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Occam

REMOTE · OCCAM.FIT · SCANNED SEP 20

Finds the simplest equation consistent with your data. SINDy and PySR symbolic regression via MCP.

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0 this week 87 Trust /100
Trust breakdown (7 categories)

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
Transport & Reachability100
Schema Quality & AI Usability73
  • 100% of prompts and resources have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the item's name).Pass
  • AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).Pass
  • Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 3860 tokens (~482/item across 8 items; 4 tools + 4 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params. See how to fix → Fail
  • Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management100
  • No destabilizing schema changes in the last 30 days.Pass
Tool Coverage100
  • 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
  • 100% of tool parameters carry a description.Pass
  • Structured output schemas are declared (100% of tools); any adoption earns full credit.Pass
Tool Safety100
  • No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
  • We read all 4 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
  • An AI judge read all 6 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
Install

How do I install the Occam MCP server?

Occam is a hosted endpoint at https://occam.fit/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 · occam.fit

# add to Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http fit-occam-occam 'https://occam.fit/mcp/'
// .cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fit-occam-occam": {
      "url": "https://occam.fit/mcp/"
    }
  }
}
// .vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "fit-occam-occam": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://occam.fit/mcp/"
    }
  }
}
# ~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.fit-occam-occam]
url = "https://occam.fit/mcp/"
// opencode.json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "fit-occam-occam": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://occam.fit/mcp/",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
# add to OpenClaw
openclaw mcp add fit-occam-occam --url 'https://occam.fit/mcp/' --transport streamable-http
# ~/.hermes/config.yaml
mcp_servers:
  fit-occam-occam:
    url: "https://occam.fit/mcp/"
// ~/.netclaw/config/netclaw.json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "fit-occam-occam": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://occam.fit/mcp/"
    }
  }
}
# add to Vellum
assistant mcp add fit-occam-occam -t streamable-http -u 'https://occam.fit/mcp/'
// mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fit-occam-occam": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://occam.fit/mcp/"
    }
  }
}

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

Changelog

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.

  • 26 Aug 26 +1
    • We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server See what changed → functional
  • 25 Aug 26 0
    • Stability: 0.97 → pass security
  • 24 Aug 26 +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.

  • 11 Aug 26 0
    • We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server See what changed → functional
  • 7 Aug 26 0
    • The server no longer declares the “experimental” capability functional
  • 31 Jul 26 0
    • We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server See what changed → functional
  • 30 Jul 26 0
    • We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server See what changed → functional
  • 27 Jul 26 0
    • We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server See what changed → functional
Diagnostics

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 20 Sept 2026 · Probed https://occam.fit/mcp/

TLS valid

Negotiated TLS 1.3 with TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 .

Subject Issuer Valid from Valid until Key Signature Serial
CN=occam.fit CN=YE2,O=Let's Encrypt,C=US 30 Jul 2026 28 Oct 2026 ECDSA 256 ECDSA-SHA384 69191f4c535931ec385d56c1c494e436e59
SANs: occam.fit
CN=YE2,O=Let's Encrypt,C=US (CA) CN=Root YE,O=ISRG,C=US 3 Sept 2025 2 Sept 2028 ECDSA 384 ECDSA-SHA384 4df3b15dd6c0784c507cd37b58e6f115
CN=Root YE,O=ISRG,C=US (CA) CN=ISRG Root X2,O=Internet Security Research Group,C=US 13 May 2026 2 Sept 2032 ECDSA 384 ECDSA-SHA384 872165fc34b6e5fba8add5b3705fb53a
CN=ISRG Root X2,O=Internet Security Research Group,C=US (CA) CN=ISRG Root X1,O=Internet Security Research Group,C=US 13 May 2026 2 Sept 2032 ECDSA 384 SHA256-RSA 6c8f1dc727c7117f7baf853ac980f9cd

Background: What to check on a remote MCP endpoint →

DNSSEC insecure

Validation of occam.fit. Not signed

Zone DS Keys Algorithms Outcome
. trust_anchor 20326, 38696 8, 8 Verified
fit. present 61939 8 Verified
occam.fit. 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; includeSubDomains
content-security-policy default-src 'none'; style-src 'unsafe-inline'; script-src 'self'; connect-src 'self'; img-src 'self'
x-content-type-options nosniff
x-frame-options DENY
referrer-policy no-referrer
permissions-policy camera=(), microphone=(), geolocation=()

Background: How OAuth 2.1 works in the 2026 MCP spec →

Transports 2 probes
Transport URL Outcome Status Location
streamable-http https://occam.fit/mcp/ Verified 200
http (plaintext) http://occam.fit/mcp/ HTTPS enforced 308 https://occam.fit/mcp/
MCP tools · 4 exposed · ~3,343 tokens

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 →

Tool Tokens
feature_request ~139

Request a feature that Occam doesn't support yet. Use this when you need a capability that Occam doesn't currently offer. Requests are logged and used to prioritize development. Rate limit: 5 requests/hour per IP, 50/hour global — stricter than the compute tools' 10/hour to prevent log flooding. Descriptions longer than 500 characters are truncated.

