# TheFaceAnalysis (remote · mcp.thefaceanalysis.com)

Face shape rules and a 102-face open measurement dataset. Read-only, no photos.

- Trust score: 75/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +3
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `mcp.thefaceanalysis.com`: 75/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-thefaceanalysis-face-analysis/mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-thefaceanalysis-face-analysis/mcp)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://mcp.thefaceanalysis.com/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `0.1.0`

## 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**: 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**: 73/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 630 tokens (~90/item across 7 items; 7 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 33/100
  - Stability observed for 10 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 97/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 91% 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 7 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the TheFaceAnalysis MCP server?

TheFaceAnalysis is a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.thefaceanalysis.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-thefaceanalysis-face-analysis 'https://mcp.thefaceanalysis.com/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-thefaceanalysis-face-analysis": {
      "url": "https://mcp.thefaceanalysis.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "com-thefaceanalysis-face-analysis": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.thefaceanalysis.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.com-thefaceanalysis-face-analysis]
url = "https://mcp.thefaceanalysis.com/mcp"
```

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add com-thefaceanalysis-face-analysis --url 'https://mcp.thefaceanalysis.com/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  com-thefaceanalysis-face-analysis:
    url: "https://mcp.thefaceanalysis.com/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "com-thefaceanalysis-face-analysis": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://mcp.thefaceanalysis.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add com-thefaceanalysis-face-analysis -t streamable-http -u 'https://mcp.thefaceanalysis.com/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-thefaceanalysis-face-analysis": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.thefaceanalysis.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.

### 2026-11-04 (score 75, +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.

### 2026-11-02 (score 74, +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.

### 2026-10-31 (score 73, +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.

### 2026-10-29 (score 72, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 7 to 10. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 2 days of observed history at the previous scan, 3 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-27 (score 71, 0)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-10-26 (score 71)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (7)

### `get_reference_statistics` (~146 tokens)

Face measurement statistics

Percentiles (p10, p25, median, p75, p90, min, max) of facial measurements from 102 adult faces (49 women, 53 men) of the Face Research Lab London Set, measured with a 478-point MediaPipe landmarker. Measures: composite score, symmetry, golden ratio fit, fWHR, midface ratio, pupillary distance, canthal tilt. Aggregates only; one research set photographed in one city, so these describe these faces, not a population.

Input parameters:

- `group` (string): all, female or male. Omit for all three.
- `measure` (string): One measure. Omit for all.

### `list_face_types` (~70 tokens)

List face, eye, lip and nose types

Lists the types the site's detectors use, with slug, name, page URL and how many of the 102 reference faces each type covered. The split shows how the detector divides these faces, not how common a type is in a population.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string): Omit for all four categories.

### `get_face_type` (~67 tokens)

Describe one face, eye, lip or nose type

Definition and how the type is measured from a front photo (the exact threshold rule), plus its page URL. Example: category 'face', slug 'oval'.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string, required)
- `slug` (string, required): e.g. oval, heart, hooded, upturned

### `classify_face_shape` (~164 tokens)

Classify a face shape from four measurements

Runs the same seven-rule face shape classifier as thefaceanalysis.com/face-shape-detector on four distances (any consistent unit: pixels, mm or landmark units). Returns the shape, the rule that matched and the four ratios. It does not look at photos: to measure a photo, use the widget (get_embed_snippet) or the site. Borderline faces can flip between two shapes; no accuracy figure is claimed because the reference set has no labelled face types.

Input parameters:

- `cheekbone_width` (number, required): Widest point across the cheekbones
- `face_length` (number, required): Top of the forehead surface to the bottom of the chin
- `forehead_width` (number, required): Width across the temples
- `jaw_width` (number, required): Width across the jaw

### `get_methodology` (~77 tokens)

Methodology, thresholds and validity

How the numbers are made: the landmark model, every classification threshold, how the 1-10 score is built, and how it correlated with 2,513 human raters on the same faces (it did not predict them). Includes the method change history.

Input parameters:

- `include_changelog` (boolean): Also return the dated change history.

### `get_citation` (~37 tokens)

How to cite the data

Citation text, license (CC BY 4.0 for the aggregate numbers) and the source photo set. Use when quoting a number.

### `get_embed_snippet` (~69 tokens)

Embed code for the face shape widget

HTML a website owner can paste to add the free face shape finder (it measures the visitor's photo in their browser, no sign-up). Includes the visible credit link the terms ask for.

Input parameters:

- `size` (string): compact 360px, standard 480px, wide 720px

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 75
- 2026-11-04: 75
- 2026-11-03: 74
- 2026-11-02: 74
- 2026-11-01: 73
- 2026-10-31: 73
- 2026-10-30: 72
- 2026-10-29: 72
- 2026-10-28: 71
- 2026-10-27: 71
- 2026-10-26: 71

## Common questions

### What is the TheFaceAnalysis MCP server?

TheFaceAnalysis is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as com.thefaceanalysis/face-analysis. Face shape rules and a 102-face open measurement dataset. Read-only, no photos. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://mcp.thefaceanalysis.com/mcp).

### Is the TheFaceAnalysis MCP server safe to use?

TheFaceAnalysis scores 75 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 TheFaceAnalysis MCP server expose?

TheFaceAnalysis exposes 7 tools: get_reference_statistics, list_face_types, get_face_type, classify_face_shape, get_methodology, and 2 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 630 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the TheFaceAnalysis MCP server require authentication?

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

### Is the TheFaceAnalysis MCP server still maintained?

TheFaceAnalysis 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.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://mcp.thefaceanalysis.com/mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/The-Face-Analysis/thefaceanalysis-mcp
- Website: https://thefaceanalysis.com/mcp
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-thefaceanalysis-face-analysis/mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-thefaceanalysis-face-analysis/mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-thefaceanalysis-face-analysis/mcp