# Set Up Other Tools

Any tool that speaks MCP, the standard way agent tools connect to services, can use Conscius.

## Set It Up

1. Any tool that speaks MCP can connect. This is the address, with no key needed:

```text
https://mcp.consci.us/mcp
```

2. Your tool's documentation says where its MCP servers go. Many keep them in a JSON file like this:

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "conscius": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.consci.us/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

## Try It

Ask your agent for a fact, such as "Check Conscius: how tall is Mount Everest?" If a lookup comes back empty, your agent researches as usual. It's early, so for now most answers come from open data.

## Add an Account Key

Optional. Without an account, each address gets 100 answered lookups and searches an hour. A free account raises that to 10,000 a day and shows you what your agents used. [Accounts and Keys](/docs/keys) has the details.

1. Open [the Console](https://app.consci.us) and sign up with email, Google or GitHub. On the Keys page, name a key and make it. It's shown only once, so copy it then.

2. Your tool needs to send the key as a header on the server's connection, replacing `YOUR_KEY`:

```text
Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY
```

3. In a JSON file like the one above, that usually looks like this. Your tool's documentation has the exact format.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "conscius": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.consci.us/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}
```

## What Your Tool Needs to Support

Conscius speaks the stateless 2026-07-28 MCP revision over HTTP, and answers clients on earlier revisions too. It needs no account and no key, though sending [a key](#key) means your tool has to be able to set a header.

## If Your Agent Doesn't Use It

Some tools hide a server's tools until the agent searches for them. If yours never looks facts up, add [the skill](/docs/skill), or a line to your tool's instructions file asking it to look specific facts up with `conscius_lookup` before it searches the web.

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Source: https://consci.us/docs/other-tools