# io.github.99blakeD99/the-metis-fca-handbook-ai-harness-mcp (remote · fcahandbookharnessimplementation.onrender.com)

MCP server for FCA Handbook compliance analysis with verbatim citations.

- Trust score: 63/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +3
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `fcahandbookharnessimplementation.onrender.com`: 63/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/99blaked99-the-metis-fca-handbook-ai-harness-mcp/fcahandbookharnessimplementation.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/99blaked99-the-metis-fca-handbook-ai-harness-mcp/fcahandbookharnessimplementation)
- pypi · `fca-handbook-harness-mcp`: 77/100, [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/99blaked99-the-metis-fca-handbook-ai-harness-mcp/fca-handbook-harness-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/99blaked99-the-metis-fca-handbook-ai-harness-mcp/fca-handbook-harness-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://fcahandbookharnessimplementation.onrender.com/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `0.1.13`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-11-05.

- **Endpoint Security**: 57/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - Authorisation not fully verified: no authorisation is required to call this server, and 1 tool(s) never declared a destructiveHint. The MCP spec treats an absent hint as destructive by default, so we cannot call this surface safe.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 63/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 903 tokens (~903/item across 1 items; 1 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 27/100
  - Stability observed for 8 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 67/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 0% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 1 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 1 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the io.github.99blakeD99/the-metis-fca-handbook-ai-harness-mcp server?

io.github.99blakeD99/the-metis-fca-handbook-ai-harness-mcp is a hosted endpoint at https://fcahandbookharnessimplementation.onrender.com/mcp, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http 99blaked99-the-metis-fca-handbook-ai-harness-mcp 'https://fcahandbookharnessimplementation.onrender.com/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "99blaked99-the-metis-fca-handbook-ai-harness-mcp": {
      "url": "https://fcahandbookharnessimplementation.onrender.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "99blaked99-the-metis-fca-handbook-ai-harness-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://fcahandbookharnessimplementation.onrender.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.99blaked99-the-metis-fca-handbook-ai-harness-mcp]
url = "https://fcahandbookharnessimplementation.onrender.com/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "99blaked99-the-metis-fca-handbook-ai-harness-mcp": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://fcahandbookharnessimplementation.onrender.com/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add 99blaked99-the-metis-fca-handbook-ai-harness-mcp --url 'https://fcahandbookharnessimplementation.onrender.com/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  99blaked99-the-metis-fca-handbook-ai-harness-mcp:
    url: "https://fcahandbookharnessimplementation.onrender.com/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "99blaked99-the-metis-fca-handbook-ai-harness-mcp": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://fcahandbookharnessimplementation.onrender.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add 99blaked99-the-metis-fca-handbook-ai-harness-mcp -t streamable-http -u 'https://fcahandbookharnessimplementation.onrender.com/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "99blaked99-the-metis-fca-handbook-ai-harness-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://fcahandbookharnessimplementation.onrender.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-11-04 (score 63, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 20 to 23. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 6 days of observed history at the previous scan, 7 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-02 (score 62, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 13 to 17. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 4 days of observed history at the previous scan, 5 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-31 (score 61, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 7 to 10. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 2 days of observed history at the previous scan, 3 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-29 (score 60, 0)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-10-28 (score 60)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (1)

### `evaluate_fca_handbook_applicability` (~903 tokens)

Evaluate which FCA Handbook entries apply to a situation as input by the user, using the Metis FCA Handbook AI Harness.

Calls a live compliance reasoning run, billed to the configured account.
Use for questions involving the FCA Handbook, including authorisation, permissions, or obligations for a specific firm/product/service.

This call takes 60-120 seconds in 'quick' mode and 90-120 seconds in 'full' mode, and the longest
stretch, the main reasoning step (node 6), shows nothing new on the
user's screen, so it can look as if the call has crashed. Before you call
the tool, always tell the user in plain words that the Harness is about
to do substantial reasoning work, that this takes a minute or two, and
that it has not crashed if the screen is quiet. Do
not go silent. The Harness attempts to stream progress messages as each
reasoning node completes - if you receive them, relay each one to the
user as it arrives — they contain genuine detail, not filler.

