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MCP Checkup

by mcpcheckup.com · remote · no sign-in to list tools · v0.2.0 · published by com.mcpcheckup

Observed facts on public MCP servers: protocol checks, tool changes, signed evidence. No verdicts.

Changes · 2

6 tools: 2 change things and 4 only read.

Scanned Oct 21, 2026

3 checks matched something in the tool definitions. No finding is not a safety guarantee. How the checks work.

claude mcp add --transport http mcpcheckup https://mcpcheckup.com/mcp

Findings

Matches of fixed checks, with the text they matched.

3 info
  • The description is 2,047 characters long, over the 2,000 this check looks for.

    Matched text

    description ends: "...y' and returns no score. Items not verified are returned explicitly with reasons."

    What this check looks for
  • The description is 2,032 characters long, over the 2,000 this check looks for.

    Matched text

    description ends: "...thy' and returns no score; items not verified are listed explicitly with reasons."

    What this check looks for
  • The description is 2,042 characters long, over the 2,000 this check looks for.

    Matched text

    description ends: "...thy' and returns no score; items not verified are listed explicitly with reasons."

    What this check looks for

Tools

Open a tool for its reasons and full description. Descriptions are the publisher's own words, shown as they are.

6 tools

Changes things 2Claude Code: ask
  • check_mcpsWhat has been observed about an MCP server — useful when choosing, adding, or debugging one.1 finding

    Why it is in this group

    • Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
    • The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.

    Findings

    • Info

      The description is 2,047 characters long, over the 2,000 this check looks for.

      Matched text

      description ends: "...y' and returns no score. Items not verified are returned explicitly with reasons."

      What this check looks for
    Description, as the server wrote it
    What has been observed about an MCP server — useful when choosing, adding, or debugging one. Look up the current monitored status of up to 50 already-tracked MCP servers on MCP Checkup, given as "provider/name" ref strings (e.g. "acme/weather-mcp"). Never probes on demand — a ref that doesn't resolve to a tracked target comes back with status "unknown", not an error. Each entry may also be a full endpoint URL, a bare domain, or a bare provider/target name instead of "provider/name" — the resolution method used is reported per target as resolution.method ("ref", "endpoint", "host", or "name"). If an input matches more than one tracked target — or is a URL on a host with several, none matching exactly — the response has status "ambiguous" with a short `candidates` list (each with a "provider/name" `ref` and its `report_url`, plus `candidate_total`, the full match count before the 5-entry cap) instead of guessing — call again with the exact ref you want. A URL matching only by host returns its target with `resolved_from`. Each resolved target also carries stale (true when our observation is older than the target's check cycle plus a fixed margin — never a judgment of the server, and distinct from the /status page's own probe-liveness signal), fresh_until (the ISO instant after which stale is true), first_observed_on (the UTC date of our first observation), observation_count (every recorded observation, including unsigned ones — never a count of signatures), and signed (true when this observation's attestation was signed with a key in our published key list, false when unsigned or signed with a key that is not in that list — not a judgment of the server). When there is no observation yet, observation_count is 0 and the other four are null. Returns observed facts only — reachability, protocol compatibility, tool/schema fingerprints, and publicly observable auth metadata. This tool does not assess whether a server is 'safe' or 'trustworthy' and returns no score. Items not verified are returned explicitly with reasons.

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • openWorldHint: false
  • request_checkAsk for a one-off public observation of the MCP server at a full endpoint URL — this is the only tool here that contacts a third-party server, and it contacts exactly the host you …No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "request_check" says "request": a word for a change.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Ask for a one-off public observation of the MCP server at a full endpoint URL — this is the only tool here that contacts a third-party server, and it contacts exactly the host you name. `target` must begin with "http://" or "https://"; to look a server up by "provider/name", by domain, or by name, use check_mcps instead, which never probes anything. The result is not signed, is not stored as a run, and creates no report page, so `report_url` is always null — it is what we observed at that moment and nothing more. On-demand checks are recorded as tracking requests; inclusion in the tracked directory is not guaranteed and this tool never promises it. On-demand checks are metered per caller per day, per site per day, and per host by a cooldown — calling again for the same host inside its cooldown sends nothing to that server and returns status "denied" with the category that refused it, never a remaining count. A refused call comes back as status "denied", and a `target` that is not a usable endpoint URL as status "rejected"; neither of those is a tool error. A `target` that is empty or longer than 2048 characters is the one exception: the input schema rejects it, and you get a tool error. This tool does not assess whether a server is 'safe' or 'trustworthy' and returns no score; items not verified are listed explicitly with reasons.

