# Brent Burgess (remote · brentburgess.com)

Read-only facts from brentburgess.com: profile, writing, projects and the site's own datasets.

- Trust score: 82/100 (high trust)
- Change this week: +3
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-04

## Components

- remote · `brentburgess.com`: 82/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-brentburgess-site/brentburgess.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-brentburgess-site/brentburgess)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://brentburgess.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 2026-11-04.

- **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**: 84/100
  - 100% of prompts and resources have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the item's name).
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 1213 tokens (~71/item across 17 items; 7 tools + 10 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 50/100
  - Stability observed for 15 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 100/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 100% of tool parameters carry a description.
  - Structured output schemas are declared (100% of tools); any adoption earns full credit.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 7 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 9 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a current MCP spec version (2026-07-28).

## Install

### How do I install the Brent Burgess MCP server?

Brent Burgess is a hosted endpoint at https://brentburgess.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-brentburgess-site 'https://brentburgess.com/mcp'
```

### Cursor

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

### VS Code

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

### Codex

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

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

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

### Hermes

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

### Netclaw

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

### Vellum

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

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-brentburgess-site": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://brentburgess.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 82, 0)

- [functional] Server version: 1.0.0+1d2fb800b1b3d497 → 1.0.0+ae830e0789adbee3

### 2026-11-03 (score 82, +1)

- [functional] Server version: 1.0.0+2e0d4fb70a91aae7 → 1.0.0+1d2fb800b1b3d497

### 2026-11-02 (score 81, 0)

- [functional] Server version: 1.0.0+e66bdbe5e601cf87 → 1.0.0+2e0d4fb70a91aae7

### 2026-11-01 (score 81, +1)

- [functional] Server version: 1.0.0+ec1d0cfd8306a932 → 1.0.0+e66bdbe5e601cf87

### 2026-10-31 (score 80, 0)

- [functional] Server version: 1.0.0+01b859c1aaea06ef → 1.0.0+ec1d0cfd8306a932

### 2026-10-30 (score 80, +1)

- [functional] Server version: 1.0.0+4aad11858d49cf2d → 1.0.0+01b859c1aaea06ef

### 2026-10-29 (score 79, 0)

- [functional] Server version: 1.0.0+edef015d060ad51b → 1.0.0+4aad11858d49cf2d

### 2026-10-28 (score 79, +1)

- [functional] Server version: 1.0.0+85ce23a24fa4a7df → 1.0.0+edef015d060ad51b

## MCP tools (7)

### `get_profile` (~63 tokens)

Who Brent Burgess is

Who Brent Burgess is: his job title, a short introduction, where he is based, his current availability for work, his skills, how to reach him, and the main pages of the site. Use it first, and for any question about contacting or hiring him.

Output parameters:

- `availability` (object): His availability for work, as the site states it
- `contact` (object): How to reach him
- `intro` (string): A short introduction, in his words
- `job_title` (string): His job title
- `location` (string): Where he is based
- `name` (string): His name
- `pages` (array): Every page on the site
- `skills` (array): What he works with
- `tagline` (string): One line on what he does
- `url` (string): The site

### `list_projects` (~62 tokens)

List his projects

The projects on the site: what each is, whether it is running, what it changed, the tools it uses, and its case study if there is one. Filter with status, for example "running".

Input parameters:

- `status` (string): Only projects with this status

Output parameters:

- `count` (integer): How many projects are listed
- `projects` (array): The projects, in the order the site lists them

### `list_content` (~71 tokens)

List everything published

Every post, case study and page the server can read, newest first, with each one’s sections. Filter with kind ("post", "case_study" or "page"). Pass an id to fetch to read it.

Input parameters:

- `kind` (string): Only this kind: post, case_study or page

Output parameters:

- `count` (integer): How many items are listed
- `items` (array): Posts and case studies newest first, then pages

### `search` (~126 tokens)

Search the site

Full-text search over everything published: posts, case studies, the About, Consulting, Now, Privacy and Résumé pages (his work history is on the résumé), and the projects. Use plain keywords, such as "resumable upload" or "fixed-price audit". Each result is a section; pass its id to fetch to read it.

