INDIVIDUAL MCP TOOL

list_problem_categories

List the problem categories PainSignal has observed, with signal counts, ordered by volume.

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LIVE ENDPOINT

https://painsignal.net/mcp

No auth detected

Connect to this endpoint to inspect the live schema for list_problem_categories and invoke it with your own arguments.

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Inferred read-only · medium confidence · heuristic, not a guarantee.

No write-capable action terms were found; this is not proof that invocation has no side effects.

CONNECT WITH APPROVAL

Review this server and its permissions before adding it. Secret placeholders must be set locally.

Codex

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.painsignal]
url = "https://painsignal.net/mcp"
enabled = true

Claude Code

.mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "painsignal": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://painsignal.net/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector

Name: painsignal
Remote MCP URL: https://painsignal.net/mcp

Add this remote URL as a custom connector in Claude Desktop. Availability depends on the user plan and workspace policy.

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "painsignal": {
      "url": "https://painsignal.net/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Visual Studio Code

.vscode/mcp.json

Add to Visual Studio Code

{
  "servers": {
    "painsignal": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://painsignal.net/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Generic MCP

Client-specific MCP configuration

{
  "name": "painsignal",
  "transport": "streamable-http",
  "url": "https://painsignal.net/mcp"
}

MCP Inspector

Run the official MCP Inspector locally and enter the indexed Streamable HTTP endpoint.

search_problems — Search PainSignal's corpus of ~23,000 real business problems described by workers across every industry.
search_opportunities — Search PainSignal's ~11,000 opportunities — clusters of related problems that together describe one buildable product.
get_trending_opportunities — List opportunities whose signal volume is currently rising, ordered by trend velocity.
list_industries — List the industries PainSignal has observed, with signal counts, ordered by volume.
get_market_analytics — Corpus-wide aggregates over PainSignal's ~23,000 problems: which industries and problem categories carry the most reported pain, average severity, and where people explicitly said they would pay for a fix.
get_tool_gaps — Find which existing business tools people describe as failing them, and exactly what they wish those tools did.
get_problem_timeseries — Report volume over time for the whole corpus or one industry/category, bucketed by month, quarter or year.