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Alternative Asset Literacy — Retail

REMOTE · ALTERNATIVEASSETLITERACY.COM · SCANNED SEP 29

Alternative-asset education for retail investors: deep-dive tracks, calculators, advisor lookup.

66 Trust /100
Trust breakdown (7 categories)

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 Security63
Transport & Reachability100
Schema Quality & AI Usability77
  • AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).Pass
  • Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 2421 tokens (~110/item across 22 items; 22 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params. See how to fix → Fail
  • Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management17
  • Stability observed for 5 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 (77% 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 22 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
  • An AI judge read all 22 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.Pass
Capabilities20
  • Spec-recency check failed: implements MCP spec 2024-11-05; the latest is 2026-07-28. See how to fix → Fail
Install

How do I install the Alternative Asset Literacy — Retail MCP server?

Alternative Asset Literacy — Retail is a hosted endpoint at https://alternativeassetliteracy.com/mcp/retail, 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 · alternativeassetliteracy.com

# add to Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http com-alternativeassetliteracy-aal-retail-mcp 'https://alternativeassetliteracy.com/mcp/retail'
// .cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-alternativeassetliteracy-aal-retail-mcp": {
      "url": "https://alternativeassetliteracy.com/mcp/retail"
    }
  }
}
// .vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "com-alternativeassetliteracy-aal-retail-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://alternativeassetliteracy.com/mcp/retail"
    }
  }
}
# ~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.com-alternativeassetliteracy-aal-retail-mcp]
url = "https://alternativeassetliteracy.com/mcp/retail"
// opencode.json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "com-alternativeassetliteracy-aal-retail-mcp": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://alternativeassetliteracy.com/mcp/retail",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
# add to OpenClaw
openclaw mcp add com-alternativeassetliteracy-aal-retail-mcp --url 'https://alternativeassetliteracy.com/mcp/retail' --transport streamable-http
# ~/.hermes/config.yaml
mcp_servers:
  com-alternativeassetliteracy-aal-retail-mcp:
    url: "https://alternativeassetliteracy.com/mcp/retail"
// ~/.netclaw/config/netclaw.json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "com-alternativeassetliteracy-aal-retail-mcp": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://alternativeassetliteracy.com/mcp/retail"
    }
  }
}
# add to Vellum
assistant mcp add com-alternativeassetliteracy-aal-retail-mcp -t streamable-http -u 'https://alternativeassetliteracy.com/mcp/retail'
// mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-alternativeassetliteracy-aal-retail-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://alternativeassetliteracy.com/mcp/retail"
    }
  }
}

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

Changelog

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.

  • 28 Sept 26 +1
    • We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server See what changed → functional
  • 26 Sept 26 +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.

  • 25 Sept 26 0
    • We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server See what changed → functional
  • 24 Sept 26 64

    First indexed and scored.

Diagnostics

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 29 Sept 2026 · Probed https://alternativeassetliteracy.com/mcp/retail

TLS valid

Negotiated TLS 1.3 with TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 .

Subject Issuer Valid from Valid until Key Signature Serial
CN=alternativeassetliteracy.com CN=WE1,O=Google Trust Services,C=US 3 Aug 2026 1 Nov 2026 ECDSA 256 ECDSA-SHA256 b03eb3bb03dd1070136aa0e31abce2dc
SANs: alternativeassetliteracy.com, www.alternativeassetliteracy.com, *.www.alternativeassetliteracy.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 insecure

Validation of alternativeassetliteracy.com. — Not signed

Zone DS Keys Algorithms Outcome
. trust_anchor 20326, 38696 8, 8 Verified
com. present 19718 13 Verified
alternativeassetliteracy.com. absent Unsigned (proven) parent-signed NSEC/NSEC3 proves an unsigned delegation
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://alternativeassetliteracy.com/mcp/retail Verified 200
http (plaintext) http://alternativeassetliteracy.com/mcp/retail Served over HTTP 200
MCP tools · 22 exposed · ~2,421 tokens

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 →

Tool Tokens
advisors.registration_check ~141

Free, live lookup against the public, unauthenticated SEC Investment Adviser Public Disclosure (IAPD) and FINRA BrokerCheck registries — no subscription required for this tool. Returns registration scope (active/inactive, broker-dealer and/or investment-adviser) and whether the public record has any disclosure event on file, merged from both sources since each surfaces a different half of the disclosure picture. Always a starting point for your own due diligence, never a substitute for reading the full public record.

