Programscape
REMOTE · PROGRAMSCAPE.COM
Startup credits, programs and perks from checked sources, with saved plans and reported balances.
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Last scanned (6 hours ago)
Scores higher than 66% of remote servers
Reachable. Last reached 5 Nov 2026.
Category Finance and Payments
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. How we score → Why this is hard to score →
Endpoint Security63
- The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key. View diagnostics → Pass
- Authorisation check failed: no authorisation is required to call this server, and it exposes a tool marked destructive (update_my_plan). See how to fix → View diagnostics → Fail
- HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path. View diagnostics → Pass
- The HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security) header is present. View diagnostics → Pass
- DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Fail
Transport & Reachability100
- Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake. View diagnostics → Pass
Schema Quality & AI Usability64
- AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).Pass
- Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 2719 tokens (~226/item across 12 items; 12 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params. See how to fix → Fail
- Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management93
- Stability observed for 28 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.Partial
Tool Coverage100
- 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
- 100% of tool parameters carry a description.Pass
Tool Safety100
- No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
- We read all 12 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
- An AI judge read all 13 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.Pass
Capabilities60
- Spec-recency check failed: implements MCP spec 2025-06-18; the latest is 2026-07-28. See how to fix → Fail
Every change we have recorded for this component, newest first. Security-relevant changes are always shown. ▲ marks a change for the better, ▼ a change for the worse; unmarked changes are neutral.
- 4 Nov 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 87 to 90. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 26 days of observed history at the previous scan, 27 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 2 Nov 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 80 to 83. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 24 days of observed history at the previous scan, 25 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 31 Oct 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 73 to 77. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 22 days of observed history at the previous scan, 23 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 28 Oct 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 63 to 67. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 19 days of observed history at the previous scan, 20 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 26 Oct 26 +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.
- 25 Oct 26 0
- The server rewrote its instructions, which are the text every model session reads security
- Tool “my_plan” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads security
- Tool “update_my_plan” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads security
- Server version: 1.0.0 → 1.1.0 functional
- “update_my_plan” added an optional parameter “expectedVersion” cosmetic
- “update_my_plan” added an optional parameter “progress” cosmetic
- “my_plan” reworded the description of “planId” cosmetic
- “report_balance” reworded the description of “planId” cosmetic
- “update_my_plan” reworded the description of “planId” cosmetic
- 24 Oct 26 +1
- Tool “my_plan” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads security
- Tool “partner_perks_admin” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads security
- Tool “portfolio_perks” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads security
- Tool “report_balance” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads security
- Tool “update_my_plan” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads security
- “get_program” reworded the description of “id” cosmetic
- “build_route” made “answers” optional cosmetic
- 23 Oct 26 −1
- “build_route” added an optional parameter “inferredAnswers” cosmetic
- “save_plan_draft” added an optional parameter “inferredAnswers” cosmetic
- “update_my_plan” reworded the description of “answers” cosmetic
3 cosmetic changes on this day. Switch on “Show cosmetic changes” to see them.
Diagnostic detail from the automated scan of this channel: what the scanner observed at each step, so you can see exactly where a check passed or failed. It is informational only and never changes the trust score.
Captured 5 Nov 2026 · Probed https://programscape.com/api/mcp
TLS valid
Negotiated TLS 1.3 with TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 .
| Subject | Issuer | Valid from | Valid until | Key | Signature | Serial |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN=programscape.com | CN=YR2,O=Let's Encrypt,C=US | 8 Sept 2026 | 7 Dec 2026 | RSA 2048 | SHA256-RSA | 5b68f7ce32b62bd084106c6a518d0487543 |
| SANs: programscape.com | ||||||
| CN=YR2,O=Let's Encrypt,C=US (CA) | CN=Root YR,O=ISRG,C=US | 3 Sept 2025 | 2 Sept 2028 | RSA 2048 | SHA256-RSA | 4ebd24947e24d394802d84a52fd5b319 |
| CN=Root YR,O=ISRG,C=US (CA) | CN=ISRG Root X1,O=Internet Security Research Group,C=US | 13 May 2026 | 2 Sept 2032 | RSA 4096 | SHA256-RSA | f24b6d17f9d9ad7cb1c9fea78782699f |
Background: What to check on a remote MCP endpoint →
DNSSEC insecure
Validation of programscape.com. — Not signed
| Zone | DS | Keys | Algorithms | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| . | trust_anchor | 20326, 38696 | 8, 8 | Verified |
| com. | present | 19718 | 13 | Verified |
| programscape.com. | absent | Unsigned (proven) parent-signed NSEC/NSEC3 proves an unsigned delegation |
Authentication No authorisation required
The endpoint answered without asking for a token. Anyone who knows the URL can reach it.
