# AI Startup Hub (remote · aihub.sarmkadan.com)

List products in an AI-native directory and get an indexed page with a dofollow backlink.

- Trust score: 76/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +4
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `aihub.sarmkadan.com`: 76/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-sarmkadan-aihub/aihub.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-sarmkadan-aihub/aihub)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://aihub.sarmkadan.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 2026-11-05.

- **Endpoint Security**: 66/100
  - 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 1 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 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**: 73/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 356 tokens (~71/item across 5 items; 5 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 57/100
  - Stability observed for 17 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.
- **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 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 AI Startup Hub MCP server?

AI Startup Hub is a hosted endpoint at https://aihub.sarmkadan.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-sarmkadan-aihub 'https://aihub.sarmkadan.com/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-sarmkadan-aihub": {
      "url": "https://aihub.sarmkadan.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "com-sarmkadan-aihub": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://aihub.sarmkadan.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.com-sarmkadan-aihub]
url = "https://aihub.sarmkadan.com/mcp"
```

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add com-sarmkadan-aihub --url 'https://aihub.sarmkadan.com/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  com-sarmkadan-aihub:
    url: "https://aihub.sarmkadan.com/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "com-sarmkadan-aihub": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://aihub.sarmkadan.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add com-sarmkadan-aihub -t streamable-http -u 'https://aihub.sarmkadan.com/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-sarmkadan-aihub": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://aihub.sarmkadan.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.

### 2026-11-05 (score 76, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 53 to 57. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 16 days of observed history at the previous scan, 17 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-03 (score 75, +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.

### 2026-11-01 (score 74, +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.

### 2026-10-30 (score 73, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 33 to 37. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 10 days of observed history at the previous scan, 11 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-28 (score 72, +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.

### 2026-10-26 (score 71, +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.

### 2026-10-24 (score 70, +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.

### 2026-10-21 (score 69, +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.

## MCP tools (5)

### `list_products` (~72 tokens)

Browse the catalog, newest first or by popularity, optionally filtered by category.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string|null): Optional category filter
- `page` (integer): 1-based page
- `pageSize` (integer): Items per page, 1-50
- `sortBy` (string): newest or popular

### `search_products` (~60 tokens)

Full-text search over product names, descriptions and tags. Ordered by upvotes.

Input parameters:

- `page` (integer): 1-based page
- `pageSize` (integer): Items per page, 1-50
- `query` (string, required): Search text

### `submit_product` (~171 tokens)

List a product, tool or website in the AI Startup Hub directory. Returns the slug and the URL of a server-rendered, indexable page that carries a dofollow backlink to the submitted url. The url must be publicly reachable. No API key needed; limit 10 submissions per hour per IP, 3 products per host.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string|null): One lowercase category, e.g. ai, developer-tools, saas, open-source, api, automation
- `description` (string|null): One or two sentences on what the product does, max 5000 chars
- `name` (string, required): Product name, max 200 chars
- `tags` (array|null): Up to 10 lowercase tags
- `url` (string, required): Public http(s) URL of the product homepage

### `upvote_product` (~30 tokens)

Upvote a product. One vote per IP per product.

Input parameters:

- `slug` (string, required): Product slug

### `get_product` (~23 tokens)

Get one product by slug.

Input parameters:

- `slug` (string, required): Product slug

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 76
- 2026-11-04: 75
- 2026-11-03: 75
- 2026-11-02: 74
- 2026-11-01: 74
- 2026-10-31: 73
- 2026-10-30: 73
- 2026-10-29: 72
- 2026-10-28: 72
- 2026-10-27: 71
- 2026-10-26: 71
- 2026-10-25: 70
- 2026-10-24: 70
- 2026-10-23: 69
- 2026-10-22: 69
- 2026-10-21: 69
- 2026-10-20: 68
- 2026-10-19: 68

## Common questions

### What is the AI Startup Hub MCP server?

AI Startup Hub is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as com.sarmkadan/aihub. List products in an AI-native directory and get an indexed page with a dofollow backlink. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://aihub.sarmkadan.com/mcp).

### Is the AI Startup Hub MCP server safe to use?

AI Startup Hub 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 AI Startup Hub MCP server expose?

AI Startup Hub exposes 5 tools: list_products, search_products, submit_product, upvote_product, get_product. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 356 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the AI Startup Hub MCP server require authentication?

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

### Is the AI Startup Hub MCP server still maintained?

AI Startup Hub 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.

### What did VerifyMCP test on the AI Startup Hub MCP server?

VerifyMCP ran 12 checks on AI Startup Hub, covering TLS certificate, HTTPS, HSTS header, DNSSEC and 8 more. One item could not be completed, a gap on our side rather than a finding about AI Startup Hub: Authorization. Supply Chain Security and Provenance & Transparency do not apply to a hosted endpoint, so they were not tested. The score does not measure everything, and the scoring documentation lists what it leaves out.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://aihub.sarmkadan.com/mcp
- Website: https://aihub.sarmkadan.com/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-sarmkadan-aihub/aihub.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-sarmkadan-aihub/aihub/changelog.json
- Trust report (JSON): https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-sarmkadan-aihub/aihub.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-sarmkadan-aihub/aihub