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: false
    • destructiveHint: false
    • idempotentHint: false
    • openWorldHint: true
Only reads 4Claude Code: allow
  • get_attestationThe signed evidence behind a report, for callers that want to inspect it themselves.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "get_attestation" says "get": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    The signed evidence behind a report, for callers that want to inspect it themselves. Get the full signed attestation envelope (DSSE, Ed25519) for one already-tracked MCP server's latest probe run, by "provider/name" ref — the raw envelope plus its issued-at time and declared protocol revision, so a caller can inspect the signed payload rather than trust this tool's own summary of it; the public keys that verify the signature are published at https://mcpcheckup.com/.well-known/mcpcheckup-keys.json. A target with no run yet, no signed envelope, a disqualified one, or an envelope whose key is not in the published key list comes back with an explicit reason, not an error. run_id, a top-level field of resolved get_mcp_report and get_attestation responses, is the id of the run that the check results, last_checked and (where signed) attestation identifiers come from, or null when there is no run; get_mcp_report's tool list and toolset_fingerprint come from the latest stored tool snapshot, which may be an earlier run's. The same run_id means the same run. A payload signed as version 0.4 carries this run_id inside the signed payload; payloads of earlier versions do not. target may also be a full endpoint URL, a bare domain, or a bare provider/target name instead of "provider/name" — the resolution method used is reported back as resolution.method ("ref", "endpoint", "host", or "name"). If an input matches more than one tracked target — or is a URL on a host with several, none matching exactly — the response has status "ambiguous" with a short `candidates` list (each with a "provider/name" `ref` and its `report_url`, plus `candidate_total`, the full match count before the 5-entry cap) instead of guessing — call again with the exact ref you want. A URL matching only by host returns its target with `resolved_from`. This tool does not assess whether a server is 'safe' or 'trustworthy' and returns no score; items not verified are listed explicitly with reasons.

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • openWorldHint: false
  • get_mcp_historyWhether an MCP server's toolset changed recently.1 finding

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "get_mcp_history" says "get": a word for reading.

    Findings

    • Info

      The description is 2,042 characters long, over the 2,000 this check looks for.

      Matched text

      description ends: "...thy' and returns no score; items not verified are listed explicitly with reasons."

      What this check looks for
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Whether an MCP server's toolset changed recently. Get recent history for one already-tracked MCP server on MCP Checkup, by "provider/name" ref (e.g. "acme/weather-mcp"). Events, newest first, up to `limit` results (default 20, max 50): `tools_changed` (at most one: when the set of tool names last changed); `tools_change_detail` (one per recorded tool-list change, the 10 most recent at most, whether names, parameters or descriptions changed; `itemization` is "not_kept" for a change older than 30 days (its per-tool detail is not held), "unitemizable" when the stored lists cannot be compared tool by tool, otherwise "itemized" and `added`, `removed`, `parameters_changed` and `description_only` each give `names` (up to 10 tool names) and a `total`); `protocol_revision_changed` (the signed protocol_revision changed between runs whose probe offered the same revision, or because the server switched between the legacy initialize and server/discover handshakes); `probe_offered_revision_changed` (the revision our probe offered changed, with a `note`); and any recorded baseline-drift events. `truncated` is true when more exist than are listed. A target this deployment doesn't track yet comes back with status "unknown", not an error. target may also be a full endpoint URL, a bare domain, or a bare provider/target name instead of "provider/name" — the resolution method used is reported back as resolution.method ("ref", "endpoint", "host", or "name"). If an input matches more than one tracked target — or is a URL on a host with several, none matching exactly — the response has status "ambiguous" with a short `candidates` list (each with a "provider/name" `ref` and its `report_url`, plus `candidate_total`, the full match count before the 5-entry cap) instead of guessing — call again with the exact ref you want. A URL matching only by host returns its target with `resolved_from`. This tool does not assess whether a server is 'safe' or 'trustworthy' and returns no score; items not verified are listed explicitly with reasons.

