CertSight API & MCP Connector

Endpoints

Method & path	What it returns
GET /api/v1/exams	The exam catalog: slug, name, category, price, and topics for every exam.
GET /api/v1/me/readiness?exam=<slug>	Your per-track and overall practice stats and estimated readiness for one exam, based on your saved progress.
GET /api/v1/me/study-plan?exam=<slug>	Your study plan for one exam. Active AI Exam Coach subscribers get the full coach plan; everyone else gets a basic plan computed from their practice stats.
GET /api/v1/exams/<slug>/sample	Free sample questions (question text and options only — no answer keys, no explanations), capped at the free-tier size.

Every request needs your API key, sent as Authorization: Bearer <your key> or as an X-API-Key: <your key> header. Keys are rate-limited to 120 requests per minute.

Try it with curl

export CERTSIGHT_API_KEY="cs_live_..."

# List exams
curl https://certsightprep.com/api/v1/exams \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CERTSIGHT_API_KEY"

# Your readiness for one exam
curl "https://certsightprep.com/api/v1/me/readiness?exam=security-exam-prep" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CERTSIGHT_API_KEY"

# Your study plan
curl "https://certsightprep.com/api/v1/me/study-plan?exam=security-exam-prep" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CERTSIGHT_API_KEY"

# Free sample questions
curl https://certsightprep.com/api/v1/exams/security-exam-prep/sample \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CERTSIGHT_API_KEY"

Use it from an AI assistant (MCP)

CertSight ships a small Model Context Protocol (MCP) server (mcp_server/server.py, pure Python standard library — no dependencies to install). It gives an AI assistant four tools — list_exams, get_readiness, get_study_plan, and get_sample_questions — which call this API with your key, so you can ask things like “how ready am I for Security+?” or “what should I study today?” in chat.

Claude Desktop

Add this to your Claude Desktop MCP configuration (claude_desktop_config.json), with the path pointing at the mcp_server/server.py file from CertSight:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "certsight": {
      "command": "python3",
      "args": ["/path/to/certsight/mcp_server/server.py"],
      "env": {
        "CERTSIGHT_API_KEY": "cs_live_your_key_here",
        "CERTSIGHT_API_BASE": "https://certsightprep.com"
      }
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop and the four CertSight tools appear in the tools menu.

ChatGPT

In ChatGPT, enable Developer Mode (Settings → Apps & Connectors), create a new MCP connector/app, and point it at the same CertSight MCP server, providing your key through the CERTSIGHT_API_KEY environment variable exactly as in the JSON config above. Keep the key in the connector's environment/secret settings — never paste it into a chat.

Security notes

• Your key is shown exactly once, when you create it. We store only a SHA-256 hash of it, so nobody — including us — can recover it later. If you lose it, revoke it and create a new one.
• Treat your key like a password: it can read your study progress and readiness. Never share it, post it, or commit it to a code repository.
• You can revoke a key at any time below. Revoked keys stop working immediately.
• The API can never return paid question-bank content, answer keys, or explanations — samples are the free tier only.

Your API keys

You need an account to create an API key. Log in or sign up, then come back to this page to create and manage your keys.