# DeFi Garden (remote · www.defi.garden)

Underwritten DeFi yield discovery & goal planning for AI agents on Base & EVM.

- Trust score: 66/100 (medium)
- Change this week: 0
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-10-17

## Components

- remote · `www.defi.garden`: 66/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/alex0xhodler-defi-garden/api-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/alex0xhodler-defi-garden/api-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://www.defi.garden/api/mcp`
- 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 2026-10-17.

- **Endpoint Security**: 66/100
  - 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 5 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.
  - The HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security) header is present.
  - DNSSEC is configured correctly; the domain's records validate against the full chain to the root.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 75/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 604 tokens (~120/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**: 0/100
  - Stability check failed: schema churn in the 14 days we've observed: 4 tool removals, 0 breaking changes, 0 auth/transport breaks, 5 additions.
- **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 5 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 5 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 60/100
  - Spec-recency check failed: implements MCP spec 2025-06-18; the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the DeFi Garden MCP server?

DeFi Garden is a hosted endpoint at https://www.defi.garden/api/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 alex0xhodler-defi-garden 'https://www.defi.garden/api/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "alex0xhodler-defi-garden": {
      "url": "https://www.defi.garden/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "alex0xhodler-defi-garden": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.defi.garden/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.alex0xhodler-defi-garden]
url = "https://www.defi.garden/api/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "alex0xhodler-defi-garden": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://www.defi.garden/api/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add alex0xhodler-defi-garden --url 'https://www.defi.garden/api/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  alex0xhodler-defi-garden:
    url: "https://www.defi.garden/api/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "alex0xhodler-defi-garden": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://www.defi.garden/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add alex0xhodler-defi-garden -t streamable-http -u 'https://www.defi.garden/api/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "alex0xhodler-defi-garden": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.defi.garden/api/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.

### 2026-10-06 (score 66, +1)

- [security regression] Stability: 0.03 → fail
- [functional regression] Schema quality: pass → fail
- [functional] This server's schema is too large to store in full, so we cannot compare its tools day to day

### 2026-10-04 (score 65, 0)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03
- [functional] This server's schema is too large to store in full, so we cannot compare its tools day to day

### 2026-10-03 (score 65)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (5)

### `find_pools` (~188 tokens)

Search DeFi Garden's railed pool list by token symbol, chain, project, and minimum TVL floor. Excludes anomalous rates (>1000% APY) and pools below $100K TVL. Data is a daily snapshot of DefiLlama's pool feed.

Input parameters:

- `chain` (string): Case-insensitive match against pool blockchain, e.g. 'Base', 'Ethereum'
- `limit` (number): Maximum pools to return (default: 20, max: 100)
- `min_tvl` (number): Minimum TVL floor in USD (clamps up to $100,000 minimum)
- `project` (string): Case-insensitive match against protocol name, e.g. 'morpho-blue', 'aave-v3'
- `token` (string): Case-insensitive substring match against pool token symbol, e.g. 'USDC'

### `get_pool` (~97 tokens)

Look up a single pool by its DefiLlama pool UUID, returning APY (base/reward breakdown), TVL, and anomaly / below-floor flags. Data is a daily snapshot of DefiLlama's pool feed.

Input parameters:

- `pool_id` (string, required): DefiLlama pool UUID (e.g. 'ba68527f-8ec2-4c55-827a-8f4673ae047c')

### `get_pool_score` (~165 tokens)

Retrieve the DeFi Score (0-100) with its 4-pillar breakdown (stability, fee sustainability, depositor stickiness, exit liquidity), the experimental 14-day forward yield forecast bands (p10/p50/p90), and retail access restrictions. Look up by pool_id, or by exact asset symbol (highest-TVL railed match, with candidates listed). The forecast is experimental.

Input parameters:

- `asset` (string): Optional exact, case-insensitive pool symbol to query if pool_id is unknown (e.g. 'USDC', 'STETH'). Not a substring match.
- `chain` (string): Optional blockchain filter used with asset (e.g. 'Base', 'Ethereum')
- `pool_id` (string): DefiLlama pool UUID

### `forever_number` (~107 tokens)

Computes the lump-sum capital whose yield alone covers a recurring monthly bill forever, using a TVL-weighted blended rate of railed pools (or a caller-supplied APY between 0 and 1000 percent).

Input parameters:

- `apy` (number): Optional annual rate percent, greater than 0 and at most 1000. When omitted, uses the TVL-weighted blended rate of railed pools.
- `monthly` (number, required): Positive USD/month the capital must cover

### `explain_rails` (~47 tokens)

Returns DeFi Garden's active filtering rules (1000% APY sanity cap, $100K TVL floor, anomaly flagging) and the data source, for autonomous agent safety.

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/alex0xhodler-defi-garden/api-mcp#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-10-17: 66
- 2026-10-16: 66
- 2026-10-15: 66
- 2026-10-14: 66
- 2026-10-13: 66
- 2026-10-12: 66
- 2026-10-10: 66
- 2026-10-06: 66
- 2026-10-04: 65
- 2026-10-03: 65

## Common questions

### What is the DeFi Garden MCP server?

DeFi Garden is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.alex0xhodler/defi-garden. Underwritten DeFi yield discovery & goal planning for AI agents on Base & EVM. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://www.defi.garden/api/mcp).

### Is the DeFi Garden MCP server safe to use?

DeFi Garden scores 66 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 DeFi Garden MCP server expose?

DeFi Garden exposes 5 tools: find_pools, get_pool, get_pool_score, forever_number, explain_rails. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 604 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the DeFi Garden MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to DeFi Garden without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the DeFi Garden MCP server still maintained?

DeFi Garden is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 17 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://www.defi.garden/api/mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/alex0xhodler/defi_garden
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/alex0xhodler-defi-garden/api-mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/alex0xhodler-defi-garden/api-mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/alex0xhodler-defi-garden/api-mcp