# gricker.eu: European alternatives (remote · gricker.eu)

European and open-source alternatives to mainstream software, judged by the current owner's HQ.

- Trust score: 73/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `gricker.eu`: 73/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/eu-gricker-european-alternatives/gricker.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/eu-gricker-european-alternatives/gricker)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://gricker.eu/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 2026-11-05.

- **Endpoint Security**: 80/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - No authorisation is required to call this server. Nothing on it is marked destructive, but we can't show that an anonymous caller can only read: full credit needs the server to list at least one tool and every tool to be verifiably read-only. We use a best-effort check of tool names and descriptions to tell read-only tools from tools that change things, so some genuinely read-only tools may not get full credit. Names that start with a read verb (get, list, read, search and similar) and accurate readOnlyHint annotations help. Meet that to earn full credit, or require authorisation.
  - 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**: 69/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 736 tokens (~122/item across 6 items; 6 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 7/100
  - Stability observed for 2 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).
  - 78% 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 6 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 7 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 gricker.eu: European alternatives MCP server?

gricker.eu: European alternatives is a hosted endpoint at https://gricker.eu/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 eu-gricker-european-alternatives 'https://gricker.eu/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "eu-gricker-european-alternatives": {
      "url": "https://gricker.eu/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "eu-gricker-european-alternatives": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://gricker.eu/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.eu-gricker-european-alternatives]
url = "https://gricker.eu/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "eu-gricker-european-alternatives": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://gricker.eu/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add eu-gricker-european-alternatives --url 'https://gricker.eu/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  eu-gricker-european-alternatives:
    url: "https://gricker.eu/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "eu-gricker-european-alternatives": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://gricker.eu/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add eu-gricker-european-alternatives -t streamable-http -u 'https://gricker.eu/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "eu-gricker-european-alternatives": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://gricker.eu/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 73, 0)

- [security] The server rewrote its instructions, which are the text every model session reads
- [functional regression] Schema quality: pass → fail

### 2026-11-04 (score 73, +1)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-11-03 (score 72)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (6)

### `find_alternatives` (~128 tokens)

Find European alternatives

Given a mainstream tool a business wants to move away from (e.g. "Notion", "Google Analytics", "AWS"), return European and/or open-source alternatives from the gricker.eu catalog.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string): Restrict to one category (see list_categories).
- `country` (string): ISO-3166 alpha-2, e.g. "DE".
- `limit` (number): 1-25, default 5.
- `open_source_only` (boolean)
- `to` (string, required): The incumbent tool being replaced, e.g. "Slack".

### `search_tools` (~93 tokens)

Search the catalog

Search European/open-source tools by keyword or by meaning. Use when the user describes a need rather than naming a tool to replace.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string)
- `country` (string): ISO-3166 alpha-2.
- `limit` (number): 1-25, default 5.
- `open_source_only` (boolean)
- `query` (string, required): Keywords or a description of the need.

### `get_tool` (~52 tokens)

Get one tool

Full record for one catalog tool by name: description, country, sources, what it replaces.

Input parameters:

- `name` (string, required): Tool name or slug, e.g. "Proton Mail" or "proton-mail".

### `list_categories` (~21 tokens)

List categories

The fixed category taxonomy with a count of published tools in each.

### `check_coverage` (~80 tokens)

Check many tools at once

Given a list of tools someone uses, report which have European alternatives in the catalog. Much cheaper than calling find_alternatives repeatedly.

Input parameters:

- `open_source_only` (boolean)
- `per_tool` (number): Alternatives to name per tool, 1-5, default 3.
- `tools` (array, required): Tool names, max 50.

### `suggest_tool` (~97 tokens)

Suggest a European tool

Submit a European or open-source tool missing from the catalog. It enters a human review queue — submission is not publication, and HQ evidence is required before anything is listed.

Input parameters:

- `country` (string): ISO-3166 alpha-2 of its HQ, if known.
- `name` (string, required): Tool name.
- `url` (string, required): Homepage URL.
- `why` (string): Why it qualifies — European HQ, what it replaces.

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 73
- 2026-11-04: 73
- 2026-11-03: 72

## Common questions

### What is the gricker.eu: European alternatives MCP server?

gricker.eu: European alternatives is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as eu.gricker/european-alternatives. European and open-source alternatives to mainstream software, judged by the current owner's HQ. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://gricker.eu/mcp).

### Is the gricker.eu: European alternatives MCP server safe to use?

gricker.eu: European alternatives 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 gricker.eu: European alternatives MCP server expose?

gricker.eu: European alternatives exposes 6 tools: find_alternatives, search_tools, get_tool, list_categories, check_coverage, suggest_tool. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 471 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the gricker.eu: European alternatives MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to gricker.eu: European alternatives without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the gricker.eu: European alternatives MCP server still maintained?

gricker.eu: European alternatives 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.

### What did VerifyMCP test on the gricker.eu: European alternatives MCP server?

VerifyMCP ran 13 checks on gricker.eu: European alternatives, covering TLS certificate, Authorization, HTTPS, HSTS header and 9 more. Supply Chain Security and Provenance & Transparency do not apply to a hosted endpoint, so they were not tested. The score does not measure everything, and the scoring documentation lists what it leaves out.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://gricker.eu/mcp
- Website: https://gricker.eu/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/eu-gricker-european-alternatives/gricker.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/eu-gricker-european-alternatives/gricker/changelog.json
- Trust report (JSON): https://verifymcp.io/servers/eu-gricker-european-alternatives/gricker.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/eu-gricker-european-alternatives/gricker