NameTypeReqDescription
querystringyesThe advisor or firm name to search for
search_typestringyesWhether to search for a person or a firm
NameTypeReqDescription
resultsarrayyes–

No examples provided.

advisors.women_focused_directory ~140

A discovery resource, not a recommendation — durable, self-updating advisor-search networks (NAPFA, XY Planning Network's Women's Finance filter, Garrett Planning Network, CFP Board) plus a short list of individually verified fee-only firms with a genuine, publicly-stated focus on women clients or gender-lens investing, each with the specific public statement it's grounded in. Built on real demand data: McKinsey/Cerulli research on women as a large, fast-growing, and demonstrably underserved segment of financial-advice demand. Free preview shows the durable networks and firm names; full verification details and public-statement citations require a plugin subscription.

Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.

NameTypeReqDescription
durable_networksarrayyes–
firmsarrayyes–
lockedboolean––

No examples provided.

alts.illiquidity_pacing_stress_test ~404

A real computation, not templated text: models what a multi-year program of private-fund commitments (PE, VC, private credit, etc.) actually does to your cash flow over its life — capital calls, distributions, unrealized value, and the single worst year for net cash flow — using a simplified, transparent adaptation of the Takahashi-Alexander pacing framework used in institutional private-markets planning. Runs against multiple named forward-looking growth scenarios by default, not just a historical-average assumption, so the result is a range, not one confident number. Pass annual_liquidity_budget to see exactly which years a stated liquidity budget would be breached. A free preview shows the peak liquidity need under one scenario; full multi-scenario comparison and year-by-year detail require a plugin subscription.

NameTypeReqDescription
annual_commitmentnumberyesDollar amount you'd commit to new private-fund vintages each year
annual_liquidity_budgetnumber–Optional — your actual annual liquidity budget for capital calls, to flag years it would be breached
fund_life_yearsnumber–Assumed life of each fund vintage in years (default 12)
investment_period_yearsnumber–Years each vintage actively calls capital before calls stop (default 5)
rate_of_contributionnumber–Fraction of a vintage's uncalled capital called per year during its investment period (default 0.30)
rate_of_distributionnumber–Base annual distribution rate applied to unrealized value, back-loaded via a bow curve (default 0.20)
scenariostring–A single scenario id (historical_baseline, regime_transition, ai_productivity_acceleration, structural_stagnation) to run one scenario only — omit to see the full range (subscription required)
vintage_yearsnumber–How many consecutive years you keep making new commitments (default 5)
NameTypeReqDescription
lockedboolean––
scenariosarrayyes–

No examples provided.

art.learning_track ~48

Full lesson content (including 'Female Artists: An Overlooked Asset Class') for an active plugin subscription; otherwise the 3 track titles and lesson titles only, with a link to subscribe.

Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.

NameTypeReqDescription
lockedbooleanyes–
tracksarrayyes–

No examples provided.

art.library ~33

Full summaries for an active plugin subscription; otherwise book/podcast/paper titles and authors only, with a link to subscribe.

Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.

NameTypeReqDescription
itemsarrayyes–
lockedbooleanyes–

No examples provided.

behavioral.brain_map ~45

Full content (hijack patterns, navigation strategies) for an active plugin subscription; otherwise the 4 region names and one-line functions only, with a link to subscribe.

Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.

NameTypeReqDescription
lockedbooleanyes–
regionsarrayyes–

No examples provided.

disclosures.get ~59

Returns the full regulatory disclosure, accredited investor definition, and risk disclosure that apply to this plugin's content — the same language used in the app itself. Call this any time a user asks about risk, eligibility, or what this content legally is/isn't.

Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.