| Result | No authorisation required |
|---|---|
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Header | Value |
|---|---|
| strict-transport-security | max-age=63072000 |
| content-security-policy | frame-ancestors 'none' |
| x-frame-options | DENY |
Background: How OAuth 2.1 works in the 2026 MCP spec →
Transports 2 probes
| Transport | URL | Outcome | Status | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| streamable-http | https://programscape.com/api/mcp | Verified | 200 | |
| http (plaintext) | http://programscape.com/api/mcp | HTTPS enforced | 308 | https://programscape.com/api/mcp |
The tools this component advertises to a client, with an estimated token cost for each. Expand a tool to see its parameters and schema. The per-tool counts are indicative and are not scored directly; the schema's total context footprint is one signal in Schema Quality & AI Usability. A tool's description is untrusted text the model reads on every call, which is what makes this list a security surface and not just an inventory: how tool poisoning works →
build_route Build a founder’s route ~296
Returns the review Programscape would show a founder, from what they have said about their company (stage, funding, the tools they use, company type and answers to earlier questions): a short read of what matters at their stage, the programs worth their time now with each one’s standing and the questions that settle it, and what can wait and why. For questions about which startup credits, programs or perks fit a company. A standing is never a statement that the founder qualifies, and a standing of “Ask {provider}” means that provider decides on request and publishes no criteria, so the founder’s step is to ask it; each amount is that program’s own figure, never a total; no provider is ranked the winner. The result says how the review can be saved.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| answers | object | – | The founder’s answers, keyed by question field: the shared questions’ fields or a question a review returned (e.g. "stage": "seed", "funding": ["venture"], "currentProviders": ["aws", "openai"], "com… |
| inferredAnswers | array | – | The worked-out partner answers a saved plan returned as inferredAnswers, exactly as returned: the review reads them as Programscape worked them out, not as the founder’s own answers, and one from a l… |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
compare_programs Compare programs across providers ~86
Returns families of programs that serve the same goal across providers, side by side, with no winner and no score.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| goal | string | – | Limit to programs serving one goal, e.g. "build" or "save". Leave empty for every goal. |
| stage | string | – | Limit to programs for one stage, e.g. "seed". Leave empty for every stage. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
get_program Read one program ~89
Returns one program’s reviewed record: what it offers, the agent-tool capabilities its product offers where reviewed, who decides, exclusions, official sources and the date checked.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| id | string | yes | A program id as it appears in program records (e.g. "aws.activate-credits"), its page slug (e.g. "aws-activate-credits"), its page link, or its exact name. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
my_plan Read the founder’s saved plan ~177
Returns the founder’s saved Programscape plan: their answers, named company and plan choices, the programs they kept or set aside, and each kept program’s team-reported progress, next action, result note and lifecycle dates (a kept program says whether the founder marked it approved; an approved one carries the expiration date and award the founder entered, and its last reported balance and reminder number, when it has them), and their review as it stands today on those answers. For an account with multiple plans, an omitted plan id returns named choices and requires a selection. For a returning founder asking where things stand or what to do next. Needs the founder’s Programscape sign-in.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| planId | string | – | The selected saved plan. Required when the account has more than one plan; an omitted id never chooses the most recently updated one. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
partner_perks_admin Your partner perks list (for its admins) ~118
Only for the admin of a venture firm’s or studio’s perks list on Programscape (for example PSL’s): what needs a look (deals due to re-confirm, linked programs that changed or closed, imported deals not yet checked), how each perk stands, how many founders joined through each invite link (counts under 3 are withheld), and when the partner’s own system last read its feed. Reads only; changes are made on the admin page. A founder gets nothing from it. Needs that admin’s Programscape sign-in.
Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
portfolio_perks The founder’s portfolio perks ~92
Only for a founder who joined a venture firm’s or studio’s perks on Programscape through its invite link (for example PSL’s): returns that portfolio’s negotiated deals in the partner’s own words, labelled as the partner’s terms, and the public programs the partner points them to, with their live records. A founder who joined no portfolio gets no deals from it. Needs the founder’s Programscape sign-in.
Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
profile_questions Questions that shape the route ~35
Returns the shared questions, with their answer options, that shape a founder’s review. A fact the founder hasn’t given stays unknown.
Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
report_balance Report a credit balance ~482
Records the balance a provider shows for one program the founder keeps on their Programscape plan and has marked approved: the amount left, in the unit the provider reports it (US dollars, credits or requests), when it was read, and whether the founder’s own router or their assistant reported it. Optionally sets the number under which the founder wants an email reminder, in the same unit. Returns the balance as stored on the plan, with when it was read and who reported it. It is a report, never an estimate or a total, and it is never added to other programs or set against the amount awarded. Changes nothing else on the plan. Needs the founder’s Programscape sign-in.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| amount | number | yes | What the provider shows as left, in `unit`, exactly as reported: dollars to the cent, or a whole number of credits or requests. Never an estimate, a conversion or a sum. |
| asOf | string | – | When the balance was read from the provider, as an ISO 8601 date and time. Leave out to mean now. |
| estimate | object | – | Router only (0151): how long this balance lasts at the recent pace. Shown on the plan labelled as an estimate, with when it was worked out. It never sets an expiration date or a date reminder. Leave… |
| lowBalanceAt | object | – | Optional: the number under which the founder asked to be reminded, in the balance’s unit. Replaces the reminder number on the plan. |
| planId | string | – | The selected saved plan. Required when the account has more than one plan; an omitted id never chooses the most recently updated one. |
| programId | string | yes | The id of a program the founder keeps on their plan and has marked approved, for example "firecrawl.startup-deal". |
| source | string | – | Who is reporting: "router" for the founder’s own credit router, "assistant" for an AI assistant the founder asked. Defaults to "assistant". Only a connection made from a program on the founder’s own… |
| unit | string | yes | The unit the provider reports the balance in: usd, credits or requests. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
save_plan_draft Save the founder’s review ~217
Saves a founder’s review as a one-day draft and returns a link that opens it on programscape.com with their answers and kept programs in place. The founder saves it there with an email code (no password). The link works for 24 hours.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| answers | object | yes | The founder’s answers, keyed by question field: the shared questions’ fields or a question a review returned (e.g. "stage": "seed", "funding": ["venture"], "currentProviders": ["aws", "openai"], "com… |
| inferredAnswers | array | – | The worked-out partner answers a saved plan returned as inferredAnswers, exactly as returned: the review reads them as Programscape worked them out, not as the founder’s own answers, and one from a l… |
| keep | array | – | Ids of programs the founder chose to keep. Empty or left out when they chose none. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
search_programs Search startup programs and offers ~296
Searches the reviewed catalog of startup credits, programs, support and product discounts across providers (AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, OpenAI, Anthropic, NVIDIA, Stripe and more). Each result carries its official source and the date it was last checked. Can be limited to programs whose product offers an agent-tool capability (search, scrape, crawl, browser, extract, llm or sandbox): a program matches when its record lists any one of those asked for, and results keep the catalog’s own order. A result lists its capabilities when its record has been reviewed for them. A listing is not a statement that anyone qualifies.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| capabilities | array | – | Agent-tool capabilities, e.g. ["search"] or ["scrape", "crawl"]. A program matches when its record lists any one of them. Leave it out to search every program, including those not reviewed for capabi… |
| kind | string | – | "programs" for startup programs and support, "offers" for product discounts, "all" for both (the default). |
| limit | integer | – | How many results to return (default 20, at most 50). |
| provider | string | – | A provider id such as "aws", "gcp", "openai" or "stripe". Leave empty for every provider. |
| query | string | – | Words to match against program names, headlines, products and providers. Leave empty to list everything. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
update_my_plan Update the founder’s saved plan ~382
Saves answers, program choices and founder-reported progress to the selected Programscape plan. Progress edits cover pursuit, next action, reported result and note, and the founder’s lifecycle dates on kept programs. These are team reports, never provider verification or eligibility. Creates a first plan from answers and choices if there is none; progress needs an existing kept program. Only sent fields change; drafts, contacts and financial readings stay as stored. Multiple plans require an explicit plan id. An optional expected version refuses intervening saves. Needs the founder’s Programscape sign-in.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| answers | object | – | New or changed answers the founder gave, keyed by question field as in a review’s answers. `firms` is the whole list of who backs the company, never only the newest: a plan never keeps the firms’ nam… |
| expectedVersion | integer | – | The version of the plan that was read. When supplied, an intervening save causes a conflict and changes nothing. |
| keep | array | – | Program ids the founder wants to keep in their plan. |
| planId | string | – | The selected saved plan. Required when the account has more than one plan; an omitted id never chooses the most recently updated one. |
| progress | array | – | Founder-requested edits to progress on kept programs: pursuit, next action, reported result/note and their own lifecycle dates (YYYY-MM-DD). Only sent fields change; null clears a field. Clearing a r… |
| setAside | array | – | Program ids the founder wants to set aside. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
whats_changed What changed in the latest re-checks ~48
Returns what Programscape’s latest checks against the providers’ own pages found, dated and sourced.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | integer | – | How many of the latest re-checks to return (default 3). |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
How do I install the Programscape MCP server?
Programscape is a hosted endpoint at https://programscape.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.
remote · programscape.com
claude mcp add --transport http com-programscape-programscape 'https://programscape.com/api/mcp'
What is the Programscape MCP server?
Programscape is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as com.programscape/programscape. Startup credits, programs and perks from checked sources, with saved plans and reported balances. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://programscape.com/api/mcp).
Is the Programscape MCP server safe to use?
Programscape scores 76 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 Programscape MCP server expose?
Programscape exposes 12 tools: build_route, my_plan, update_my_plan, report_balance, portfolio_perks, and 7 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 2,318 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Does the Programscape MCP server require authentication?
No. We connected to Programscape without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.
Is the Programscape MCP server still maintained?
Programscape is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.