# Idea Basin

> Use this tool when you need to discover and explore related concepts, or ingest and organize knowledge from various sources. Idea Basin solves problems of information overload and knowledge discovery by providing similarity search, hierarchical browsing, and automated embedding generation. It takes in web pages, YouTube videos, GitHub repositories, arXiv papers, and PDFs as inputs and outputs a navigable semantic knowledge graph.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/msfixer101-idea-basin  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/msfixer101-idea-basin

## Description

Provides MCP access to Idea Basin, a semantic knowledge graph backed by PostgreSQL with pgvector. Supports similarity search across knowledge chunks, hierarchical node browsing, and resource ingestion from web pages, YouTube, GitHub, arXiv, and PDF sources with automatic embedding generation.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 1.00
- **Verification tier:** verified
- **Last scanned:** 2026-09-19

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** database
- **Updated:** 2026-09-19

## Source

- **Source listing:** [PulseMCP](https://www.pulsemcp.com/servers/msfixer101-idea-basin)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/msfixer101/idea-basin-mcp>

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "msfixer101-idea-basin"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/msfixer101-idea-basin` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/msfixer101-idea-basin/pull`

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