NameTypeReqDescription
accredited_investorstringyes–
regulatorystringyes–
riskstringyes–

No examples provided.

explain.holding ~131

The complement to third-party MCP connectors that bridge your live brokerage accounts (Fidelity/Schwab/Vanguard-style) into Claude — those show WHAT you own; this explains what it IS. Given an asset type, returns the plain-language glossary term(s) always; for an active plugin subscription, also returns the specific cognitive bias most likely to distort how people think about this asset type and a due-diligence angle, otherwise a locked note.

NameTypeReqDescription
holding_typestringyesThe asset type, e.g. 'private equity fund', 'DeFi position', 'art fund', 'ESG fund'
NameTypeReqDescription
lockedbooleanyes–
termsarrayyes–

No examples provided.

facts.random ~45

A short, sourced statistic about women & finance, behavioral economics, alternative investing, or the art market.

NameTypeReqDescription
categorystring–Optional category filter. Omit for any category.

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

gdr.deep_dive_track ~151

A recently proposed (2026), NOT institutionally adopted alternative to GDP — measuring an economy by what it regenerates (ecological, social, and capital dimensions, treated as interdependent) rather than what it produces. Explicitly caveated throughout as an unvalidated, single-thought-leader framework, grounded against decades of real, verified 'beyond GDP' precedent (Bhutan's Gross National Happiness Index, the UN's SEEA Ecosystem Accounting standard, state-level Genuine Progress Indicators, Doughnut Economics). Worth knowing as part of doing your own homework on an investment thesis before acting on it. Full narrative content for an active plugin subscription; otherwise lesson titles and key takeaways only.

Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.

NameTypeReqDescription
lessonsarrayyes–
lockedbooleanyes–
titlestringyes–

No examples provided.

gender_lens.learning_track ~100

A dedicated track on investing through a gender lens, treated as its own subject rather than a subcategory of ESG — the wealth gap in real numbers, the underfunding of women-led ventures as a genuine investment thesis, how the strategy works across public and private markets, the history behind the gap, and what the peer-reviewed research does and doesn't support. Full narrative content for an active plugin subscription; otherwise lesson titles and key takeaways only.

Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.

NameTypeReqDescription
lessonsarrayyes–
lockedbooleanyes–
titlestringyes–

No examples provided.

glossary.browse ~71

Browse all 351 glossary terms by category (Alternative Assets, Art, DeFi & Crypto, ESG & Climate, Behavioral Economics, Gender Lens Investing).

NameTypeReqDescription
categorystring–Category to browse. Omit for all.
limitnumber–Max terms (default 25, max 100)

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

glossary.lookup ~64

Look up a term from the app's 351-term glossary — always free in the app, always free here. Spans alternative assets, DeFi, ESG, behavioral economics, art, and gender lens investing.

NameTypeReqDescription
termstringyesThe financial term to look up

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

glossary.search ~49

Full-text search across all 351 glossary terms and definitions.

NameTypeReqDescription
limitnumber–Max results (default 10, max 50)
querystringyesKeyword or phrase to search

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

learn.list_modules ~41

Lists all 9 learning modules with a short description and whether each is free in full or preview-only — the same index as the app's own Learn tab.

Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.

NameTypeReqDescription
modulesarrayyes–

No examples provided.

learn.module ~96

Returns the actual content (sections, quiz preview) for a learning module, gated exactly like the app: one module free in full, every other module capped at its first section(s)/quiz with the rest listed by title only and a link to subscribe for full access.

NameTypeReqDescription
module_idstringyesModule id or title (e.g. 'mod_art', 'Art as Investment') — see learn.list_modules for the full list

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

pe_secondaries.deep_dive_track ~122

What a GP-led continuation fund actually is, the structural conflict of interest at its center seen from both the GP's and the LP's side, who has a stake in the outcome without a vote (portfolio-company employees, never accredited LPs themselves), the behavioral trap built into the 'roll or cash out' decision, and an honest look at whether longer hold periods serve patient capital or deferred accountability — including a carefully-hedged gender-lens hypothesis. Full narrative content for an active plugin subscription; otherwise lesson titles and key takeaways only.

Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.

NameTypeReqDescription
lessonsarrayyes–
lockedbooleanyes–
titlestringyes–

No examples provided.

reading.list ~47

The app's curated reading list spanning behavioral economics, venture capital, economic history, and policy — always free in the app, always free here.

