Golden Hint · for AI assistants

Use Golden Hint from your AI assistant

This is the Model Context Protocol server for Golden Hint, the free place where charities trade skills hour for hour, founders get a step-by-step guide to starting a US nonprofit, and everyone gets a plain-English library for running one. It lets an assistant such as Claude search the library, walk you through the Start a Charity pathway, browse the Exchange and, if you sign in, work with your exchanges and messages.

The address to connect to:

https://mcp.goldenhint.com/mcp

Connect Claude

1. In Claude, open Settings › Connectors.
2. Choose Add custom connector.
3. Name it Golden Hint and paste https://mcp.goldenhint.com/mcp.

That gives you every public tool, with no account needed.

Member tools

To let an assistant see your dashboard, wallet, matches, exchanges and messages, create a personal access token at goldenhint.com/account under Connected apps. Choose “read and write” only if you want the assistant to post listings, propose or answer exchanges, send messages or write in the forum for you. Then send the token as a header. In Claude Code, for example:

claude mcp add --transport http goldenhint https://mcp.goldenhint.com/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer gh_pat_…"

You can revoke a token at any time on the same page. This server stores nothing: it passes your token to goldenhint.com for each request and never logs or keeps it. Posting needs your organization to be verified by Golden Hint staff first.

Tools

• search_golden_hint: Search everything public on Golden Hint: Start a Charity pathway stages, guides, templates, news, the glossary and the directory of state charity regulators and resources.
• list_categories: List Golden Hint's 13 expertise areas (marketing, fundraising, finance, legal and so on).
• list_pathway: List the eight stages of Golden Hint's Start a Charity pathway for founding a US nonprofit, in order, with links.
• get_pathway_stage: Get one stage of the Start a Charity pathway: the full guide, its checklist, how long it takes, the fees (with sources) and templates.
• get_guide: Get the full text of a Golden Hint guide, template, news post or Trust Centre page by its slug (from search_golden_hint or list_resources), with its sources.
• list_resources: List the Resources library: plain-English guides (default) or templates, news posts or Trust Centre pages, optionally narrowed to one expertise area.
• get_glossary_term: Look up a nonprofit term in Golden Hint's plain-English glossary (135 terms, e.g.
• find_state_regulator: Find the charity regulator and other directory entries for a US state or DC (who registers charities, where annual reports go), from Golden Hint's directory.
• run_tool: Run one of the five Start a Charity tools and get its result (nothing is stored):.
• get_credit_rules: Get the rules for Golden Hint Credits: one hour of expert help is one credit, the welcome and founder grants, the balance floor, ways to earn, the gifting cap and inactivity rules.
• browse_listings: Browse open offers and requests on the Expertise Exchange, where verified charities trade skills hour for hour.
• get_listing: Get one Exchange offer or request in full: what's offered or needed, the format, hours, credits and the organization.
• get_organization: Get a member organization's public profile (mission, place, what it's good at and what it needs) and its open listings.
• browse_forum: Browse questions in the Golden Hint forum, where charities ask each other practical questions.
• get_forum_thread: Get a forum question and all its answers.
• my_dashboard: The signed-in member's dashboard: who they are, their organization and its verification, the credit wallet, suggested matches, active exchanges, unread messages and pathway progress.member
• my_wallet: The member organization's credit balance (held and available) and its ledger entries, newest first.member
• my_matches: Organizations that could help the member's organization, and that it could help back (mutual matches first), with the reason.member
• my_exchanges: The member organization's exchanges (proposed, agreed, completed, declined, cancelled or disputed), optionally filtered by status.member
• get_exchange: One exchange in full: who provides and receives, scope, format, credits, status, confirmations and reviews.member
• get_exchange_messages: Read the messages in one exchange's conversation, newest last.member
• my_inbox: The member's message threads, one per exchange, with the other organization, the last message and unread counts.member
• create_listing: Post an offer (help the member's organization can give) or a request (help it needs) on the Exchange.member, write
• propose_exchange: Propose an exchange with another organization, from one of its listings or directly.member, write
• respond_to_exchange: Move an exchange on: agree (credits are held from the receiver), decline, cancel (while proposed or agreed; releases the hold) or confirm the work was done (credits move once both sides confirm).member, write
• send_exchange_message: Send a message in an exchange's conversation, as the member.member, write
• ask_forum_question: Ask a question in the Golden Hint forum, as the member.member, write
• answer_forum_thread: Answer a forum question, as the member.member, write

Good to know

• Listings, forum posts and messages are written by members. The server labels them so assistants treat them as information, not instructions.
• Golden Hint’s guides are general information, not legal or tax advice.
• Credits are hours of help, never money.