# Agent Salon SF (remote · agentsalonsf.com)

SF salon prices, add-ons and source-backed comparisons. No live slots or in-tool booking.

- Trust score: 64/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +3
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `agentsalonsf.com`: 64/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-agentsalonsf-salon-decisions/agentsalonsf.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-agentsalonsf-salon-decisions/agentsalonsf)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://agentsalonsf.com/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 2026-11-05.

- **Endpoint Security**: 63/100
  - 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 6 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 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**: 33/100
  - 0% of prompts and resources have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the item's name).
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 3057 tokens (~254/item across 12 items; 11 tools + 1 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 43/100
  - Stability observed for 13 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 85/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 54% 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 11 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 13 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a current MCP spec version (2026-07-28).

## Install

### How do I install the Agent Salon SF MCP server?

Agent Salon SF is a hosted endpoint at https://agentsalonsf.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.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http com-agentsalonsf-salon-decisions 'https://agentsalonsf.com/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-agentsalonsf-salon-decisions": {
      "url": "https://agentsalonsf.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "com-agentsalonsf-salon-decisions": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://agentsalonsf.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.com-agentsalonsf-salon-decisions]
url = "https://agentsalonsf.com/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "com-agentsalonsf-salon-decisions": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://agentsalonsf.com/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add com-agentsalonsf-salon-decisions --url 'https://agentsalonsf.com/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  com-agentsalonsf-salon-decisions:
    url: "https://agentsalonsf.com/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "com-agentsalonsf-salon-decisions": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://agentsalonsf.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add com-agentsalonsf-salon-decisions -t streamable-http -u 'https://agentsalonsf.com/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-agentsalonsf-salon-decisions": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://agentsalonsf.com/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.

### 2026-11-04 (score 64, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 37 to 40. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 11 days of observed history at the previous scan, 12 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-02 (score 63, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 30 to 33. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 9 days of observed history at the previous scan, 10 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-31 (score 62, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 23 to 27. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 7 days of observed history at the previous scan, 8 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-29 (score 61, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 17 to 20. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 5 days of observed history at the previous scan, 6 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-27 (score 60, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 10 to 13. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 3 days of observed history at the previous scan, 4 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-26 (score 59, 0)

- [security] The server rewrote its instructions, which are the text every model session reads
- [security] Tool “compare_options” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [functional] Server version: 1.4.0 → 1.6.0
- [functional] New tool “get_guide”

### 2026-10-25 (score 59, 0)

- [security] The server rewrote its instructions, which are the text every model session reads
- [security] Tool “list_salons” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [security] Tool “search_merchants” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [functional] Server version: 1.3.0 → 1.4.0
- [cosmetic] “list_salons” added an optional parameter “collection”
- [cosmetic] “search_merchants” added an optional parameter “collection”

### 2026-10-24 (score 59, +1)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

## MCP tools (11)

### `compare_options` (~476 tokens)

Compare a service with budget, extras and date

START HERE for choosing a service under a budget, with extras, or on a date. Use search_merchants for name/address lookup; use this tool for the service decision. Compare a supported service intent, optional budget/date/neighborhood, strict or nearby geography, and selected add-ons (blow_dry, haircut, toner, shampoo, deep_conditioning, iron_finish, extensions). Returns options, uncertain and excluded service decisions plus separately paginated unresolved_salons when no matching service is established. next_action.booking_url is the direct merchant destination, with link scope and check status. Returns service decisions with per-fact sources/dates, known subtotal including requested/mandatory extras, unresolved charges, explicit conditions, hours conflicts and exact next actions. Starting prices and required consultations never become guaranteed final quotes. Deposit is advance payment, not an added charge. There is no provider-confirmed availability; date-specific results are conditional. Time-of-day, stylist and hair-length requirements are unsupported filters here; retain them for merchant confirmation. Ordering is geographic/alphabetic, not a quality rating. No booking or hold is created. Paginated: limit <= 50, offset; use next_offset across all three result groups.

Input parameters:

- `budget` (number): USD cap for the requested service and selected/mandatory extras. A lower bound is not proof the full price fits.
- `date` (string): Valid YYYY-MM-DD in America/Los_Angeles; not a confirmed appointment
- `geography` (string): strict by default; nearby requires a neighborhood and explicit permission to include nearby salons.
- `limit` (integer): Total entries across options/uncertain/excluded; continue with next_offset
- `neighborhood` (string)
- `offset` (integer)
- `require_availability` (boolean): Require provider-confirmed availability. None exists today; opening hours and candidate times cannot satisfy this.
- `salon` (string): Optional salon slug or ref from search results to compare only that salon.
- `selected_addons` (array): Only extras the user requested. Mandatory extras are added automatically; unknown charges are not free.
- `service_intent` (string, required): color, balayage, balayage color, creative color, color consultation, highlights, haircut, mens haircut, womens haircut, wash cut style, or blowout; unsupported intents are errors

