# Shipstry Launch Data (remote · shipstry.com)

Weekly product launch data from Shipstry: launches, winners, and category benchmarks.

- Trust score: 70/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-10-18

## Components

- remote · `shipstry.com`: 70/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-shipstry-launch-data/shipstry.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-shipstry-launch-data/shipstry)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://shipstry.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 2026-10-18.

- **Endpoint Security**: 74/100
  - 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.
  - 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**: 68/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 952 tokens (~136/item across 7 items; 7 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**: 88/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 65% 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 7 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 8 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 Shipstry Launch Data MCP server?

Shipstry Launch Data is a hosted endpoint at https://shipstry.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-shipstry-launch-data 'https://shipstry.com/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-shipstry-launch-data": {
      "url": "https://shipstry.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "com-shipstry-launch-data": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://shipstry.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.com-shipstry-launch-data]
url = "https://shipstry.com/mcp"
```

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add com-shipstry-launch-data --url 'https://shipstry.com/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  com-shipstry-launch-data:
    url: "https://shipstry.com/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "com-shipstry-launch-data": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://shipstry.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add com-shipstry-launch-data -t streamable-http -u 'https://shipstry.com/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-shipstry-launch-data": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://shipstry.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.

### 2026-10-18 (score 70, +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.

### 2026-10-17 (score 69, 0)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-10-16 (score 69)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (7)

### `list_categories` (~38 tokens)

List categories

List Shipstry's product categories with the number of approved products in each. Call this first when you need a valid category slug for the other tools.

### `search_launches` (~201 tokens)

Search launches

Search approved Shipstry launches by keyword, category, or tag. Keyword matching covers product name and tagline. Returns compact records with votes, ship week, awards, and the canonical Shipstry URL.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string): Category slug. One of: developer-tools, design-tools, marketing-sales, finance, education, health-wellness, social, ecommerce, entertainment, ai-ml, travel, productivity, data-analytics, web3, securi…
- `limit` (integer)
- `offset` (integer)
- `query` (string): Keyword matched against product name and tagline.
- `sort` (string): hot = all-time by votes, new = newest first, week = launched in the current ship week, month = launched this month.
- `tag` (string): Tag slug, for example 'vpn' or 'beta'. See get_category_landscape for tags common in a category.

### `get_launch` (~94 tokens)

Get a launch

Fetch one approved launch with its description, tags, awards, and maker name. Identify it by Shipstry product id, product slug, its Shipstry URL, or its own website URL.

Input parameters:

- `id` (string): Shipstry product id. Every result returned by the other tools includes one.
- `slug` (string)
- `url` (string): Either the Shipstry product URL or the product's own website URL.

### `list_ship_week` (~182 tokens)

List a ship week

List the products that launched in one ship week (Monday-Sunday UTC, keyed YYYYMMDD). Defaults to the current week. During Fog Mode vote counts for the current week are hidden and the order is random.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string): Filter to one category. One of: developer-tools, design-tools, marketing-sales, finance, education, health-wellness, social, ecommerce, entertainment, ai-ml, travel, productivity, data-analytics, web…
- `limit` (integer)
- `offset` (integer)
- `shipWeek` (string): Monday of the week in YYYYMMDD form, for example '20260907'. Defaults to the current ship week.
- `sort` (string): Vote order is forced to random while Fog Mode hides the current week's ranking.

### `get_winners` (~99 tokens)

Get winners

Weekly or monthly medal winners (gold, silver, bronze). Returns the most recent periods by default, or one period when `period` is given. Use this to see what actually won, not just what launched.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer)
- `period` (string): Award period: YYYYMMDD for weeks, YYYY-MM for months. Omit for the most recent periods.
- `scope` (string): Weekly or monthly award periods.

### `get_category_landscape` (~153 tokens)

Get a category landscape

Benchmark a category over a window of ship weeks: how many products launched, the vote distribution (mean, p50, p75, p90, max), the top launches, how many medals were awarded, and the tags that appear most. Use this to judge how crowded a space is and what a winning launch looks like there.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string, required): Category slug. One of: developer-tools, design-tools, marketing-sales, finance, education, health-wellness, social, ecommerce, entertainment, ai-ml, travel, productivity, data-analytics, web3, securi…
- `weeks` (integer): How many ship weeks back to include.

### `check_url` (~42 tokens)

Check whether a URL is listed

Check whether a website URL is already listed on Shipstry, using the same normalization as submission duplicate detection. Only approved listings are visible.

Input parameters:

- `url` (string, required)

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-10-18: 70
- 2026-10-17: 69
- 2026-10-16: 69

## Common questions

### What is the Shipstry Launch Data MCP server?

Shipstry Launch Data is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as com.shipstry/launch-data. Weekly product launch data from Shipstry: launches, winners, and category benchmarks. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://shipstry.com/mcp).

### Is the Shipstry Launch Data MCP server safe to use?

Shipstry Launch Data scores 70 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 Shipstry Launch Data MCP server expose?

Shipstry Launch Data exposes 7 tools: list_categories, search_launches, get_launch, list_ship_week, get_winners, and 2 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 809 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Shipstry Launch Data MCP server require authentication?

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

### Is the Shipstry Launch Data MCP server still maintained?

Shipstry Launch Data is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 18 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://shipstry.com/mcp
- Website: https://shipstry.com/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-shipstry-launch-data/shipstry.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-shipstry-launch-data/shipstry.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-shipstry-launch-data/shipstry