Needle

net.useneedlePublished by useneedle.netOfficial publisherv1.2.0Updated Nov 7, 2026

Find people asking for your product on Reddit, Hacker News and forums; triage and draft replies.

VerifiedStreamable HTTPWeb executableWeb Search & Scraping Communication & Collaboration Business & Commerce

Server details

Identifier: net.useneedle/needle
Transport: Streamable HTTP
Runtime: Web executable
Trust: Verified
Published: Nov 3, 2026

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Overview

AI-generated overview

Needle surfaces sales leads from Reddit, Hacker News and forums, letting an assistant triage them and draft replies in your brand voice.

What you can do: Review leads: see who to reply to and read a lead in full
Draft replies in your brand voice and mark leads as handled
Run new searches across Reddit, Hacker News, forums and more
Use ready-made skills such as daily shortlists, five replies a morning, competitor switchers, weekly pain reports and trend-to-content ideas
When to use it: Useful when you do founder-led or community-led sales and want an assistant to find people publicly asking for a product like yours, prioritize them, and prepare replies without leaving the chat client.
Requirements: Remote Streamable HTTP endpoint at api.useneedle.net/mcp. A Needle account signed in via OAuth, or an API key from Needle settings sent as an Authorization Bearer header. A paid Growth or Scale plan, or the free 7-day trial, is needed for access.

Before you install

Requires OAuth sign-in or a live API key, which grants access to your Needle leads and account; connected apps can be reviewed and disconnected in Needle settings. Drafts are text only and Needle does not post for you, so replies are published manually. Searches and lead data are handled by Needle's service.

Installation

In SourceWeft

Open Needle in the dashboard and add it to a workspace.
Connect the required credentials. They are stored privately and never shown on public pages.
Enable the server for the chats that should use its tools.

Web executable via Streamable HTTP. Remote servers run from the web runtime once configured in a workspace.

Use with an agent

Paste this prompt into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or another agent — or into SourceWeft chat. The agent reads this server's install guide, shows you its publisher, endpoint and sign-in, and adds it to your client once you agree. Keys never go into a command.

Read https://sourceweft.com/mcp/net.useneedle%2Fneedle/install.md and connect the MCP server it describes to my client. Before changing any config, show me its publisher, endpoint and sign-in method and wait for my OK. Never put an API key in a command or in a file I would commit; ask me where it should come from.

Read the install guide the agent follows

Other MCP clients

Add this to your client's mcpServers config. The client completes OAuth sign-in on first connect.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "needle": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.useneedle.net/mcp"
    }
  }
}

README

Needle MCP server

Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other MCP clients to your Needle leads: see who to reply to, read a lead in full, draft a reply in your brand voice, mark leads as handled, and run new searches across Reddit, Hacker News, forums and more.

In Claude: Needle is listed in Claude's connector directory.

[Add Needle to Cursor]

URL: https://api.useneedle.net/mcp (Streamable HTTP)
Auth: sign in with your Needle account (OAuth), or an API key from Needle Settings → API & MCP. Growth and Scale plans, and the free 7-day trial (full access, no card).
Changes: CHANGELOG.md. Tools and fields are never renamed or removed.
Docs: useneedle.net/docs/mcp (tools, limits, errors) and the REST API

Set up

claude.ai and Claude Desktop: open Needle in Claude's connector directory, or go to Settings → Connectors, find Needle and click Connect. Sign in to Needle and choose Allow. If the directory is not available in your workspace, choose Add custom connector and paste https://api.useneedle.net/mcp.

ChatGPT: Plugins → Add → Add custom MCP server. Enter https://api.useneedle.net/mcp, keep Authentication on OAuth, tick I understand and want to continue, then Create and Connect. Sign in to Needle and choose Allow.

Claude Code

Then run /mcp, pick needle and authenticate in the browser.

Cursor: use the button above, or add this to mcp.json and click Connect:

With an API key (Windsurf, scripts, or any client that cannot sign in):

json

{  "mcpServers": {    "needle": {      "url": "https://api.useneedle.net/mcp",      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer ndl_live_…" }    }  }}

{  "mcpServers": {    "needle": {      "url": "https://api.useneedle.net/mcp",      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer ndl_live_…" }    }  }}

In Windsurf's mcp_config.json, name the URL serverUrl instead of url.

To debug a connection, run the MCP Inspector (npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector), choose Streamable HTTP and enter the URL.

Apps you sign in with are listed in Needle under Settings → API & MCP → Connected apps, where you can disconnect them.

Skills

Ready-made workflows in Agent Skills format (skills/<name>/SKILL.md). Each states roughly how many API calls it uses.

Skill	What it does
daily-lead-shortlist	Today's best leads with a one-line "why reply", skips dismissed
five-replies-a-morning	Drafts replies for your top 5 leads
competitor-switchers	People leaving a competitor, with outreach angles
weekly-pain-report	The week's pains and questions, clustered with quotes
trend-to-content	Content ideas from trending problems and your leads

Needle never posts for you: drafts are text for you to review and post.

Errors

A failed tool call starts with a stable code (for example search_in_progress), then the details as JSON, including a doc_url into the error table and a request_id to quote to support.

Support

Open an issue in this repository, or email [email protected].

License

Source: README.md at commit 8dde12c

Tools

This server asks you to sign in, so SourceWeft could not read its tools without an account and has not indexed them. What a connected account sees can depend on that account and its permissions.

Version history

v1.2.0LatestNov 7, 2026
v1.1.0Nov 3, 2026

Score

85% of the applicable checks met

How complete this listing is, computed from the registry entry, the endpoint and public sources. Not a rating of the server and not a statement that it is safe or working today: reachability is a dated check, and no installs or reviews go into the score.

Reached in the last 30 daysRequired25 pts
Auth declaredRequired10 pts
Tools listed15 pts
Answer tools/list without a credential, or ship a package that starts in a sandbox without one.
DescriptionRequired15 pts
Logo10 pts
Documentation15 pts
License10 pts