NameTypeReqDescription
descriptionstringyesA short description of the feature you need. Examples: 'LaTeX output for equations', 'support for ODE constraints', 'GPU-accelerated search', 'larger dataset limits'. Helps prioritize development.
NameTypeReqDescription
descriptionstringyes
messagestringyes
okbooleanyes

No examples provided.

pysr_run ~1,457

Evolutionary Symbolic Regression (PySR). Discovers algebraic equations y = f(x1, x2, ...) from feature/target data. Returns a Pareto front ranked by the complexity/accuracy tradeoff. Slower than SINDy (10-60s); searches often terminate early on convergence. For differential equations from time series, use sindy_run instead. Pricing: free tier up to 100 rows × 8 features, 60s timeout. Beyond that, $0.25 + $0.03 per 100 extra rows + $0.01 per extra feature squared, timeout up to 300s (5 min), via x402 (USDC on Base) or MPP/Stripe. MPP/Stripe adds a flat $0.35 per-transaction fee (Stripe processing), so the MPP challenge amount in a `payment_required` response is $0.35 higher than the x402 amount for the same base price; x402 gets the lower rate. Omit `payment` for free-tier requests; paid requests without a valid credential receive a `payment_required` result with pricing and accepted schemes. Full pricing: occam://pricing Advisory limits: jobs over 50,000 rows or 20 features are accepted but may not converge; response carries a top-level `warning`. Operators: fixed supported set only — custom operators (e.g. 'inv(x) = 1/x') are rejected. Unary: sin, cos, tan, exp, log, log2, log10, sqrt, abs, sinh, cosh, tanh. Binary: +, -, *, /, ^. See also prompt `supported_operators`. Loss metric: `loss` (in `pareto_front[].loss` and `best_loss`) is mean squared error between model prediction and `y` on the full training set — not RMSE, and not normalized by Var(y). A threshold appropriate for one dataset scales with y's magnitude, so set `loss_threshold` with that in mind (e.g. for y values near 1.0, 1e-6 is a tight fit; for y near 1000, the equivalent is 1.0). Early termination: set `loss_threshold` to stop at your noise floor. The server also stops when the search stalls (<1% improvement in the last third of the budget); disable with `stall_detection=fa…

NameTypeReqDescription
Xarrayyes2D array of input features. Each row is an observation, each column is a feature. Free tier: 100 rows, 8 features. Paid tier: up to 50,000 rows, 20 features.
binary_operatorsAllowed binary operators, drawn from the fixed supported set: +, -, *, /, ^. Custom operators are NOT supported. Default: +, -, *, /. Pass [] for none.
feature_namesNames for each variable/feature column. Defaults to x0, x1, ...
loss_thresholdOptional early-stop threshold on the best loss found. If set, the search terminates as soon as any Pareto-front member reaches a loss at or below this value, even if the timeout has not been reached.…
max_complexityintegerMaximum expression tree size. Higher allows more complex expressions. Default 20, max 25.
paymentPayment credential. Accepts either a JSON object or a JSON-encoded string (FastMCP's transport pre-parses strings whose field annotation is non-bare-`str` into objects, so the object form is canonica…
populationsintegerNumber of evolutionary populations for the search. Default 15, max 20.
stall_detectionbooleanWhen true (default), the server stops the search early if the best loss has not improved by more than 1% during the last third of the time budget. This reclaims compute once the search has converged.…
timeout_secondsintegerWall clock time limit in seconds. Free tier: max 60. Paid tier: max 300 (5 minutes). Default 60.
unary_operatorsAllowed unary operators, drawn from the fixed supported set: sin, cos, tan, exp, log, log2, log10, sqrt, abs, sinh, cosh, tanh. Custom operators (e.g. 'inv(x) = 1/x') are NOT supported — only the nam…
yarrayyesTarget values, one per row of X.
NameTypeReqDescription
best_complexity
best_expression
best_expression_latex
best_loss
elapsed_seconds
pareto_front
queue_seconds
stop_reason
warning

No examples provided.

pysr_uncertainty ~858

Bootstrap confidence intervals for the numeric constants of a frozen expression, plus optional prediction bands on an x-grid. Typical flow: call pysr_run, pick an expression from the response (best_expression or a pareto_front entry), pass it back here with the same dataset to get CIs on its fit constants. Returns frequentist bootstrap confidence intervals, not Bayesian credible intervals — posterior inference over expression structures is an open research problem. This tool freezes the expression chosen by the caller and bootstraps only its numeric constants; uncertainty about *which* expression is correct is not quantified. Bootstrap semantics: - If y_sigma is supplied, uses parametric bootstrap (y_b = y + Normal(0, y_sigma)). CI reflects user-stated measurement noise. - Otherwise uses residual bootstrap: fit once, resample residuals. CI reflects estimated-from-residuals noise. Only Float constants in the expression become free parameters. Integers stay structural (the 2 in x**2 is a function-class choice, not a fit constant). Expressions with no Float constants (e.g. "x + y") will be rejected with a validation error. Expression grammar: the `expression` string is parsed by sympy. Accepted operators are the same set pysr_run emits: unary `sin`, `cos`, `tan`, `exp`, `log`, `log2`, `log10`, `sqrt`, `abs`, `sinh`, `cosh`, `tanh`; binary `+`, `-`, `*`, `/`, `^` (or `**`). Whitespace and parenthesization are free. Every free symbol in the expression must correspond to an entry in `feature_names` — an unrecognised symbol is silently treated as a fresh sympy Symbol and the fit will fail downstream rather than reject early. Parse failures (syntax errors, malformed operators) surface as tool errors. If `feature_names` is supplied, its length must equal the number of columns in `X`; a mismatch is rejected with a validation error.…

