# SeenRelay (remote · seenrelay.com)

Avoid redundant expensive validation. CHECK recent evidence; OBSERVE fresh independent results.

- Trust score: 84/100 (high trust)
- Change this week: +3
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-09-21

## Components

- remote · `seenrelay.com`: 84/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/ovladon-seenrelay/seenrelay.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/ovladon-seenrelay/seenrelay)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://seenrelay.com/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `0.3.10`

## 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**: 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**: 64/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 578 tokens (~289/item across 2 items; 2 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 90/100
  - Stability observed for 27 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.
  - 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 2 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 3 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 SeenRelay MCP server?

SeenRelay is a hosted endpoint at https://seenrelay.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 ovladon-seenrelay 'https://seenrelay.com/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ovladon-seenrelay": {
      "url": "https://seenrelay.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "ovladon-seenrelay": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://seenrelay.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.ovladon-seenrelay]
url = "https://seenrelay.com/mcp"
```

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add ovladon-seenrelay --url 'https://seenrelay.com/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  ovladon-seenrelay:
    url: "https://seenrelay.com/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "ovladon-seenrelay": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://seenrelay.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add ovladon-seenrelay -t streamable-http -u 'https://seenrelay.com/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ovladon-seenrelay": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://seenrelay.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.

### 2026-09-20 (score 84, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 83 to 87. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 25 days of observed history at the previous scan, 26 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-18 (score 83, +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.

### 2026-09-16 (score 82, +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.

### 2026-09-14 (score 81, +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.

### 2026-09-11 (score 80, +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.

### 2026-09-09 (score 79, −1)

- [security] The server rewrote its instructions, which are the text every model session reads
- [security] Tool “check_fact” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [security] Tool “observe_fact” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [functional regression] Schema quality: 220 → 289
- [functional improvement] Tool “check_fact” now declares an output schema
- [functional improvement] Tool “observe_fact” now declares an output schema
- [functional] First check of Tool coverage: 100

### 2026-09-08 (score 80, +7)

- [functional regression] Schema quality: pass → fail
- [functional improvement] Tool coverage: 0% → 100%
- [functional] Schema quality: fair → excellent
- [cosmetic] “check_fact” reworded the description of “fact”
- [cosmetic] “check_fact” reworded the description of “known_value”
- [cosmetic] “check_fact” reworded the description of “max_age_seconds”
- [cosmetic] “observe_fact” reworded the description of “evidence_fingerprint”
- [cosmetic] “observe_fact” reworded the description of “fact”
- [cosmetic] “observe_fact” reworded the description of “idempotency_key”
- [cosmetic] “observe_fact” reworded the description of “observed_at”
- [cosmetic] “observe_fact” reworded the description of “observer_id”
- [cosmetic] “observe_fact” reworded the description of “observer_proof”
- [cosmetic] “observe_fact” reworded the description of “source_validator”
- [cosmetic] “observe_fact” reworded the description of “value”

### 2026-09-07 (score 73, +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.

## MCP tools (2)

### `check_fact` (~186 tokens)

Check Fact Freshness

Cost preflight before repeated paid or slow source-backed validation, especially across an agent fleet. Use before paid web search, metered scraping, browser/extraction, rate-limited APIs or multi-step validation when the caller already has a known value. Returns SAME_OBSERVED, CHANGED_OBSERVED, CONTESTED, STALE or UNKNOWN. Only SAME_OBSERVED can be considered for caller-policy-gated reuse; every other status requires normal authoritative validation before OBSERVE. SeenRelay never browses or verifies externally.

Input parameters:

- `fact` (object, required): Source-backed fact coordinate whose recent shared evidence should be checked.
