# Excellent Reference (free) (remote · beexcellent.ai)

Free, no-login: how Excellent works for restaurant events and private dining, and its public pages.

- Trust score: 75/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `beexcellent.ai`: 75/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-beexcellent-reference/api-mcp-public.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-beexcellent-reference/api-mcp-public)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://beexcellent.ai/api/mcp/public`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.0.0`

## 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**: 80/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - The HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security) header is present.
  - 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**: 69/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 1005 tokens (~201/item across 5 items; 5 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 17/100
  - Stability observed for 5 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 100/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 100% 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.
  - All 1 tool(s) whose name or description implies an irreversible operation declare an MCP destructiveHint annotation.
  - An AI judge read all 6 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 Excellent Reference (free) MCP server?

Excellent Reference (free) is a hosted endpoint at https://beexcellent.ai/api/mcp/public, 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 ai-beexcellent-reference 'https://beexcellent.ai/api/mcp/public'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ai-beexcellent-reference": {
      "url": "https://beexcellent.ai/api/mcp/public"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "ai-beexcellent-reference": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://beexcellent.ai/api/mcp/public"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.ai-beexcellent-reference]
url = "https://beexcellent.ai/api/mcp/public"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "ai-beexcellent-reference": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://beexcellent.ai/api/mcp/public",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add ai-beexcellent-reference --url 'https://beexcellent.ai/api/mcp/public' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  ai-beexcellent-reference:
    url: "https://beexcellent.ai/api/mcp/public"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "ai-beexcellent-reference": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://beexcellent.ai/api/mcp/public"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add ai-beexcellent-reference -t streamable-http -u 'https://beexcellent.ai/api/mcp/public'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ai-beexcellent-reference": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://beexcellent.ai/api/mcp/public"
    }
  }
}
```

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.

### 2026-11-05 (score 75, +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.

### 2026-11-04 (score 74, −1)

- [security] The server rewrote its instructions, which are the text every model session reads
- [security] Tool “search_excellent_pages” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [functional regression] Schema quality: 166 → 201
- [functional] Destructive annotations: pass → 100
- [functional] New tool “find_event_venues”
- [functional] New tool “send_event_inquiry”

### 2026-11-03 (score 75, +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.

### 2026-11-02 (score 74, +2)

- [security] The server rewrote its instructions, which are the text every model session reads
- [functional regression] Schema quality: 357 → 499
- [functional improvement] MCP protocol: fail → pass
- [functional] MCP protocol version: 2025-06-18 → 2025-11-25
- [functional] New tool “start_excellent_workspace”

### 2026-11-01 (score 72, 0)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-10-31 (score 72)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (5)

### `excellent_help` (~129 tokens)

How Excellent works

Excellent's own help text (the passages its in-app assistant answers from): how to do a task in Excellent — proposals, e-signed contracts, deposits and invoices, banquet event orders, floor plans, menus, staff training (Craft), marketing drafts, connecting an AI assistant. Returns up to 3 passages, best match first, each with the in-app page it starts on. No account needed; it reads no restaurant group's data.

Input parameters:

- `query` (string, required): What to look up, in plain words (e.g. "deposit schedule", "banquet event order", "Tripleseat").

### `search_excellent_pages` (~141 tokens)

Search Excellent's public pages

Search Excellent's published pages: feature pages (what each part of the product does), comparison pages (Excellent vs another events or private-dining platform, with where each one wins and the date the comparison was last reviewed), the blog, and guides (how to connect Claude, with 15 things to ask it). Returns up to 5 pages with their URL and the page's own summary text. No account needed.

Input parameters:

- `kind` (string): Optional: only one kind of page.
- `query` (string, required): What to look up, in plain words (e.g. "deposit schedule", "banquet event order", "Tripleseat").

### `find_event_venues` (~120 tokens)

Find venues that take inquiries from assistants

Finds restaurants and venues on Excellent that accept private-event and group-dining inquiries from AI assistants, by the restaurant group's or the venue's name. Returns up to 10, each with the group, the venue, who replies, a handle for send_event_inquiry and the venue's public inquiry page. Only venues that opted in are listed, and only what their public inquiry page shows. No account needed.

Input parameters:

- `query` (string, required): The restaurant group's or venue's name, e.g. "Lumière" or "Harbor Room".

### `start_excellent_workspace` (~114 tokens)

Start a sample Excellent workspace

Creates a new Excellent workspace filled with sample data (a fictional restaurant group with two venues, bookings, proposals, invoices, staff training and marketing drafts) and returns a one-time link for the person you are helping. Opening the link while signed in to Excellent, or after creating a login there, makes the workspace theirs. Nobody can use it before then, and an unclaimed workspace is deleted when its link expires after 7 days. Takes no arguments and no personal data. At most 3 a day per address.

### `send_event_inquiry` (~312 tokens)

Send a private-event inquiry to a venue

Sends a private-event or group-dining inquiry, on behalf of the person you are helping, to a venue that accepts inquiries from AI assistants (its handle comes from find_event_venues). Use it only when the person asked you to contact the venue, with the details they gave you. It lands in the venue's inbox as a new lead for the venue's team to review and answer directly; it books, holds and pays for nothing, and Excellent sends the guest no email. Give an email or a phone so the venue can reply. Answers only whether it was filed. At most 5 an hour and 20 a day per address.

Input parameters:

- `event_date` (string): Optional: the date they want, YYYY-MM-DD.
- `event_type` (string): Optional: the occasion, e.g. "birthday dinner", "rehearsal dinner", "team offsite".
- `guest_email` (string): The guest's email, for the venue's reply. Give this or guest_phone.
- `guest_name` (string, required): The guest's name, as they gave it.
- `guest_phone` (string): The guest's phone, for the venue's reply. Give this or guest_email.
- `message` (string): Optional: anything else they want the venue to know, in their words.
- `party_size` (integer): Optional: how many guests.
- `venue` (string, required): The venue's handle from find_event_venues (org/form), or its inquiry_url.

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-beexcellent-reference/api-mcp-public#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 75
- 2026-11-04: 74
- 2026-11-03: 75
- 2026-11-02: 74
- 2026-11-01: 72
- 2026-10-31: 72

## Common questions

### What is the Excellent Reference (free) MCP server?

Excellent Reference (free) is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as ai.beexcellent/reference. Free, no-login: how Excellent works for restaurant events and private dining, and its public pages. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://beexcellent.ai/api/mcp/public).

### Is the Excellent Reference (free) MCP server safe to use?

Excellent Reference (free) scores 75 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 Excellent Reference (free) MCP server expose?

Excellent Reference (free) exposes 5 tools: excellent_help, search_excellent_pages, find_event_venues, start_excellent_workspace, send_event_inquiry. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 816 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Excellent Reference (free) MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to Excellent Reference (free) without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the Excellent Reference (free) MCP server still maintained?

Excellent Reference (free) 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.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://beexcellent.ai/api/mcp/public
- Website: https://beexcellent.ai/mcp
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-beexcellent-reference/api-mcp-public.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-beexcellent-reference/api-mcp-public.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-beexcellent-reference/api-mcp-public