generated: '2026-08-14'
method: probed
source: https://docs.joincandidhealth.com/_mcp/server
name: Candid Health Documentation MCP Server
description: 'Candid Health advertises a remote MCP server in its llms.txt and on every documentation
  page footer. It is live, anonymous and answers tools/list. It is a DOCUMENTATION server, not an API
  server: the single tool it exposes searches docs.joincandidhealth.com and returns passages with source
  URLs. No Candid business operation — creating an encounter, running an eligibility check, importing
  an invoice — is reachable through MCP. Agents that need those must call the REST API with an OAuth bearer
  token.'
status: published
deployment:
  mode: remote
  endpoint: https://docs.joincandidhealth.com/_mcp/server
  auth: none
  verified: probed
  probe_prior: (never probed)
  probe: live
  probe_why: live
  checked: '2026-09-11'
  source: claimed-backlog re-probe 2026-09-11
server:
  name: fern-docs-mcp-server
  version: 1.0.0
  protocol_version: '2025-06-18'
  transport: streamable-http
  content_type: text/event-stream
  vendor: Fern (buildwithfern.com) — hosted with the documentation site
  capabilities:
    tools:
      listChanged: true
  advertised_at:
  - https://docs.joincandidhealth.com/llms.txt
  - https://docs.joincandidhealth.com/api-principles/conventions.md
tool_count: 1
tools:
- name: searchDocs
  title: Search docs.joincandidhealth.com Docs
  description: Search the documentation at https://docs.joincandidhealth.com. Returns relevant doc passages
    with source URLs.
  read_only: true
  input_schema:
    type: object
    properties:
      query:
        type: string
        description: The search query to run against the docs
    required:
    - query
    additionalProperties: false
raw: mcp/candid-health-mcp-tools-list.json
x-evidence:
  fetched: '2026-08-14'
  initialize:
    url: https://docs.joincandidhealth.com/_mcp/server
    method: POST
    http_status: 200
    server_info: fern-docs-mcp-server 1.0.0
  tools_list:
    url: https://docs.joincandidhealth.com/_mcp/server
    method: POST
    http_status: 200
    tools_returned: 1
  oauth_discovery:
  - url: https://docs.joincandidhealth.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server
    http_status: 404
  - url: https://docs.joincandidhealth.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource
    http_status: 404
notes:
- The endpoint is unauthenticated — no OAuth challenge was returned and no protected-resource metadata
  is published, consistent with a read-only docs search over a public site.
- Candid names Claude Code and Cursor by name as the intended clients, so the server is positioned as
  a developer-assistance surface rather than an agent integration surface.
- The gap between 1 MCP tool and 251 REST operations is recorded in mcp/candid-health-tool-crosswalk.yml.