Panopticon
MCP
The archive, inside your assistant.
Every public post from a design and creative community since 2001, refreshed every five minutes. You do not install anything and you do not need to be a programmer. You paste one address into your assistant's settings.
An assistant can already read the live site by browsing it, but it sees only what a web page shows: the latest few pages, no reliable dates, nothing it can count. Connected to this, it reads the archive directly: who has been most active this week, how a thread developed over ten years, how busy the community is now compared with 2005.
The address
Copy itClaude Desktop, or Claude in a browser
4 stepsAny assistant that supports MCP connectors takes the same address. The menu is named differently from one to the next; look for connectors, or custom integrations.
Claude Code
One commandclaude mcp add --transport http panopticon https://mcp.nocitponap.com/mcpThat command is Claude Code's. Other assistants with MCP support take the same address through their own connector settings rather than a terminal.
Things to ask
In your own words- Who posted the most in the past week?
- What are the biggest threads in the archive?
- When did [username] join, and what do they post about?
- How busy is the community now compared to 2005?
- What was on the front page this morning?
- Show me the new profiles from the last few days.
Commands and tools
5 commands · 18 toolsCommands appear in a menu once the connector is added, so you can pick one instead of phrasing the question yourself. The tools underneath are what the assistant reaches for on its own; you never name them.
- Catch me up on the archive
- Who is most active?
- Tell me about a user
- Summarise a thread
- How has the community changed?
What this cannot tell you
Limits, statedWorth knowing, because Claude will say so and it can look like a malfunction.
- Deleted posts are gone250,781 deleted replies survive only as empty shells and are excluded everywhere. A missing post means deleted, not missing data.
- Note dates start 2024-04-24The source never recorded when a note was written, only when this archive first saw it, and everything older arrived in one import. Claude will refuse to rank note activity before that date rather than invent an answer.
- Old thread times can be an hour offThread timestamps ignored daylight saving until 2024.
- No searching inside postsThread titles are searchable; the text of posts is not.
- Score is one net numberUp and down votes are not stored separately.