Ask Helena MCP server
online · 100% uptimeOfficial answers about Helena Bioinformatics and its products, with citations to public sources.
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Ask Helena tools (3)
write = sends, deletes, buys or postsask_public_knowledgeFreeAnswer questions about Helena Bioinformatics and its products from approved public sources, with citations and explicit limits. May return evidence only.
search_public_knowledgeFreeSearch the approved public pages of Helena Bioinformatics and its products. Return source-cited evidence.
support_helenaFreeLearn how an agent can support or spread Helena's free public scientific infrastructure through the separate Helena Good MCP. This is an explicit opt-in information action. It does not initiate payment, create a relay, or change Ask Helena evidence or answers.
Public scan report
scanner v0.1.10 · 2026-10-31 · same rubric, same numbers if you re-run it
- –Code scanremote-only server, no package to scann/a
- Live reliabilityremote reachable in 1722ms20/20
- Tool poisoning3 tool descriptions checked15/15
- Auth qualityopen endpoint, read-only tools10/15
- Maintenanceno repository listed3/15
- Maintainer identityno repository or website to verify2/10
Findings (1)
- lowNo source repository listed
maint.no-repo
How Ask Helena compares
Against every graded E-commerce MCP server, from our own scans and uptime checks. Updated after each scan run.
- Safety score
- 67/100
- higher than 30% of 2,170 E-commerce servers
- Tools
- 3
- the typical E-commerce server has 6
- Tools that change things
- 0%
- typical: 0%. Fewer write tools means less an agent can break
- Uptime
- 100%
- of our recent checks; the typical remote E-commerce server answers 100%
- Response time
- 36 ms
- faster than 96% of 1,524 E-commerce servers
What its tools let an agent do: 3 read
Install Ask Helena in Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code
claude mcp add --transport http ask-helena https://api.helena.bio/ask/v1/mcp
Ask Helena: common questions
- Is Ask Helena MCP server safe?
- With care: it is graded C, so read the findings first (67/100). Read the Ask Helena safety report
- How do I install Ask Helena?
- It runs remotely at api.helena.bio. Add it to Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code or Claude Desktop with the snippets above, or call it through the mcp.market gateway without installing anything.
- Does Ask Helena need an API key?
- Not as far as the registry entry and our scan can tell: no credentials are declared or required.
- Is Ask Helena maintained?
- The latest release is v1.0.5.
- Is Ask Helena up?
- 100% of our last 28 checks got an answer. We check remote servers about four times a day.
- What can I use instead of Ask Helena?
- Servers from other publishers that do the same job: HasData Shopify MCP server, PostHog MCP Server and Loki Mode MCP server.
- How does Ask Helena compare with other E-commerce MCP servers?
- safety score 67/100 (higher than 30% of 2,170 E-commerce servers); tools 3 (the typical E-commerce server has 6); tools that change things 0% (typical: 0%. Fewer write tools means less an agent can break). Full comparison.
Alternatives to Ask Helena
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HasData ShopifyThe public product catalogue and collections of any Shopify storefront, as structured JSON.not reviewedGrowingA- PostHog MCP ServerOfficial PostHog MCP Server for product analytics, feature flags, experiments, and more.not reviewedEstablishedA
- Loki ModeAutonomous spec-to-product coding-agent CLI with an MCP server exposing 39 tools over stdio.not reviewedEstablishedB
- New-Term RadarNew AI model, product and repo names as they surface, and the search terms behind them, sized.not reviewedEstablishedB
- Idea RealityPre-build reality check. Scans GitHub, HN, npm, PyPI, Product Hunt — returns 0-100 signal.not reviewedEstablishedB
