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Search WindowsForum.com threads, posts, and Windows news; fetch documents and Microsoft KB info.
Remote server: your requests and data go to mcp.windowsforum.com. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http windowsforum-mcp-server https://mcp.windowsforum.com/ · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.
search — Search all WindowsForum content (community threads, Windows news, tutorials) with combined keyword and semantic ranking — the best first calfetch — Retrieve a WindowsForum document by ID for analysis and citation. Posts are returned in full. Threads include their first 50 visible posts. search_semantic — Find WindowsForum discussions by meaning rather than exact words — embedding-based semantic search that excels at natural-language questionssearch_threads — Search WindowsForum threads with structured controls — sort by relevance, date, views or replies, in either order, with pagination; use whenget_time — Get the current server date and time — use to anchor time-sensitive queries like 'latest' or 'this week' before searching recent content.supplement_status — Get the Key-Facts supplement state for one article thread — lifecycle status (approved/held/validated/draft), whether it is the live 'currencorpus_stats — Get aggregate health of the Key-Facts supplement corpus — status histogram, how many eligible articles still have no supplement, how many aplist_drifted — List article threads whose approved Key-Facts card is dark because the opening post was edited after approval (content-hash drift). These arget_kb_article — Retrieve an official Microsoft Knowledge Base article from support.microsoft.com by KB number (e.g. KB5063878) — returns the update's title,search_kb — Search official Microsoft Knowledge Base articles for Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server updates by topic, keyword, build, or KB numget_thread_posts — Read a page of visible posts in a WindowsForum thread, oldest first. Follow pagination.next_offset while pagination.has_more to read the fulsearch_mysql — Exact substring lookup over thread titles and author usernames, ordered by view count — use for literal title or author matching rather thansearch_elastic — Relevance-ranked full-text thread search with explicit offset pagination — use to page through a large result set beyond what the main searcget_thread — Get a WindowsForum thread's metadata by id — title, author, reply and view counts, dates, and canonical URL; use fetch or get_thread_posts tlist_threads — List the newest WindowsForum threads, news articles or tutorials, newest first, with no search query — use when the user asks for the latestget_post — 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 refeget_user — Look up a WindowsForum member's public profile by username or user id — registration date, message count, reaction score, last seen, and proget_forum — Get a WindowsForum forum section's details by node id — title, description, and thread/message counts; pair with list_threads or get_forum_uget_forum_updates — Summarize recent WindowsForum activity over the last N hours (default 24) — new threads and posts across the community; use for "what's new"get_online_users — See who is on WindowsForum right now — counts of members, guests, and robots active in the last 15 minutes, with the names of online membersget_latest_registered_users — List the newest WindowsForum member registrations — use for community-growth questions or to identify recent joiners. Only confirmed, non-baget_forum_statistics — Get sitewide WindowsForum statistics — total threads, posts, and members, plus threads and posts created today; use for questions about the search_posts — Search individual WindowsForum posts (not just thread titles) for a keyword or phrase — use to find specific answers, error messages, or fixsearch_users — Find WindowsForum members whose usernames match a query — use to locate a member before calling get_user for their full profile.get_windows_news_posts — Get WindowsForum's recent Windows news coverage from the last N days (default 7) — curated news threads on updates, security patches, and Mirender_search_results — Show WindowsForum threads, news articles, tutorials or posts to the user as a result card, grouped by section. Call search or list_threads frender_thread — 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 trender_kb_article — Show an official Microsoft Knowledge Base article to the user as a card with its title, highlights, and link to support.microsoft.com. Use wrender_community_overview — Show a WindowsForum.com community overview card: total threads, posts, and members, who is online now, and the latest threads. Use for questNot tested by KitScout yet. When our harness runs it, pros, cons and the tasks we tried appear here, with the date and evidence.