# JENRIKS Photo Archive (remote · jenriks.com)

Read-only MCP server over the JENRIKS daily photoblog: one photo per day since 2006. No auth.

- Trust score: 80/100 (high trust)
- Change this week: +3
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-10-02

## Components

- remote · `jenriks.com`: 80/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-jenriks-photo-archive/jenriks.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-jenriks-photo-archive/jenriks)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://jenriks.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 2026-10-02.

- **Endpoint Security**: 83/100
  - 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 is configured correctly; the domain's records validate against the full chain to the root.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 71/100
  - 67% 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 750 tokens (~68/item across 11 items; 5 tools + 6 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 60/100
  - Stability observed for 18 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 89/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 60% 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 5 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**: 60/100
  - Spec-recency check failed: implements MCP spec 2025-06-18; the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the JENRIKS Photo Archive MCP server?

JENRIKS Photo Archive is a hosted endpoint at https://jenriks.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-jenriks-photo-archive 'https://jenriks.com/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-jenriks-photo-archive": {
      "url": "https://jenriks.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

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

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.com-jenriks-photo-archive]
url = "https://jenriks.com/mcp"
```

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

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

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  com-jenriks-photo-archive:
    url: "https://jenriks.com/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

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

### Vellum

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

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-jenriks-photo-archive": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://jenriks.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.

### 2026-10-02 (score 80, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 57 to 60. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 17 days of observed history at the previous scan, 18 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-29 (score 79, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 47 to 50. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 14 days of observed history at the previous scan, 15 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-28 (score 78, 0)

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

### 2026-09-27 (score 78, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 40 to 43. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 12 days of observed history at the previous scan, 13 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-25 (score 77, +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 76, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 27 to 30. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 8 days of observed history at the previous scan, 9 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-21 (score 75, +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.

### 2026-09-19 (score 74, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 13 to 17. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 4 days of observed history at the previous scan, 5 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

## MCP tools (5)

### `search_photos` (~209 tokens)

Search photos

Search the JENRIKS archive (one photo per day since 2006). Free-text query matches title, place, categories, tags and photographer; filters narrow by photographer, category, year and location. Returns permanent page URLs, credits, coordinates and image URLs, newest first. Page with offset, or with the opaque cursor from next_cursor (cursor wins when both are sent).

Input parameters:

- `category` (string): One of: Abstract, Architecture, B&W, Humans, Landscapes, Macro, Nature, News, Street, Studio, Time exposure
- `cursor` (string): Opaque page token from next_cursor; overrides offset
- `limit` (integer)
- `location` (string): City or country name, e.g. "Iceland"
- `offset` (integer)
- `photographer` (string)
- `query` (string): Free text, e.g. "harbour", "Barcelona", "fog"
- `year` (integer): Four-digit publication year

Output parameters:

- `cursor` (string): Echo of the cursor this page was fetched with, when one was sent
- `has_more` (boolean): True when another page exists
- `links` (object)
- `next_cursor` (string|null): Opaque token for the next page; null on the last page. Send it back as cursor.
- `next_offset` (integer): Kept for offset paging; present when more matches exist
- `offset` (integer): Offset of the first returned row; 0 when a cursor was used
- `photos` (array)
- `returned` (integer)
- `total_matches` (integer)

### `get_photo` (~73 tokens)

Get one photo

Return one JENRIKS post by publication date (YYYY-MM-DD) or by page URL / path (/YYYY/MM/DD/slug/).

Input parameters:

- `date` (string): YYYY-MM-DD
- `url` (string): Page URL or path, e.g. /2026/09/04/liminal-space/

Output parameters:

- `date` (string)
- `found` (boolean)
- `hint` (string)
- `photo` (object)
- `url` (string)

### `get_latest_photo` (~68 tokens)

Today's photo

Return today's JENRIKS photo (the newest post), or the newest post by one photographer when photographer is set. A new photo appears every day at 00:00 Europe/Berlin.

Input parameters:

- `photographer` (string): Latest post by this photographer; omit for the newest post overall

Output parameters:

- `photo` (object)

### `random_photo` (~48 tokens)

Random photo

Return a random JENRIKS photo, optionally limited to a photographer, category or year.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string)
- `photographer` (string)
- `year` (integer)

Output parameters:

- `found` (boolean)
- `hint` (string)
- `photo` (object)
- `pool_size` (integer)

### `get_site_overview` (~70 tokens)

Site overview

Totals, photographers, categories with counts, posts per year, section URLs, URL pattern and license terms. Pass include to keep only some of those blocks next to the totals and dates.

Input parameters:

- `include` (array): Blocks to keep besides site, description, totals and dates; omit for everything

Output parameters:

- `categories` (array)
- `description` (string)
- `first_date` (string)
- `latest_date` (string)
- `license` (string)
- `photographers` (array)
- `sections` (object)
- `site` (string)
- `total_photos` (integer)
- `url_pattern` (string)
- `years` (array)

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-10-02: 80
- 2026-10-01: 79
- 2026-09-30: 79
- 2026-09-29: 79
- 2026-09-28: 78
- 2026-09-27: 78
- 2026-09-26: 77
- 2026-09-25: 77
- 2026-09-24: 76
- 2026-09-23: 76
- 2026-09-22: 75
- 2026-09-21: 75
- 2026-09-20: 74
- 2026-09-19: 74
- 2026-09-18: 73
- 2026-09-17: 73
- 2026-09-16: 72
- 2026-09-15: 72
- 2026-09-14: 72

## Common questions

### What is the JENRIKS Photo Archive MCP server?

JENRIKS Photo Archive is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as com.jenriks/photo-archive. Read-only MCP server over the JENRIKS daily photoblog: one photo per day since 2006. No auth. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://jenriks.com/mcp).

### Is the JENRIKS Photo Archive MCP server safe to use?

JENRIKS Photo Archive scores 80 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 JENRIKS Photo Archive MCP server expose?

JENRIKS Photo Archive exposes 5 tools: search_photos, get_photo, get_latest_photo, random_photo, get_site_overview. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 468 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the JENRIKS Photo Archive MCP server require authentication?

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

### Is the JENRIKS Photo Archive MCP server still maintained?

JENRIKS Photo Archive is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 2 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://jenriks.com/mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/ehehrmann/jenriks-agent-skills
- Website: https://jenriks.com/developers/#mcp
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-jenriks-photo-archive/jenriks.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-jenriks-photo-archive/jenriks.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-jenriks-photo-archive/jenriks