# Byteland (remote · byteland.dev)

A night city of developers: search people and projects, read project rooms, see who is live.

- Trust score: 65/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `byteland.dev`: 65/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/dev-byteland-byteland/byteland.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/dev-byteland-byteland/byteland)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://byteland.dev/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `0.5.0`

## 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**: 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 14 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**: 66/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 1470 tokens (~105/item across 14 items; 14 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 13/100
  - Stability observed for 4 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 93/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 79% 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 14 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 15 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 60/100
  - Spec-recency check failed: implements MCP spec 2025-06-18; the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

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

Byteland is a hosted endpoint at https://byteland.dev/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 dev-byteland-byteland 'https://byteland.dev/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dev-byteland-byteland": {
      "url": "https://byteland.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "dev-byteland-byteland": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://byteland.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.dev-byteland-byteland]
url = "https://byteland.dev/mcp"
```

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add dev-byteland-byteland --url 'https://byteland.dev/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  dev-byteland-byteland:
    url: "https://byteland.dev/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "dev-byteland-byteland": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://byteland.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add dev-byteland-byteland -t streamable-http -u 'https://byteland.dev/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dev-byteland-byteland": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://byteland.dev/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.

### 2026-11-05 (score 65, +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.

### 2026-11-03 (score 64, +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.

### 2026-11-02 (score 63, 0)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-11-01 (score 63)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (14)

### `about` (~36 tokens)

What Byteland is

Short description of Byteland: what buildings, rooms and lights stand for, units, privacy rules and supported languages. A good first call.

### `get_street` (~152 tokens)

A stretch of the street

Buildings in a range (owner, type, floors, light counts) and gaps (alleys, empty lots). Positions in centimetres, at most 80000 cm.

Input parameters:

- `from` (number): Start x (cm). Default -3000.
- `lang` (string): Language of text fields (recipe, badges, topic names). Default: en.
- `mode` (string): kume (default): the founder’s real building with vacant buildings; bos: topic city, everyone vacant; ornek: demo street full of sample profiles.
- `seed` (string): Street seed. Default: gece-sehri.
- `to` (number): End x (cm). Default 12000.

### `get_building` (~138 tokens)

Building detail

Public detail of one building: the owner’s profile, rooms and their states, machine-readable parts and the building recipe.

Input parameters:

- `lang` (string): Language of text fields (recipe, badges, topic names). Default: en.
- `mode` (string): kume (default): the founder’s real building with vacant buildings; bos: topic city, everyone vacant; ornek: demo street full of sample profiles.
- `ref` (string|number, required): Door number (e.g. 5) or username (e.g. "@kaanisthatyou").
- `seed` (string): Street seed. Default: gece-sehri.

### `get_profile` (~166 tokens)

Profile

A developer’s or company’s profile: bio, links (GitHub, website, socials), badges, projects and open-source contributions. If not on the street, looks for a saved profile, then GitHub; otherwise generates a sample (preview:true).

Input parameters:

- `github` (boolean): Look up GitHub’s public data. Default: true.
- `handle` (string, required): Username, with or without @.
- `lang` (string): Language of text fields (recipe, badges, topic names). Default: en.
- `mode` (string): kume (default): the founder’s real building with vacant buildings; bos: topic city, everyone vacant; ornek: demo street full of sample profiles.
- `seed` (string): Street seed. Default: gece-sehri.

### `list_projects` (~139 tokens)

Projects

A profile’s projects: state, description, stack, links (repo, site) plus open-source contributions. Private projects appear only as hidden:true.

Input parameters:

- `github` (boolean): Look up GitHub’s public data. Default: true.
- `handle` (string, required)
