# io.usefulapi/elvanto (remote · elvanto.usefulapi.io)

Look up people, groups, service rosters, songs, follow-up flows and giving in Elvanto.

- Trust score: 76/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-10-03

## Components

- remote · `elvanto.usefulapi.io`: 76/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/io-usefulapi-elvanto/elvanto.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/io-usefulapi-elvanto/elvanto)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://elvanto.usefulapi.io/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 2026-10-03.

- **Endpoint Security**: 89/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - Authorisation is enforced on tool calls, advertised via RFC 9728 protected-resource metadata. Discovery is public, which costs nothing: no tool can be invoked without a token.
  - 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.
  - The authorisation server offers only Dynamic Client Registration (RFC 7591), which MCP 2026-07-28 deprecated in favour of Client ID Metadata Documents.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 71/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 3597 tokens (~156/item across 23 items; 23 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 10/100
  - Stability observed for 3 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 23 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 23 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 io.usefulapi/elvanto MCP server?

io.usefulapi/elvanto is a hosted endpoint at https://elvanto.usefulapi.io/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 io-usefulapi-elvanto 'https://elvanto.usefulapi.io/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "io-usefulapi-elvanto": {
      "url": "https://elvanto.usefulapi.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "io-usefulapi-elvanto": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://elvanto.usefulapi.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.io-usefulapi-elvanto]
url = "https://elvanto.usefulapi.io/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "io-usefulapi-elvanto": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://elvanto.usefulapi.io/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add io-usefulapi-elvanto --url 'https://elvanto.usefulapi.io/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  io-usefulapi-elvanto:
    url: "https://elvanto.usefulapi.io/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "io-usefulapi-elvanto": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://elvanto.usefulapi.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add io-usefulapi-elvanto -t streamable-http -u 'https://elvanto.usefulapi.io/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "io-usefulapi-elvanto": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://elvanto.usefulapi.io/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.

### 2026-10-02 (score 76, +1)

- [functional] Server version: 1.3.0 → 1.5.1

### 2026-10-01 (score 75, +5)

- [security improvement] HTTPS: unverified → pass
- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03
- [functional] Server version: 1.0.0 → 1.3.0

### 2026-09-30 (score 70, +52)

- [security improvement] Authorization: unverified → pass
- [security improvement] Injection markers: unverified → pass
- [security improvement] Transport: fail → pass
- [security] First check of Judged manipulation: pass
- [security] First check of Authorization: partial
- [functional regression] MCP protocol: unverified → fail
- [functional improvement] Tool coverage: unverified → 100
- [functional] First check of Schema quality: fail
- [functional] First check of Schema quality: excellent
- [functional] First check of Destructive annotations: pass
- [functional] First check of Schema quality: fail
- [functional] First check of Tool coverage: 100

### 2026-09-29 (score 18)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (23)

### `elvanto_list_people` (~291 tokens)

List people

List people in the church database, optionally filtered by category and by suspended / contact / archived status. Paginated (the response carries page, per_page, total). Elvanto: people/getAll.

Input parameters:

- `archived` (string): yes = only archived people, no = exclude them. Default all.
- `category_id`: Only people in this people category id (or any of these ids).
- `contact` (string): yes = only contacts, no = exclude contacts. Default all.
- `fields` (array): Optional extra person fields to return, e.g. gender, birthday, anniversary, school_grade, marital_status, development_child, special_needs_child, security_code, receipt_name, giving_number, mailing_a…
- `page` (integer): Results page to retrieve (1-based). Default 1.
- `page_size` (integer): Records per page, 1-1000. Default 100 here (Elvanto's own default is 1000).
- `suspended` (string): yes = only suspended people, no = exclude them. Default all.

### `elvanto_search_people` (~318 tokens)

Search people

Find people matching field values, e.g. {"email":"john@example.com"} or {"lastname":"Smith","volunteer":"yes"}. Searchable keys: firstname, preferred_name, lastname, email, phone, mobile, category_id, archived, contact, deceased, volunteer, gender, birthday, anniversary, marital_status, school_grade, security_code, receipt_name, giving_number, groups, date_added / date_modified / last_login (UTC, yyyy-mm-dd or yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss; matched as on-or-after), and custom_<field id>. Use only one of archived / contact / deceased at a time. Elvanto: people/search.

