Alter Onboarding
REMOTE · MCP.ALTERAUTH.COM · SCANNED SEP 22
Guide developers from setup through a verified, policy-aware, audited Alter API call.
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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. How we score → Why this is hard to score →
Endpoint Security60
- The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key. View diagnostics → Pass
- Authorisation not fully verified: no authorisation is required to call this server, and 14 tool(s) never declared a destructiveHint. The MCP spec treats an absent hint as destructive by default, so we cannot call this surface safe. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Unverified
- HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path. View diagnostics → Pass
- HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Fail
- DNSSEC is configured correctly; the domain's records validate against the full chain to the root. View diagnostics → Pass
Transport & Reachability100
- Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake. View diagnostics → Pass
Schema Quality & AI Usability83
- 100% of prompts and resources have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the item's name).Pass
- AI-judged instruction clarity (good).Pass
- Tool/resource definitions use about 1793 tokens (~105/item across 17 items; 14 tools + 3 resources), lean.Pass
- Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management97
- Stability observed for 29 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.Partial
Tool Coverage100
- 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
- 100% of tool parameters carry a description.Pass
- Structured output schemas are declared (7% of tools); any adoption earns full credit.Pass
Tool Safety100
- No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
- We read all 14 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
- An AI judge read all 15 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.Pass
Capabilities100
- Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.Pass
How do I install the Alter Onboarding MCP server?
Alter Onboarding is a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.alterauth.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.
remote · mcp.alterauth.com
claude mcp add --transport http alteraidev-alter-onboarding 'https://mcp.alterauth.com/mcp'
{
"mcpServers": {
"alteraidev-alter-onboarding": {
"url": "https://mcp.alterauth.com/mcp"
}
}
} {
"servers": {
"alteraidev-alter-onboarding": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://mcp.alterauth.com/mcp"
}
}
} [mcp_servers.alteraidev-alter-onboarding] url = "https://mcp.alterauth.com/mcp"
{
"$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
"mcp": {
"alteraidev-alter-onboarding": {
"type": "remote",
"url": "https://mcp.alterauth.com/mcp",
"enabled": true
}
}
} openclaw mcp add alteraidev-alter-onboarding --url 'https://mcp.alterauth.com/mcp' --transport streamable-http
mcp_servers:
alteraidev-alter-onboarding:
url: "https://mcp.alterauth.com/mcp" {
"McpServers": {
"alteraidev-alter-onboarding": {
"Transport": "http",
"Url": "https://mcp.alterauth.com/mcp"
}
}
} assistant mcp add alteraidev-alter-onboarding -t streamable-http -u 'https://mcp.alterauth.com/mcp'
{
"mcpServers": {
"alteraidev-alter-onboarding": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://mcp.alterauth.com/mcp"
}
}
} The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.
Every change we have recorded for this component, newest first. Security-relevant changes are always shown. ▲ marks a change for the better, ▼ a change for the worse; unmarked changes are neutral.
- 22 Sept 26 +1
- Server version: 0.2.6 → 0.2.7 functional
- 21 Sept 26 0
- Server version: 0.2.5 → 0.2.6 functional
- 20 Sept 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 87 to 90. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 26 days of observed history at the previous scan, 27 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 18 Sept 26 +1
- Tool “fetch_doc” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads security
- Tool “sdk_pattern” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads security
- Schema quality: 1618 → 1793 ▼ functional
- Server version: 0.2.4 → 0.2.5 functional
- New tool “search_docs” functional
- “sdk_pattern” reworded the description of “pattern” cosmetic
- 17 Sept 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 77 to 80. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 23 days of observed history at the previous scan, 24 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 16 Sept 26 0
- Tool “policy_language” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads security
- Server version: 0.2.3 → 0.2.4 functional
- 15 Sept 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 70 to 73. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 21 days of observed history at the previous scan, 22 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 13 Sept 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 63 to 67. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 19 days of observed history at the previous scan, 20 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
Diagnostic detail from the automated scan of this channel: what the scanner observed at each step, so you can see exactly where a check passed or failed. It is informational only and never changes the trust score.
