# Star Wars MCP (remote · swapi.build)

Star Wars API (SWAPI) as a remote MCP server: films, people, planets, species, starships, vehicles.

- Trust score: 76/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +4
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-08-14

## Components

- remote · `swapi.build`: 76/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/build-swapi-star-wars/swapi.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/build-swapi-star-wars/swapi)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://swapi.build/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `2.3.0`

## 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 2026-08-14.

- **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**: 76/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 200 tokens (~50/item across 4 items; 4 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - 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**: 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.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a current MCP spec version (2026-07-28).

## Install

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http build-swapi-star-wars https://swapi.build/mcp
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.build-swapi-star-wars]
url = "https://swapi.build/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "build-swapi-star-wars": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://swapi.build/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add build-swapi-star-wars --url https://swapi.build/mcp --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  build-swapi-star-wars:
    url: "https://swapi.build/mcp"
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "build-swapi-star-wars": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://swapi.build/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.

### 2026-08-13 (score 76, +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.

### 2026-08-11 (score 75, +2)

- [functional] We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server

### 2026-08-09 (score 73, +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.

### 2026-08-07 (score 72, +1)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-08-06 (score 71)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (4)

### `sw_get` (~74 tokens)

Gets one Star Wars entity by numeric id. Ids are the record ids from each entity's url field (e.g. FILMS id 1 = A New Hope). Returns a JSON object.

Input parameters:

- `id` (integer, required): Numeric record id (from the entity's url field)
- `resource` (string, required): Resource type

### `sw_list` (~36 tokens)

Lists all entities of a Star Wars resource type from swapi.build. Returns a JSON array.

Input parameters:

- `resource` (string, required): Resource type

### `sw_random` (~39 tokens)

Returns one random Star Wars entity of the given resource type. Great for live demos. Returns a JSON object.

Input parameters:

- `resource` (string, required): Resource type

### `sw_search` (~51 tokens)

Searches a Star Wars resource by name (title for FILMS), case-insensitive substring match. Returns a JSON array.

Input parameters:

- `query` (string, required): Name/title fragment
- `resource` (string, required): Resource type

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/build-swapi-star-wars/swapi#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-08-14: 76
- 2026-08-13: 76
- 2026-08-12: 75
- 2026-08-11: 75
- 2026-08-10: 73
- 2026-08-09: 73
- 2026-08-08: 72
- 2026-08-07: 72
- 2026-08-06: 71

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://swapi.build/mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/eldermoraes/swapi.build
- Website: https://swapi.build/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/build-swapi-star-wars/swapi.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/build-swapi-star-wars/swapi.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/build-swapi-star-wars/swapi