# ShellWire (remote · shellwire.com)

Discover and compare software, read chatbot news, and submit applications for private review.

- Trust score: 68/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-10-18

## Components

- remote · `shellwire.com`: 68/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/kiragu-maina-shellwire/shellwire.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/kiragu-maina-shellwire/shellwire)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://shellwire.com/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.0.1`

## 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 2026-10-18.

- **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**: 66/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 841 tokens (~105/item across 8 items; 8 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 7/100
  - Stability observed for 2 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 8 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 9 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 ShellWire MCP server?

ShellWire is a hosted endpoint at https://shellwire.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 kiragu-maina-shellwire 'https://shellwire.com/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "kiragu-maina-shellwire": {
      "url": "https://shellwire.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "kiragu-maina-shellwire": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://shellwire.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.kiragu-maina-shellwire]
url = "https://shellwire.com/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "kiragu-maina-shellwire": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://shellwire.com/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add kiragu-maina-shellwire --url 'https://shellwire.com/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  kiragu-maina-shellwire:
    url: "https://shellwire.com/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "kiragu-maina-shellwire": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://shellwire.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add kiragu-maina-shellwire -t streamable-http -u 'https://shellwire.com/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "kiragu-maina-shellwire": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://shellwire.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.

### 2026-10-17 (score 68, +1)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-10-16 (score 67)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (8)

### `search` (~38 tokens)

Search ShellWire

Search public applications, chatbot catalog and labeled news. Returns at most 24 stable IDs, titles and canonical citation URLs.

Input parameters:

- `query` (string, required)

Output parameters:

- `results` (array)

### `fetch` (~39 tokens)

Read a public record

Fetch one public record ID returned by search. Includes citable text and dated facts. Unpublished and unknown IDs are unavailable.

Input parameters:

- `id` (string, required)

Output parameters:

- `id` (string)
- `metadata` (object)
- `text` (string)
- `title` (string)
- `url` (string)

### `compare_tools` (~39 tokens)

Compare chatbots and tools

Compare one to four distinct public tool IDs. Preserves unknown facts, source evidence and checked dates; no generated ratings.

Input parameters:

- `ids` (array, required)

Output parameters:

- `items` (array)

### `get_chatbot_brief` (~46 tokens)

Read the chatbot brief

Read the same source-reviewed brief shown on the homepage, with at most four labeled stories and related public tools. An empty brief remains empty.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer)

Output parameters:

- `items` (array)

### `get_submission_instructions` (~42 tokens)

Read builder submission instructions

Anonymous, credential-free instructions for authenticated private submissions. Includes exact first-party OTP HTTP endpoints, bounded submission fields and binary screenshot uploads. No OAuth authentication is offered.

Output parameters:

- `authentication` (object)
- `builderWritesEnabled` (boolean)
- `media` (object)
- `submission` (object)
- `workflow` (array)

### `verify_homepage_backlink` (~65 tokens)

Requires a verified builder Bearer token. Check a visible anchor to https://shellwire.com/ on the root homepage of your public HTTPS site. Authenticated bounded network check, cached for five minutes. No publication. Rate limited.

Input parameters:

- `officialUrl` (string, required)

Output parameters:

- `checkedAt` (string)
- `expiresIn` (integer)
- `homepage` (string)
- `verified` (boolean)

### `submit_application` (~116 tokens)

Requires email OTP authentication and a verified root homepage backlink. Submit an app or personal agent for private operator review, with optional images uploaded separately by authenticated HTTP. Email must match the verified account. Does not publish. Repeated pending normalized URLs are acknowledged without overwriting. On outcome_unknown inspect list_my_submissions before retrying.

Input parameters:

- `description` (string, required)
- `details` (object)
- `email` (string)
- `images` (array)
- `name` (string, required)
- `officialUrl` (string, required)

Output parameters:

- `message` (string)
- `reference` (string)
- `status` (string)

### `list_my_submissions` (~54 tokens)

Requires a current verified builder token. Return only this builder account's private submission statuses, optional published tool URL and image previews. Empty means no owned records. Never returns another builder's submission, operator notes or contact email.

Output parameters:

- `items` (array)

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-10-18: 68
- 2026-10-17: 68
- 2026-10-16: 67

## Common questions

### What is the ShellWire MCP server?

ShellWire is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.Kiragu-Maina/shellwire. Discover and compare software, read chatbot news, and submit applications for private review. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://shellwire.com/mcp).

### Is the ShellWire MCP server safe to use?

ShellWire scores 68 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 ShellWire MCP server expose?

ShellWire exposes 8 tools: search, fetch, compare_tools, get_chatbot_brief, get_submission_instructions, and 3 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 439 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the ShellWire MCP server require authentication?

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

### Is the ShellWire MCP server still maintained?

ShellWire is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 18 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://shellwire.com/mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/Kiragu-Maina/shellwire-mcp
- Website: https://shellwire.com/connect
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/kiragu-maina-shellwire/shellwire.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/kiragu-maina-shellwire/shellwire.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/kiragu-maina-shellwire/shellwire