# AI Deals Sentinel (remote · ai-deals.rockpool.cc)

Agent-operated. Free tiers, trial credits and discounts on AI APIs, each dated when verified.

- Trust score: 65/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-09-29

## Components

- remote · `ai-deals.rockpool.cc`: 65/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/cc-rockpool-ai-deals-ai-deals-sentinel/ai-deals.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/cc-rockpool-ai-deals-ai-deals-sentinel/ai-deals)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://ai-deals.rockpool.cc/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 2026-09-29.

- **Endpoint Security**: 57/100
  - 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 3 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.
  - HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent.
  - 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**: 81/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 393 tokens (~131/item across 3 items; 3 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 7/100
  - Stability observed for 2 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 4 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 AI Deals Sentinel MCP server?

AI Deals Sentinel is a hosted endpoint at https://ai-deals.rockpool.cc/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 cc-rockpool-ai-deals-ai-deals-sentinel 'https://ai-deals.rockpool.cc/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cc-rockpool-ai-deals-ai-deals-sentinel": {
      "url": "https://ai-deals.rockpool.cc/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "cc-rockpool-ai-deals-ai-deals-sentinel": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://ai-deals.rockpool.cc/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.cc-rockpool-ai-deals-ai-deals-sentinel]
url = "https://ai-deals.rockpool.cc/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "cc-rockpool-ai-deals-ai-deals-sentinel": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://ai-deals.rockpool.cc/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add cc-rockpool-ai-deals-ai-deals-sentinel --url 'https://ai-deals.rockpool.cc/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  cc-rockpool-ai-deals-ai-deals-sentinel:
    url: "https://ai-deals.rockpool.cc/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "cc-rockpool-ai-deals-ai-deals-sentinel": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://ai-deals.rockpool.cc/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add cc-rockpool-ai-deals-ai-deals-sentinel -t streamable-http -u 'https://ai-deals.rockpool.cc/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cc-rockpool-ai-deals-ai-deals-sentinel": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://ai-deals.rockpool.cc/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.

### 2026-09-29 (score 65, +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.

### 2026-09-28 (score 64, 0)

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

### 2026-09-27 (score 64)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (3)

### `find_free_inference` (~133 tokens)

Find free tiers, trial credits and discounts on AI APIs an agent can use. Every result carries source_url and verified_at, plus how many days ago it was verified, so you can apply your own freshness tolerance.

Input parameters:

- `agent_usable_only` (boolean): Only offers an agent can consume via API once a human clears the signup. Defaults to true.
- `capability` (string): Filter by category, e.g. inference, gpu, search, embeddings, vector-db, speech-vision, eval-observability, compute-sandbox
- `provider` (string): Substring match on provider or offer name

### `get_offer` (~52 tokens)

Full detail for one provider's offer, including caveats, access barrier, source_url and verified_at. On no match returns nearest candidates rather than an empty result.

Input parameters:

- `provider` (string, required): Provider or offer name

### `check_api_health` (~121 tokens)

The last measured liveness of free, no-key public data APIs: HTTP status and latency from one read-only GET per API, with the generated_at of that measurement. status SLOW means the API timed out at 10s and answered a 45s re-probe (works, not fast); DOWN means no answer within 45s. Note counts.measured excludes SKIP rows, which were never called — use it as the health denominator, not counts.total.

Input parameters:

- `api` (string): Substring match on API name; omit for all

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/cc-rockpool-ai-deals-ai-deals-sentinel/ai-deals#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-09-29: 65
- 2026-09-28: 64
- 2026-09-27: 64

## Common questions

### What is the AI Deals Sentinel MCP server?

AI Deals Sentinel is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as cc.rockpool.ai-deals/ai-deals-sentinel. Agent-operated. Free tiers, trial credits and discounts on AI APIs, each dated when verified. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://ai-deals.rockpool.cc/mcp).

### Is the AI Deals Sentinel MCP server safe to use?

AI Deals Sentinel scores 65 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 AI Deals Sentinel MCP server expose?

AI Deals Sentinel exposes 3 tools: find_free_inference, get_offer, check_api_health. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 306 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the AI Deals Sentinel MCP server require authentication?

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

### Is the AI Deals Sentinel MCP server still maintained?

AI Deals Sentinel is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 29 September 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://ai-deals.rockpool.cc/mcp
- Website: https://ai-deals.rockpool.cc/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/cc-rockpool-ai-deals-ai-deals-sentinel/ai-deals.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/cc-rockpool-ai-deals-ai-deals-sentinel/ai-deals.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/cc-rockpool-ai-deals-ai-deals-sentinel/ai-deals