Yank

Connect it to your AI

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http yank https://yank.info/api/mcp

Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other apps

Add it as a custom connector with this URL (Streamable HTTP):

https://yank.info/api/mcp

Cursor, VS Code and other apps (mcp.json)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "yank": {
      "url": "https://yank.info/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Tools it offers

7 tools, as the server itself reported during our check on Oct 31, 2026.

• search_linesFull-text search across every line yank.info has ever extracted. Returns quotable lines with a verbatim flag (true = literal substring of the source transcript; false = labeled paraphrase), the speaker/author, the source
• search_transcriptsFull-text search inside the whole transcripts of every podcast and video yank.info has yanked, not only their five lines (§10.424). Returns moments: the source, where in it (startSeconds, endSeconds), the words around th
• check_quoteYank Check: a statement and the source it is supposed to come from, in; a verdict and a receipt, out. FOUND (the words are in the representation Yank inspected), CLOSE MATCH (substantially the same wording, with the diff
• check_memorycheck_quote over a batch, for auditing what an agent wrote down earlier. Give it up to 10 remembered claims, each with the source it is attributed to, and it returns the same verdict and receipt for every one: FOUND, CLO
• get_yankFetch a yank (five extracted lines from one source) by its slug, the last path segment of a yank.info/y/<slug> URL. Includes every line's verbatim flag, timestamp, moment link, surrounding context, permanent card URL, sh
• get_lines_for_urlAsk before you extract: everything yank.info already holds from one source URL. Any form of the link works (a youtu.be short link with a timestamp, a watch URL with a playlist, an article with tracking parameters, an App
• recent_yanksThe newest yanks in the library, one card each (rank-1 line, author, source type, URL).

Questions