- `lang` (string): Language of text fields (recipe, badges, topic names). Default: en.
- `mode` (string): kume (default): the founder’s real building with vacant buildings; bos: topic city, everyone vacant; ornek: demo street full of sample profiles.
- `seed` (string): Street seed. Default: gece-sehri.

### `get_project` (~133 tokens)

One project

A single project of a profile. Returns nothing for private projects.

Input parameters:

- `github` (boolean): Look up GitHub’s public data. Default: true.
- `handle` (string, required)
- `lang` (string): Language of text fields (recipe, badges, topic names). Default: en.
- `mode` (string): kume (default): the founder’s real building with vacant buildings; bos: topic city, everyone vacant; ornek: demo street full of sample profiles.
- `project` (string, required): Project name or id.
- `seed` (string): Street seed. Default: gece-sehri.

### `search` (~155 tokens)

Search Byteland

Find people, projects and stacks across every resident of the city (people, projects, stacks), plus buildings on the street by username, name, project or technology (results). Private projects never appear.

Input parameters:

- `lang` (string): Language of text fields (recipe, badges, topic names). Default: en.
- `mode` (string): kume (default): the founder’s real building with vacant buildings; bos: topic city, everyone vacant; ornek: demo street full of sample profiles.
- `query` (string, required)
- `radius` (integer): Street chunks to scan on both sides (1 chunk = 80 m). Default 4.
- `seed` (string): Street seed. Default: gece-sehri.

### `popular` (~54 tokens)

Most visited

The leaderboard: buildings by unique visits this week (or period: "all"), the most viewed projects and the newest residents. A visit counts once per person per day; owners do not count themselves.

Input parameters:

- `period` (string)

### `get_stats` (~39 tokens)

Visits of a building

Unique visits (all time and this week), project views, weekly rank and the last 14 days for one username.

Input parameters:

- `handle` (string, required)

### `list_rooms` (~88 tokens)

Rooms of a person

The project rooms of a person that have been used (every public project of a resident has a room, open by default; one nobody wrote in is empty and not listed): mode (open or read-only), channels with message counts, forum threads, last activity and how many are in voice. Closed rooms and private projects never appear.

Input parameters:

- `handle` (string, required): Username, with or without @.

### `read_room` (~100 tokens)

Read a room

The latest messages of one channel of a project room (default: its first channel) and the forum threads (idea, review, question, announcement) with reply and reaction counts.

Input parameters:

- `channel` (string): Channel name or id. Default: the first channel.
- `handle` (string, required)
- `limit` (integer): How many recent messages. Default 30.
- `project` (string, required): Project id (the repository name for GitHub projects).

### `read_thread` (~50 tokens)

Read a forum thread

One forum thread of a project room with all of its replies and reactions.

Input parameters:

- `handle` (string, required)
- `project` (string, required)
- `thread` (integer, required): Thread id (from read_room).

### `live` (~63 tokens)

What is happening now

Voice rooms with people in them right now and the rooms with messages in the last 48 hours. Voice presence comes from the running site (BYTELAND_URL, default http://127.0.0.1:8787); without it only the recent rooms are known.

### `preview_building` (~101 tokens)

Deed preview

Builds a user's building as if it stood at the start of a street (GitHub repositories become rooms). The preview is not added to the city. Append the returned url_hash to index.html to open it on the site.

Input parameters:

- `github` (boolean): Look up GitHub’s public data. Default: true.
- `handle` (string, required)
- `lang` (string): Language of text fields (recipe, badges, topic names). Default: en.

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 65
- 2026-11-04: 64
- 2026-11-03: 64
- 2026-11-02: 63
- 2026-11-01: 63

## Common questions

### What is the Byteland MCP server?

Byteland is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as dev.byteland/byteland. A night city of developers: search people and projects, read project rooms, see who is live. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://byteland.dev/mcp).

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

Byteland scores 65 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 Byteland MCP server expose?

Byteland exposes 14 tools: about, get_street, get_building, get_profile, list_projects, and 9 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 1,414 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Byteland MCP server require authentication?

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

### Is the Byteland MCP server still maintained?

Byteland 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://byteland.dev/mcp
- Website: https://byteland.dev/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/dev-byteland-byteland/byteland.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/dev-byteland-byteland/byteland.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/dev-byteland-byteland/byteland