Captured 22 Sept 2026 · Probed https://mcp.alterauth.com/mcp
TLS valid
Negotiated TLS 1.3 with TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 .
| Subject | Issuer | Valid from | Valid until | Key | Signature | Serial |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN=alterauth.com | CN=WE1,O=Google Trust Services,C=US | 8 Aug 2026 | 7 Nov 2026 | ECDSA 256 | ECDSA-SHA256 | fd743c8af8c4ebfa13f05de185430a88 |
| SANs: alterauth.com, mcp.alterauth.com, *.mcp.alterauth.com | ||||||
| CN=WE1,O=Google Trust Services,C=US (CA) | CN=GTS Root R4,O=Google Trust Services LLC,C=US | 13 Dec 2023 | 20 Feb 2029 | ECDSA 256 | ECDSA-SHA384 | 7ff31977972c224a76155d13b6d685e3 |
| CN=GTS Root R4,O=Google Trust Services LLC,C=US (CA) | CN=GlobalSign Root CA,OU=Root CA,O=GlobalSign nv-sa,C=BE | 15 Nov 2023 | 28 Jan 2028 | ECDSA 384 | SHA256-RSA | 7fe530bf331343bedd821610493d8a1b |
Background: What to check on a remote MCP endpoint →
DNSSEC secure
Validation of mcp.alterauth.com. — Secure
| Zone | DS | Keys | Algorithms | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| . | trust_anchor | 20326, 38696 | 8, 8 | Verified |
| com. | present | 19718 | 13 | Verified |
| alterauth.com. | present | 2371 | 13 | Verified |
| mcp.alterauth.com. | Verified address RRset verified with the apex keys |
Authentication No authorisation required
The endpoint answered without asking for a token. Anyone who knows the URL can reach it.
| Result | No authorisation required |
|---|---|
| HTTP status | 200 |
Background: How OAuth 2.1 works in the 2026 MCP spec →
Transports 2 probes
| Transport | URL | Outcome | Status | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| streamable-http | https://mcp.alterauth.com/mcp | Verified | 200 | |
| http (plaintext) | http://mcp.alterauth.com/mcp | HTTPS enforced | 301 | https://mcp.alterauth.com/mcp |
The tools this component advertises to a client, with an estimated token cost for each. Expand a tool to see its parameters and schema. The per-tool counts are indicative and are not scored directly; the schema's total context footprint is one signal in Schema Quality & AI Usability. A tool's description is untrusted text the model reads on every call, which is what makes this list a security surface and not just an inventory: how tool poisoning works →
fetch_doc ~130
Fetch any page of the Alter documentation by slug (e.g. "quickstart"). The whole published docs site is bundled here, skill pages included, so every page a doc, a skill or a flow step links to can be read in-band. Accepts any spelling the docs use: a bare slug, a leading slash, a #section anchor, a full docs.alterauth.com URL, or an older path that now redirects. Omit the slug to list every page.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| slug | string | – | Doc slug, e.g. "guides/call-apis-on-behalf-of-users". |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
get_operation_schema ~116
Fetch one provider API operation's full contract — method, path, parameters, request/response schemas — live from Alter's provider-spec catalog, plus the spec's source and freshness. Get operation ids from list_operations first.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| kind | string | – | Provider family: oauth (user-authorized) or managed (API-key). |
| operation_id | string | yes | Operation id from list_operations, e.g. "gmail.users.messages.list". |
| provider_id | string | yes | Provider id, e.g. "google" or "github". |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
get_started ~122
Begin or change an Alter integration. Without args: lists the phases. With `phase`: returns that phase's flows + a heuristic hint — classify the use case YOURSELF and call again with `goal` for the plan. If the use case spans multiple flows, run them sequentially.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| goal | string | – | The flow id YOU classified. Returns that flow's full plan. |
| phase | string | – | setup (integrate from scratch) or modify (change an existing integration). |
| use_case | string | – | Plain-English description of what the developer wants. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
list_operations ~204
List the API operations a provider exposes, live from Alter's provider-spec catalog (e.g. "what can I call on google?"). Returns operation ids + methods/paths, plus the spec's source and freshness. Omit `kind` to auto-detect the provider family; when the id exists in both oauth and managed you'll be asked to pass `kind`. Machine-readable rows ride in `structuredContent` (see this tool's outputSchema) — read those rather than parsing the prose.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| kind | string | – | Provider family: oauth (user-authorized) or managed (API-key). |
| limit | integer | – | Max operations to return (backend default 100, max 500). |
| offset | integer | – | Zero-based offset for paging through large operation lists. |
| provider_id | string | yes | Provider id, e.g. "google" or "github". |
| search | string | – | Case-insensitive filter over operation ids/paths/summaries. |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| offset | integer | yes | Zero-based offset of the first row. |
| operations | array | yes | This page of operations, in the catalog's serving order. |
| provider_id | string | yes | Resolved provider id the rows belong to. |
| provider_kind | string | yes | Resolved provider family: oauth or managed. |
| spec_version | integer | yes | Alter's ingested spec version these rows came from. |
| total | integer | yes | Total operations matching the query (before limit/offset). |
No examples provided.
list_phases ~27
List the lifecycle phases this server serves (setup, modify) and what each is for.
Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
list_providers ~74
List every provider with an ingested API spec in Alter's provider-spec catalog, with each spec's source and freshness. Optionally filter by `kind`. Start here, then call list_operations for a provider's operations.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| kind | string | – | Provider family: oauth (user-authorized) or managed (API-key). |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
list_skills ~38
List the guidance Skills available on this server, with the phase each serves. Read a skill via its resource (skill://alter/<name>).
Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
next_step ~112
Return the next step for a flow. Pass the goal (flow id) and the id of the last completed step (omit `after` for the first step). Run each step's detect command FIRST and skip the run command when detection passes. The design step also returns that flow's complete starter ALTER_INTEGRATION.md.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| after | string | – | Id of the last completed step (e.g. "2", "3a"). |
| goal | string | yes | The flow id (setup goal or modify operation). |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
policy_language ~242
The authoritative grammar of Alter's runtime-policy language, live from the deployed backend: every authorable rule type with its JSON body schema, caps, authorable levels, worked examples, and fail-closed semantics. Call with no arguments for the overview; pass `rule_type` (e.g. "content_match") for one type's full grammar. Use it before authoring rules with `alter policy rules create` — never guess a body shape. Vocabulary: the dashboard's "Runtime policies" surface, the docs' "policy", and `alter policy` are one feature, and the dashboard's "Human in the loop (HITL)" type is the `require_approval` rule type (its grant-editor block is the grant-level baseline of the same gate). Workflow prose: the `set-policy` modify flow (`get_started` with phase=modify), fetch_doc("guides/set-policies"), fetch_doc("guides/add-human-in-the-loop-approvals"), and fetch_doc("reference/cli/commands/policy").
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| rule_type | string | – | One rule type's full grammar, e.g. "content_match" or "quota". |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
sdk_integration ~65
Return the Alter SDK wiring (install + client init + request) to write into the developer's codebase, for a language and setup goal.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| goal | string | yes | The setup goal (user-data | backend-secret | agent). |
| language | string | yes | Target language. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
sdk_pattern ~157
Return a runnable Alter SDK call pattern for a language: `proxy-call` (zero-egress proxy_request + HITL), `resolve-grant-by-user` (call as an end user via their delegated grant), `delegate-managed-secret` (the operator-side delegation step), or `resolve-ambiguous-grant` (an identity-mode call matched several of one user's grants: choose deliberately, never the first, and persist it; ask the developer at design time whether users can hold several accounts per provider). Use AFTER `sdk_integration` has wired the client.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| language | string | yes | Target language. |
| pattern | string | yes | proxy-call | resolve-grant-by-user | delegate-managed-secret | resolve-ambiguous-grant. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
search_docs ~122
Search every bundled page of the Alter documentation (docs and skill pages) by keywords: returns the best-matching pages with the section and a snippet that matched. Use it when a flow step or doc did not point you at the page you need, instead of guessing slugs or listing every page; then read one with fetch_doc and its slug.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | integer | – | Maximum results (default 8, at most 20). |
| query | string | yes | Keywords or a short phrase, e.g. "connect widget popup" or "PAT scopes login". |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
troubleshoot ~48
Map a @alter-ai/cli exit code or error message to a remediation.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| error | string | – | The stderr / error message. |
| exit_code | integer | – | The CLI process exit code. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
verify_integration ~87
Return a copy-pasteable recipe to VERIFY an integration works: `first-call` (code↔design, an audit row, correct attribution) or `per-user-isolation` (a multi-user/broker server runs two users under different credentials and rejects cross-user access). Guidance only — you run the commands.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| scenario | string | yes | first-call | per-user-isolation. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
What is the Alter Onboarding MCP server?
Alter Onboarding is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.AlterAIDev/alter-onboarding. Guide developers from setup through a verified, policy-aware, audited Alter API call. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://mcp.alterauth.com/mcp).
Is the Alter Onboarding MCP server safe to use?
Alter Onboarding scores 81 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 Alter Onboarding MCP server expose?
Alter Onboarding exposes 14 tools: list_phases, list_skills, get_started, next_step, sdk_integration, and 9 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 1,544 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Does the Alter Onboarding MCP server require authentication?
No. We connected to Alter Onboarding without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.
Is the Alter Onboarding MCP server still maintained?
Alter Onboarding is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 22 September 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.