MCP server
Every channel is an anonymous, read-only MCP server for AI agents.
Every channel on PodHood exposes an MCP server — anonymous, read-only, over Streamable HTTP:
https://<slug>.podhood.com/mcpOn a channel with a verified custom domain, the same server answers at https://<your-domain>/mcp.
There's no key to issue and nothing to configure — reading published content is anonymous by
design (see auth.md). An Authorization header is accepted but
ignored.
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Add it to your client
claude mcp add --transport http yourshow https://yourshow.podhood.com/mcpAdd an HTTP MCP server pointing at the channel endpoint — no auth fields needed:
{
"mcpServers": {
"yourshow": {
"url": "https://yourshow.podhood.com/mcp"
}
}
}The generic Streamable-HTTP shape any MCP client accepts:
{
"type": "http",
"url": "https://yourshow.podhood.com/mcp"
}Then ask anything — the agent answers from the podcast's own transcripts, with links to the second.
The search tool
The server exposes one tool, search: natural-language search over the channel's published episodes and transcripts. It returns ranked episodes and grounded, timestamped quotes, each with a citation URL to the exact moment.
Prop
Type
Protocol notes
- Transport is stateless Streamable HTTP with JSON responses: JSON-RPC over
POST;GETreturns 405. CORS is open, so browser-based clients work. - Discovery surfaces: each host serves
/.well-known/mcp(with a server card) and lists its MCP endpoint inllms.txt.