# Art Spotter - Eye of the Beholder (remote · goodturn-mcp.pages.dev)

Original art and prints from independent artists, fair prices, and help for artists to sell.

- Trust score: 80/100 (high trust)
- Change this week: +3
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-10-23

## Components

- remote · `goodturn-mcp.pages.dev`: 80/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/goodturnstudio-artspotter/artspotter-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/goodturnstudio-artspotter/artspotter-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/artspotter/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**: 74/100
  - 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 is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent.
  - 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**: 74/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 1609 tokens (~134/item across 12 items; 12 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 63/100
  - Stability observed for 19 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **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 12 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 13 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 Art Spotter - Eye of the Beholder MCP server?

Art Spotter - Eye of the Beholder is a hosted endpoint at https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/artspotter/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 goodturnstudio-artspotter 'https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/artspotter/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "goodturnstudio-artspotter": {
      "url": "https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/artspotter/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "goodturnstudio-artspotter": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/artspotter/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.goodturnstudio-artspotter]
url = "https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/artspotter/mcp"
```

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add goodturnstudio-artspotter --url 'https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/artspotter/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  goodturnstudio-artspotter:
    url: "https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/artspotter/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "goodturnstudio-artspotter": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/artspotter/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add goodturnstudio-artspotter -t streamable-http -u 'https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/artspotter/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "goodturnstudio-artspotter": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/artspotter/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.

### 2026-10-23 (score 80, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 60 to 63. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 18 days of observed history at the previous scan, 19 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-21 (score 79, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 53 to 57. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 16 days of observed history at the previous scan, 17 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-18 (score 78, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 43 to 47. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 13 days of observed history at the previous scan, 14 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-16 (score 77, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 37 to 40. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 11 days of observed history at the previous scan, 12 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-14 (score 76, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 30 to 33. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 9 days of observed history at the previous scan, 10 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-12 (score 75, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 20 to 27. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 6 days of observed history at the previous scan, 8 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-10 (score 74, +2)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 10 to 20. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 3 days of observed history at the previous scan, 6 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-06 (score 72, +1)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.07

## MCP tools (12)

### `search_art` (~327 tokens)

Find art for sale from independent artists

Find art for sale from independent artists. Searches works in independent artists' own shops and eBay art by words (subject, style, place, artist), kind, original or print, price, size and colour. Results show title, artist, size, price, where it ships from, an image and a link to buy straight from the artist.

Input parameters:

- `colour` (string): A main colour, for example blue or ochre.
- `country` (string): Buyer's two-letter country code, for eBay and currency, for example US or GB.
- `currency` (string): Currency for prices, for example USD, GBP or EUR.
- `kind` (string): Kind: painting, print, printmaking, photography, drawing, watercolour, ceramics, sculpture, textile, illustration or other.
- `limit` (integer): How many results, 1 to 20.
- `max_price` (number): Highest price, in the currency given (or the buyer's local currency).
- `max_size` (number): Largest longest side, in unit.
- `min_price` (number): Lowest price.
- `min_size` (number): Smallest longest side, in unit.
- `original` (boolean): Set to true for one-off originals only, false for prints only.
- `q` (string): What to look for, for example abstract blue, linocut bird, Scottish landscape or a dog portrait.
- `ships_from` (string): Only artists based in this two-letter country.
- `unit` (string): Unit: in or cm. Defaults to in.

### `get_fair_art_price` (~148 tokens)

Fair price for a new artwork by size and medium

Fair price for a new artwork by size and medium. What original work or prints of about this size and kind sell for in independent artists' own shops: the typical price, the middle half of prices and the price per square inch, from comparable works for sale.

Input parameters:

- `currency` (string): Currency for the answer, for example USD or GBP.
- `height` (number, required): Height, in unit.
- `kind` (string): Kind of work. Defaults to painting.
- `original` (boolean): Set to true for originals (the default), false for prints.
- `unit` (string): Unit: in or cm.
- `width` (number, required): Width, in unit.

### `compare_where_to_sell` (~129 tokens)

What an artist keeps on each selling platform