Billing rule: every call is a separate charge. After a result arrives,
never start another call, whether 'quick' or 'full', in the same turn or
without the user's explicit yes to that specific further run, even when
the refinement suggestions make another pass look clearly worthwhile.

First call: use analysis_mode='quick'. Before calling, check whether you
already have (from this conversation, documents you were given, or other
tools) grounded answers to these six things — the specific compliance
question, the product/service, who is providing it (platform/adviser/
bank/etc.), its key features, the target market (retail/institutional/
professional/customer segment), and what data it handles. If you are missing more than
one or two, ask the user for them first rather than calling with thin
input. Every call is billed at a flat rate regardless of input quality,
so a vague call incurs unnecessary cost.

The result
includes refinement_suggestions — gaps the Harness could not resolve
from user_input alone, typically s…

Input parameters:

- `analysis_mode` (string)
- `user_input` (string, required)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/99blaked99-the-metis-fca-handbook-ai-harness-mcp/fcahandbookharnessimplementation#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 63
- 2026-11-04: 63
- 2026-11-03: 62
- 2026-11-02: 62
- 2026-11-01: 61
- 2026-10-31: 61
- 2026-10-30: 60
- 2026-10-29: 60
- 2026-10-28: 60

## Common questions

### What is the io.github.99blakeD99/the-metis-fca-handbook-ai-harness-mcp server?

io.github.99blakeD99/the-metis-fca-handbook-ai-harness-mcp is listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.99blakeD99/the-metis-fca-handbook-ai-harness-mcp. MCP server for FCA Handbook compliance analysis with verbatim citations. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://fcahandbookharnessimplementation.onrender.com/mcp).

### Is the io.github.99blakeD99/the-metis-fca-handbook-ai-harness-mcp server safe to use?

io.github.99blakeD99/the-metis-fca-handbook-ai-harness-mcp scores 63 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the io.github.99blakeD99/the-metis-fca-handbook-ai-harness-mcp server expose?

io.github.99blakeD99/the-metis-fca-handbook-ai-harness-mcp exposes 1 tool: evaluate_fca_handbook_applicability. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 903 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the io.github.99blakeD99/the-metis-fca-handbook-ai-harness-mcp server require authentication?

No. We connected to io.github.99blakeD99/the-metis-fca-handbook-ai-harness-mcp without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the io.github.99blakeD99/the-metis-fca-handbook-ai-harness-mcp server still maintained?

io.github.99blakeD99/the-metis-fca-handbook-ai-harness-mcp is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

### What did VerifyMCP test on the io.github.99blakeD99/the-metis-fca-handbook-ai-harness-mcp server?

VerifyMCP ran 12 checks on io.github.99blakeD99/the-metis-fca-handbook-ai-harness-mcp, covering TLS certificate, HTTPS, HSTS header, DNSSEC and 8 more. One item could not be completed, a gap on our side rather than a finding about io.github.99blakeD99/the-metis-fca-handbook-ai-harness-mcp: Authorization. Supply Chain Security and Provenance & Transparency do not apply to a hosted endpoint, so they were not tested. The score does not measure everything, and the scoring documentation lists what it leaves out.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://fcahandbookharnessimplementation.onrender.com/mcp
- Authorisation metadata: https://fcahandbookharnessimplementation.onrender.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/99blakeD99/the-metis-fca-handbook-ai-harness-mcp-files
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/99blaked99-the-metis-fca-handbook-ai-harness-mcp/fcahandbookharnessimplementation.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/99blaked99-the-metis-fca-handbook-ai-harness-mcp/fcahandbookharnessimplementation/changelog.json
- Trust report (JSON): https://verifymcp.io/servers/99blaked99-the-metis-fca-handbook-ai-harness-mcp/fcahandbookharnessimplementation.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/99blaked99-the-metis-fca-handbook-ai-harness-mcp/fcahandbookharnessimplementation