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Token Counter

REMOTE · APISHED.COM · SCANNED OCT 4

Counts tokens under OpenAI-compatible (tiktoken) encodings, by model or encoding name.

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0 this week 79 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 Security60
Transport & Reachability100
Schema Quality & AI Usability74
  • AI-judged instruction clarity (good).Pass
  • Tool/resource definitions use about 112 tokens (~112/item across 1 items; 1 tools + 0 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 Coverage90
  • 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
  • 67% of tool parameters carry a description.Partial
  • Structured output schemas are declared (100% 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 1 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
  • An AI judge read all 1 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.Pass
Capabilities100
  • Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.Pass
Install

How do I install the Token Counter MCP server?

Token Counter is a hosted endpoint at https://apished.com/mcp/v1/tokens, 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 · apished.com

# add to Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http com-apished-token-counter 'https://apished.com/mcp/v1/tokens'
// .cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-apished-token-counter": {
      "url": "https://apished.com/mcp/v1/tokens"
    }
  }
}
// .vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "com-apished-token-counter": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://apished.com/mcp/v1/tokens"
    }
  }
}
# ~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.com-apished-token-counter]
url = "https://apished.com/mcp/v1/tokens"
// opencode.json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "com-apished-token-counter": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://apished.com/mcp/v1/tokens",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
# add to OpenClaw
openclaw mcp add com-apished-token-counter --url 'https://apished.com/mcp/v1/tokens' --transport streamable-http
# ~/.hermes/config.yaml
mcp_servers:
  com-apished-token-counter:
    url: "https://apished.com/mcp/v1/tokens"
// ~/.netclaw/config/netclaw.json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "com-apished-token-counter": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://apished.com/mcp/v1/tokens"
    }
  }
}
# add to Vellum
assistant mcp add com-apished-token-counter -t streamable-http -u 'https://apished.com/mcp/v1/tokens'
// mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-apished-token-counter": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://apished.com/mcp/v1/tokens"
    }
  }
}

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 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 0
    • We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server See what changed → functional
  • 17 Sept 26 +1
    • Stability: 0.97 → pass security
  • 15 Sept 26 +1

    No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 90 to 93. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 27 days of observed history at the previous scan, 28 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

  • 13 Sept 26 +1

    No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 83 to 87. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 25 days of observed history at the previous scan, 26 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

  • 11 Sept 26 +1

    No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 77 to 80. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 23 days of observed history at the previous scan, 24 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

  • 9 Sept 26 +1

    No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 70 to 73. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 21 days of observed history at the previous scan, 22 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

  • 7 Sept 26 +1

    No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 63 to 67. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 19 days of observed history at the previous scan, 20 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

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 4 Oct 2026 · Probed https://apished.com/mcp/v1/tokens

TLS valid

Negotiated TLS 1.3 with TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 .

Subject Issuer Valid from Valid until Key Signature Serial
CN=apished.com CN=YR2,O=Let's Encrypt,C=US 17 Aug 2026 15 Nov 2026 RSA 4096 SHA256-RSA 5f4dfa5fcafb280b9204690908ddbca6b5c
SANs: apished.com
CN=YR2,O=Let's Encrypt,C=US (CA) CN=Root YR,O=ISRG,C=US 3 Sept 2025 2 Sept 2028 RSA 2048 SHA256-RSA 4ebd24947e24d394802d84a52fd5b319
CN=Root YR,O=ISRG,C=US (CA) CN=ISRG Root X1,O=Internet Security Research Group,C=US 13 May 2026 2 Sept 2032 RSA 4096 SHA256-RSA f24b6d17f9d9ad7cb1c9fea78782699f

Background: What to check on a remote MCP endpoint →

DNSSEC secure

Validation of apished.com. — Secure

Zone DS Keys Algorithms Outcome
. trust_anchor 20326, 38696 8, 8 Verified
com. present 19718 13 Verified
apished.com. present 38629 8 Verified
apished.com. Verified address RRset verified with the apex keys
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://apished.com/mcp/v1/tokens Verified 200
http (plaintext) http://apished.com/mcp/v1/tokens HTTPS enforced 301 https://apished.com/mcp/v1/tokens
MCP tools · 1 exposed · ~112 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
tokens_count ~112

Counts tokens under an OpenAI-compatible (tiktoken) encoding. Provide exactly one of model (e.g. "gpt-4o") or encoding ("o200k_base" or "cl100k_base"). No Claude/Anthropic tokenizer.

NameTypeReqDescription
encodingstring–o200k_base or cl100k_base; exactly one of model/encoding
modelstring–e.g. gpt-4o; exactly one of model/encoding
textstringyes–
NameTypeReqDescription
encodingstring––
tokensintegeryes–

No examples provided.

Common questions

What is the Token Counter MCP server?

Token Counter is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as com.apished/token-counter. Counts tokens under OpenAI-compatible (tiktoken) encodings, by model or encoding name. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://apished.com/mcp/v1/tokens).

Is the Token Counter MCP server safe to use?

Token Counter scores 79 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 Token Counter MCP server expose?

Token Counter exposes 1 tool: tokens_count. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 112 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

Does the Token Counter MCP server require authentication?

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

Is the Token Counter MCP server still maintained?

Token Counter is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 4 October 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.