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WindowsForum MCP Server Official

com.windowsforum/mcp-server

Checked 26 Oct 2026, 08:29 UTC · Connected to it and listed its tools

Search WindowsForum.com threads, posts, and Windows news; fetch documents and Microsoft KB info.

Website

At a glance

Type

MCP server

Publisher

windowsforum.com (verified by the MCP Registry)

Status

Working at last check

Tools

29

Token cost

About 5,530 tokens per request

Sets up in

Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, VS Code, Antigravity, ChatGPT, OpenAI API, Grok

Last checked

26 Oct 2026, 08:29 UTC

Connect it to your agent

Add to CursorAdd to VS CodeVS Code Insiders

Opens the app, which shows the server and asks you to confirm. For other apps, copy the setup below.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http windowsforum https://mcp.windowsforum.com/

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, and paste the URL.

Codex (config.toml)

[mcp_servers.windowsforum]
url = "https://mcp.windowsforum.com/"

Gemini CLI

{"mcpServers":{"windowsforum":{"httpUrl":"https://mcp.windowsforum.com/"}}}

Cursor

{"mcpServers":{"windowsforum":{"url":"https://mcp.windowsforum.com/"}}}

VS Code

{"servers":{"windowsforum":{"type":"http","url":"https://mcp.windowsforum.com/"}}}

Antigravity

agy mcp add windowsforum https://mcp.windowsforum.com/

ChatGPT

Settings → Apps & Connectors → Advanced settings: turn on Developer mode, then Create a connector and paste the URL. Which plans can do this varies.

OpenAI API (Responses tools)

{"type":"mcp","server_label":"windowsforum","server_url":"https://mcp.windowsforum.com/","require_approval":"always"}

Grok (xAI API tools)

{"type":"mcp","server_label":"windowsforum","server_url":"https://mcp.windowsforum.com/"}

