What Matters is an MCP server with 6 tools an agent can call, among them add_item, complete_item, get_document. It answers at https://matters.blackdogranch.com/mcp over streamable HTTP, and it listed its tools to an anonymous client, so no sign-in was needed for that. Our probes reached it 10 of 10 times since 4 September 2026; the last check, on 18 October 2026, succeeded.
Your personal action-item list — what you owe and what you're owed. AI proposes; you approve.
Description as the publisher wrote it.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
add_item | Add an item immediately, without review. Normally use this ONLY when the user has just asked for it in conversation — they are the human in the loop at that moment, so set initiated: "human". Anything found by scanning on a schedule belongs Inputs: title, note, section, channel, source, due |
complete_item | Mark an item done, or reopen it. Idempotent. Inputs: item_id, done |
get_document | Read everything: action items, the record of what has already been dismissed, and "focus" — the handful of terms the user says matter most. Always call this before proposing changes: it is the only way to know what was already deleted or re Inputs: include_dismissed, include_rules |
manage_focus | Replace the list of things the user says matter most — people, projects, whatever they care about. Send the WHOLE list every time, including the terms you are keeping: this replaces, it does not append, so omitting one deletes it. Read the Inputs: terms |
manage_rule | Create, change, pause or delete a standing rule, taking effect IMMEDIATELY with no review. Use this only when the user asks you directly — "stop suggesting PTO stuff". A scheduled run must propose rules through put_proposal instead, exactly Inputs: operation, rule, rule_id, patch |
put_proposal | Replace the pending set of suggested changes. This is the ONLY write the scheduled run should make — nothing here reaches the list until the user reviews and accepts it. Replaces any previous proposal wholesale, so include everything still |
Every block below points at https://matters.blackdogranch.com/mcp. Pick your client and copy.
claude mcp add --transport http what-matters https://matters.blackdogranch.com/mcp
{
"mcpServers": {
"what-matters": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://matters.blackdogranch.com/mcp"]
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"what-matters": {
"url": "https://matters.blackdogranch.com/mcp"
}
}
}{
"servers": {
"what-matters": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://matters.blackdogranch.com/mcp"
}
}
}{
"context_servers": {
"what-matters": {
"url": "https://matters.blackdogranch.com/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"what-matters": {
"serverUrl": "https://matters.blackdogranch.com/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"what-matters": {
"url": "https://matters.blackdogranch.com/mcp"
}
}
}name: What Matters
version: 0.0.1
schema: v1
mcpServers:
- name: What Matters
type: streamable-http
url: https://matters.blackdogranch.com/mcp{
"mcpServers": {
"what-matters": {
"httpUrl": "https://matters.blackdogranch.com/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"what-matters": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://matters.blackdogranch.com/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"what-matters": {
"url": "https://matters.blackdogranch.com/mcp"
}
}
}goose://extension?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmatters.blackdogranch.com%2Fmcp&type=streamable_http&id=what-matters&name=What%20Matters
It answered our last check on 18 October 2026 in 329 ms. Over 10 checks since 4 September 2026 it answered 10. Status here comes from Neuronto's own probes, not from the publisher.
Yes. It is published by blackdogranch.com and served from matters.blackdogranch.com, the vendor's own domain: https://matters.blackdogranch.com/mcp.
6, as returned by the server's own tools/list on 10 September 2026: add_item, complete_item, get_document, manage_focus, manage_rule, put_proposal.
It answered our last check on 18 October 2026 in 329 ms. Over 10 checks since 4 September 2026 it answered 10.
Put the server under mcpServers in ~/.cursor/mcp.json with the URL https://matters.blackdogranch.com/mcp. The exact JSON is above, with the same setup for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, VS Code, Windsurf, Zed, Gemini CLI and the rest.
It listed its tools to an anonymous client, so reading the tool list needs no key. Individual tools can still ask for credentials in their own inputs.
Publisher: com.blackdogranch. Endpoint host: matters.blackdogranch.com. ARD identifier: urn:air:com.blackdogranch:mcp:what-matters.
First indexed 31 August 2026. The tools are exactly what the server returned; nothing on this page
is inferred from its name. Ranking in Neuronto search is never for sale.