# Inside the Loop (remote · insidetheloop.dev)

Verified latest versions, changes and exact-error fixes for agent dev tools. Read-only.

- Trust score: 67/100 (medium)
- Change this week: 0
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-10-18

## Components

- remote · `insidetheloop.dev`: 67/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/dev-insidetheloop-blog/insidetheloop.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/dev-insidetheloop-blog/insidetheloop)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://insidetheloop.dev/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `2.0.0`

## 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**: 66/100
  - 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 enforcement could not be verified: the plaintext port answered with HTTP 405, which proves neither a plaintext path nor enforcement.
  - HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent.
  - 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**: 75/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 481 tokens (~120/item across 4 items; 4 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 0/100
  - Stability check failed: schema churn in the 11 days we've observed: 3 tool removals, 0 breaking changes, 0 auth/transport breaks, 0 additions.
- **Tool Coverage**: 93/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 80% 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 4 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 5 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 Inside the Loop MCP server?

Inside the Loop is a hosted endpoint at https://insidetheloop.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-insidetheloop-blog 'https://insidetheloop.dev/mcp'
```

### Cursor

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

### VS Code

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

### Codex

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

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

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

### Hermes

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

### Netclaw

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

### Vellum

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

### Other

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

### 2026-10-11 (score 67, 0)

- [security regression] Stability: 0.07 → fail
- [security regression] Tool “get_post” was removed
- [security regression] Tool “list_recent_posts” was removed
- [security regression] Tool “search_posts” was removed
- [security improvement] Judged manipulation: unverified → pass
- [security] The server rewrote its instructions, which are the text every model session reads
- [functional regression] Schema quality: 88 → 120
- [functional improvement] Tool coverage: 67% → 80%
- [functional] Schema quality: excellent → good
- [functional] Server version: 1.2.0 → 2.0.0

### 2026-10-09 (score 67)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (4)

### `list_tools` (~42 tokens)

List tool pages

List the CLIs with living tool pages (ASC CLI, Codex CLI, Wrangler, ...): latest version, UTC release date, last verified date and page URLs.

### `get_tool` (~104 tokens)

Get a tool page

Return one tool page as Markdown: latest version and release date, upgrade command, last five releases, commands and flags added or removed (our sandbox --help diff), breaking changes, reproduced errors with fixes, monthly history and sources. Accepts the tool id or a common name (asc, app-store-connect-cli, codex, codex-cli, wrangler).

Input parameters:

- `tool` (string, required): Tool id or common name, e.g. asc, codex, wrangler

### `search_fixes` (~128 tokens)

Search fix pages by error text

Find the fix page for a CLI error message. Paste the exact error line, a fragment of it, or the whole terminal output (for example "unexpected argument '--full-auto' found"). Returns matching fix pages with the exact error, tool, affected versions, the fix in one line and page URLs. With an empty query, lists every fix page.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer)
- `query` (string, required): Error text or a fragment of it
- `tool` (string): Optional tool id or name to restrict the search, e.g. asc, codex, wrangler

### `get_fix` (~98 tokens)

Get a fix page

Return one fix page as Markdown: the exact error output, tool and affected versions, cause, fix commands, our sandbox reproduction (commands and output), why it happens with a source link, related fixes and sources. Accepts the slug from search_fixes (e.g. codex-exec-full-auto-removed) or a guessed variant.

Input parameters:

- `slug` (string, required): Fix slug, e.g. codex-exec-full-auto-removed

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-10-18: 67
- 2026-10-17: 67
- 2026-10-16: 67
- 2026-10-15: 67
- 2026-10-14: 67
- 2026-10-13: 67
- 2026-10-12: 67
- 2026-10-11: 67
- 2026-10-09: 67

## Common questions

### What is the Inside the Loop MCP server?

Inside the Loop is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as dev.insidetheloop/blog. Verified latest versions, changes and exact-error fixes for agent dev tools. Read-only. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://insidetheloop.dev/mcp).

### Is the Inside the Loop MCP server safe to use?

Inside the Loop scores 67 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 Inside the Loop MCP server expose?

Inside the Loop exposes 4 tools: list_tools, get_tool, search_fixes, get_fix. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 372 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Inside the Loop MCP server require authentication?

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

### Is the Inside the Loop MCP server still maintained?

Inside the Loop 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://insidetheloop.dev/mcp
- Website: https://insidetheloop.dev/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/dev-insidetheloop-blog/insidetheloop.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/dev-insidetheloop-blog/insidetheloop.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/dev-insidetheloop-blog/insidetheloop