### `search_merchants` (~838 tokens)

Search salons

Filter collection=public-research for researched menus, add-ons, public stylist information and policies. Call get_merchant for the full public_research object. Discovery and name/address lookup, not an extras-inclusive price decision. For a supported service with budget, extras or date, start with compare_options. Find San Francisco hair salons and barbers by name/street (q), neighborhood (with nearby), service, date/time and online booking. Returns compact task summaries by default: depth (profiled = researched in depth; listed = public records + the business’s own site, see depth_note), booking_cta, hours_for_day (published hours for `date`, not live slots), up to 3 matched_offerings with prices, license_status, freshness, availability_basis (published_hours / schedule_candidates = unconfirmed / none); profiled salons add candidate_start_times. Unknown values are null. For published hours/detail only, call check_availability. Before selecting a budget option, call compare_options; follow next_action to confirm unresolved charges and actual appointment availability with the merchant.

Input parameters:

- `after` (string): HH:MM earliest start (with date); applied to start times only under require_availability
- `before` (string): HH:MM latest start (with date); applied to start times only under require_availability
- `collection` (string): Only independently researched public-source profiles; missing fields are UNKNOWN; booking stays on salon website
- `date` (string): YYYY-MM-DD in the city’s timezone (default today): hours_for_day is computed for this date
- `day` (string): Open on this day per published hours: Mo..Su or e.g. "saturday"
- `depth` (string): Only salons of this depth: profiled (booking-system depth), detailed (priced menu + booking link + hours or durations), listed (the rest)
- `hair_length` (string)
- `haircut_type` (string): Only salons with an offering of this normalized haircut type (profiled salons)
- `has_booking` (boolean): Only salons with (true) / without (false) an online booking link
- `include_nearby` (boolean): With neighborhood: also include salons within ~400 m (match="nearby", distance_label). Default true.
- `limit` (integer): Default 10, max 25
- `max_price` (number): Base offering price in USD, not the complete service with extras; use compare_options for that. Only offerings whose price is KNOWN to be at most this (fixed or bounded range); starting prices do not…
- `neighborhood` (string): Neighborhood slug, label or alias (e.g. "soma", "mission") or an area (e.g. "union-square")
- `offset` (integer)
- `open_after` (string): Closes after HH:MM (on `day` if given)
- `open_on_date` (boolean): Only salons open on `date` per published hours (not live slots)
- `q` (string): Business name or street, fuzzy (e.g. "cinta", "hairshaper", "23 grant")
- `require_availability` (boolean): Only offerings with PROVIDER-CONFIRMED start times in the date/after/before window. Schedule-derived candidate start times never satisfy it; salons that have only candidates are returned under `uncon…
- `service` (string): Service tag (e.g. "balayage"), intent slug (e.g. "hair-color", "open-saturday", "mens-haircut") or free text
- `specialty` (string)
- `stylist` (string): Stylist display name (profiled salons)
- `time_after` (string): HH:MM — with date: only intervals open after this time count
- `time_before` (string): HH:MM — with date: only intervals open before this time count
- `view` (string): summary = compact task view (default); full = every field

### `check_availability` (~216 tokens)

Check hours, prices and how to book for one salon

Published facts for one salon, NOT live availability and NOT an extras-inclusive quote. For a service/budget/extras/date decision use compare_options with salon=ref. For one salon (ref from search_merchants) and a date: published opening hours on that date (open/closed — NOT live appointment slots), offerings matching the service with published prices and durations, the booking link and step-by-step booking instructions. Profiled salons add candidate start times (candidate start times from the salon's published staff schedule; existing bookings are not subtracted, so some may already be taken — confirm on the booking page). Same contract as GET /api/v1/availability?ref=.

Input parameters:

- `date` (string): YYYY-MM-DD (default today in the city’s timezone)
- `ref` (string, required): "<city>/<vertical>/<slug>"
- `service` (string): e.g. "balayage", "mens-haircut" or free text
- `time_after` (string)
- `time_before` (string)

### `get_merchant` (~110 tokens)

Get one salon

All published facts for one salon by ref "<city>/<vertical>/<slug>" (from search results), with crawl_log (every source fetched or checked, with time, result and the facts it gave) and last_verified_at: address, phone, hours, licence, registry, services with published prices, booking link, per-field sources (verification), what we verified and what we did not.

Input parameters:

- `ref` (string, required): e.g. "san-francisco/hair-salon/hairshaper"

### `list_salons` (~158 tokens)

List salons

Use collection=public-research for public-source profiles with menus, add-ons, stylist information and policies; get_merchant returns the full public_research object. Salons covered (San Francisco), ordered profiled, detailed, then listed, with depth, neighborhood, price floor and range, stylist count, availability basis and freshness, last_verified_at and verification date. Paginated: limit (default 50, max 200), offset, depth=profiled|detailed|listed.

