# AppealGo (remote · appealgo.com)

Check and appeal UK parking tickets (PCNs): grounds, deadlines, draft letters and filing.

- Trust score: 69/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-09-25

## Components

- remote · `appealgo.com`: 69/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-appealgo-appealgo/api-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-appealgo-appealgo/api-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://appealgo.com/api/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.1.0`

## 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 2026-09-25.

- **Endpoint Security**: 63/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - Authorisation check failed: no authorisation is required to call this server, and it exposes a tool marked destructive (file_appeal).
  - 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**: 78/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 1070 tokens (~107/item across 10 items; 10 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 17/100
  - Stability observed for 5 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 87/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 60% 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 10 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 11 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the AppealGo MCP server?

AppealGo is a hosted endpoint at https://appealgo.com/api/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-appealgo-appealgo 'https://appealgo.com/api/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-appealgo-appealgo": {
      "url": "https://appealgo.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "com-appealgo-appealgo": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://appealgo.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.com-appealgo-appealgo]
url = "https://appealgo.com/api/mcp"
```

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add com-appealgo-appealgo --url 'https://appealgo.com/api/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  com-appealgo-appealgo:
    url: "https://appealgo.com/api/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "com-appealgo-appealgo": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://appealgo.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add com-appealgo-appealgo -t streamable-http -u 'https://appealgo.com/api/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-appealgo-appealgo": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://appealgo.com/api/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.

### 2026-09-25 (score 69, +1)

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

### 2026-09-23 (score 68, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 7 to 10. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 2 days of observed history at the previous scan, 3 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-21 (score 67, +1)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-09-20 (score 66)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (10)

### `search_guides` (~106 tokens)

Search AppealGo's appeal guides

Search plain-English guides on appealing UK parking tickets: council PCNs, private parking charges (ParkingEye, Euro Car Parks, APCOA...), bus lane, ULEZ, Clean Air Zone, Notice to Owner, TE9 witness statements, London boroughs and contravention codes. Returns slugs to pass to get_guide.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string)
- `query` (string, required): Free text, e.g. 'ParkingEye grace period' or 'yellow box'

### `get_guide` (~29 tokens)

Read a guide

Returns a full AppealGo guide as Markdown, with its sources.

Input parameters:

- `slug` (string, required)

### `explain_contravention_code` (~78 tokens)

Explain a PCN contravention code

What a two-digit council PCN contravention code means (e.g. 01, 12, 30, 34, 62), its penalty band, and the grounds that usually beat it.

Input parameters:

- `code` (string, required): The code on the PCN, e.g. '12' or '31J'

### `search_contravention_codes` (~37 tokens)

Search contravention codes by description

Find the code for a description, e.g. 'disabled bay' or 'bus lane'.

Input parameters:

- `query` (string, required)

### `calculate_deadlines` (~280 tokens)

Calculate PCN and parking charge deadlines

Given the notice type and the date on the notice, returns the discount deadline, the challenge/representations deadline, when escalation can start, and (if you pass a rejection date) the tribunal or POPLA/IAS deadline. Statutory defaults; the notice is authoritative.

Input parameters:

- `event_date` (string): yyyy-mm-dd, the parking date if different (private ANPR/windscreen)
- `notice_date` (string, required): yyyy-mm-dd, the date on the notice
- `notice_to_owner_date` (string)
- `notice_type` (string, required): council_parking = Council parking PCN (windscreen or handed to you); council_postal = Council PCN by post (CCTV parking, bus lane or moving traffic outside London); london_moving = London bus lane, y…
- `rejection_date` (string): yyyy-mm-dd on the Notice of Rejection, if you have one

### `lookup_appeal_status` (~36 tokens)

Look up an AppealGo appeal by reference

Public status for a customer reference such as PCN-4471A2B9.

Input parameters:

- `reference` (string, required)

### `check_notice` (~203 tokens)

Scan a parking ticket / PCN and get the grounds + draft appeal

Upload a photo or PDF of a UK parking ticket, council PCN, private parking charge, bus lane, ULEZ or Clean Air Zone notice. AppealGo reads it, identifies the issuer and contravention, finds the grounds to challenge it and drafts the appeal. Checking is free (fair-use cap per key per day); filing costs £6.99 or is covered by an Unlimited plan. Provide image_url OR image_base64. Takes 20–90 seconds. Never invent notice details: report exactly what this tool returns.

Input parameters:

- `content_type` (string): image/jpeg, image/png, image/heic or application/pdf (for image_base64)
- `file_name` (string)
- `force` (boolean): Scan even if this account already appealed the same notice
- `image_base64` (string): Base64 of the photo/PDF (data: URLs accepted)
- `image_url` (string): Public https URL of the photo/PDF

### `list_my_notices` (~24 tokens)

List the account's notices and appeals

Every notice this AppealGo account has scanned, with status and links.

### `get_notice` (~31 tokens)

Get one notice with its draft appeal and status

Full detail for a notice id returned by check_notice or list_my_notices.

Input parameters:

- `id` (string, required)

### `file_appeal` (~146 tokens)

File the appeal with the issuer

Files the drafted appeal for a notice in the account holder's own name. This sends a real appeal to a real council or parking operator and cannot be undone, so confirm with the user first. If the notice is unpaid and not covered by a plan, returns a Stripe checkout_url (£6.99 standard); once paid, AppealGo files it automatically. Name and postal address are required (saved on the profile, or pass them here). Always show the user the checkout_url rather than claiming the appeal was filed.

Input parameters:

- `address` (string): Full postal address including postcode
- `id` (string, required)
- `name` (string): Full name the appeal is filed under

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-09-25: 69
- 2026-09-24: 68
- 2026-09-23: 68
- 2026-09-22: 67
- 2026-09-21: 67
- 2026-09-20: 66

## Common questions

### What is the AppealGo MCP server?

AppealGo is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as com.appealgo/appealgo. Check and appeal UK parking tickets (PCNs): grounds, deadlines, draft letters and filing. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://appealgo.com/api/mcp).

### Is the AppealGo MCP server safe to use?

AppealGo scores 69 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 AppealGo MCP server expose?

AppealGo exposes 10 tools: search_guides, get_guide, explain_contravention_code, search_contravention_codes, calculate_deadlines, and 5 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 970 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the AppealGo MCP server require authentication?

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

### Is the AppealGo MCP server still maintained?

AppealGo is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 25 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://appealgo.com/api/mcp
- Website: https://appealgo.com/developers
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-appealgo-appealgo/api-mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-appealgo-appealgo/api-mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-appealgo-appealgo/api-mcp