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Search and cite Chain of Thought podcast transcripts and episodes.

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4 tools: 4 only read.

Scanned Oct 21, 2026

No check matched anything in the tool definitions. No finding is not a safety guarantee. How the checks work.

claude mcp add --transport http chain-of-thought-podcast https://mcp.chainofthought.show/mcp

Tools

Open a tool for its reasons and full description. Descriptions are the publisher's own words, shown as they are.

4 tools

Only reads 4Claude Code: allow
  • get_episodeReturns one episode by number or slug (a full chainofthought.show episode URL also works): title, date, duration, guests with companies, summary, chapters with timestamps, and link…No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "get_episode" says "get": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Returns one episode by number or slug (a full chainofthought.show episode URL also works): title, date, duration, guests with companies, summary, chapters with timestamps, and links to the episode page, YouTube and audio. Does not return the transcript; use search_transcripts or get_transcript_excerpt for passages. Cite the url.

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • destructiveHint: false
    • idempotentHint: true
    • openWorldHint: false
  • get_transcript_excerptReturns up to 16 consecutive transcript segments from one episode around a timestamp (m:ss or h:mm:ss), a segment_index from search results, or a passage url or its #t- anchor.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "get_transcript_excerpt" says "get": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Returns up to 16 consecutive transcript segments from one episode around a timestamp (m:ss or h:mm:ss), a segment_index from search results, or a passage url or its #t- anchor. Defaults: 2 segments before and 5 after. Each segment has its own url to cite.

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • destructiveHint: false
    • idempotentHint: true
    • openWorldHint: false
  • search_episodesFinds Chain of Thought episodes by topic, guest name, company, title or chapter title.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "search_episodes" says "search": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Finds Chain of Thought episodes by topic, guest name, company, title or chapter title. Returns up to 20 episodes ranked by relevance with number, title, date, guests, a short summary, matching chapter titles and the episode page url to cite.

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • destructiveHint: false
    • idempotentHint: true
    • openWorldHint: false
  • search_transcriptsFull-text search over Chain of Thought transcripts.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "search_transcripts" says "search": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Full-text search over Chain of Thought transcripts. Returns up to 20 passages ranked by relevance, each with episode number and title, guests, speaker, timestamp, a snippet of about 600 characters, and a url for that moment on the episode page (#t-N). Cite that url. Optional `episode` limits the search to one episode. Use get_transcript_excerpt for context. Transcripts are machine-generated; check exact quotes against the recording.

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • destructiveHint: false
    • idempotentHint: true
    • openWorldHint: false

This is not a safety rating, and no finding is not a safety guarantee. The groups and findings come from fixed checks of the tool definitions the server returned on the date shown, not from its code or what it does when called. How the checks work.

Install

Pinned to version 0.1.0. Values in angle brackets are yours to fill in.

claude mcp add --transport http chain-of-thought-podcast https://mcp.chainofthought.show/mcp

Run in a terminal.

Claude Code permissions

Allow the reads, ask before a change, deny the deletes. Paste into .claude/settings.json.

.claude/settings.json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__chain-of-thought-podcast__search_transcripts",
      "mcp__chain-of-thought-podcast__search_episodes",
      "mcp__chain-of-thought-podcast__get_episode",
      "mcp__chain-of-thought-podcast__get_transcript_excerpt"
    ],
    "ask": [],
    "deny": []
  }
}

Tools that only read are allowed, tools that change things ask first, tools that delete or cancel are denied. It assumes the server is installed as chain-of-thought-podcast. Review it before you use it.