Input parameters:

- `collection` (string)
- `depth` (string): profiled = booking-system depth; detailed = priced menu + booking link + hours or durations; listed = the rest
- `limit` (integer)
- `offset` (integer)

### `search_haircuts` (~401 tokens)

Search haircuts by constraints

Base offering lookup by haircut type, length or stylist. Use compare_options for a supported service with budget, extras or date; preserve any unsupported stylist/length/time requirements for merchant confirmation. Find haircut offerings (and optionally stylists and candidate start times) that satisfy ALL given constraints, across profiled salons (hand-normalized menus) and listed salons (type and inclusions inferred from the service name; offering.comparable says whether it can be compared apples-to-apples). Start times are candidate start times from the salon's published staff schedule; existing bookings are not subtracted, so some may already be taken — confirm on the booking page (slotBasis "schedule_candidates", bookingsSubtracted false, availability_basis "schedule_candidates" = UNCONFIRMED). require_availability=true is satisfied only by provider-confirmed availability (the booking provider’s own open times, existing bookings subtracted). No salon on this site has provider-confirmed availability today: profiled salons have candidate start times from the published staff schedule (existing bookings not subtracted, so they may already be taken) and listed salons have published opening hours only. Offerings with matching candidate start times are listed under `unconfirmed`; confirm on the booking page. Hard constraints are never relaxed silently; when nothing matches, noMatch.reason explains which constraint blocked and nearest suggests the smallest change. Prices are published menu or online-booking prices in USD; this search does not add requested or mandatory extras. Times are salon-local (America/Los_Angeles).

Input parameters:

- `after` (string)
- `before` (string)
- `date` (string)
- `hair_length` (string)
- `haircut_type` (string)
- `limit` (integer)
- `max_price` (number)
- `neighborhood` (string)
- `q` (string)
- `require_availability` (boolean)
- `specialty` (string)
- `stylist` (string)

### `get_salon` (~84 tokens)

Get salon

Full record for one salon as markdown: facts, hours, every haircut service with price/duration/inclusions, stylists, policies, attributes, evidence, booking rules, candidate start times from the published schedule. Every fact carries a status tag and date.

Input parameters:

- `format` (string)
- `slug` (string, required): Salon slug, e.g. "hairshaper"

### `get_stylist` (~88 tokens)

Get stylist

One stylist, under the name the salon's booking system shows: salon, bookable status, specialty evidence with sources, services and prices, candidate start times from the published schedule, and booking link.

Input parameters:

- `format` (string)
- `slug` (string, required): Stylist slug, e.g. "hairshaper-shirley", or a display name like "Shirley"

### `get_availability` (~156 tokens)

Get availability

NOT live availability. Use compare_options for budget/extras/date decisions. Candidate start times for one offering at one salon, optionally one stylist and a date/time window: candidate start times from the salon's published staff schedule; existing bookings are not subtracted, so some may already be taken — confirm on the booking page. Results carry slotBasis "schedule_candidates" and bookingsSubtracted false; freshness tells you how old the capture is.

Input parameters:

- `after` (string)
- `before` (string)
- `date` (string): Salon-local date
- `limit` (integer)
- `offering` (string, required): Offering id or slug from get_salon
- `salon` (string, required)
- `stylist` (string)

### `get_booking_link` (~84 tokens)

Get booking link

The salon's own booking URL plus exact remaining steps for a given service, stylist, and start time. This site never books on the user's behalf; precision says how much the link pre-selects.

Input parameters:

- `offering` (string)
- `salon` (string, required)
- `start` (string): ISO start time from get_availability
- `stylist` (string)

### `get_guide` (~55 tokens)

Read a source-backed salon guide

A build-time guide snapshot: answer, evidence rows, metrics, source dates and limits. Slugs are listed at /api/v1/guides. No live prices or availability are implied.

Input parameters:

- `slug` (string, required)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-agentsalonsf-salon-decisions/agentsalonsf#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 64
- 2026-11-04: 64
- 2026-11-03: 63
- 2026-11-02: 63
- 2026-11-01: 62
- 2026-10-31: 62
- 2026-10-30: 61
- 2026-10-29: 61
- 2026-10-28: 60
- 2026-10-27: 60
- 2026-10-26: 59
- 2026-10-25: 59
- 2026-10-24: 59
- 2026-10-23: 58

## Common questions

### What is the Agent Salon SF MCP server?

Agent Salon SF is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as com.agentsalonsf/salon-decisions. SF salon prices, add-ons and source-backed comparisons. No live slots or in-tool booking. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://agentsalonsf.com/mcp).

### Is the Agent Salon SF MCP server safe to use?

Agent Salon SF scores 64 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 Agent Salon SF MCP server expose?

Agent Salon SF exposes 11 tools: compare_options, search_merchants, check_availability, get_merchant, list_salons, and 6 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 2,666 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Agent Salon SF MCP server require authentication?

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

### Is the Agent Salon SF MCP server still maintained?

Agent Salon SF is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 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://agentsalonsf.com/mcp
- Website: https://agentsalonsf.com/agents
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-agentsalonsf-salon-decisions/agentsalonsf.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-agentsalonsf-salon-decisions/agentsalonsf.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-agentsalonsf-salon-decisions/agentsalonsf