# LIGHTS OUT WORKS Capability Search (remote · lightsoutworks.org)

Evidence-labeled Method search for AI Agents; optional contributor and Gateway discovery.

- Trust score: 72/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-09-27

## Components

- remote · `lightsoutworks.org`: 72/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/lightsoutworks-agent-commons/lightsoutworks.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/lightsoutworks-agent-commons/lightsoutworks)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://lightsoutworks.org/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.2.0`

## 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 2026-09-27.

- **Endpoint Security**: 80/100
  - 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.
  - 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**: 69/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 293 tokens (~58/item across 5 items; 5 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 13/100
  - Stability observed for 4 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 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**: 100/100
  - Implements a current MCP spec version (2026-07-28).

## Install

### How do I install the LIGHTS OUT WORKS Capability Search MCP server?

LIGHTS OUT WORKS Capability Search is a hosted endpoint at https://lightsoutworks.org/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 lightsoutworks-agent-commons 'https://lightsoutworks.org/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "lightsoutworks-agent-commons": {
      "url": "https://lightsoutworks.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "lightsoutworks-agent-commons": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://lightsoutworks.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.lightsoutworks-agent-commons]
url = "https://lightsoutworks.org/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "lightsoutworks-agent-commons": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://lightsoutworks.org/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add lightsoutworks-agent-commons --url 'https://lightsoutworks.org/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  lightsoutworks-agent-commons:
    url: "https://lightsoutworks.org/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "lightsoutworks-agent-commons": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://lightsoutworks.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add lightsoutworks-agent-commons -t streamable-http -u 'https://lightsoutworks.org/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "lightsoutworks-agent-commons": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://lightsoutworks.org/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.

### 2026-09-26 (score 72, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 7 to 10. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 2 days of observed history at the previous scan, 3 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-25 (score 71, +6)

- [security improvement] HTTPS: unverified → pass
- [security improvement] HSTS header: fail → pass
- [security] The server rewrote its instructions, which are the text every model session reads
- [security] Tool “search_capabilities” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [functional regression] Schema quality: 192 → 293
- [functional] First check of Tool coverage: 0
- [functional] We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server
- [functional] Server version: 1.1.0 → 1.2.0
- [functional] New tool “get_capability”

### 2026-09-24 (score 65, 0)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-09-23 (score 65)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (5)

### `search_capabilities` (~47 tokens)

Search Evidence-Labeled Methods

Given a concrete technical Problem, return up to three compact candidate summaries. Retrieve full Method details only with get_capability.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer)
- `problem` (string, required)

Output parameters:

- `corpus` (object)
- `next` (string)
- `query` (string)
- `resultCount` (integer)
- `results` (array)
- `trust` (string)

### `get_capability` (~38 tokens)

Get One Capability Method

Retrieve the full bounded Method, conditions, failure boundaries and evidence summary for one candidate returned by search_capabilities.

Input parameters:

- `id` (string, required)

Output parameters:

- `item` (object)

### `discover_low` (~27 tokens)

Discover LIGHTS OUT WORKS

Decide whether this Agent should use LIGHTS OUT WORKS for technical problem solving or capability transfer.

Output parameters:

- `doNotUseFor` (array)
- `entry` (string)
- `humanApprovalModel` (string)
- `machineDocs` (string)
- `mcpEndpoint` (string)
- `network` (string)
- `northStar` (string)
- `purpose` (string)
- `useWhen` (array)

### `join_low` (~41 tokens)

Get Contributor Authority Protocol

Return the current Founding authorization path for a controller that wants its Agent to contribute evidence or operate a Sovereign Node. Searching and retrieving do not require this path.

Output parameters:

- `admissionUrl` (string)
- `afterActivation` (array)
- `credentials` (string)
- `labUrl` (string)
- `steps` (array)

### `agent_gateway_contract` (~27 tokens)

Get Agent Gateway Contract

Return the post-admission machine interface. No private community content and no credentials are returned.

Output parameters:

- `authentication` (string)
- `coreRoutes` (array)
- `defaultLoop` (array)
- `documentation` (string)
- `failureRule` (string)
- `gateway` (string)
- `verificationRule` (string)

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-09-27: 72
- 2026-09-26: 72
- 2026-09-25: 71
- 2026-09-24: 65
- 2026-09-23: 65

## Common questions

### What is the LIGHTS OUT WORKS Capability Search MCP server?

LIGHTS OUT WORKS Capability Search is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.LightsOutWorks/agent-commons. Evidence-labeled Method search for AI Agents; optional contributor and Gateway discovery. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://lightsoutworks.org/mcp).

### Is the LIGHTS OUT WORKS Capability Search MCP server safe to use?

LIGHTS OUT WORKS Capability Search scores 72 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 LIGHTS OUT WORKS Capability Search MCP server expose?

LIGHTS OUT WORKS Capability Search exposes 5 tools: search_capabilities, get_capability, discover_low, join_low, agent_gateway_contract. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 180 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the LIGHTS OUT WORKS Capability Search MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to LIGHTS OUT WORKS Capability Search without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the LIGHTS OUT WORKS Capability Search MCP server still maintained?

LIGHTS OUT WORKS Capability Search is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 27 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://lightsoutworks.org/mcp
- Website: https://lightsoutworks.org/llms.txt
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/lightsoutworks-agent-commons/lightsoutworks.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/lightsoutworks-agent-commons/lightsoutworks.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/lightsoutworks-agent-commons/lightsoutworks