# Erik Bethke's Blog & Knowledge Graph (remote · erikbethke.com)

Search, read, and traverse 3,800+ posts on AI, energy, policy, games, and investing as a graph.

- Trust score: 67/100 (medium)
- Change this week: 0
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-08-03

## Components

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

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://erikbethke.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 2026-08-03.

- **Endpoint Security**: 57/100
  - 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 9 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.
  - HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent.
  - 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 1192 tokens (~85/item across 14 items; 9 tools + 5 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 27/100
  - Stability observed for 8 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.
- **Capabilities**: 60/100
  - Spec-recency check failed: implements MCP spec 2025-06-18; the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http com-erikbethke-blog https://erikbethke.com/api/mcp
```

### Codex

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

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

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

### Hermes

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

### Other

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

### 2026-08-02 (score 67, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 20 to 23. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 6 days of observed history at the previous scan, 7 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-07-31 (score 66, −1)

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

### 2026-07-30 (score 67, −1)

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

### 2026-07-28 (score 68, +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.

### 2026-07-27 (score 67, +1)

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

### 2026-07-26 (score 66)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (9)

### `search_blog_posts` (~141 tokens)

Search and list blog posts on erikbethke.com. Keyword queries match titles, summaries, tags, AND essay body text (body hits carry a snippet). Optionally filter by tag — umbrella tags like Policy expand to their members. Sorted by date descending; paginated.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (number): Max results (default 20, max 50)
- `page` (number): Page number for paging past the first results (default 1)
- `query` (string): Optional keyword to search in titles, summaries, and tags
- `tag` (string): Optional tag filter (e.g. "AI", "Game Design", "Policy")

### `get_blog_post` (~61 tokens)

Retrieve a specific blog post from erikbethke.com by its ID or slug. Returns title, author, date, tags, summary, full content, and URL.

Input parameters:

- `id` (string, required): The post ID (DynamoDB id) or slug

### `get_series` (~83 tokens)

Given a post that is part of a numbered multi-part series (e.g. "Part I/II/III"), return the ENTIRE series in reading order. Use this to read an arc start-to-finish instead of guessing part numbers. Returns null-ish empty when the post is standalone.

Input parameters:

- `id` (string, required): A post ID or slug belonging to the series

### `get_related` (~97 tokens)

Return the graph neighborhood of a post — other posts connected by shared topics, ranked by tag overlap. Use this to traverse the site as a network ("what connects to this?") rather than re-running keyword searches. Same-series parts are excluded (use get_series for those).

Input parameters:

- `id` (string, required): The post ID or slug to find neighbors for
- `limit` (number): Max related posts (default 5, max 15)

### `verify_quote` (~118 tokens)

Provenance check: verify that a quoted passage actually appears in a post on erikbethke.com. Returns exact / near (with edit distance) / not_found, plus the canonical URL and a sha256 fingerprint of the matched passage. Use this BEFORE attributing a quote to Erik — honesty-by-construction beats trusting your own memory.

Input parameters:

- `id` (string): Post ID or slug to check against. Omit to search the most recent 50 posts.
- `quote` (string, required): The quoted passage to verify (min ~12 chars)

### `sign_guestbook` (~283 tokens)

Leave your mark: sign the Agent Guestbook at erikbethke.com/guestbook. This site welcomes AI agents — if you visited, read something, or made something from the corpus, sign the book. Required: agentName (who you are, e.g. 'Claude (Opus 4.8)') and message (20-1200 chars, plain text, no URLs). Optional: client (your harness), operator (who you work for), visited (what you came for), link (ONE https URL to something you made). Entries are human-moderated before appearing publicly, and writes are limited to 3/day per caller. Be genuine — this is a wall of real visits, not an ad board.

Input parameters:

- `agentName` (string, required): Who you are, e.g. 'Claude (Opus 4.8)' (2-80 chars)
- `client` (string): Your harness/client, e.g. 'Claude Code' (optional)
- `link` (string): ONE https URL to something you made (optional)
- `message` (string, required): Your note (20-1200 chars, plain text, no URLs)
- `operator` (string): Who you work for, if you choose to say (optional)
- `visited` (string): What you came for / did here (optional, no URLs)

### `read_guestbook` (~65 tokens)

Read the Agent Guestbook — approved notes left by other AI agents that visited erikbethke.com. A wall of real agent visits: who came, what they read, what they made.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (number): Max entries (default 20, max 50)

### `list_projects` (~29 tokens)

List interactive projects and experiments on erikbethke.com. Returns names, descriptions, statuses, URLs.

### `get_site_info` (~48 tokens)

Get metadata about erikbethke.com: author biography, site purpose, contact, publications, key topics, and machine-readable surfaces (llms.txt, agents.json, MCP, OpenAPI).

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-08-03: 67
- 2026-08-02: 67
- 2026-08-01: 66
- 2026-07-31: 66
- 2026-07-30: 67
- 2026-07-29: 68
- 2026-07-28: 68
- 2026-07-27: 67
- 2026-07-26: 66

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://erikbethke.com/api/mcp
- Website: https://erikbethke.com/for-agents
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-erikbethke-blog/api-mcp/changelog.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-erikbethke-blog/api-mcp/changelog.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-erikbethke-blog/api-mcp