com.apievangelist/api-evangelist
REMOTE · MCP.APIEVANGELIST.COM · SCANNED OCT 5
Sixteen years of API research as MCP tools — stories, areas, governance blocks & services
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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 Security57
- 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 67 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 check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Fail
Transport & Reachability100
- Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake. View diagnostics → Pass
Schema Quality & AI Usability82
- 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 5173 tokens (~72/item across 71 items; 67 tools + 4 resources), lean.Pass
- Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management100
- No destabilizing schema changes in the last 30 days.Pass
Tool Coverage76
- 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
- 29% of tool parameters carry a description.Partial
Tool Safety100
- No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
- We read all 67 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
- An AI judge read all 69 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.Pass
Capabilities60
- Spec-recency check failed: implements MCP spec 2025-06-18; the latest is 2026-07-28. See how to fix → Fail
How do I install the com.apievangelist/api-evangelist MCP server?
com.apievangelist/api-evangelist is a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.apievangelist.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.apievangelist.com
claude mcp add --transport http com-apievangelist-api-evangelist 'https://mcp.apievangelist.com/mcp'
{
"mcpServers": {
"com-apievangelist-api-evangelist": {
"url": "https://mcp.apievangelist.com/mcp"
}
}
} {
"servers": {
"com-apievangelist-api-evangelist": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://mcp.apievangelist.com/mcp"
}
}
} [mcp_servers.com-apievangelist-api-evangelist] url = "https://mcp.apievangelist.com/mcp"
{
"$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
"mcp": {
"com-apievangelist-api-evangelist": {
"type": "remote",
"url": "https://mcp.apievangelist.com/mcp",
"enabled": true
}
}
} openclaw mcp add com-apievangelist-api-evangelist --url 'https://mcp.apievangelist.com/mcp' --transport streamable-http
mcp_servers:
com-apievangelist-api-evangelist:
url: "https://mcp.apievangelist.com/mcp" {
"McpServers": {
"com-apievangelist-api-evangelist": {
"Transport": "http",
"Url": "https://mcp.apievangelist.com/mcp"
}
}
} assistant mcp add com-apievangelist-api-evangelist -t streamable-http -u 'https://mcp.apievangelist.com/mcp'
{
"mcpServers": {
"com-apievangelist-api-evangelist": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://mcp.apievangelist.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.
- 28 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
- 25 Sept 26 +2
- We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server See what changed → functional
- 26 Aug 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
- 25 Aug 26 0
- Stability: 0.97 → pass security
- 23 Aug 26 0
- A breaking change shipped without a version bump: still 1.2.0 ▼ security
- Tool “find_reports” was removed ▼ security
- Tool “get_report” was removed ▼ security
- Tool “find_papers” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads security
- Tool “find_related” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads security
- Tool “get_overview” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads security
- Tool “get_tag” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads security
- Tool “search_api_evangelist” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads security
- 21 Aug 26 0
- Schema quality: 3931 → 4689 ▼ functional
- Server version: 1.1.0 → 1.2.0 functional
- New tool “company_dimensions” functional
- New tool “company_peers” functional
- New tool “company_signals” functional
- New tool “company_whitespace” functional
- New tool “entity_demand” functional
- New tool “find_entities” functional
- New tool “find_measured_standards” functional
- New tool “standard_adoption” functional
- New tool “standard_coalition” functional
- New tool “standard_repositories” functional
- 17 Aug 26 0
- Tool “find_papers” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads security
- Tool “find_related” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads security
- Tool “get_overview” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads security
- Tool “get_tag” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads security
- Tool “search_api_evangelist” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads security
- New tool “find_reports” functional
- New tool “get_report” functional
- 11 Aug 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
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 7 Oct 2026 · Probed https://mcp.apievangelist.com/mcp
TLS valid
Negotiated TLS 1.3 with TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 .
| Subject | Issuer | Valid from | Valid until | Key | Signature | Serial |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN=api.apievangelist.com | CN=Amazon RSA 2048 M01,O=Amazon,C=US | 2 Jul 2026 | 15 Jan 2027 | RSA 2048 | SHA256-RSA | 444285d8c0992aec2aed0244ee34497 |
| SANs: api.apievangelist.com, mcp.apievangelist.com | ||||||
| CN=Amazon RSA 2048 M01,O=Amazon,C=US (CA) | CN=Amazon Root CA 1,O=Amazon,C=US | 23 Aug 2022 | 23 Aug 2030 | RSA 2048 | SHA256-RSA | 77312380b9d6688a33b1ed9bf9ccda68e0e0f |
| CN=Amazon Root CA 1,O=Amazon,C=US (CA) | CN=Starfield Services Root Certificate Authority - G2,O=Starfield Technologies\, Inc.,L=Scottsdale,ST=Arizona,C=US | 25 May 2015 | 31 Dec 2037 | RSA 2048 | SHA256-RSA | 67f944a2a27cdf3fac2ae2b01f908eeb9c4c6 |
Background: What to check on a remote MCP endpoint →
DNSSEC insecure
Validation of mcp.apievangelist.com. — Not signed
| Zone | DS | Keys | Algorithms | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| . | trust_anchor | 20326, 38696 | 8, 8 | Verified |
| com. | present | 19718 | 13 | Verified |
| apievangelist.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://mcp.apievangelist.com/mcp | Verified | 200 | |
| http (plaintext) | http://mcp.apievangelist.com/mcp | HTTPS enforced | 301 | https://mcp.apievangelist.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 →
get_video ~41
One video by slug with its YouTube id; include=["content"] returns the full transcript.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| include | array | – | – |
| slug | string | yes | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
govern_estate ~126
PRO — Run the core governance checks across a WHOLE SET of internal APIs and roll them up: per-API score/grade/errors/PII, plus estate aggregates (avg score, grade distribution, APIs with PII/secrets) and a worst-first punch-list of what to fix. Pass `apis` ([{id, document}]) and your own `ruleset`. detail:true adds per-API dimensions.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| apis | array | yes | The estate: one entry per API, [{ id, document }]. `document` alone is accepted for a single API. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
governance_report ~61
