AEO Visibility
REMOTE · AEO.ADVANCELABS.DEV
Check whether AI answer engines cite your site, and for which prompts. Uses your own Perplexity key.
Available components
Last scanned (12 hours ago)
Scores higher than 60% of remote servers
Reachable. Last reached 5 Nov 2026.
Category Marketing and SEO
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. How we score → Why this is hard to score →
Endpoint Security80
- The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key. View diagnostics → Pass
- No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Partial
- HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path. View diagnostics → Pass
- The HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security) header is present. View diagnostics → Pass
- DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Fail
Transport & Reachability100
- Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake. View diagnostics → Pass
Schema Quality & AI Usability66
- AI-judged instruction clarity (good).Pass
- Tool/resource definitions use about 434 tokens (~86/item across 5 items; 5 tools + 0 resources), lean.Pass
- Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management17
- Stability observed for 5 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.Partial
Tool Coverage90
- 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
- 71% of tool parameters carry a description.Partial
Tool Safety100
- No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
- We read all 5 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
- An AI judge read all 5 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.Pass
Capabilities100
- Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.Pass
Every change we have recorded for this component, newest first. Security-relevant changes are always shown. ▲ marks a change for the better, ▼ a change for the worse; unmarked changes are neutral.
- 4 Nov 26 +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.
- 1 Nov 26 +1
- Stability: unverified → 0.03 ▲ functional
- 31 Oct 26 71
First indexed and scored.
Diagnostic detail from the automated scan of this channel: what the scanner observed at each step, so you can see exactly where a check passed or failed. It is informational only and never changes the trust score.
Captured 5 Nov 2026 · Probed https://aeo.advancelabs.dev/api/mcp/ai-visibility/mcp
TLS valid
Negotiated TLS 1.3 with TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 .
| Subject | Issuer | Valid from | Valid until | Key | Signature | Serial |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN=*.advancelabs.dev | CN=YR1,O=Let's Encrypt,C=US | 13 Oct 2026 | 11 Jan 2027 | RSA 2048 | SHA256-RSA | 5bdd6e4439c5b08c6e07ab86c710c52d0e5 |
| SANs: *.advancelabs.dev, advancelabs.dev | ||||||
| CN=YR1,O=Let's Encrypt,C=US (CA) | CN=Root YR,O=ISRG,C=US | 3 Sept 2025 | 2 Sept 2028 | RSA 2048 | SHA256-RSA | a20253f15f2691c05dc1ce13b9bcca4e |
| CN=Root YR,O=ISRG,C=US (CA) | CN=ISRG Root X1,O=Internet Security Research Group,C=US | 13 May 2026 | 2 Sept 2032 | RSA 4096 | SHA256-RSA | f24b6d17f9d9ad7cb1c9fea78782699f |
Background: What to check on a remote MCP endpoint →
DNSSEC insecure
Validation of aeo.advancelabs.dev. — Not signed
| Zone | DS | Keys | Algorithms | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| . | trust_anchor | 20326, 38696 | 8, 8 | Verified |
| dev. | present | 60074 | 8 | Verified |
| advancelabs.dev. | absent | Unsigned (proven) parent-signed NSEC/NSEC3 proves an unsigned delegation |
Authentication No authorisation required
The endpoint answered without asking for a token. Anyone who knows the URL can reach it.
| Result | No authorisation required |
|---|---|
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Header | Value |
|---|---|
| strict-transport-security | max-age=63072000 |
Background: How OAuth 2.1 works in the 2026 MCP spec →
Transports 2 probes
| Transport | URL | Outcome | Status | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| streamable-http | https://aeo.advancelabs.dev/api/mcp/ai-visibility/mcp | Verified | 200 | |
| http (plaintext) | http://aeo.advancelabs.dev/api/mcp/ai-visibility/mcp | HTTPS enforced | 308 | https://aeo.advancelabs.dev/api/mcp/ai-visibility/mcp |
The tools this component advertises to a client, with an estimated token cost for each. Expand a tool to see its parameters and schema. The per-tool counts are indicative and are not scored directly; the schema's total context footprint is one signal in Schema Quality & AI Usability. A tool's description is untrusted text the model reads on every call, which is what makes this list a security surface and not just an inventory: how tool poisoning works →
analyze_website_aeo Analyze website AEO ~59
Crawl a URL, parse its HTML and structured data, and score it for answer-engine optimization (AEO). Returns an AEO-focused summary, AI-bot access, and crawl-hint files.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| url | string | yes | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
check_ai_visibility Check AI visibility ~94
Query Perplexity Sonar with a prompt and inspect its citations to determine whether the given URL is cited as a source, and at what rank.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| perplexityApiKey | string | yes | Your Perplexity API key (BYOK). Request-scoped; never stored or logged. |
| prompt | string | yes | The end-user question to test. |
| url | string | yes | The site URL to check for citations. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
compare_competitor_visibility Compare competitor visibility ~84
Run one Perplexity Sonar query and rank several competitor URLs by whether and where each is cited for the prompt.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| perplexityApiKey | string | yes | Your Perplexity API key (BYOK). Request-scoped; never stored or logged. |
| prompt | string | yes | – |
| urls | array | yes | Two or more competitor URLs to rank. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
discover_ranking_prompts Discover ranking prompts ~114
Generate realistic user prompts a site should aim to be cited for on a topic, using Perplexity Sonar. Optionally tests a few of them for live visibility.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| perplexityApiKey | string | yes | Your Perplexity API key (BYOK). Request-scoped; never stored or logged. |
| testCount | integer | – | How many generated prompts to live-test (default 3). |
| topic | string | yes | The topic / niche to generate prompts for. |
| url | string | yes | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
get_visibility_report Get visibility report ~83
Combine an AEO audit of a URL with per-prompt AI-visibility checks into a single report with an overall citation rate.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| perplexityApiKey | string | yes | Your Perplexity API key (BYOK). Request-scoped; never stored or logged. |
| prompts | array | yes | Prompts to test for visibility. |
| url | string | yes | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
How do I install the AEO Visibility MCP server?
AEO Visibility is a hosted endpoint at https://aeo.advancelabs.dev/api/mcp/ai-visibility/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.
remote · aeo.advancelabs.dev
claude mcp add --transport http dev-advancelabs-aeo-visibility 'https://aeo.advancelabs.dev/api/mcp/ai-visibility/mcp'
What is the AEO Visibility MCP server?
AEO Visibility is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as dev.advancelabs/aeo-visibility. Check whether AI answer engines cite your site, and for which prompts. Uses your own Perplexity key. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://aeo.advancelabs.dev/api/mcp/ai-visibility/mcp).
Is the AEO Visibility MCP server safe to use?
AEO Visibility scores 73 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 AEO Visibility MCP server expose?
AEO Visibility exposes 5 tools: analyze_website_aeo, check_ai_visibility, discover_ranking_prompts, get_visibility_report, compare_competitor_visibility. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 434 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Does the AEO Visibility MCP server require authentication?
No. We connected to AEO Visibility without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.
Is the AEO Visibility MCP server still maintained?
AEO Visibility 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.