# FDE Lessons API (remote · api.ignatiustheyoungerai.com)

Forward Deployed Engineering rules traced to real incidents. Agent pays per query, no account.

- Trust score: 61/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-09-21

## Components

- remote · `api.ignatiustheyoungerai.com`: 61/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/ignatiustheyoungerai-fde-lessons-warn-feed/api.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/ignatiustheyoungerai-fde-lessons-warn-feed/api)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://api.ignatiustheyoungerai.com/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `2.2.0`

## 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 2026-09-21.

- **Endpoint Security**: 51/100
  - 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 enforcement could not be verified: the plaintext port answered with HTTP 405, which proves neither a plaintext path nor enforcement.
  - 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**: 80/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 423 tokens (~84/item across 5 items; 5 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 0/100
  - Stability check failed: schema churn in the 5 days we've observed: 2 tool removals, 0 breaking changes, 0 auth/transport breaks, 0 additions.
- **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**: 60/100
  - Spec-recency check failed: implements MCP spec 2025-06-18; the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the FDE Lessons API MCP server?

FDE Lessons API is a hosted endpoint at https://api.ignatiustheyoungerai.com/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 ignatiustheyoungerai-fde-lessons-warn-feed 'https://api.ignatiustheyoungerai.com/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ignatiustheyoungerai-fde-lessons-warn-feed": {
      "url": "https://api.ignatiustheyoungerai.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "ignatiustheyoungerai-fde-lessons-warn-feed": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.ignatiustheyoungerai.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.ignatiustheyoungerai-fde-lessons-warn-feed]
url = "https://api.ignatiustheyoungerai.com/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "ignatiustheyoungerai-fde-lessons-warn-feed": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://api.ignatiustheyoungerai.com/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add ignatiustheyoungerai-fde-lessons-warn-feed --url 'https://api.ignatiustheyoungerai.com/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  ignatiustheyoungerai-fde-lessons-warn-feed:
    url: "https://api.ignatiustheyoungerai.com/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "ignatiustheyoungerai-fde-lessons-warn-feed": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://api.ignatiustheyoungerai.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add ignatiustheyoungerai-fde-lessons-warn-feed -t streamable-http -u 'https://api.ignatiustheyoungerai.com/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ignatiustheyoungerai-fde-lessons-warn-feed": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.ignatiustheyoungerai.com/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.

### 2026-09-21 (score 61, +2)

- [security improvement] HSTS header: fail → pass

### 2026-09-19 (score 59, −2)

- [security regression] Stability: 0.07 → fail
- [security regression] Tool “warn_feed_current” was removed
- [security regression] Tool “warn_feed_preview” was removed
- [security] The server rewrote its instructions, which are the text every model session reads
- [functional improvement] Schema quality: 639 → 423
- [functional] Server version: 2.1.4 → 2.2.0

### 2026-09-18 (score 61, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 3 to 7. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 1 days of observed history at the previous scan, 2 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-17 (score 60, 0)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-09-16 (score 60)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (5)

### `fde_catalogue` (~60 tokens)

FREE. List every Forward Deployed Engineering rule, playbook, and checklist phase available from this server — id, title, phase, and tags, with the paid body withheld. Call this first to see what is on offer before paying for anything.

### `fde_lessons_preview` (~68 tokens)

FREE. Return the foundational Forward Deployed Engineering rules in full, no payment required. Each rule carries the real incident behind it and an implementable agent-behavior constraint.

Input parameters:

- `topic` (string): Optional keyword filter, e.g. 'verify', 'cache', 'deploy'.

### `fde_lessons_full` (~65 tokens)

PAID. Return the full Forward Deployed Engineering ruleset, or the subset matching a topic. Requires a machine payment (MPP over Stripe). If unpaid, returns the exact payment challenge and the URL to retry against.

Input parameters:

- `topic` (string): Optional keyword filter.

### `fde_playbook` (~61 tokens)

PAID. Return situational runbooks with ordered, checkable steps — DNS migration and static-site change. Use before executing that class of operation, not after it fails.

Input parameters:

- `topic` (string): Optional keyword filter, e.g. 'dns'.

### `fde_preship_checklist` (~69 tokens)

PAID. Return the pre-ship checklist: every gate to clear before shipping, each with the concrete failure it prevents. Designed to be called before every deploy.

Input parameters:

- `phase` (string): Optional phase filter: 'before', 'executing', 'verifying', 'closing'.

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ignatiustheyoungerai-fde-lessons-warn-feed/api#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-09-21: 61
- 2026-09-20: 59
- 2026-09-19: 59
- 2026-09-18: 61
- 2026-09-17: 60
- 2026-09-16: 60

## Common questions

### What is the FDE Lessons API MCP server?

FDE Lessons API is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.IgnatiusTheYoungerAI/fde-lessons-warn-feed. Forward Deployed Engineering rules traced to real incidents. Agent pays per query, no account. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://api.ignatiustheyoungerai.com/mcp).

### Is the FDE Lessons API MCP server safe to use?

FDE Lessons API scores 61 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 FDE Lessons API MCP server expose?

FDE Lessons API exposes 5 tools: fde_catalogue, fde_lessons_preview, fde_lessons_full, fde_playbook, fde_preship_checklist. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 323 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the FDE Lessons API MCP server require authentication?

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

### Is the FDE Lessons API MCP server still maintained?

FDE Lessons API is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 21 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.ignatiustheyoungerai.com/mcp
- Website: https://ignatiustheyoungerai.com/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ignatiustheyoungerai-fde-lessons-warn-feed/api.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ignatiustheyoungerai-fde-lessons-warn-feed/api.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ignatiustheyoungerai-fde-lessons-warn-feed/api