Tools

• corpus_stats ~100 tokens
  Get aggregate health of the Key-Facts supplement corpus — status histogram, how many eligible articles still have no supplement, how many approved cards went dark from article edits (drifted), and the latest generation run summary.
• fetch ~162 tokens
  Retrieve a WindowsForum document by ID for analysis and citation. Posts are returned in full. Threads include their first 50 visible posts. Check metadata.truncated and metadata.pagination; continue long threads with get_thread_posts(thread_id, offset=next_offset).
• get_forum ~108 tokens
  Get a WindowsForum forum section's details by node id — title, description, and thread/message counts; pair with list_threads or get_forum_updates to see its activity.
• get_forum_statistics ~85 tokens
  Get sitewide WindowsForum statistics — total threads, posts, and members, plus threads and posts created today; use for questions about the community's size and activity.
• get_forum_updates ~107 tokens
  Summarize recent WindowsForum activity over the last N hours (default 24) — new threads and posts across the community; use for "what's new" questions.
• get_kb_article ~161 tokens
  Retrieve an official Microsoft Knowledge Base article from support.microsoft.com by KB number (e.g. KB5063878) — returns the update's title, summary, and affected builds. Use this tool when a user asks about a specific KB number. Fetches the full article content including title, summary, known issue
• get_latest_registered_users ~126 tokens
  List the newest WindowsForum member registrations — use for community-growth questions or to identify recent joiners. Only confirmed, non-banned accounts are listed, as on the forum's own "New members" list.
• get_online_users ~84 tokens
  See who is on WindowsForum right now — counts of members, guests, and robots active in the last 15 minutes, with the names of online members who show their online status.
• get_post ~106 tokens
  Get a single WindowsForum post by post id — returns the post's text, author, thread context, and URL; use when you have a specific post reference to verify or quote.
• get_thread ~107 tokens
  Get a WindowsForum thread's metadata by id — title, author, reply and view counts, dates, and canonical URL; use fetch or get_thread_posts to read its content.
• get_thread_posts ~186 tokens
  Read a page of visible posts in a WindowsForum thread, oldest first. Follow pagination.next_offset while pagination.has_more to read the full conversation, including later replies and accepted solutions.
• get_time ~72 tokens
  Get the current server date and time — use to anchor time-sensitive queries like 'latest' or 'this week' before searching recent content.
• get_user ~163 tokens
  Look up a WindowsForum member's public profile by username or user id — registration date, message count, reaction score, last seen, and profile URL. Only what a signed-out visitor could see on the member's profile page is returned: members who limit their profile get a username-only result, and la
• get_windows_news_posts ~110 tokens
  Get WindowsForum's recent Windows news coverage from the last N days (default 7) — curated news threads on updates, security patches, and Microsoft announcements.
• list_drifted ~113 tokens
  List article threads whose approved Key-Facts card is dark because the opening post was edited after approval (content-hash drift). These are exactly what the hourly fill driver repairs next.
• list_threads ~224 tokens
  List the newest WindowsForum threads, news articles or tutorials, newest first, with no search query — use when the user asks for the latest, newest or most recent tutorials, news or threads. Pass each item's `id` to render_search_results to show them as a card.
• render_community_overview ~93 tokens
  Show a WindowsForum.com community overview card: total threads, posts, and members, who is online now, and the latest threads. Use for questions about the community's size or current activity.
• render_kb_article ~119 tokens
  Show an official Microsoft Knowledge Base article to the user as a card with its title, highlights, and link to support.microsoft.com. Use when the user asks to see a specific KB article.
• render_search_results ~260 tokens
  Show WindowsForum threads, news articles, tutorials or posts to the user as a result card, grouped by section. Call search or list_threads first, pick the results that answer the request (keep their order), then pass their ids here; the card displays each item's title, snippet, author, date, and lin
• render_thread ~116 tokens
  Show a WindowsForum thread to the user as a readable card with its opening post and replies. Use after search or fetch when the user wants to see or open a specific discussion.
• search ~496 tokens
  Search all WindowsForum content (community threads, Windows news, tutorials) with combined keyword and semantic ranking — the best first call for any question or topic. Keep section 'all' unless the user asks for one kind of content. For the latest/newest items set sort='newest' (a query with no top
• search_elastic ~402 tokens
  Relevance-ranked full-text thread search with explicit offset pagination — use to page through a large result set beyond what the main search tool returns. The total is exact when total_relation is 'eq', otherwise a verified public lower bound ('gte'); use has_more and next_from to continue. If pagi
• search_kb ~208 tokens
  Search official Microsoft Knowledge Base articles for Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server updates by topic, keyword, build, or KB number — use for Windows update, patch, and known-issue lookups when you lack a KB number. Returns matching KB article titles, release dates, and support.microsoft
• search_mysql ~289 tokens
  Exact substring lookup over thread titles and author usernames, ordered by view count — use for literal title or author matching rather than relevance-ranked full-text search. Complements the main `search` tool: use this for literal title or author matching rather than relevance-ranked full-text se
• search_posts ~234 tokens
  Search individual WindowsForum posts (not just thread titles) for a keyword or phrase — use to find specific answers, error messages, or fixes buried inside long threads.
• search_semantic ~295 tokens
  Find WindowsForum discussions by meaning rather than exact words — embedding-based semantic search that excels at natural-language questions and paraphrased topics. Uses kNN vector similarity to find content that is semantically related to the query, even if it doesn't share exact keywords. Best fo
• search_threads ~728 tokens
  Search WindowsForum threads with structured controls — sort by relevance, date, views or replies, in either order, with pagination; use when result ordering or paging matters. Latest/newest requests replace the default relevance sort with date order; a query such as 'latest tutorials' lists that sec
• search_users ~118 tokens
  Find WindowsForum members whose usernames match a query — use to locate a member before calling get_user for their full profile.
• supplement_status ~158 tokens
  Get the Key-Facts supplement state for one article thread — lifecycle status (approved/held/validated/draft), whether it is the live 'current' revision, and whether the sidebar card is actually rendering, dark because the article was edited after approval (drifted), or absent. Use to answer 'why is

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