Input parameters:

- `fields` (array): Optional extra person fields to return, e.g. gender, birthday, anniversary, school_grade, marital_status, development_child, special_needs_child, security_code, receipt_name, giving_number, mailing_a…
- `page` (integer): Results page to retrieve (1-based). Default 1.
- `page_size` (integer): Records per page, 1-1000. Default 100 here (Elvanto's own default is 1000).
- `search` (object, required): Field → value pairs to match.

### `elvanto_get_person` (~163 tokens)

Get one person

Fetch one person by id, optionally with extra fields (birthday, addresses, departments, locations, family, custom fields...). Elvanto: people/getInfo.

Input parameters:

- `fields` (array): Optional extra person fields to return, e.g. gender, birthday, anniversary, school_grade, marital_status, development_child, special_needs_child, security_code, receipt_name, giving_number, mailing_a…
- `id` (string, required): The person's id.

### `elvanto_list_people_categories` (~42 tokens)

List people categories

List the people categories (e.g. New People, Church Members, Inactive) with their ids. Elvanto: people/categories/getAll.

### `elvanto_list_custom_fields` (~52 tokens)

List custom person fields

List the church's custom person fields (id, name, type and allowed values). Use the id as custom_<id> in fields / search. Elvanto: people/customFields/getAll.

### `elvanto_list_groups` (~161 tokens)

List groups

List small groups / ministries with meeting day, time, place and frequency; add fields=["people"] to include members and leaders. Elvanto: groups/getAll.

Input parameters:

- `category_id`: Only groups in this group category id (or any of these ids).
- `fields` (array): Optional extra group fields: people (members and their position), categories, departments, demographics, locations.
- `page` (integer): Results page to retrieve (1-based). Default 1.
- `page_size` (integer): Records per page, 1-1000. Default 100 here (Elvanto's own default is 1000).
- `suspended` (string): yes = only suspended groups, no = exclude them. Default all.

### `elvanto_get_group` (~70 tokens)

Get one group

Fetch one group by id, optionally with its members (fields=["people"]). Elvanto: groups/getInfo.

Input parameters:

- `fields` (array): Optional extra group fields: people (members and their position), categories, departments, demographics, locations.
- `id` (string, required): The group's id.

### `elvanto_list_services` (~250 tokens)

List services

List services (upcoming by default). Add fields such as volunteers (the roster), plans (order of service) and songs to answer 'who is serving Sunday?' or 'what are we singing?'. Elvanto: services/getAll.

Input parameters:

- `all` (string): yes = include past services too. Ignored when start/end are given.
- `end` (string): Only services on/before this date (yyyy-mm-dd).
- `fields` (array): Optional extra service fields: series_name, service_times, rehearsal_times, other_times, plans (the order of service), volunteers (the roster: who is serving in which position, and whether confirmed)…
- `page` (integer): Results page to retrieve (1-based). Default 1.
- `page_size` (integer): Records per page, 1-1000. Default 100 here (Elvanto's own default is 1000).
- `service_types`: Only these service type id(s).
- `start` (string): Only services on/after this date (yyyy-mm-dd).
- `status` (string): Only published or only draft services. Default both.

### `elvanto_get_service` (~115 tokens)

Get one service

Fetch one service by id with optional detail: service/rehearsal times, plan (order of service), volunteers roster, songs, files, notes. Elvanto: services/getInfo.

Input parameters:

- `fields` (array): Optional extra service fields: series_name, service_times, rehearsal_times, other_times, plans (the order of service), volunteers (the roster: who is serving in which position, and whether confirmed)…
- `id` (string, required): The service's id.

### `elvanto_list_songs` (~142 tokens)

List songs

List or search the song library by title, artist or lyrics (with CCLI number, categories and locations). Elvanto: songs/getAll.

Input parameters:

- `artist` (string): Only songs by this artist.
- `files` (boolean): Also return attached files.
- `lyrics` (string): Only songs whose lyrics contain this text.
- `page` (integer): Results page to retrieve (1-based). Default 1.
- `page_size` (integer): Records per page, 1-1000. Default 100 here (Elvanto's own default is 1000).
- `title` (string): Only songs whose title matches.

### `elvanto_list_song_arrangements` (~152 tokens)

List a song's arrangements

List the arrangements of one song — sequence, BPM, keys, lyrics and chord chart (optionally transposed). Elvanto: songs/arrangements/getAll.

