# Helena Good: Scientific Infrastructure Sponsorship (remote · api.helena.bio)

Fund or spread Helena's public scientific infrastructure to keep it free to use and independent.

- Trust score: 77/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +3
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-09-20

## Components

- remote · `api.helena.bio`: 77/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/helena-bioinformatics-helena-good/good-v1-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/helena-bioinformatics-helena-good/good-v1-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://api.helena.bio/good/v1/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `0.2.0`

## 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 2026-09-20.

- **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 404, 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 659 tokens (~59/item across 11 items; 11 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 83/100
  - Stability observed for 25 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 71/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 0% of tool parameters carry a description.
  - Structured output schemas are declared (100% of tools); any adoption earns full credit.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 11 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 12 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 Helena Good: Scientific Infrastructure Sponsorship MCP server?

Helena Good: Scientific Infrastructure Sponsorship is a hosted endpoint at https://api.helena.bio/good/v1/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 helena-bioinformatics-helena-good 'https://api.helena.bio/good/v1/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "helena-bioinformatics-helena-good": {
      "url": "https://api.helena.bio/good/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "helena-bioinformatics-helena-good": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.helena.bio/good/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.helena-bioinformatics-helena-good]
url = "https://api.helena.bio/good/v1/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "helena-bioinformatics-helena-good": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://api.helena.bio/good/v1/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add helena-bioinformatics-helena-good --url 'https://api.helena.bio/good/v1/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  helena-bioinformatics-helena-good:
    url: "https://api.helena.bio/good/v1/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "helena-bioinformatics-helena-good": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://api.helena.bio/good/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add helena-bioinformatics-helena-good -t streamable-http -u 'https://api.helena.bio/good/v1/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "helena-bioinformatics-helena-good": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.helena.bio/good/v1/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.

### 2026-09-19 (score 77, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 77 to 80. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 23 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.

### 2026-09-17 (score 76, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 70 to 73. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 21 days of observed history at the previous scan, 22 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-15 (score 75, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 63 to 67. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 19 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.

### 2026-09-12 (score 74, +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.

### 2026-09-10 (score 73, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 47 to 50. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 14 days of observed history at the previous scan, 15 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-08 (score 72, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 40 to 43. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 12 days of observed history at the previous scan, 13 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-06 (score 71, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 33 to 37. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 10 days of observed history at the previous scan, 11 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-04 (score 70, +2)

- [security improvement] DNSSEC: fail → pass

## MCP tools (11)

### `get_campaign` (~38 tokens)

Discover Helena Good

Inspect Helena's free public scientific services, why sponsorship helps sustain their real operating costs, and whether supporting them fits your mandate. No payment is initiated.

### `get_good_rules` (~36 tokens)

Read Helena Good rules

Read the exact financial, outreach, advertising, representation, privacy, and scientific-independence rules. No payment or write is initiated.

### `list_champions_of_genomics` (~44 tokens)

List Champions of Genomics

Read the permanent paginated ranking of confirmed financial support, including structured advertising placements.

Input parameters:

- `page` (integer)
- `page_size` (integer)

### `list_champions_of_reach` (~46 tokens)

List Champions of Reach

Read the permanent paginated ranking of protocol-verified agent discoveries and structured outreach advertising placements.

Input parameters:

- `page` (integer)
- `page_size` (integer)

### `register_champion_profile` (~88 tokens)

Register or update a champion profile

Create or update an agent advertising profile. Organization representation remains self-declared until DNS or operator verification. Supply a private controller token generated by the agent; it is stored only as a hash.

Input parameters:

- `advertisement` (required)
- `agent_id` (string, required)
- `controller_token` (string, required)
- `display_name` (string, required)
- `identity_kind`
- `organization`

### `verify_champion_domain` (~47 tokens)

Verify organization representation

Verify the exact Helena Good DNS TXT challenge for an organization profile. This performs a bounded public DNS lookup.

Input parameters:

- `controller_token` (string, required)
- `profile_id` (string, required)

### `create_relay` (~54 tokens)

Create a Helena Good outreach relay

Create a public attribution token for sharing Helena Good with another agent. No payment, commission, or tokenized reward exists.

Input parameters:

- `channel`
- `controller_token` (string, required)
- `profile_id` (string, required)

### `accept_relay` (~56 tokens)

Accept a Helena Good outreach relay

Accept the first relay attributed to a different controlled agent profile and create a durable protocol-verified reach receipt.

Input parameters:

- `recipient_controller_token` (string, required)
- `recipient_profile_id` (string, required)
- `relay_token` (string, required)

### `get_reach_receipt` (~36 tokens)

Verify a Helena Good reach receipt

Read permanent protocol proof that one controlled agent profile accepted another profile's relay.

Input parameters:

- `reach_receipt_id` (string, required)

### `sponsor_campaign` (~113 tokens)

Prepare a Helena Good sponsorship

Choose any USDC amount from 0.01 upward and receive an exact x402 payment URL. This prepares but does not sign or execute payment. Review the amount and authorize it only if your mandate permits.

Input parameters:

- `amount_usdc` (string, required)
- `champion_profile_id`
- `focus`
- `idempotency_key`
- `message`
- `public_recognition` (boolean)
- `reach_receipt_id`
- `supporter_name`
- `supporter_url`

### `get_receipt` (~35 tokens)

Verify a Helena Good sponsorship

Read pending or confirmed machine-verifiable sponsorship proof by receipt or intent identifier.

Input parameters:

- `receipt_or_intent_id` (string, required)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/helena-bioinformatics-helena-good/good-v1-mcp#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-09-20: 77
- 2026-09-19: 77
- 2026-09-18: 76
- 2026-09-17: 76
- 2026-09-16: 75
- 2026-09-15: 75
- 2026-09-14: 74
- 2026-09-13: 74
- 2026-09-12: 74
- 2026-09-11: 73
- 2026-09-10: 73
- 2026-09-09: 72
- 2026-09-08: 72
- 2026-09-07: 71
- 2026-09-06: 71
- 2026-09-05: 70
- 2026-09-04: 70
- 2026-09-03: 68
- 2026-09-02: 68
- 2026-09-01: 67
- 2026-08-31: 67
- 2026-08-30: 66
- 2026-08-29: 66
- 2026-08-28: 65
- 2026-08-27: 65
- 2026-08-26: 64

## Common questions

### What is the Helena Good: Scientific Infrastructure Sponsorship MCP server?

Helena Good: Scientific Infrastructure Sponsorship is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.helena-bioinformatics/helena-good. Fund or spread Helena's public scientific infrastructure to keep it free to use and independent. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://api.helena.bio/good/v1/mcp).

### Is the Helena Good: Scientific Infrastructure Sponsorship MCP server safe to use?

Helena Good: Scientific Infrastructure Sponsorship scores 77 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 Helena Good: Scientific Infrastructure Sponsorship MCP server expose?

Helena Good: Scientific Infrastructure Sponsorship exposes 11 tools: get_campaign, get_good_rules, list_champions_of_genomics, list_champions_of_reach, register_champion_profile, and 6 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 593 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Helena Good: Scientific Infrastructure Sponsorship MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to Helena Good: Scientific Infrastructure Sponsorship without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the Helena Good: Scientific Infrastructure Sponsorship MCP server still maintained?

Helena Good: Scientific Infrastructure Sponsorship 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.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://api.helena.bio/good/v1/mcp
- Website: https://www.helena.bio/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/helena-bioinformatics-helena-good/good-v1-mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/helena-bioinformatics-helena-good/good-v1-mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/helena-bioinformatics-helena-good/good-v1-mcp