# SparkAds (remote · sparkads.dev)

Manage your SparkAds slot: your stats, the free-hour grid, network totals, and your own creative.

- Trust score: 81/100 (high trust)
- Change this week: +1
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-10-23

## Components

- remote · `sparkads.dev`: 81/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/dev-sparkads-sparkads/api-mcp-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/dev-sparkads-sparkads/api-mcp-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://sparkads.dev/api/mcp/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 2026-10-23.

- **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 5 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**: 78/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 816 tokens (~163/item across 5 items; 5 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - 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**: 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 5 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 6 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 SparkAds MCP server?

SparkAds is a hosted endpoint at https://sparkads.dev/api/mcp/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-sparkads-sparkads 'https://sparkads.dev/api/mcp/mcp'
```

### Cursor

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

### VS Code

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

### Codex

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

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

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

### Hermes

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

### Netclaw

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

### Vellum

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

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dev-sparkads-sparkads": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://sparkads.dev/api/mcp/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.

### 2026-10-18 (score 81, 0)

- [security] Stability: 0.97 → pass

### 2026-10-17 (score 81, +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.

### 2026-10-15 (score 80, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 87 to 90. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 26 days of observed history at the previous scan, 27 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-13 (score 79, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 80 to 83. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 24 days of observed history at the previous scan, 25 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-12 (score 78, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 73 to 80. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 22 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.

### 2026-10-08 (score 77, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 60 to 67. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 18 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.

### 2026-10-06 (score 76, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 53 to 60. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 16 days of observed history at the previous scan, 18 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-04 (score 75, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 50 to 53. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 15 days of observed history at the previous scan, 16 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

## MCP tools (5)

### `get_my_stats` (~69 tokens)

Get this advertiser's own ad performance for the last 30 days: impressions and clicks split by day, by app in the Spark network, and by traffic source, plus every creative they own with its review status. Read-only. Scoped to the API key holder; it cannot report on anyone else.

### `get_slot` (~75 tokens)

Get the hour this advertiser holds: the UTC hour, the same hour on their target country's clock, the country itself, and the card that runs in it with its review status. Also reports whether the ad is actually live right now, which needs all three of a held hour, an approved card and a paying subscription. Read-only.

### `list_free_slots` (~197 tokens)

List the UTC hours nobody has claimed yet, out of the 24 the network sells. Pass a country to also get each free hour on that country's clock and the best five ranked by local evening attention. Supported countries: GB, IE, PT, FR, DE, ES, IT, NL, BE, SE, NO, DK, PL, CH, AT, NG, FI, GR, RO, UA, EG, ZA, IL, SA, TR, RU, KE, AE, PK, IN, BD, TH, VN, ID, CN, SG, MY, PH, HK, TW, AU, JP, KR, NZ, BR, AR, US, CA, PE, CO, MX. Read-only; claiming an hour still happens on the website.

Input parameters:

- `country` (string): ISO-3166 alpha-2 country code, e.g. GB or US. Adds local times and peak suggestions.

### `get_network_pulse` (~72 tokens)

Get the whole network's last 24 hours: total impressions, total clicks, how many apps showed the carousel, and how many of the 24 hourly slots are taken. This is the public inventory figure, the same one the SparkAds landing page prints, not this advertiser's own numbers. Read-only.

### `update_creative` (~220 tokens)

Edit this advertiser's ad card. Pass only the fields to change; anything omitted keeps its current value. WRITE TOOL, and it costs something: saving resets the card's status to 'pending', so the ad STOPS running until a person approves it again. Say that to the user and get their agreement before calling this. Caps: name 40 characters, tagline 60, one-sentence body 160, url must be https, domain must be a bare hostname like myapp.com. House style: plain words, no exclamation marks, and the sentence says what the product does rather than why it is good.

Input parameters:

- `body` (string): One sentence saying what the product does.
- `domain` (string): Bare hostname, e.g. myapp.com. The card takes its logo and colour from here.
- `name` (string): The app name shown on the card.
- `tagline` (string): Four or five words, sits under the name.
- `url` (string): Where the card links to. Must be https.

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-10-23: 81
- 2026-10-22: 81
- 2026-10-21: 81
- 2026-10-20: 81
- 2026-10-19: 81
- 2026-10-18: 81
- 2026-10-17: 81
- 2026-10-16: 80
- 2026-10-15: 80
- 2026-10-14: 79
- 2026-10-13: 79
- 2026-10-12: 78
- 2026-10-10: 77
- 2026-10-08: 77
- 2026-10-06: 76
- 2026-10-04: 75
- 2026-10-03: 74
- 2026-10-02: 74
- 2026-10-01: 73
- 2026-09-30: 73
- 2026-09-29: 72
- 2026-09-28: 72
- 2026-09-27: 71
- 2026-09-26: 71
- 2026-09-25: 70
- 2026-09-24: 70
- 2026-09-23: 70
- 2026-09-22: 69
- 2026-09-21: 69
- 2026-09-20: 68

## Common questions

### What is the SparkAds MCP server?

SparkAds is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as dev.sparkads/sparkads. Manage your SparkAds slot: your stats, the free-hour grid, network totals, and your own creative. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://sparkads.dev/api/mcp/mcp).

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

SparkAds scores 81 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 SparkAds MCP server expose?

SparkAds exposes 5 tools: get_my_stats, get_slot, list_free_slots, get_network_pulse, update_creative. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 633 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the SparkAds MCP server require authentication?

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

### Is the SparkAds MCP server still maintained?

SparkAds is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 23 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://sparkads.dev/api/mcp/mcp
- Website: https://sparkads.dev/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/dev-sparkads-sparkads/api-mcp-mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/dev-sparkads-sparkads/api-mcp-mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/dev-sparkads-sparkads/api-mcp-mcp