Input parameters:

- `kind` (string): Only this kind: post, case_study, page or project
- `limit` (integer): How many results to return, 1 to 10
- `query` (string, required): Keywords to look for

Output parameters:

- `query` (string): The query searched for
- `results` (array): The best matches, best first
- `total` (integer): How many sections matched in all

### `fetch` (~117 tokens)

Read a post, case study or page

The full text of a post, case study, page or project as Markdown, or one section of it. The id can be an id from search or list_content (such as "work/sleep-anchor"), a path ("/about"), a brentburgess.com URL, a brentburgess:// URI or a unique slug ("consulting"). Add #anchor for one section, as search results do.

Input parameters:

- `id` (string, required): What to read: an id, path, URL, URI or slug, with an optional #anchor

Output parameters:

- `id` (string): Its id, with #anchor when one section was read
- `metadata` (object): About the text
- `text` (string): The text as Markdown, links absolute
- `title` (string): Its title
- `url` (string): Its URL, with #anchor when one section was read

### `get_site_stats` (~73 tokens)

This site’s own numbers

The figures on this site’s data page: browser page views and font downloads since launch, crawlers and scans in the latest complete week, commits, pull requests and CI runs, and the nightly pipeline’s tests and sources, each with the last day the data covers. For the tables behind them, use query_dataset.

Output parameters:

- `automated` (object): Crawlers, bots and scans
- `building` (object): Building the site
- `data_through` (string): The last day the numbers cover
- `datasets` (array): The tables behind the numbers
- `monthly` (object): When the next monthly page and country counts appear
- `pipeline` (object): The nightly pipeline
- `reading` (object): Reading the site, since launch
- `see_also` (array): Pages with numbers this server does not return
- `url` (string): The page that shows them

### `query_dataset` (~135 tokens)

Read one of the site’s data tables

The rows of one table behind this site’s data page, oldest first, with each column’s type and meaning. Filter by date with from and to (YYYY-MM-DD), which apply to the table’s date column; if more rows match than the limit, the most recent are returned. Daily and weekly tables keep about a year.

Input parameters:

- `dataset` (string, required): Which table, as get_site_stats lists them
- `from` (string): The earliest date to include
- `limit` (integer): How many rows to return at most, 1 to 500
- `to` (string): The latest date to include

Output parameters:

- `columns` (array): The columns, in order
- `data_through` (string): The last day the data covers
- `dataset` (string): The table
- `date_column`: The column from and to apply to, or null if the table has none
- `description` (string): What a row is
- `grain` (string): One row per
- `notes` (array): What /data says about these numbers, word for word
- `returned` (integer): How many rows were returned
- `rows` (array): The rows, oldest first
- `rows_from`: The first date kept; older rows are left out of the server. Null when every row is kept.
- `title` (string): What it holds
- `total` (integer): How many rows matched
- `truncated` (boolean): Whether more rows matched than were returned
- `url` (string): Where /data shows it

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-11-04: 82
- 2026-11-03: 82
- 2026-11-02: 81
- 2026-11-01: 81
- 2026-10-31: 80
- 2026-10-30: 80
- 2026-10-29: 79
- 2026-10-28: 79
- 2026-10-27: 78
- 2026-10-26: 78
- 2026-10-25: 78
- 2026-10-24: 77
- 2026-10-23: 77
- 2026-10-22: 76
- 2026-10-21: 76
- 2026-10-20: 75

## Common questions

### What is the Brent Burgess MCP server?

Brent Burgess is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as com.brentburgess/site. Read-only facts from brentburgess.com: profile, writing, projects and the site's own datasets. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://brentburgess.com/mcp).

### Is the Brent Burgess MCP server safe to use?

Brent Burgess scores 82 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 Brent Burgess MCP server expose?

Brent Burgess exposes 7 tools: get_profile, list_projects, list_content, search, fetch, and 2 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 647 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Brent Burgess MCP server require authentication?

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

### Is the Brent Burgess MCP server still maintained?

Brent Burgess is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 4 November 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://brentburgess.com/mcp
- Website: https://brentburgess.com/privacy#ai-agents
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-brentburgess-site/brentburgess.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-brentburgess-site/brentburgess.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-brentburgess-site/brentburgess