Show HN: I gave an LLM a clock and it usually won't look at it

Category: devtools

Tags: mcp-server, time, llm-tools

Score: 6.5/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 5, Documentation: 8, Utility: 7)

tick is an MCP time server that provides LLMs with accurate current time and recency checks, addressing their known inability to track time in long conversations. It offers local and remote deployment options with tool descriptions engineered to enforce time checking, backed by academic research on temporal blindness in AI models.

Target audience: backend devs

Repository: https://github.com/Cocabadger/tick-mcp · Python · MIT · 2 stars

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