# Shift Scheduler (remote · staff-scheduling.kindoflost.com)

Builds optimal 24/7 staff rosters with a real MILP solver: rest rules, skills, nights, fairness.

- Trust score: 71/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-09-28

## Components

- remote · `staff-scheduling.kindoflost.com`: 71/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-kindoflost-staff-scheduling-shift-scheduler/staff-scheduling.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-kindoflost-staff-scheduling-shift-scheduler/staff-scheduling)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://staff-scheduling.kindoflost.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 2026-09-28.

- **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**: 58/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 995 tokens (~248/item across 4 items; 4 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 7/100
  - Stability observed for 2 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 90/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 69% 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 4 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 5 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 Shift Scheduler MCP server?

Shift Scheduler is a hosted endpoint at https://staff-scheduling.kindoflost.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-kindoflost-staff-scheduling-shift-scheduler 'https://staff-scheduling.kindoflost.com/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-kindoflost-staff-scheduling-shift-scheduler": {
      "url": "https://staff-scheduling.kindoflost.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "com-kindoflost-staff-scheduling-shift-scheduler": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://staff-scheduling.kindoflost.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.com-kindoflost-staff-scheduling-shift-scheduler]
url = "https://staff-scheduling.kindoflost.com/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "com-kindoflost-staff-scheduling-shift-scheduler": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://staff-scheduling.kindoflost.com/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add com-kindoflost-staff-scheduling-shift-scheduler --url 'https://staff-scheduling.kindoflost.com/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  com-kindoflost-staff-scheduling-shift-scheduler:
    url: "https://staff-scheduling.kindoflost.com/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "com-kindoflost-staff-scheduling-shift-scheduler": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://staff-scheduling.kindoflost.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add com-kindoflost-staff-scheduling-shift-scheduler -t streamable-http -u 'https://staff-scheduling.kindoflost.com/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-kindoflost-staff-scheduling-shift-scheduler": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://staff-scheduling.kindoflost.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.

### 2026-09-28 (score 71, +1)

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

### 2026-09-27 (score 70, 0)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-09-26 (score 70)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (4)

### `list_shift_examples` (~52 tokens)

List example rosters

List the built-in example rostering problems (hospital ward, 3-shift plant, security post, fire station, 24/7 help desk). Use one as a starting point for the user's own roster.

### `get_shift_example` (~67 tokens)

Get an example roster input

Return the full input JSON of one example, in exactly the shape build_shift_roster accepts. Edit it (names, days, headcounts, rules) to match the user's situation.

Input parameters:

- `lang` (string): es = Spanish shift and post names.
- `name` (string, required)

### `build_shift_roster` (~639 tokens)

Build an optimized shift roster

Solve a staff rostering problem to optimality with a MILP solver and return who works which shift each day, coverage, unfilled posts, hours per person and warnings. Solves take 5-60 s. Pass either `example` (to solve a built-in example as-is) or the roster input fields. If the result has status 'running', call get_shift_roster_result with its job_id. If it has status 'too_large', shorten the horizon or reduce people/shift types and retry. Roster input. Minimal example: {"days": ["2026-10-05", "2026-10-06"], "shifts": [{"shift": "Day", "start": "07:00", "end": "19:00"}, {"shift": "Night", "start": "19:00", "end": "07:00", "night": "yes"}], "demands": [{"name": "RN", "penalty": 500}], "people": [{"name": "Ana", "cost": 40, "max_hw": 48}, ...], "grids": {"RN": {"2026-10-05|Day": 2, "2026-10-05|Night": 1}}, "parameters": {"MinRestHours": 11}}. Call get_shift_example for complete, realistic inputs.

Input parameters:

- `days` (array): Day labels in order: ISO dates ('2026-10-05') or weekday names ('Mon'). Dates or weekdays enable weekend rules.
- `demands` (array): Posts to fill (roles). Headcount per day/shift goes in grids.
- `example` (string): Solve this built-in example instead of passing the fields below.
- `grids` (object): Optional per-day/shift cells, keyed by a demand name or a person name, each an object keyed 'DAY|SHIFT'. Demand grid value = headcount required (demand with no grid = 1 on every shift). Person grid v…
- `parameters` (object): Optional rules. MinRestHours (11), MaxConsecutiveDays (6), MaxConsecutiveNights (4), ForbidDayAfterNight ('yes'), NightStartsAfter ('18:00'), MinBlockDays (1), WeekendFairnessPenalty (0), EquityPenal…
- `people` (array)
- `shifts` (array): Shift types. A shift may cross midnight (end < start).
- `skills` (array): Who can cover which demand. Omitted = everyone can cover every demand.
- `wait_seconds` (integer): How long to wait for the solve inside this call (default 25).

### `get_shift_roster_result` (~67 tokens)

Get a roster result

Fetch the result of a build_shift_roster job that returned status 'running'. Waits up to wait_seconds; call again while status is 'running'. Jobs expire 15 minutes after they finish.

Input parameters:

- `job_id` (string, required)
- `wait_seconds` (integer)

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-09-28: 71
- 2026-09-27: 70
- 2026-09-26: 70

## Common questions

### What is the Shift Scheduler MCP server?

Shift Scheduler is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as com.kindoflost.staff-scheduling/shift-scheduler. Builds optimal 24/7 staff rosters with a real MILP solver: rest rules, skills, nights, fairness. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://staff-scheduling.kindoflost.com/mcp).

### Is the Shift Scheduler MCP server safe to use?

Shift Scheduler scores 71 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 Shift Scheduler MCP server expose?

Shift Scheduler exposes 4 tools: list_shift_examples, get_shift_example, build_shift_roster, get_shift_roster_result. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 825 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Shift Scheduler MCP server require authentication?

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

### Is the Shift Scheduler MCP server still maintained?

Shift Scheduler is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 28 September 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://staff-scheduling.kindoflost.com/mcp
- Website: https://staff-scheduling.kindoflost.com/mcp-server
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-kindoflost-staff-scheduling-shift-scheduler/staff-scheduling.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-kindoflost-staff-scheduling-shift-scheduler/staff-scheduling.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-kindoflost-staff-scheduling-shift-scheduler/staff-scheduling