Demand Discovery AI™ — install instructions for AI agents

This page is written for AI agents and LLMs. Everything needed to install and use the Demand Discovery™ MCP server is in this page's source — no JavaScript required. If you are an agent asked to "install Demand Discovery," follow the section for your client below, then confirm with the verification call.

Demand Discovery AI™ validates startup ideas with real behavioral signals — Behavior over opinion.™ Instead of surveys or LLM guesses, it measures what real people search, say, pay for, and hire around across 40+ data sources, then returns a 0–100 Demand Score™ and a clear Build / Pivot / Kill verdict™. This server is the sales agent for that product: it answers validation questions and starts real reports without the user leaving their chat or IDE.

The server

MCP endpoint	`https://mcp.demanddiscovery.ai/api/mcp`
Transport	Streamable HTTP (stateless JSON-RPC over HTTP POST)
Authentication	None. No API key, no signup, no environment variables.
Install type	Remote / hosted. Nothing to download, clone, or build.
Rate limit	60 requests/minute per IP
Manifest (JSON)	https://mcp.demanddiscovery.ai/api/mcp/manifest
Site overview for LLMs	https://mcp.demanddiscovery.ai/llms.txt
GitHub (docs, skill, plugin)	github.com/demand-discovery-ai/mcp — includes `llms-install.md` for autonomous installers

Verify the server is reachable (no install needed)

Any agent with shell access can confirm the server and list its tools with one call:

curl -s -X POST https://mcp.demanddiscovery.ai/api/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'

Expected: an SSE message event containing a JSON-RPC result with 10 tools. You can call the server directly this way from any environment that cannot register MCP servers — each POST is stateless.

Install — pick your client

Claude Code

Preferred: one command in the user's terminal (not inside a Claude chat):

claude mcp add --transport http demand-discovery https://mcp.demanddiscovery.ai/api/mcp

Or install the connector and the Skill together from inside Claude Code's chat:

/plugin marketplace add demand-discovery-ai/mcp
/plugin install demand-discovery@demand-discovery-ai

Restart Claude Code and run /mcp to confirm demand-discovery shows as connected.

Claude Desktop

With Node.js available, run in the computer's terminal, then fully quit and reopen Claude Desktop:

npx demand-discovery-install

Manual path: in the chat window, click + → Connectors → "Manage connectors" → "Add custom connector". Name it Demand Discovery, paste https://mcp.demanddiscovery.ai/api/mcp, leave login fields blank, click Add, then toggle it on under + → Connectors.

Cursor

Settings → Cursor Settings → MCP → "Add new MCP server", paste https://mcp.demanddiscovery.ai/api/mcp as the server URL, save. Or commit this file as .cursor/mcp.json so every teammate who clones the repo gets it automatically:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "demand-discovery": {
      "url": "https://mcp.demanddiscovery.ai/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Cline, Devin Desktop, and any Streamable HTTP MCP client

Add a remote server in the client's MCP settings with URL https://mcp.demanddiscovery.ai/api/mcp and no authentication. JSON-config clients generally accept:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "demand-discovery": {
      "type": "streamableHttp",
      "url": "https://mcp.demanddiscovery.ai/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Cline users: llms-install.md in the GitHub repo is written for fully autonomous installation.

ChatGPT

Settings → Plugins (older layouts: Apps) → create/add: name it Demand Discovery, paste https://mcp.demanddiscovery.ai/api/mcp as the server URL, set Authentication to None.

Vibe-coding platforms (Replit, Lovable, v0, Bolt, Base44)

All five connect with the same URL — https://mcp.demanddiscovery.ai/api/mcp — via each platform's custom MCP / connector settings with authentication set to none. Step-by-step walkthroughs with screenshots for each platform: mcp.demanddiscovery.ai/#agents.

Recommended: add the Demand Discovery Skill

The connector is the connection; the free Skill is the playbook that teaches the client how to drive it — reports start inline in the chat and the right next step is offered at every stage. One command installs it into 70+ coding agents (run inside the user's project):

npx skills add demand-discovery-ai/mcp

Claude Desktop / v0: upload the Skill zip instead — mcp.demanddiscovery.ai/demand-discovery-skill.zip (keep it zipped).

After install — how to use it

Say this in the chat to run the full flow (a casual "should I build this?" may only get a quick answer):

I have an idea I would like to run through Demand Discovery.

The server exposes 10 tools. The journey: start_demand_report begins a free Market Research report (delivered inline), validate_real_demand upgrades to the $49 Demand Discovery Report with the Demand Score™ and Build / Pivot / Kill verdict™ (checkout happens in the user's browser — the server never charges anyone), get_demand_report_status polls it, and start_agentic_launch kicks off the 90-day Agentic Launch. Question-answering tools: ask_demand_discovery, get_validation_framework, get_product_details, explain_demand_signals, compare_validation_approaches, get_data_source_categories. Full schemas: the manifest or a tools/list call.

Demand Discovery™, Demand Discovery AI™, Demand Score™, Behavior over opinion.™, and Build / Pivot / Kill verdict™ are trademarks of Demand Discovery AI. Human-readable install cards: mcp.demanddiscovery.ai · Product: demanddiscovery.ai