Input parameters:

- `chord_chart_key` (string): Transpose the chord chart into this key, e.g. F#.
- `files` (boolean): Also return attached files.
- `page` (integer): Results page to retrieve (1-based). Default 1.
- `page_size` (integer): Records per page, 1-1000. Default 100 here (Elvanto's own default is 1000).
- `song_id` (string, required): The song's id (from elvanto_list_songs).

### `elvanto_list_calendars` (~30 tokens)

List calendars

List the church's calendars with their ids. Elvanto: calendar/getAll.

### `elvanto_list_calendar_events` (~157 tokens)

List calendar events

List calendar events between two dates, optionally for specific calendars (use "services" as a calendar to include services). Elvanto: calendar/events/getAll.

Input parameters:

- `calendar`: Calendar id(s) to read from; "services" for services.
- `end` (string, required): End date (yyyy-mm-dd).
- `fields` (array): Optional extra event fields, e.g. ["locations"].
- `page` (integer): Results page to retrieve (1-based). Default 1.
- `page_size` (integer): Records per page, 1-1000. Default 100 here (Elvanto's own default is 1000).
- `start` (string, required): Start date (yyyy-mm-dd).

### `elvanto_list_people_flows` (~49 tokens)

List people flows

List people flows — the church's follow-up pipelines (e.g. First Time Guest Follow Up) — with their steps and admins. Elvanto: peopleFlows/getAll.

### `elvanto_list_people_flow_steps` (~54 tokens)

List a people flow's steps

List the steps of one people flow with descriptions, instructions, due rules and admins. Elvanto: peopleFlows/steps/getAll.

Input parameters:

- `flow_id` (string, required): The people flow's id.

### `elvanto_list_people_flow_step_people` (~109 tokens)

List people in a flow step

List the people currently in one people-flow step, with status, due date and assigned admin — e.g. who still needs a follow-up call. Not paginated. Elvanto: peopleFlows/steps/people.

Input parameters:

- `assigned` (string): Only people assigned to this admin (person id), or "unassigned".
- `status` (string): Only people with this status in the step.
- `step_id` (string, required): The people flow step's id.

### `elvanto_list_financial_categories` (~99 tokens)

List financial categories

List giving / chart-of-accounts categories (funds) with ids; status 1 = active, 0 = archived. Elvanto: financial/categories/getAll.

Input parameters:

- `page` (integer): Results page to retrieve (1-based). Default 1.
- `page_size` (integer): Records per page, 1-1000. Default 100 here (Elvanto's own default is 1000).

### `elvanto_list_transactions` (~149 tokens)

List giving transactions

List giving transactions between two dates, optionally for one fund — donor, date, method, batch and per-fund amounts. Read-only: this server never writes financial records. Elvanto: financial/transactions/getAll.

Input parameters:

- `category_id` (string): Only this financial category (fund) id.
- `end` (string, required): End date (yyyy-mm-dd).
- `page` (integer): Results page to retrieve (1-based). Default 1.
- `page_size` (integer): Records per page, 1-1000. Default 100 here (Elvanto's own default is 1000).
- `start` (string, required): Start date (yyyy-mm-dd).

### `elvanto_create_person` (~324 tokens)

Create a person

Add a new person to the church database (e.g. a first-time guest). Returns the new person id and family id. Does not create a login. Elvanto: people/create.

Input parameters:

- `archived` (string): Mark the person archived (yes) or not (no).
- `category_id` (string): People category id (see elvanto_list_people_categories).
- `contact` (string): Mark the person a contact (yes) or not (no).
- `email` (string): Email address.
- `family_id`: Family id to join an existing family, or "new" to start a new family.
- `family_relationship` (string): Relationship within the family.
- `fields` (object): Extra fields to set, e.g. {"gender":"Male","birthday":"1989-04-23","marital_status":"Married","departments":["Music"],"custom_<field id>":"value"}. Use *_replace / *_remove variants (e.g. departments…
- `firstname` (string, required): First name.
- `lastname` (string, required): Last name.
- `mobile` (string): Mobile number (non-digits are stripped by Elvanto).
- `phone` (string): Phone number (non-digits are stripped by Elvanto).
- `preferred_name` (string): Preferred name (nickname).
- `volunteer` (string): Mark the person a volunteer (yes) or not (no).

### `elvanto_update_person` (~339 tokens)

Update a person

Edit an existing person's details — name, contact info, category, flags, family, or extra fields. Only the fields you pass change. Cannot touch username, password or login status. Elvanto: people/edit.

