP Tutorials — 2 tools

Tool	What it does
search_mcp_tutorials	Search 147+ tutorials (install, build, comparison, troubleshooting).
get_tutorial_details	Full tutorial markdown with steps, code blocks, screenshots.

Q&A cases — 1 tool

Tool	What it does
search_qa_cases	Search 147+ curated GitHub-Issue solutions (problem → cause → fix).

Prompts — 1 tool

Tool	What it does
search_prompts	Search 1700+ user-submitted AI prompts by query, AI tool, category.

Example prompts

Once installed, try these in your AI client:

MCP discovery & setup:

• "Find me an MCP server for working with PostgreSQL, give install config for Cursor"
• "What MCP servers exist for Slack?"
• "How many MCP servers are in the catalog total?"

MCP troubleshooting (Q&A cases):

• "My fastapi-mcp is hitting httpx.ReadTimeout after 5s, fix?"
• "Cursor MCP shows 'ESM require' error, what's the cause?"
• "Windows path bug in my filesystem MCP — find me the fix"

MCP learning (tutorials):

• "How do I install MCP server in Cursor?"
• "Beginner tutorial for building my own Python MCP server"
• "Compare Windsurf vs Cursor for MCP support"

AI tools:

• "Find me a free AI tool for image generation"
• "Compare Notion AI vs Mem.ai — who is each one for?"
• "What categories of AI tools exist?"

Workflow pipelines:

• "Give me a workflow to turn a blog post into a podcast"
• "Show me popular AI pipelines — I want inspiration"
• "I want to make a kids book with AI. Find me a pipeline."
• "Build me a custom pipeline for: extract leads from LinkedIn and DM them"

Prompts library:

• "Find me a battle-tested ChatGPT prompt for cold email outreach"
• "Give me a Claude prompt for refactoring Python code"
• "Search prompts about marketing copy"

Hosted endpoint (no install needed)

Connect directly to our hosted MCP server — no local Python/uvx install required:

https://thedailyworkflow.com/api/v1/mcp/bridge

Add to your MCP client config (Claude Desktop, Cursor, etc.):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "thedailyworkflow": {
      "type": "url",
      "url": "https://thedailyworkflow.com/api/v1/mcp/bridge"
    }
  }
}

Note: Some MCP clients use "transport": "streamable-http" instead of "type": "url" — check your client's docs.

How it works

This MCP server is a thin client over the public REST API at https://thedailyworkflow.com/api/v1/*. No auth required, no API key, no tracking beyond standard server logs.

Source code is ~400 lines — read server.py to see exactly what it does.

About the catalog

TheDailyWorkflow maintains the largest curated MCP knowledge base:

• 3500+ servers — the largest curated MCP directory, updated continuously
• Standardized descriptions and install configs — consistent, reviewed format across the entire catalog
• Bilingual — English and Russian content for everything
• Per-client install snippets — Claude Desktop, Cursor, Cline, Windsurf, Continue, Goose
• Curated Q&A — real-world fixes from GitHub Issues, deduplicated and structured
• Tutorials — install, build, compare, troubleshooting guides for every major scenario
• Browse: thedailyworkflow.com/mcp

License

MIT — see LICENSE.

Contributing

Found a bug or want a new tool? Open an issue or PR.

To submit a missing MCP server to the catalog itself: thedailyworkflow.com/mcp/submit.

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