# Artnap (remote · artnap.com)

Search 497,000+ public domain paintings, prints and drawings from 72 museums, with museum records.

- Trust score: 72/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `artnap.com`: 72/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-artnap-artnap/artnap.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-artnap-artnap/artnap)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://artnap.com/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.0.0`

## 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 2026-11-05.

- **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. Nothing on it is marked destructive, but we can't show that an anonymous caller can only read: full credit needs the server to list at least one tool and every tool to be verifiably read-only. We use a best-effort check of tool names and descriptions to tell read-only tools from tools that change things, so some genuinely read-only tools may not get full credit. Names that start with a read verb (get, list, read, search and similar) and accurate readOnlyHint annotations help. Meet that to earn full credit, or require authorisation.
  - 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**: 72/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 450 tokens (~90/item across 5 items; 5 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 10/100
  - Stability observed for 3 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 96/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 89% 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 5 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 6 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 60/100
  - Spec-recency check failed: implements MCP spec 2025-06-18; the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

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

Artnap is a hosted endpoint at https://artnap.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.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http com-artnap-artnap 'https://artnap.com/mcp'
```

### Cursor

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

### VS Code

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

### Codex

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

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

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

### Hermes

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

### Netclaw

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

### Vellum

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

### Other

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

### 2026-11-04 (score 72, +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.

### 2026-11-03 (score 71, 0)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-11-02 (score 71)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (5)

### `search_artworks` (~160 tokens)

Search artworks

Search the Artnap archive of public domain paintings, drawings, prints and posters from museum open access collections. Returns each work with title, artist, year, museum, license, a 2,500 px image address and its Artnap page.

Input parameters:

- `artist` (string): Artist name, exactly as Artnap lists it (see list_artists).
- `color` (string): Main color of the work.
- `limit` (integer): How many works to return (1-20).
- `museum` (string): Museum name or code (see list_museums).
- `q` (string): Words to search for: subject, title, style or artist (for example "moonlight sea" or "Hokusai wave").

### `get_artwork` (~70 tokens)

Get artwork

One artwork by its Artnap id: title, artist, year, museum, license, the 2,500 px image, its Artnap page and the holding museum's own record.

Input parameters:

- `id` (string, required): Artnap artwork id, for example "aic-56905".

### `list_artists` (~66 tokens)

List artists

Artists in the Artnap archive whose name matches the words given, with dates, number of works and their Artnap page.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer)
- `q` (string, required): Part of the artist name, for example "monet" or "utagawa".

### `list_museums` (~38 tokens)

List museums

The museums and libraries whose open access collections Artnap brings together, with the number of works from each and their Artnap page.

### `get_license_summary` (~47 tokens)

Get license summary

The license line for one artwork (public domain, CC0 or CC BY) and where to check it at the holding museum.

Input parameters:

- `id` (string, required): Artnap artwork id.

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 72
- 2026-11-04: 72
- 2026-11-03: 71
- 2026-11-02: 71

## Common questions

### What is the Artnap MCP server?

Artnap is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as com.artnap/artnap. Search 497,000+ public domain paintings, prints and drawings from 72 museums, with museum records. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://artnap.com/mcp).

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

Artnap scores 72 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 Artnap MCP server expose?

Artnap exposes 5 tools: search_artworks, get_artwork, list_artists, list_museums, get_license_summary. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 381 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Artnap MCP server require authentication?

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

### Is the Artnap MCP server still maintained?

Artnap is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

### What did VerifyMCP test on the Artnap MCP server?

VerifyMCP ran 13 checks on Artnap, covering TLS certificate, Authorization, HTTPS, HSTS header and 9 more. Supply Chain Security and Provenance & Transparency do not apply to a hosted endpoint, so they were not tested. The score does not measure everything, and the scoring documentation lists what it leaves out.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://artnap.com/mcp
- Website: https://artnap.com/developers
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-artnap-artnap/artnap.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-artnap-artnap/artnap/changelog.json
- Trust report (JSON): https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-artnap-artnap/artnap.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-artnap-artnap/artnap