Input parameters:

- `archived` (string): Mark the person archived (yes) or not (no).
- `category_id` (string): People category id (see elvanto_list_people_categories).
- `contact` (string): Mark the person a contact (yes) or not (no).
- `email` (string): Email address.
- `family_id`: Family id to join an existing family, or "new" to start a new family.
- `family_relationship` (string): Relationship within the family.
- `fields` (object): Extra fields to set, e.g. {"gender":"Male","birthday":"1989-04-23","marital_status":"Married","departments":["Music"],"custom_<field id>":"value"}. Use *_replace / *_remove variants (e.g. departments…
- `firstname` (string): First name.
- `id` (string, required): The person's id.
- `lastname` (string): Last name.
- `mobile` (string): Mobile number (non-digits are stripped by Elvanto).
- `phone` (string): Phone number (non-digits are stripped by Elvanto).
- `preferred_name` (string): Preferred name (nickname).
- `volunteer` (string): Mark the person a volunteer (yes) or not (no).

### `elvanto_add_person_to_group` (~88 tokens)

Add a person to a group

Add a person to a group, optionally as Leader or Assistant Leader. Undoable by removing them from the group in Elvanto. Elvanto: groups/addPerson.

Input parameters:

- `group_id` (string, required): The group's id.
- `person_id` (string, required): The person's id.
- `position` (string): Position in the group. Omit for a regular member.

### `elvanto_add_person_to_flow_step` (~94 tokens)

Add a person to a people-flow step

Put a person into a people-flow step (e.g. start a new guest's follow-up), optionally assigning a step admin. Elvanto: peopleFlows/steps/addPerson.

Input parameters:

- `assign_to` (string): Person id of the step admin to assign them to.
- `person_id` (string, required): The person's id.
- `step_id` (string, required): The people flow step's id.

### `elvanto_create_calendar_event` (~349 tokens)

Create a calendar event

Create an event on a calendar, optionally repeating. Times are 24-hour GMT. Use status "draft" to stage it unpublished. Elvanto: calendar/events/create.

Input parameters:

- `all_day` (string): All-day event? Default no.
- `calendar_id` (string, required): Calendar id (see elvanto_list_calendars).
- `color` (string): Hex color, e.g. #FF0000.
- `description` (string): Description (basic HTML allowed).
- `end` (string, required): End, yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss (24h, GMT).
- `locations`: Location(s) to add to the event.
- `name` (string, required): Event name.
- `organizer` (string, required): Person id of the organizer.
- `register_url` (string): Registration website URL.
- `repeat` (string): Make it a repeating event.
- `repeat_end_date` (string): Stop repeating at, yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss (GMT).
- `repeat_frequency` (integer): How often to repeat. Required for daily, monthly, yearly.
- `repeat_occurrences` (integer): Number of repeats.
- `repeat_on` (string): Weekly/fortnightly: monday..sunday. Monthly: weekday or monthday.
- `show_guest_list` (string): Show the guest list on the event page? Default no.
- `start` (string, required): Start, yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss (24h, GMT).
- `status` (string): Visibility. Default public.
- `where` (string): Where the event is held.
- `who_can_attend` (string): "all" to let anyone attend; omit for invite-only.

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-10-03: 76
- 2026-10-02: 76
- 2026-10-01: 75
- 2026-09-30: 70
- 2026-09-29: 18

## Common questions

### What is the io.usefulapi/elvanto MCP server?

io.usefulapi/elvanto is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.usefulapi/elvanto. Look up people, groups, service rosters, songs, follow-up flows and giving in Elvanto. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://elvanto.usefulapi.io/mcp).

### Is the io.usefulapi/elvanto MCP server safe to use?

io.usefulapi/elvanto scores 76 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 io.usefulapi/elvanto MCP server expose?

io.usefulapi/elvanto exposes 23 tools: elvanto_list_people, elvanto_search_people, elvanto_get_person, elvanto_list_people_categories, elvanto_list_custom_fields, and 18 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 3,597 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the io.usefulapi/elvanto MCP server require authentication?

Yes. io.usefulapi/elvanto asked us for credentials when we connected, so you will need to authorise it in your MCP client before it can do anything.

### Is the io.usefulapi/elvanto MCP server still maintained?

io.usefulapi/elvanto is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 3 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://elvanto.usefulapi.io/mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/m190/usefulapi-mcp
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/io-usefulapi-elvanto/elvanto.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/io-usefulapi-elvanto/elvanto.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/io-usefulapi-elvanto/elvanto