# `io.github.agentwares/mcp-liveness` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/io.github.agentwares/mcp-liveness
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/io.github.agentwares/mcp-liveness
- Version: 0.3.0 (active)
- Publisher: io.github.agentwares (GitHub account)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Repository: https://github.com/agentwares/servers
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T18:22:44.850Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
Does an MCP server work for a stock client? By registry name or URL. Tool drift too. Free, no key.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T19:05:50.513Z over streamable-http.

**5 tools: 4 change things and 1 only read.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 0 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 4 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 1 | allow |

## Findings

- **info** The word "credentials" in `mcp_liveness_check` ([credentials-mention](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#credentials-mention))

```untrusted-server-text
The description mentions "credential".

description: "...server on the older revision — with no credential, and reports what a stock client gets...."
```

- **info** The word "credentials" in `mcp_liveness_check` ([credentials-mention](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#credentials-mention))

```untrusted-server-text
The input schema at properties.skipCredentialCheck.description mentions "credential".

inputSchema.properties.skipCredentialCheck.description: "...ut the answer then cannot say whether a credential is obtainable. A URL check never walks..."
```

- **info** The word "credentials" in `mcp_liveness_check_auth` ([credentials-mention](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#credentials-mention))

```untrusted-server-text
The description mentions "credential".

description: "...uth sign-in chain from outside, with no credential and no client registration, and returns..."
```

- **info** The word "credentials" in `mcp_liveness_check_apps` ([credentials-mention](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#credentials-mention))

```untrusted-server-text
The description mentions "credential".

description: "...ui://` resources) from outside, with no credential and without calling any tool, and retur..."
```


## Changes things (4)

Creates or changes something that can be changed back. Claude Code: ask.

### `mcp_liveness_check`

- 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 credentials-mention, info credentials-mention

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Makes one handshake with an MCP server's endpoint — `server/discover` at protocol revision
2026-07-28, then `initialize` for a server on the older revision — with no credential, and
reports what a stock client gets. The server is named either by its exact official-registry
`name`, or by its endpoint `url` when it is not in the registry or is listed under another
name; exactly one of the two is accepted.

Outcomes: `usable` (it connected and negotiated a protocol version), `needs_credential`
(401 or 403 — by name, the answer also says whether a credential can be obtained in-band
or whether a person has to create one), `charged` (402, access is for sale),
`unreachable` (not an MCP server there: wrong URL, dead host, or a 200 that is not
JSON-RPC), and, for a name only, `local_only` (no remote endpoint; it must be spawned as a
process) and `not_listed` (no server with that exact name; its endpoint can still be
checked by `url`).

A `url` must be public https: private, loopback, link-local, multicast and cloud-metadata
addresses are refused, redirects are re-checked, and URL checks are limited to 30 a
minute per caller. Useful before relying on a server: roughly two in five remote registry
listings do not answer a stock client.
```

### `mcp_liveness_check_apps`

- 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 credentials-mention

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Checks a remote MCP server's MCP Apps UI (SEP-1865 `ui://` resources) from outside, with no
credential and without calling any tool, and returns the first step that stops the view
rendering, whose it is (`server`, or `host` for a known host bug with its issue URL), the
fix, and the source (the spec, or the host's published page, with the date read).

It opens the server as an MCP Apps host would, then reads tools/list, resources/list and
resources/read: each tool's link to its view (_meta.ui.resourceUri, or ChatGPT's
openai/outputTemplate alias), the view's MIME type (text/html;profile=mcp-app) and HTML,
what the HTML loads against the CSP a host builds from _meta.ui.csp, whether it sends
ui/initialize, ui.domain for Claude and for ChatGPT, and what OpenAI's directory review
checks (explicit tool annotations, descriptions, a public https endpoint, the
domain-verification file). Verdicts per host — `spec`, `claude`, `chatgpt`,
`chatgpt-directory` — are judged from each host's published pages; no host is run.

Use it when a user says an MCP App or ChatGPT app shows a blank or invisible frame, 'Resource
not found: ui://', 'Invalid ui.domain format', or a submission error such as
annotations_required. `verdict` is ok, at_risk, broken, no_ui, needs_sign_in or unreachable.
The URL must be public https; checks are limited to 30 a minute per caller.
```

### `mcp_liveness_check_auth`

- 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 credentials-mention

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Walks a remote MCP server's OAuth sign-in chain from outside, with no credential and no
client registration, and returns the first step that breaks, whose it is (`server`,
`identity_provider`, or `client` for a known client bug, with its issue URL), the fix, and
the spec section that requires it.

Steps, in order: one unauthenticated request (it must answer 401 with a WWW-Authenticate
challenge); RFC 9728 protected-resource metadata; RFC 8414 or OpenID Connect discovery at
the locations the 2026-07-28 MCP spec lists, with the issuer and PKCE S256 checked; and how a
client gets a client ID (client ID metadata documents, dynamic registration, or a pasted ID).
Then a verdict per client — claude.ai, Claude Code, ChatGPT, VS Code, Cursor — emulated from
each client's published requirements and known issues; no client is run.

Use it when a user says a connector shows an error such as 'Authorization with the MCP
server failed' or 'Dynamic Client Registration not supported', or before publishing a server
that needs sign-in. `verdict` is ok, at_risk, broken, no_auth (it asked for no credential) or
unreachable. The URL must be public https; checks are limited to 30 a minute per caller.
```

### `mcp_liveness_drift`

- 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.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Given a server's exact name in the official MCP registry, reports which of its tools were
added, removed, or had their description, input schema or output schema change between
a named month and the latest monthly snapshot.

Useful when a server that worked before behaves differently now, when a prompt or an
integration written against its tools has started failing, or before relying on a cached
tool description. A liveness check says a server answers today; this says whether it is
still the same server that code was written against.

The answer names the changed tools and the kind of change. It does not diff the schemas
themselves: the snapshots keep content hashes, not bodies, so `detail` hands back the
release-asset location of both full months for a caller that needs the exact diff.

A month with no snapshot for that server gets an error naming the months that do have
one, never an empty diff that would read as `nothing changed`.
```

## Only reads (1)

Looks things up and changes nothing. Claude Code: allow.

### `mcp_liveness_explain_outcomes`

- The name "mcp_liveness_explain_outcomes" says "explain": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Returns the six outcomes this server can report — usable, needs_credential, charged, unreachable, local_only and not_listed — what each means for an agent choosing a server from the registry, and the usual next move for each. A static reference: it makes no network request and its answer never changes between calls.
```

## Claude Code permissions

For `.claude/settings.json`, assuming the server is installed as `liveness`:

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__liveness__mcp_liveness_explain_outcomes"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__liveness__mcp_liveness_check",
      "mcp__liveness__mcp_liveness_drift",
      "mcp__liveness__mcp_liveness_check_auth",
      "mcp__liveness__mcp_liveness_check_apps"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```