What an artist keeps on each selling platform. For a sale price, what the artist keeps after fees on Etsy, eBay, Saatchi Art, Artfinder, Singulart, their own Shopify shop and direct card payments, sorted by money kept, with print-on-demand options for prints. US and UK fee tables.

Input parameters:

- `currency` (string): USD or GBP.
- `kind` (string): Kind: original (the default) or print.
- `price` (number, required): The price the buyer pays.
- `shipping` (number): Shipping charged to the buyer, if any.

### `price_commission` (~126 tokens)

Price and terms for commissioning a piece

Price and terms for commissioning a piece. A price guide for a commissioned piece by size and the artist's level, what similar finished originals sell for, the usual deposit, revision rounds, cancellation fees, copyright and a contract checklist for buyer and artist.

Input parameters:

- `height` (number, required): Height, in unit.
- `level` (string): Level: emerging (the default), mid or established.
- `medium` (string): Kind of work, for example painting or drawing.
- `unit` (string): Unit: in or cm.
- `width` (number, required): Width, in unit.

### `size_art_for_wall` (~105 tokens)

What size art fits a wall and how high to hang it

What size art fits a wall and how high to hang it. Art width for the furniture or wall, the hanging height, the gap above furniture and gallery wall spacing, with a ready search for works in that size range.

Input parameters:

- `furniture_width` (number): Width of the sofa, bed or sideboard below the art.
- `unit` (string): Unit: in or cm.
- `wall_width` (number): Width of the wall, if there's no furniture below.

### `list_open_calls` (~99 tokens)

Open calls, prizes and residencies for artists

Open calls, prizes and residencies for artists. Recurring open exhibitions, prizes, residencies and listing sites in the UK, US and Canada, with entry fees, usual closing month, media and official links.

Input parameters:

- `country` (string): UK, US or CA.
- `kind` (string): Kind: open call, prize, residency or listing hub.
- `media` (string): For example painting, watercolour, print or photography.

### `get_artist_funding` (~74 tokens)

Grants, buyer finance, royalties and copyright for artists

Grants, buyer finance, royalties and copyright for artists. For the UK: arts council grants, Own Art 0% buyer finance and the Artist's Resale Right. For the US: grants and the $85 group copyright registration for 2 to 20 artworks.

Input parameters:

- `country` (string): GB or US.

### `calculate_resale_royalty` (~64 tokens)

UK Artist's Resale Right on a resale

UK Artist's Resale Right on a resale. The royalty owed to an artist on a UK resale through a gallery, dealer or auction house, by band, with the cap and who collects it.

Input parameters:

- `price` (number, required): Resale price in pounds.

### `check_art_listing` (~85 tokens)

Check an art listing before buying

Check an art listing before buying. Whether a link is an independent artist in the index or a marketplace with buyer protection, reverse image search links for the picture, and the checks that catch stolen images, AI work sold as hand-made and payment scams.

Input parameters:

- `image` (string): The address of the artwork's picture.
- `url` (string): The listing or shop address.

### `make_artwork_passport` (~157 tokens)

A free artwork passport for an artist's work

A free artwork passport for an artist's work. Makes a certificate for a work (title, artist, year, medium, size, edition) with a fingerprint of its picture, as printable text and schema.org data the artist can publish, so anyone can later check the picture is unchanged.

Input parameters:

- `artist` (string, required): Artist's name.
- `edition` (string): For example 3/25, for prints.
- `image` (string, required): The https address of the work's picture.
- `medium` (string): For example oil on canvas.
- `size` (string): For example 60 x 90 cm.
- `title` (string, required): Title of the work.
- `year` (string): Year made.

### `verify_artwork_passport` (~63 tokens)

Check a picture matches an artwork passport

Check a picture matches an artwork passport. Recomputes the picture's fingerprint and says whether it matches the one in the passport.

Input parameters:

- `image` (string, required): The https address of the picture.
- `sha256` (string, required): The fingerprint from the passport.

### `check_artworks_feed` (~64 tokens)

Check an artist's artworks.json

Check an artist's artworks.json. Reads an artist's artworks.json (the open format at artspotter.pages.dev/artworks that lets assistants find work sold direct) and lists anything to fix.

Input parameters:

- `url` (string, required): The https address of the artworks.json file.

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-10-23: 80
- 2026-10-22: 79
- 2026-10-21: 79
- 2026-10-20: 78
- 2026-10-19: 78
- 2026-10-18: 78
- 2026-10-17: 77
- 2026-10-16: 77
- 2026-10-15: 76
- 2026-10-14: 76
- 2026-10-13: 75
- 2026-10-12: 75
- 2026-10-10: 74
- 2026-10-07: 72
- 2026-10-06: 72
- 2026-10-04: 71

## Common questions

### What is the Art Spotter - Eye of the Beholder MCP server?

Art Spotter - Eye of the Beholder is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.GoodTurnStudio/artspotter. Original art and prints from independent artists, fair prices, and help for artists to sell. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/artspotter/mcp).

### Is the Art Spotter - Eye of the Beholder MCP server safe to use?

Art Spotter - Eye of the Beholder scores 80 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 Art Spotter - Eye of the Beholder MCP server expose?

Art Spotter - Eye of the Beholder exposes 12 tools: search_art, get_fair_art_price, compare_where_to_sell, price_commission, size_art_for_wall, and 7 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 1,441 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Art Spotter - Eye of the Beholder MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to Art Spotter - Eye of the Beholder without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the Art Spotter - Eye of the Beholder MCP server still maintained?

Art Spotter - Eye of the Beholder 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://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/artspotter/mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/GoodTurnStudio/goodturn-mcp
- Website: https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/artspotter
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/goodturnstudio-artspotter/artspotter-mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/goodturnstudio-artspotter/artspotter-mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/goodturnstudio-artspotter/artspotter-mcp