Turn Spectral findings into a self-contained HTML governance report — severity summary, grouped by rule, framed toward progress.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| results | array|object | yes | Spectral findings to render. An array, or the `{ results: [...] }` object a run returned. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
guide_topic ~92
PRO — Curated guide to one API topic (e.g. "gateways", "api governance", "discovery", "agents"). Bundles the matching topic area (with related areas), top guidance, rules, policies, and standards, relevant papers and recent stories, plus the API Evangelist services that can help a team with this topic.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| topic | string | yes | The topic to build a guide for. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
insights_adoption ~46
Services, tools, or standards ranked by how many companies adopt them. Free.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | integer | – | – |
| page | integer | – | – |
| type | string | – | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
insights_dimensions ~47
Cross-section ranking of the 40 tracked investment dimensions (AI, cloud, governance, …) by company signal. Free.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | integer | – | – |
| page | integer | – | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
map_api_experience ~50
Map each REST operation to its MCP tool and Agent Skill — the API -> MCP -> Agent-Skill chain — from an APIs.json, with a free/paid coverage scorecard and a flow map.
Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
mock_payloads ~68
Generate an example request and success-response payload for every operation from its schema.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| document | string|object | yes | The API description to operate on — OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, Arazzo or JSON Schema. A YAML/JSON string or an already-parsed object; both are accepted. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
reconcile_waivers ~100
Reconcile a waivers file against lint output: suppress sanctioned violations and surface the expired, stale, and expiring ones. Returns the effective failing set a build should gate on.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| violations | array|object|string | yes | Lint output to reconcile against the waivers. An array of findings, or the object a linter returned. |
| waivers | string|object | yes | The waivers file to reconcile — sanctioned violations, with expiry. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
score_reusability ~33
Score how reusable a set of APIs is and detect duplication across them — the anti-sprawl view of an estate.
Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
search_api_evangelist ~170
Unified search across the whole network: 5k+ stories, 77 topic areas, 2.5k governance building blocks, papers, conversations, videos, tools, timelines, services, and vocabulary. Filter with types (posts, areas, guidance, rules, policies, standards, strategies, schema, properties, experiences, lifecycle, conversations, videos, papers, services, solutions, tools, timelines, vocabulary).
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| fields | array | – | – |
| limit | integer | – | – |
| match | string | – | – |
| page | integer | – | – |
| q | string | – | Free text over title, summary, tags, and body. |
| sort | string | – | – |
| tags | array | – | Tag slugs; match any by default. |
| types | array | – | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
standard_adoption ~70
How far a standards body actually got: repositories published, how many graduated past unclassified and the resulting share, release cadence, contributor count — with the provenance of every figure and an explicit list of what is NOT measured. Free, because a specification is a public good.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| slug | string | yes | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
standard_coalition ~65
Who is actually behind a standard: the governing bodies and their membership, the working groups, the member companies, and the named people. Carries the caveats where our machine-readable source disagrees with the body's own published roster. Free.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| slug | string | yes | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
standard_repositories ~52
Every repository a standards body publishes, with maturity, stars, forks, open issues and archived status. Free.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | integer | – | – |
| page | integer | – | – |
| slug | string | yes | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
validate_api ~115
Lint an OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, Arazzo, or JSON Schema document against the curated best-of-breed ruleset (Spectral) and return the findings. Pass your own `ruleset` to run rules you own instead of the catalog — which is what you should do before gating on anything.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| document | string|object | yes | The API description to operate on — OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, Arazzo or JSON Schema. A YAML/JSON string or an already-parsed object; both are accepted. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
validate_onboarding ~63
Validate an API Onboarding Descriptor (AID) against the api-commons schema and report which optional sections it fills in.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| descriptor | string|object | yes | An API Onboarding Descriptor (AID) to validate. Aliases: `aid`, `document`. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
verify_certificate ~79
Re-verify a governance certificate against the API it attests to. If the API drifted or the certificate was forged, verification fails.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| api | string|object | yes | The API description being attested or verified. String or parsed object. |
| certificate | string|object | yes | The governance certificate to re-verify. Alias: `cert`. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
What is the com.apievangelist/api-evangelist MCP server?
com.apievangelist/api-evangelist is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as com.apievangelist/api-evangelist. Sixteen years of API research as MCP tools, stories, areas, governance blocks & services. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://mcp.apievangelist.com/mcp).
Is the com.apievangelist/api-evangelist MCP server safe to use?
com.apievangelist/api-evangelist scores 76 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 com.apievangelist/api-evangelist MCP server expose?
com.apievangelist/api-evangelist exposes 67 tools: get_overview, guide_topic, find_services, get_service, find_solutions, and 62 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 4,916 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Does the com.apievangelist/api-evangelist MCP server require authentication?
No. We connected to com.apievangelist/api-evangelist without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.
Is the com.apievangelist/api-evangelist MCP server still maintained?
com.apievangelist/api-evangelist is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 October 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.