# LicenseGate (remote · licensegate.onrender.com)

Open-source licence risk checks for AI coding agents and dependency trees.

- Trust score: 71/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +1
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-09-28

## Components

- remote · `licensegate.onrender.com`: 71/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/computersmarts1-licensegate/licensegate.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/computersmarts1-licensegate/licensegate)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://licensegate.onrender.com/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `0.3.0`

## 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 2026-09-28.

- **Endpoint Security**: 57/100
  - 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.
  - 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**: 51/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (fair).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 90 tokens (~90/item across 1 items; 1 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 100/100
  - No destabilizing schema changes in the last 30 days.
- **Tool Coverage**: 67/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 0% 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 1 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 1 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 LicenseGate MCP server?

LicenseGate is a hosted endpoint at https://licensegate.onrender.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 computersmarts1-licensegate 'https://licensegate.onrender.com/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "computersmarts1-licensegate": {
      "url": "https://licensegate.onrender.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "computersmarts1-licensegate": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://licensegate.onrender.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.computersmarts1-licensegate]
url = "https://licensegate.onrender.com/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "computersmarts1-licensegate": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://licensegate.onrender.com/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add computersmarts1-licensegate --url 'https://licensegate.onrender.com/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  computersmarts1-licensegate:
    url: "https://licensegate.onrender.com/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "computersmarts1-licensegate": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://licensegate.onrender.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add computersmarts1-licensegate -t streamable-http -u 'https://licensegate.onrender.com/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "computersmarts1-licensegate": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://licensegate.onrender.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.

### 2026-09-28 (score 71, 0)

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

### 2026-09-25 (score 71, 0)

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

### 2026-09-23 (score 71, 0)

- [security] Stability: 0.97 → pass

### 2026-09-22 (score 71, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 93 to 97. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 28 days of observed history at the previous scan, 29 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-19 (score 70, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 83 to 87. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 25 days of observed history at the previous scan, 26 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-17 (score 69, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 77 to 80. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 23 days of observed history at the previous scan, 24 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-15 (score 68, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 70 to 73. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 21 days of observed history at the previous scan, 22 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-13 (score 67, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 63 to 67. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 19 days of observed history at the previous scan, 20 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

## MCP tools (1)

### `check_software_license` (~90 tokens)

Check a software package and its dependency tree for
open-source licence risk before adding it to a project.

ecosystem examples: pypi, npm, maven, cargo

use_case examples:
hosted-saas
distributed-closed-source

Input parameters:

- `ecosystem` (string, required)
- `package` (string, required)
- `use_case` (string)
- `version` (string, required)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/computersmarts1-licensegate/licensegate#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-09-28: 71
- 2026-09-27: 71
- 2026-09-26: 71
- 2026-09-25: 71
- 2026-09-24: 71
- 2026-09-23: 71
- 2026-09-22: 71
- 2026-09-21: 70
- 2026-09-20: 70
- 2026-09-19: 70
- 2026-09-18: 69
- 2026-09-17: 69
- 2026-09-16: 68
- 2026-09-15: 68
- 2026-09-14: 67
- 2026-09-13: 67
- 2026-09-12: 66
- 2026-09-11: 66
- 2026-09-10: 65
- 2026-09-09: 65
- 2026-09-08: 64
- 2026-09-07: 64
- 2026-09-06: 63
- 2026-09-05: 63
- 2026-09-04: 63
- 2026-09-03: 62
- 2026-09-02: 62
- 2026-09-01: 61
- 2026-08-31: 61
- 2026-08-30: 60

## Common questions

### What is the LicenseGate MCP server?

LicenseGate is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.Computersmarts1/licensegate. Open-source licence risk checks for AI coding agents and dependency trees. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://licensegate.onrender.com/mcp).

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

LicenseGate scores 71 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 LicenseGate MCP server expose?

LicenseGate exposes 1 tool: check_software_license. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 90 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the LicenseGate MCP server require authentication?

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

### Is the LicenseGate MCP server still maintained?

LicenseGate is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 28 September 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://licensegate.onrender.com/mcp
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/computersmarts1-licensegate/licensegate.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/computersmarts1-licensegate/licensegate.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/computersmarts1-licensegate/licensegate