# VaneTools AI Directory (remote · vanetools.com)

Search curated AI resources: AI tools, MCP servers, prompts, skills, plugins, learning.

- Trust score: 68/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-10-18

## Components

- remote · `vanetools.com`: 68/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-vanetools-vanetools-directory/vanetools.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-vanetools-vanetools-directory/vanetools)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://vanetools.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**: 63/100
  - 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 8 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 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**: 77/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 745 tokens (~93/item across 8 items; 8 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 10/100
  - Stability observed for 3 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 8 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 supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the VaneTools AI Directory MCP server?

VaneTools AI Directory is a hosted endpoint at https://vanetools.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-vanetools-vanetools-directory 'https://vanetools.com/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-vanetools-vanetools-directory": {
      "url": "https://vanetools.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

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

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.com-vanetools-vanetools-directory]
url = "https://vanetools.com/mcp"
```

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

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

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  com-vanetools-vanetools-directory:
    url: "https://vanetools.com/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

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

### Vellum

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

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-vanetools-vanetools-directory": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://vanetools.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.

### 2026-10-17 (score 68, +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.

### 2026-10-16 (score 67, 0)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-10-15 (score 67)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (8)

### `search_tools` (~97 tokens)

Search VaneTools directory

Search the VaneTools bilingual AI tools directory (~34k tools). Returns slug, name, one-line tagline, category, website and detail page URL.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string): Filter by top-level category slug: coding, productivity, creatives, video-audio, business, research, entertainment
- `limit` (integer): Max results (default 10)
- `query` (string, required): Keyword to match against name/slug/tagline

### `search_mcp_servers` (~100 tokens)

Search MCP servers

Search VaneTools' curated MCP (Model Context Protocol) server directory. Returns slug, name, one-line tagline, category, website and detail page URL.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string): Filter by top-level category slug: coding, productivity, creatives, video-audio, business, research, entertainment
- `limit` (integer): Max results (default 10)
- `query` (string, required): Keyword to match against name/slug/tagline

### `search_prompts` (~100 tokens)

Search prompts

Search the VaneTools curated prompt library (prompts for writing, coding, marketing and more). Returns slug, name, tagline, category and detail page URL.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string): Filter by top-level category slug: coding, productivity, creatives, video-audio, business, research, entertainment
- `limit` (integer): Max results (default 10)
- `query` (string, required): Keyword to match against name/slug/tagline

### `search_skills` (~98 tokens)

Search agent skills

Search the VaneTools Agent Skills directory (reusable skill packages for AI coding agents). Returns slug, name, tagline, category and detail page URL.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string): Filter by top-level category slug: coding, productivity, creatives, video-audio, business, research, entertainment
- `limit` (integer): Max results (default 10)
- `query` (string, required): Keyword to match against name/slug/tagline

### `search_plugins` (~94 tokens)

Search plugins

Search the VaneTools plugin directory (editor and agent plugins). Returns slug, name, tagline, category, website and detail page URL.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string): Filter by top-level category slug: coding, productivity, creatives, video-audio, business, research, entertainment
- `limit` (integer): Max results (default 10)
- `query` (string, required): Keyword to match against name/slug/tagline

### `search_resources` (~98 tokens)

Search AI learning resources

Search VaneTools' AI learning resources (tutorials, guides, handbooks and courses). Returns slug, name, tagline, category and detail page URL.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string): Filter by top-level category slug: coding, productivity, creatives, video-audio, business, research, entertainment
- `limit` (integer): Max results (default 10)
- `query` (string, required): Keyword to match against name/slug/tagline

### `get_tool` (~61 tokens)

Get tool details

Get full structured details for one tool by slug: description sections, features, categories, website, pricing model and last-verified date. Use search_tools first to find the slug.

Input parameters:

- `slug` (string, required): Tool slug, e.g. 'chatgpt'

### `get_resource` (~97 tokens)

Get resource details (any type)

Get full structured details for one resource by type + slug. Works for all resource types: app, mcp, skill, prompt, plugin, learning, workflow. Use the search_* tools first to find the slug.

Input parameters:

- `slug` (string, required): Resource slug from the search_* tools
- `type` (string, required): Resource type, e.g. 'mcp', 'prompt', 'skill', 'plugin', 'learning', 'app'

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-10-18: 68
- 2026-10-17: 68
- 2026-10-16: 67
- 2026-10-15: 67

## Common questions

### What is the VaneTools AI Directory MCP server?

VaneTools AI Directory is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as com.vanetools/vanetools-directory. Search curated AI resources: AI tools, MCP servers, prompts, skills, plugins, learning. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://vanetools.com/mcp).

### Is the VaneTools AI Directory MCP server safe to use?

VaneTools AI Directory scores 68 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 VaneTools AI Directory MCP server expose?

VaneTools AI Directory exposes 8 tools: search_tools, search_mcp_servers, search_prompts, search_skills, search_plugins, and 3 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 745 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the VaneTools AI Directory MCP server require authentication?

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

### Is the VaneTools AI Directory MCP server still maintained?

VaneTools AI Directory 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://vanetools.com/mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/RichardXu001/vanetools
- Website: https://vanetools.com/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-vanetools-vanetools-directory/vanetools.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-vanetools-vanetools-directory/vanetools.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-vanetools-vanetools-directory/vanetools