- `known_value` (required): Caller-known value to compare with recent observations. Mutable observed content is excluded from fact identity.
- `max_age_seconds` (integer): Maximum age, in seconds, of shared observations the caller is willing to consider. Omit to use the service default.

Output parameters:

- `error` (object): Present instead of a decision status when CHECK cannot be admitted or is controlled.
- `fact_key` (string): Canonical SeenRelay fact identity for this coordinate.
- `hive`: Current bounded Hive admission/lease state.
- `next_step` (string): Explicit cold/stale-path instruction: validate the authoritative source normally, then OBSERVE the independently obtained result.
- `status` (string): Decision status when CHECK succeeds. Only SAME_OBSERVED can be considered for reuse, and only under caller policy. CHANGED_OBSERVED, CONTESTED, STALE and UNKNOWN require normal authoritative validati…
- `useful_reuse_awards` (integer): Qualified reuse awards attributable to this CHECK under SeenRelay telemetry rules; not a truth or independence score.

### `observe_fact` (~289 tokens)

Contribute Fact Observation

After independently performing a source-backed validation, deposit the observed result for later CHECKs. Returns accepted=true when a new observation is stored or deduplicated=true for a recognized retry/recent duplicate. Never OBSERVE hearsay. Optional Ed25519 proof establishes key possession and continuity, not truth or real-world independence.

Input parameters:

- `evidence_fingerprint` (string): Optional caller-supplied fingerprint of the independently obtained evidence. SeenRelay stores it as provenance metadata and does not verify it against the source.
- `fact` (object, required): Source-backed fact coordinate for the independently obtained observation.
- `idempotency_key` (string): Caller-chosen retry key for the same OBSERVE operation. Reusing it deduplicates an idempotent retry.
- `observed_at` (string): ISO-8601 time when the caller obtained the observation. Omit to use server receipt time.
- `observer_id` (string): Optional self-asserted continuity label. It is unverified unless accompanied by observer_proof.
- `observer_proof` (object): Optional Ed25519 proof of key possession, continuity and payload integrity; not proof of truth or real-world independence.
- `source_validator` (object): Optional source-validator metadata from the independent validation. The caller decides whether a returned hint is sufficient for source confirmation.
- `value` (required): Value independently obtained by the caller. Mutable observed content is excluded from fact identity.

Output parameters:

- `accepted` (boolean): True when a new independently obtained observation was stored. Omitted when OBSERVE cannot be admitted.
- `deduplicated` (boolean): True when an idempotent/recent duplicate was recognized and no new observation row was needed.
- `error` (object): Present when OBSERVE cannot be admitted or is controlled. This is not a statement about source truth.
- `fact_key` (string): Canonical SeenRelay fact identity for this coordinate.
- `future_check_eligible` (boolean): Whether the accepted or deduplicated observation is eligible to support later CHECKs under normal freshness rules.
- `hive`: Current bounded Hive admission/lease state.
- `reason` (string): Deduplication reason when accepted=false and deduplicated=true.

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-09-21: 84
- 2026-09-20: 84
- 2026-09-19: 83
- 2026-09-18: 83
- 2026-09-17: 82
- 2026-09-16: 82
- 2026-09-15: 81
- 2026-09-14: 81
- 2026-09-13: 80
- 2026-09-12: 80
- 2026-09-11: 80
- 2026-09-10: 79
- 2026-09-09: 79
- 2026-09-08: 80
- 2026-09-07: 73
- 2026-09-06: 72
- 2026-09-05: 72
- 2026-09-04: 71
- 2026-09-03: 71
- 2026-09-02: 70
- 2026-09-01: 70
- 2026-08-31: 69
- 2026-08-30: 69
- 2026-08-29: 68
- 2026-08-28: 68
- 2026-08-27: 68
- 2026-08-26: 67
- 2026-08-25: 64

## Common questions

### What is the SeenRelay MCP server?

SeenRelay is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.ovladon/seenrelay. Avoid redundant expensive validation. CHECK recent evidence; OBSERVE fresh independent results. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://seenrelay.com/mcp).

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

SeenRelay scores 84 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 SeenRelay MCP server expose?

SeenRelay exposes 2 tools: check_fact, observe_fact. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 475 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the SeenRelay MCP server require authentication?

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

### Is the SeenRelay MCP server still maintained?

SeenRelay 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://seenrelay.com/mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/ovladon/seenrelay
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ovladon-seenrelay/seenrelay.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ovladon-seenrelay/seenrelay.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ovladon-seenrelay/seenrelay