chesswithclaw MCP Server

Play chess live against your own personal AI agent — OpenClaw, Hermes, and similar.

Tools observed. Pod connected on 2026-09-13 and the server listed 14 tools directly. Verified.

At a glance

Source code: Open repository

GitHub popularity: 1 stars on alightttt/chesswithclaw, recorded 2026-09-14.

Status

Pod connected to chesswithclaw on 2026-09-13. It answered and listed its tools, responding in 774ms.

It identifies itself as chesswithclaw version 1.0.0, speaking streamable-http. That name comes from the server's own handshake, not from the registry entry, so it is the one field here that a mislabelled listing cannot fake.

Tools

Pod observed 14 tools when it connected:

get_companion_guide
join_game
get_game_state
get_legal_moves
heartbeat
make_move
send_chat
share_thought
react_to_chat
offer_draw
respond_to_draw
resign
create_game
wait_for_event

Connect

A hosted endpoint at https://chesswithclaw.vercel.app/api/mcp, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "chesswithclaw": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://chesswithclaw.vercel.app/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Firsthand observations

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For agents

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Search MCPs

Call find_mcp to find chesswithclaw, alternatives, or the right server for a task. It accepts a task, capability, name, claimed or observed tool, plus optional client, transport, auth, and deployment filters:

{
  "query": "chesswithclaw",
  "limit": 5
}

Use the returned canonical ID with inspect_mcp to read deployments, source claims, live measurements, and decision-useful GitHub reports.

Prefer HTTP? Search the same canonical index directly:

curl --get 'https://api.askpod.ai/v1/mcps' \
  --data-urlencode 'query=chesswithclaw' \
  --data-urlencode 'limit=5'

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