# AppealGo UK parking guides (remote · appealgo.com)

Free, no key: UK parking ticket appeal guides, PCN contravention codes and deadline calculator.

- Trust score: 75/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-09-25

## Components

- remote · `appealgo.com`: 75/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-appealgo-parking-guides/api-public-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-appealgo-parking-guides/api-public-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://appealgo.com/api/public/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**: 80/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one.
  - 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**: 74/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 708 tokens (~118/item across 6 items; 6 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - 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**: 85/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 55% 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 6 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 7 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 UK parking guides MCP server?

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

### Cursor

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

### VS Code

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

### Codex

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

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

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

### Hermes

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

### Netclaw

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

### Vellum

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

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-appealgo-parking-guides": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://appealgo.com/api/public/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 75, +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 74, +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 73, +1)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-09-20 (score 72)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (6)

### `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)

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-09-25: 75
- 2026-09-24: 74
- 2026-09-23: 74
- 2026-09-22: 73
- 2026-09-21: 73
- 2026-09-20: 72

## Common questions

### What is the AppealGo UK parking guides MCP server?

AppealGo UK parking guides is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as com.appealgo/parking-guides. Free, no key: UK parking ticket appeal guides, PCN contravention codes and deadline calculator. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://appealgo.com/api/public/mcp).

### Is the AppealGo UK parking guides MCP server safe to use?

AppealGo UK parking guides scores 75 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 UK parking guides MCP server expose?

AppealGo UK parking guides exposes 6 tools: search_guides, get_guide, explain_contravention_code, search_contravention_codes, calculate_deadlines, lookup_appeal_status. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 566 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the AppealGo UK parking guides MCP server require authentication?

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

### Is the AppealGo UK parking guides MCP server still maintained?

AppealGo UK parking guides 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/public/mcp
- Website: https://appealgo.com/guides
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-appealgo-parking-guides/api-public-mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-appealgo-parking-guides/api-public-mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-appealgo-parking-guides/api-public-mcp