Lenny Rachitsky Podcast Transcripts MCP Server

Tools

Token cost is the o200k count of the tools list JSON, including schemas, before any tool is called.

• getEpisodes

  List episodes - Lists episodes with parsed frontmatter (guest, title, duration, youtube_url, etc.) and their canonical resource URIs.

• getEpisodesGuest

  Get an episode card (metadata + key URIs)

• getEpisodesGuestMetadatajson

  Get episode metadata as JSON (frontmatter)

• getEpisodesGuestTranscriptformat

  Get transcript in a specific format - Returns the transcript in the requested format: - md: markdown (may include or exclude frontmatter based on include_frontmatter) - txt: clean text (best for LLM i

• getEpisodesGuestChunks

  List chunk descriptors for an episode - Returns chunk boundaries and URIs for chunk retrieval. Chunks may be computed on-demand using size/overlap parameters.

• getEpisodesGuestChunksChunkIdtxt

  Get a specific transcript chunk as plain text

• getSearch

  Search episodes and transcripts - Searches across metadata (D1) and transcript text (Vectorize). Returns matches as resources, including per-hit URIs pointing to episode cards and transcript chunks. N

• postSearch

  Search episodes and transcripts (POST body) - Same search as GET /search, but parameters are provided in the request body. This is useful for longer filter payloads.