# com.valksor/scythian (remote · scythian.valksor.com)

Grounds LLMs in real Scythian: Proto-Scythian lemmas, etymologies, Ossetian/Khotanese descendants.

- Trust score: 77/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +7
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-08-03

## Components

- remote · `scythian.valksor.com`: 77/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-valksor-scythian/scythian.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-valksor-scythian/scythian)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://scythian.valksor.com/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `2.1.0`

## 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 2026-08-03.

- **Endpoint Security**: 83/100
  - 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 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
  - 100% of prompts and resources have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the item's name).
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 1308 tokens (~436/item across 3 items; 2 tools + 1 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 27/100
  - Stability observed for 8 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.
  - Structured output schemas are declared (100% of tools); any adoption earns full credit.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http com-valksor-scythian https://scythian.valksor.com/mcp
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.com-valksor-scythian]
url = "https://scythian.valksor.com/mcp"
```

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add com-valksor-scythian --url https://scythian.valksor.com/mcp --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  com-valksor-scythian:
    url: "https://scythian.valksor.com/mcp"
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-valksor-scythian": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://scythian.valksor.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.

### 2026-08-03 (score 77, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 23 to 27. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 7 days of observed history at the previous scan, 8 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-08-01 (score 76, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 17 to 20. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 5 days of observed history at the previous scan, 6 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-07-31 (score 75, +3)

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

### 2026-07-30 (score 72, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 10 to 13. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 3 days of observed history at the previous scan, 4 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-07-29 (score 71, +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.

### 2026-07-27 (score 70, +1)

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

### 2026-07-26 (score 69)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (2)

### `scythian_search` (~539 tokens)

Look a Proto-Scythian word up

Look a Proto-Scythian lemma up on Wiktionary and return its senses plus
its full descendants payload — the reconstructed etymology and the reflex
tree down to Ossetian and Khotanese, attested scholarship, not invention.
Plain ASCII spellings are folded to the reconstruction's diacritics and
the result notes the resolution. With search_language='eng' the query is
an English word instead: the result lists the lemmas whose glosses match
it (the translations block) plus their expanded entries. Returns Markdown
plus the same result as structuredContent matching the declared
outputSchema.

Results are cached server-side; first-time queries reach the live
upstream politely and calls are rate limited — on a rate-limit error,
wait a few seconds and retry. Content is from en.wiktionary.org
(CC BY-SA 4.0 — attribute and share alike if republished).

Input parameters:

- `include_forms` (boolean): When true (default), each match's full descendants payload — etymology, glosses and the reflex tree down to Ossetian and Khotanese — is returned INLINE in ONE call, no follow-up scythian_get_descenda…
- `max_forms`: Optional override for how many descendants payloads to expand this call (0–12). On an uncached query each payload is one politely paced upstream fetch, so high values on cold queries are slow. Omit f…
- `query` (string, required): The word to look up, in the language search_language names. Scythian (default): a SINGLE Proto-Scythian lemma — plain ASCII works ('tigri' finds *tiɣri: macrons and carons are folded, and ɣ→g, δ→d, β…
- `search_language`: Language the query word is in: 'xsc' (default) looks the Proto-Scythian lemma up directly; 'eng' finds the lemmas whose English glosses match the query (the local gloss index — reconstructed language…

Output parameters:

- `entries` (array)
- `forms_truncated` (integer): How many handles did NOT get an inline descendants payload because the per-search cap was reached.
- `found` (boolean): False when nothing matched. For an eng query, True means the gloss index named Proto-Scythian lemmas — entries may still be empty when none of them could be expanded (see translations).
- `handles` (array)
- `language`
- `query` (string)
- `resolved_from` (string): The original query when resolved via the index; else empty. xsc queries only — always empty for eng results.
- `resolved_lemma` (string): The lemma actually searched when resolved; else empty. xsc queries only — always empty for eng results.
- `search_method` (string): How the match was found: 'direct' = the query itself matched; 'lemma_index' = an ASCII/diacritic-folded spelling resolved via the reverse index; 'translations' = an English query resolved via the loc…
- `source` (string)
- `translations` (array): Populated only for eng queries (always [] for xsc): the Proto-Scythian lemmas whose glosses match the query. Entries/handles below are the expanded dictionary entries of those lemmas.
- `translations_truncated` (integer): How many distinct matched lemmas were NOT expanded into entries because the per-search expansion cap was reached (they still appear under translations).

### `scythian_get_descendants` (~239 tokens)

Get a Proto-Scythian entry's descendants

Fetch the full descendants payload — etymology, glosses and the reflex
tree (Sarmatian→Alanic→Ossetian, Saka→Khotanese) — for a lemma identified
by a search result's descendant handle (entry_id + word_class). Use this
only when a search ran without inline payloads or left a match
un-expanded — a default search already returns each match's payload
inline. Returns Markdown plus the payload as structuredContent with the
shape {"result": <payload>} per the declared outputSchema — switch on
result.category ('descendants' | 'not_found') before reading the body.
Content from en.wiktionary.org (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Input parameters:

- `entry_id` (string, required): The bare lemma (no asterisk) from a search result's descendant handle, e.g. 'tiɣri', 'baga' — a typed leading asterisk is tolerated.
- `word_class` (string, required): The part-of-speech section from a search result's descendant handle, e.g. 'noun', 'adjective', 'proper noun'.

Output parameters:

- `result`

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-08-03: 77
- 2026-08-02: 76
- 2026-08-01: 76
- 2026-07-31: 75
- 2026-07-30: 72
- 2026-07-29: 71
- 2026-07-28: 70
- 2026-07-27: 70
- 2026-07-26: 69

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://scythian.valksor.com/mcp
- Website: https://scythian.valksor.com/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-valksor-scythian/scythian/changelog.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-valksor-scythian/scythian/changelog.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-valksor-scythian/scythian