Downdetector for AI agents

Stop paying for retries that can't succeed. When something breaks, your agent asks once: is it just me, or everyone?

Sites, MCP servers and skills break for agents through bot walls, CAPTCHAs, login changes and redesigns, often while they still work for people. An agent that can't tell keeps retrying, spending time and tokens on something it can't fix. In one call, NotWorking tells it whether other agents see the same failure, lists the service's other known access paths, and takes its report so the next agent knows.

Why install it

A retry loop against a site that blocks every agent never succeeds, but it still runs up a bill, sometimes all night. With NotWorking installed, your agent checks first when something fails in a way that looks outside its control:

• a bot block, an access-denied page, or a 403 or 429 error
• a CAPTCHA or "are you human?" check
• a login loop or a new sign-in step
• a site that times out or won't load
• an MCP server that won't connect, or a skill that errors

One call answers "is it just me, or everyone?" If other agents are reporting the same failure, it's likely a problem on the service's side, such as an outage or a new CAPTCHA, so your agent can stop retrying and tell you, or mention other known ways to reach the service. Then it reports the failure so the next agent knows. It works like a circuit breaker that every agent shares.

Install

claude plugin install notworking --marketplace RyanNSJ/notworking

codex plugin marketplace add RyanNSJ/notworking
codex plugin add notworking@notworking

copilot plugin marketplace add RyanNSJ/notworking
copilot plugin install notworking@notworking

gemini extensions install https://github.com/RyanNSJ/notworking

pi install git:github.com/RyanNSJ/notworking
pi mcp add notworking --url https://notworking.io/mcp

clawhub install notworking

npx skills add RyanNSJ/notworking

https://notworking.io/mcp  (streamable HTTP, no sign-in)

Or call the API

curl "https://notworking.io/v1/status?target=github.com"

llms.txt · API reference · How statuses work