# Crafting Step by Step (remote · www.craftingstepbystep.com)

Search and cite step-by-step papercraft and craft tutorials with tools, supplies, and video credit.

- Trust score: 67/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-10-18

## Components

- remote · `www.craftingstepbystep.com`: 67/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-craftingstepbystep-tutorials/api-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-craftingstepbystep-tutorials/api-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://www.craftingstepbystep.com/api/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 2026-10-18.

- **Endpoint Security**: 63/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - Authorisation not fully verified: no authorisation is required to call this server, and 6 tool(s) never declared a destructiveHint. The MCP spec treats an absent hint as destructive by default, so we cannot call this surface safe.
  - 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**: 88/100
  - 100% of prompts and resources have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the item's name).
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 642 tokens (~107/item across 6 items; 6 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**: 93/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 79% 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 6 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 40/100
  - Spec-recency check failed: implements MCP spec 2025-03-26; the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the Crafting Step by Step MCP server?

Crafting Step by Step is a hosted endpoint at https://www.craftingstepbystep.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-craftingstepbystep-tutorials 'https://www.craftingstepbystep.com/api/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-craftingstepbystep-tutorials": {
      "url": "https://www.craftingstepbystep.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

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

### Codex

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

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

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

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  com-craftingstepbystep-tutorials:
    url: "https://www.craftingstepbystep.com/api/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

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

### Vellum

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

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-craftingstepbystep-tutorials": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.craftingstepbystep.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.

### 2026-10-16 (score 67, +1)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-10-15 (score 66)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (6)

### `search_tutorials` (~158 tokens)

Search the Show Me Step by Step tutorial corpus by free-text query. Searches across tutorial titles, descriptions, and step content. Returns slim summaries with TL;DRs and canonical URLs. Tenant-aware. Optional filters narrow by category, difficulty, or maximum duration.

Input parameters:

- `categorySlug` (string): Optional category to restrict the search to (e.g. 'cooking', 'crochet'). Use list_categories to see available slugs.
- `difficulty` (string): Optional difficulty filter.
- `limit` (integer)
- `maxDurationMinutes` (integer): Optional ceiling on tutorial total duration. Useful for 'quick recipes' / 'under 10 min' queries.
- `query` (string, required): Search query (>= 2 chars)

### `get_tutorial` (~114 tokens)

Fetch the full machine-readable rendition of a tutorial by slug: title, TL;DR, numbered steps (with text, imageUrl, tips, and YouTube videoTimestampSeconds for deep-linking), tools/materials, tags, related tutorial slugs, creator credit, recipe (with nutrition + cuisine when applicable), license, and canonicalUrl. Use this after search_tutorials to fetch step details.

Input parameters:

- `slug` (string, required): Tutorial slug (e.g. 'how-to-fix-a-leaky-faucet')

### `list_categories` (~33 tokens)

List all tutorial categories with a published tutorial. Returns slug, name, short description, and count of published tutorials per category.

### `list_tutorials_by_category` (~72 tokens)

Browse tutorials within a specific category, ranked by view count then publish date. Use this when a user wants to explore a topic area rather than search.

Input parameters:

- `categorySlug` (string, required): e.g. 'cooking', 'home-improvement', 'crafts'
- `limit` (integer)

### `list_recent_tutorials` (~78 tokens)

List the most recently published tutorials, newest first. Use this to discover what's new on the site or to surface fresh content for aggregator / 'what's new this week' agent loops. Tenant-aware.

Input parameters:

- `days` (integer): Lookback window in days (default 14, max 90).
- `limit` (integer)

### `request_tutorial` (~187 tokens)

Submit a request for a tutorial we don't yet have. Call this when search_tutorials returned no good match for what the user actually wants. The request enters our content-demand queue, which the daily content batch reviews and prioritizes. Optionally include an email for notification when the tutorial ships.

Input parameters:

- `context` (string): Brief context about the requester (e.g. 'beginner crocheter', 'first-time homeowner', 'gluten-free baker'). Helps shape the tutorial when we ship it.
- `notifyEmail` (string): Optional email to notify when the tutorial ships. Pure opt-in.
- `originalQuery` (string): The exact user query that came up empty in search_tutorials. Useful for matching keyword demand.
- `topic` (string, required): What the user wants to learn how to do (e.g. 'how to get pesto stains out of a white shirt')

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-10-18: 67
- 2026-10-17: 67
- 2026-10-16: 67
- 2026-10-15: 66

## Common questions

### What is the Crafting Step by Step MCP server?

Crafting Step by Step is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as com.craftingstepbystep/tutorials. Search and cite step-by-step papercraft and craft tutorials with tools, supplies, and video credit. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://www.craftingstepbystep.com/api/mcp).

### Is the Crafting Step by Step MCP server safe to use?

Crafting Step by Step scores 67 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 Crafting Step by Step MCP server expose?

Crafting Step by Step exposes 6 tools: search_tutorials, get_tutorial, list_categories, list_tutorials_by_category, list_recent_tutorials, request_tutorial. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 642 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Crafting Step by Step MCP server require authentication?

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

### Is the Crafting Step by Step MCP server still maintained?

Crafting Step by Step is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 18 October 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://www.craftingstepbystep.com/api/mcp
- Website: https://www.craftingstepbystep.com/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-craftingstepbystep-tutorials/api-mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-craftingstepbystep-tutorials/api-mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-craftingstepbystep-tutorials/api-mcp