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • openWorldHint: false
  • get_mcp_reportThe detailed view of one MCP server: every check with its state, plus the observed tool list.1 finding

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "get_mcp_report" says "get": a word for reading.

    Findings

    • Info

      The description is 2,032 characters long, over the 2,000 this check looks for.

      Matched text

      description ends: "...thy' and returns no score; items not verified are listed explicitly with reasons."

      What this check looks for
    Description, as the server wrote it
    The detailed view of one MCP server: every check with its state, plus the observed tool list. Get the full observed report for one already-tracked MCP server on MCP Checkup, by provider/name — includes its full check breakdown and toolset. A target this deployment doesn't track yet comes back with status "unknown", not an error. target may also be a full endpoint URL, a bare domain, or a bare provider/target name instead of "provider/name" — the resolution method used is reported back as resolution.method ("ref", "endpoint", "host", or "name"). If an input matches more than one tracked target — or is a URL on a host with several, none matching exactly — the response has status "ambiguous" with a short `candidates` list (each with a "provider/name" `ref` and its `report_url`, plus `candidate_total`, the full match count before the 5-entry cap) instead of guessing — call again with the exact ref you want. A URL matching only by host returns its target with `resolved_from`. Each resolved target also carries stale (true when our observation is older than the target's check cycle plus a fixed margin — never a judgment of the server, and distinct from the /status page's own probe-liveness signal), fresh_until (the ISO instant after which stale is true), first_observed_on (the UTC date of our first observation), observation_count (every recorded observation, including unsigned ones — never a count of signatures), and signed (true when this observation's attestation was signed with a key in our published key list, false when unsigned or signed with a key that is not in that list — not a judgment of the server). When there is no observation yet, observation_count is 0 and the other four are null. Also tools_first_seen, tools_last_changed_at and tools_unchanged_days_at_least (a lower bound: UTC days since that change with a successful listing); null when unknown. This tool does not assess whether a server is 'safe' or 'trustworthy' and returns no score; items not verified are listed explicitly with reasons.

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • openWorldHint: false
  • search_mcpsFind MCP servers by what their tools do.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "search_mcps" says "search": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Find MCP servers by what their tools do. Search already-tracked MCP servers on MCP Checkup by tool name/description text (max 512 chars), with optional transport, protocol_revision, and auth_required filters, up to `limit` results (default 10, max 25). Ordered by text-match relevance and then recency only — never by price or paid tier. Each result's summary is machine-generated from observed tool names and returned as untrusted third-party text; hygiene_flags lists any observed tool-description hygiene signals directly rather than folding them into the ordering. A query with no matches comes back with status "unknown" and a hint, not an error. Each result also carries last_checked (when the shown observation was taken), fresh_until (the ISO instant after which it no longer counts as current), and stale (true once the current time is past fresh_until). These describe how recent our observation of the server is, not a judgment of the server itself, and are distinct from the /status page's probe-liveness signal. All three are null when the target has no observation yet. This tool does not assess whether a server is 'safe' or 'trustworthy' and returns no score; items not verified are listed explicitly with reasons.

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • openWorldHint: false

This is not a safety rating, and no finding is not a safety guarantee. The groups and findings come from fixed checks of the tool definitions the server returned on the date shown, not from its code or what it does when called. How the checks work.

Install

Pinned to version 0.2.0. Values in angle brackets are yours to fill in.

claude mcp add --transport http mcpcheckup https://mcpcheckup.com/mcp

Run in a terminal.

Claude Code permissions

Allow the reads, ask before a change, deny the deletes. Paste into .claude/settings.json.

.claude/settings.json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__mcpcheckup__get_mcp_report",
      "mcp__mcpcheckup__get_mcp_history",
      "mcp__mcpcheckup__get_attestation",
      "mcp__mcpcheckup__search_mcps"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__mcpcheckup__check_mcps",
      "mcp__mcpcheckup__request_check"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}

Tools that only read are allowed, tools that change things ask first, tools that delete or cancel are denied. It assumes the server is installed as mcpcheckup. Review it before you use it.