Do I need a Bluesky account to use this?

No. FishOut reads public posts, so there is no handle, app password or OAuth grant to Bluesky involved. You sign in to FishOut, and your assistant signs in to FishOut; Bluesky never sees either.

Can my assistant post to Bluesky through FishOut?

No, by design. FishOut drafts a reply (from Plus) and you post it yourself. If you want an assistant that posts as you, a server like bsky-mcp-server does that with your app password — and you can run it alongside FishOut.

How quickly do Bluesky posts show up?

Hourly on every plan, including Free. From Plus, a Fast keyword is checked every 15 minutes on Bluesky, Reddit and Hacker News.

Why so few Bluesky mentions compared with Reddit?

Bluesky is a smaller network. Fewer matches is normal, and the ones that arrive tend to have a higher share of real conversation and less noise.

Is Bluesky on the free plan?

Yes. Free watches Reddit, Hacker News, Bluesky, GitHub and Google News, with 10 keywords and 500 relevant mentions a month.

Bluesky · MCP server

A Bluesky MCP server that never needs your app password

Most Bluesky MCP servers are built to act as you: log in with an app password, read your timeline, post and like. FishOut is built to listen. It reads public posts that mention your keywords and hands your assistant the ones worth a look, with no Bluesky credential at all.

Remote MCP server · Streamable HTTP · OAuth

https://mcp.fishout.ai/mcp

Start free Prefer an inbox and alerts?

Free plan, checked hourly. Every 15 minutes on a Fast keyword, from Plus.

[01] ASK IT/ IN YOUR ASSISTANT

What a Bluesky question looks like

Fixture brands and handles; real filters. Open the call for its arguments.

Claude · chatfishout · mcp

What are people on Bluesky saying about Quillcove since the redesign?

list_mentionsread-onlyarguments

{
  "filter": {
    "platforms": [
      "bluesky"
    ],
    "from": "2026-10-06T00:00:00Z",
    "sort": "best"
  },
  "limit": 10
}

count_mentionsread-onlyarguments

{
  "filter": {
    "platforms": [
      "bluesky"
    ],
    "sentiments": [
      "negative"
    ],
    "from": "2026-10-06T00:00:00Z"
  }
}

Blueskymarginalia.bsky.social5h

The new Quillcove sidebar hides the one thing I opened it for

Reply nowComplaintHas a problem

Blueskyfieldnotes.bsky.social1d

Quillcove’s export finally keeps my backlinks. Small thing, huge relief

WatchPraise

Eleven posts since the redesign, four negative — all four about the sidebar, not the editor. The top one has 40 replies agreeing; it is worth an answer that says where the setting went. The praise is about export, which you could quote in the changelog.

[02] DIY SERVERS/ DATED

What else answers “bluesky mcp”

Bluesky’s open protocol makes it easy to build an MCP server, and the popular ones show it: they log in as you and can search, post, like and follow. That is a different job from listening, and it comes with your app password in a config file.

brianellin/bsky-mcp-server

Needs: Your handle and an app password

stdio, 18 tools on the official AT Protocol API, including search, create-post and like-post

berlinbra/BlueSky-MCP

Needs: Your handle and an app password

stdio, 2 tools (profile, follows); MIT

Pipedream Bluesky

Needs: A Pipedream account and Bluesky sign-in

Hosted; create post, like post, retrieve thread; triggers watch one account, not keywords

FishOut compared with A DIY server, feature by feature
	FishOut	A DIY server
Coverage
Bluesky credential needed	Advantage: None — public posts only	Behind: Handle and app password
Built forDifferent jobs; many people want both.	Even: Finding posts about you and deciding which to answer	Even: Acting as your account
Post, like or follow	Behind: No. Drafts only; you post	Advantage: Yes (bsky-mcp-server, Pipedream)
Live search of the whole network	Behind: Your keywords, collected hourly	Advantage: Any term, on demand
AI
Triage and history	Advantage: Relevance, labels, Reply call, sentiment; kept in your inbox	Behind: Raw posts, nothing kept
Alerts
Alerts when you are not asking	Advantage: Slack, email, Discord, webhooks and more	Behind: None for keywords

[03] COVERAGE/ BLUESKY

Collected

Public posts and replies with the author’s handle and engagement counts. Volume is lower than Reddit — a keyword with fifty Reddit matches a week may have two here — and the network is denser for it.

How often

Free plan, checked hourly. Every 15 minutes on a Fast keyword, from Plus. Keyword shapes and competitor coverage: Bluesky monitoring.

[04] TOOLS/ ANNOTATED

The calls that matter here

5 of 115. “Asks first” marks a destructive hint.

ToolWhat it does hereArguments

list_mentionsread-only
Bluesky posts for your keywords, with sentiment to split the redesign complaints from the praise.
filter: {"platforms":["bluesky"],"sentiments":["negative"]}
count_mentionsread-only
How many — the number to put next to the quote when you report a reaction upward.
—
get_mentionread-only
The post with its parent and replies, so a one-word reply arrives with the thread it answers.
—
create_mutewrite
Mutes an account that posts your keyword for another reason, on Bluesky or everywhere.
kind: "author", platform: "bluesky"
update_keywordasks first
Turns Fast on so Bluesky is checked every 15 minutes during a launch. From Plus.
fast: true

[05] CONNECT/ ONE URL

Pick your assistant

OAuth sign-in; no key to paste.

Customize → Connectors → Add custom connector

https://mcp.fishout.ai/mcp

Paste the URL, keep Claude’s published identity, and sign in to FishOut.

Claude guide

[06] WHAT TO ASK/ BLUESKY

Five Bluesky prompts

Longer jobs are playbooks.

prompts

1What did Bluesky say about our launch, split by sentiment?
2Which Bluesky posts this week ask for a tool like ours?
3Mute the bot account that keeps posting our name in link round-ups.
4Compare our Bluesky volume this month with last month.
5Draft a reply to the sidebar complaint saying where the setting moved.

[07] IN THE APP/ INBOX

And when you would rather look than ask

“The new Quillcove sidebar hides the one thing I opened it for”, opened in the inbox.

Views

Reply now6

Leads14

Switchers5

Support9

Filtered212

Saved views

Bluesky this week

Reply now· Best first6

Blueskymarginalia.bsky.social5h

The new Quillcove sidebar hides the one thing I opened it for

Reply nowComplaintHas a problem

Blueskyfieldnotes.bsky.social1d

Quillcove’s export finally keeps my backlinks. Small thing, huge relief

WatchPraise

Blueskymarginalia.bsky.social5h

The new Quillcove sidebar hides the one thing I opened it for

Where did daily notes go? It used to be one click. Now it is three, and I have checked every menu.

Relevance

Names your productHas a problemGaining replies

Labels · Reply call

Reply nowComplaintHas a problem

Say where it moved

Draft reply

Fair complaint — it moved under the calendar icon, and you can pin it back to the top in Settings → Sidebar. I am on the Quillcove team; we are looking at making that the default again.