NameTypeReqDescription
Xarrayyes2D array of input features. Each row is an observation, each column is a feature. Free tier: 100 rows, 8 features. Paid tier: up to 50,000 rows, 20 features.
alphanumberSignificance level. 0.05 → 95%% CI. Default 0.05.
expressionstringyesThe expression to bootstrap, as returned by pysr_run (`best_expression` or a `pareto_front[i].expression`). Only numeric Float constants are treated as free parameters — integers in the expression (e…
feature_namesNames for each variable/feature column. Defaults to x0, x1, ...
n_resamplesintegerNumber of bootstrap resamples. Higher = tighter CIs, more compute. Default 100.
x_gridOptional 2D grid of feature values at which to report a prediction band. Must have the same number of columns as X. Omit to skip prediction-band computation.
yarrayyesTarget values, one per row of X.
y_sigmaOptional per-point measurement standard deviations, or a single scalar applied to all points. When supplied, the helper uses parametric bootstrap (y_b = y + Normal(0, y_sigma)); otherwise it uses res…
NameTypeReqDescription
alphanumberyes
bootstrap_methodstringyes
coefficientsarrayyes
n_requested_resamplesintegeryes
n_successful_resamplesintegeryes
notestringyes
prediction_ci

No examples provided.

sindy_run ~889

Sparse Identification of Nonlinear Dynamics (SINDy). Recovers governing differential equations (dx/dt = f(x)) from time series data. Returns human-readable sparse expressions. Fast (seconds). For algebraic y = f(x) relationships without time structure, use pysr_run instead. Pricing: free tier up to 100 rows and 8 variables. Beyond that, $0.05 + $0.01 per 100 extra rows + $0.01 per extra variable squared, via x402 (USDC on Base) or MPP/Stripe. MPP/Stripe adds a flat $0.35 per-transaction fee (Stripe processing), so the MPP challenge amount in a `payment_required` response is $0.35 higher than the x402 amount for the same base price; x402 gets the lower rate. Omit `payment` for free-tier requests; paid requests without a valid credential receive a `payment_required` result with pricing and accepted schemes. Full pricing table as structured JSON: occam://pricing Advisory limits: jobs over 500,000 rows or 50 variables are accepted but may not converge within the time budget; the response carries a top-level `warning` the agent should surface and treat as tentative. If `feature_names` is supplied, its length must equal the number of data columns; a mismatch is rejected with a validation error. Rate limit: 10 requests/hour per IP, 200/hour global, max queue depth 20 (shared with pysr_run and pysr_uncertainty). Response (success) includes `equations[]` (each with `variable`, `equation`, `expression`, `expression_latex`, `r2`), `library_terms`, `nonzero_terms`, `elapsed_seconds`, `canonical_match` (dict with `system`, `form`, `variable_map`, `parameter_map`, `confidence` if the discovered system matches one of Lorenz / Lotka-Volterra / Van der Pol / Duffing; `null` otherwise), optional `warning`, optional `_meta` (MPP receipt on paid calls). Full response and payment-required schemas: occam://tool-schemas Example request: data=[[1.0, 0.0], [0.95,…

NameTypeReqDescription
dataarrayyes2D array of time series data. Each row is a timestep, each column is a state variable. Free tier: 100 rows, 8 variables. Paid tier: up to 500,000 rows, 50 variables.
feature_namesNames for each variable/feature column. Defaults to x0, x1, ...
max_iterintegerMaximum STLSQ optimizer iterations. Default 20.
paymentPayment credential. Accepts either a JSON object or a JSON-encoded string (FastMCP's transport pre-parses strings whose field annotation is non-bare-`str` into objects, so the object form is canonica…
poly_degreeintegerPolynomial library degree for SINDy candidate functions. Default 2.
tarrayyesTimestamps corresponding to each row of data. Length must match row count.
thresholdnumberSTLSQ sparsity threshold. Higher values produce sparser equations. Default 0.1.
NameTypeReqDescription
canonical_match
elapsed_seconds
equations
library_terms
nonzero_terms
warning

No examples provided.

Common questions

What is the Occam MCP server?

Occam is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as fit.occam/occam. Finds the simplest equation consistent with your data. SINDy and PySR symbolic regression via MCP. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://occam.fit/mcp/).

Is the Occam MCP server safe to use?

Occam scores 87 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 Occam MCP server expose?

Occam exposes 4 tools: feature_request, sindy_run, pysr_run, pysr_uncertainty. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 3,343 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

Does the Occam MCP server require authentication?

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

Is the Occam MCP server still maintained?

Occam is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 20 September 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.