# SKUit Network & Security Catalog (remote · mcp.skuit.ai)

AI helper for choosing and speccing network & security products from Cisco, Arista, Juniper and more

- Trust score: 74/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-10-04

## Components

- remote · `mcp.skuit.ai`: 74/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-skuit-catalog/api-mcp-catalog.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-skuit-catalog/api-mcp-catalog)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://mcp.skuit.ai/api/mcp/catalog`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `0.1.0`

## 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 2026-10-04.

- **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**: 70/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 636 tokens (~212/item across 3 items; 3 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 13/100
  - Stability observed for 4 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.
  - We read all 3 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 3 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 SKUit Network & Security Catalog MCP server?

SKUit Network & Security Catalog is a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.skuit.ai/api/mcp/catalog, 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-skuit-catalog 'https://mcp.skuit.ai/api/mcp/catalog'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ai-skuit-catalog": {
      "url": "https://mcp.skuit.ai/api/mcp/catalog"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "ai-skuit-catalog": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.skuit.ai/api/mcp/catalog"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.ai-skuit-catalog]
url = "https://mcp.skuit.ai/api/mcp/catalog"
```

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add ai-skuit-catalog --url 'https://mcp.skuit.ai/api/mcp/catalog' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  ai-skuit-catalog:
    url: "https://mcp.skuit.ai/api/mcp/catalog"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "ai-skuit-catalog": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://mcp.skuit.ai/api/mcp/catalog"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add ai-skuit-catalog -t streamable-http -u 'https://mcp.skuit.ai/api/mcp/catalog'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ai-skuit-catalog": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.skuit.ai/api/mcp/catalog"
    }
  }
}
```

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.

### 2026-10-03 (score 74, 0)

- [security] Tool “catalog_find_alternatives” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [cosmetic] “catalog_search_platforms” reworded the description of “vendors”

### 2026-10-02 (score 74, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 3 to 7. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 1 days of observed history at the previous scan, 2 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-01 (score 73, 0)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-09-30 (score 73)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (3)

### `catalog_search_platforms` (~382 tokens)

Search catalog platforms by port demand

Find published platforms that can serve a port demand (for example 60×100G plus 4×400G for a data-center top-of-rack switch), closest fit first: fewest spare ports, then fewest rack units, then least capacity headroom. Each result explains the fit and lists caveats (breakout cables, a non-default port mode, port-pairing rules) that you should pass on to the user. Also reports how many platforms of the use case meet the demand, how many could not be evaluated, and the nearest misses when nothing fits. Answers carry catalog_url (the public catalog page) and build_bom_url (Open in SKUit to build a full bill of materials; the builder requires a SKUit account).

Input parameters:

- `form_factor` (string): Only this form factor, e.g. "fixed" or "modular".
- `limit` (integer): How many results (default 5, max 10).
- `max_rack_units` (integer): Only platforms at most this many rack units tall.
- `poe_required` (boolean): Only platforms that supply PoE.
- `port_requirements` (array, required): The ports needed, one row per speed.
- `use_case_id` (string, required): Deployment role: "campus-access" (Campus access layer), "dc-tor" (ToR & Leaf), "dc-core" (DC core / spine), "wan-edge" (WAN edge / branch), "smb" (SMB / small campus), "campus-dist" (Campus distribut…
- `vendors` (array): Only these vendors. Case-insensitive, on whole words: "Juniper" matches "Juniper Networks". An unknown name is reported back with the vendors that do have platforms for the use case.

### `catalog_find_alternatives` (~164 tokens)

Find alternatives to a product

Find published alternatives to a product named by part number or family (for example "Cisco 9300X" or "C9300X-48HX"): one class up, the same class, and one class down, all in the same role, same vendor first. Each alternative states the single dimension it was compared on, so present it as "comparable on <dimension>", not as a drop-in replacement. An ambiguous name returns the candidate families to choose from. Answers carry catalog_url (the public catalog page) and build_bom_url (Open in SKUit to build a full bill of materials; the builder requires a SKUit account).

Input parameters:

- `product` (string, required): A part number or a product family name, optionally prefixed by the vendor.

### `catalog_get_platform` (~90 tokens)

Get a catalog platform

Get the published facts for one platform by its exact platform id (as returned by the other catalog tools). Answers carry catalog_url (the public catalog page) and build_bom_url (Open in SKUit to build a full bill of materials; the builder requires a SKUit account).

Input parameters:

- `platform_id` (string, required): The exact platform id, e.g. "C9300X-48HX".

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-10-04: 74
- 2026-10-03: 74
- 2026-10-02: 74
- 2026-10-01: 73
- 2026-09-30: 73

## Common questions

### What is the SKUit Network & Security Catalog MCP server?

SKUit Network & Security Catalog is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as ai.skuit/catalog. AI helper for choosing and speccing network & security products from Cisco, Arista, Juniper and more. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://mcp.skuit.ai/api/mcp/catalog).

### Is the SKUit Network & Security Catalog MCP server safe to use?

SKUit Network & Security Catalog scores 74 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 SKUit Network & Security Catalog MCP server expose?

SKUit Network & Security Catalog exposes 3 tools: catalog_search_platforms, catalog_find_alternatives, catalog_get_platform. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 636 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the SKUit Network & Security Catalog MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to SKUit Network & Security Catalog without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the SKUit Network & Security Catalog MCP server still maintained?

SKUit Network & Security Catalog is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 4 October 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://mcp.skuit.ai/api/mcp/catalog
- Website: https://skuit.ai/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-skuit-catalog/api-mcp-catalog.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-skuit-catalog/api-mcp-catalog.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-skuit-catalog/api-mcp-catalog