NameTypeReqDescription
categorystring–Optional category filter.
NameTypeReqDescription
itemsarrayyes–

No examples provided.

retirement.monte_carlo_estimator ~375

A real Monte Carlo simulation — thousands of trials, not one deterministic projection — estimating the odds your savings and contributions support your stated retirement income target. Deliberately does NOT assume a fixed withdrawal rule like the '4% rule,' since that figure is itself an output of one specific historical regime, not a law; you state your own target income and the tool reports the odds under each named forward-looking scenario. Runs across multiple market-assumptions.js scenarios by default (historical baseline, regime transition, AI-productivity acceleration, structural stagnation) so you see how sensitive your plan actually is to an assumption most calculators bake in silently. Pair with alts.illiquidity_pacing_stress_test to see how an alternative-asset allocation affects overall retirement success odds. Free preview shows the success rate under one scenario; full multi-scenario comparison and percentile detail require a plugin subscription.

NameTypeReqDescription
annual_contributionnumberyesAmount contributed per year, in today's (real) dollars, during the years between current_age and retirement_age
current_agenumberyesYour current age in years
current_savingsnumberyesCurrent portfolio balance in today's (real) dollars
desired_annual_retirement_incomenumberyesYour own target annual retirement income in today's (real) dollars — required; this tool will not assume a withdrawal rate for you
equity_weightnumber–Fraction of the portfolio in equity-like assets, 0-1 (default 0.6)
life_expectancynumber–Planning horizon age (default 90)
retirement_agenumberyesThe age you plan to retire and begin withdrawals
scenariostring–A single scenario id to run one scenario only — omit to see the full range (subscription required)
NameTypeReqDescription
lockedboolean––
scenariosarrayyes–

No examples provided.

rwa.deep_dive_track ~108

How traditional assets — Treasury bills, money-market funds, private credit, real estate — get represented as on-chain tokens, who actually holds the underlying asset, where '24/7 instant liquidity' claims hold up and where they don't, and what U.S. regulators have said about it as of early 2026. Grounded in SEC primary sources and live tokenized-asset market data. Full narrative content for an active plugin subscription; otherwise lesson titles and key takeaways only.

Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.

NameTypeReqDescription
lessonsarrayyes–
lockedbooleanyes–
titlestringyes–

No examples provided.

toolkit.frameworks ~47

Full due-diligence/risk/tax checklists for an active plugin subscription (independent of the app's own subscription); otherwise titles and categories only, with a link to subscribe.

Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.

NameTypeReqDescription
itemsarrayyes–
lockedbooleanyes–

No examples provided.

vc_pe.deep_dive_track ~104

Why venture capital and private equity exist as their own category of investing, a full breakdown of what 'accredited investor' actually means and the real risk behind that gate (illiquidity, failure rates, manager dependency), and what a family office is — including the real 2026 cost and AUM-threshold numbers behind single-family vs. multi-family office structures. Full narrative content for an active plugin subscription; otherwise lesson titles and key takeaways only.

Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.

NameTypeReqDescription
lessonsarrayyes–
lockedbooleanyes–
titlestringyes–

No examples provided.

Common questions

What is the Alternative Asset Literacy — Retail MCP server?

Alternative Asset Literacy — Retail is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as com.alternativeassetliteracy/aal-retail-mcp. Alternative-asset education for retail investors: deep-dive tracks, calculators, advisor lookup. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://alternativeassetliteracy.com/mcp/retail).

Is the Alternative Asset Literacy — Retail MCP server safe to use?

Alternative Asset Literacy — Retail 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 Alternative Asset Literacy — Retail MCP server expose?

Alternative Asset Literacy — Retail exposes 22 tools: glossary.lookup, glossary.search, glossary.browse, learn.list_modules, learn.module, and 17 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 2,421 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

Does the Alternative Asset Literacy — Retail MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to Alternative Asset Literacy — Retail without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

Is the Alternative Asset Literacy — Retail MCP server still maintained?

Alternative Asset Literacy — Retail 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.