# Perq (remote · perq.sh)

Verified free AI credits, free tiers and startup programs, each with source link and verified date.

- Trust score: 80/100 (high trust)
- Change this week: +3
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `perq.sh`: 80/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/sh-perq-perq/perq.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/sh-perq-perq/perq)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://perq.sh/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 2026-11-05.

- **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**: 71/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 1100 tokens (~137/item across 8 items; 8 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 53/100
  - Stability observed for 16 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 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 supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the Perq MCP server?

Perq is a hosted endpoint at https://perq.sh/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 sh-perq-perq 'https://perq.sh/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sh-perq-perq": {
      "url": "https://perq.sh/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "sh-perq-perq": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://perq.sh/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.sh-perq-perq]
url = "https://perq.sh/mcp"
```

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add sh-perq-perq --url 'https://perq.sh/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  sh-perq-perq:
    url: "https://perq.sh/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "sh-perq-perq": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://perq.sh/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add sh-perq-perq -t streamable-http -u 'https://perq.sh/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sh-perq-perq": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://perq.sh/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.

### 2026-11-04 (score 80, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 47 to 50. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 14 days of observed history at the previous scan, 15 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-02 (score 79, +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.

### 2026-10-31 (score 78, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 33 to 37. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 10 days of observed history at the previous scan, 11 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-28 (score 77, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 23 to 27. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 7 days of observed history at the previous scan, 8 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-26 (score 76, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 17 to 20. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 5 days of observed history at the previous scan, 6 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-24 (score 75, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 10 to 13. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 3 days of observed history at the previous scan, 4 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-23 (score 74, 0)

- [security] The server rewrote its instructions, which are the text every model session reads
- [security] Tool “find_credits” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [functional regression] Schema quality: 116 → 137
- [functional] New tool “trending”
- [cosmetic] “find_credits” reworded the description of “need”
- [cosmetic] “find_credits” made “need” optional

### 2026-10-21 (score 74, 0)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

## MCP tools (8)

### `find_credits` (~277 tokens)

Find free credits for a need

Answer "what free credits / free tier / startup program can I get for X". Ranked, verified offers matching a need such as "free speech to text credits", "GPU for a bootstrapped startup" or "student LLM API credits". Each result has credit_value, eligibility, how_to_claim, claim_url, source_url, source_snippet (verbatim vendor quote), last_verified, value_usd (explicit one-time USD amount or null), audience, and live claims / claims_7d / votes counts (real visitors, never padded; null if unavailable). filters.sort orders by relevance (default), popular (most claimed this week), votes, newest, verified (most recently re-checked), value (largest stated USD credit) or az. need may be empty when you only filter/sort. Closed offers are excluded unless filters.status is "all"/"closed" or include_closed is true. claim_redirect_url sends the user to the vendor and counts the claim anonymously; claim_url is the direct vendor link.

Input parameters:

- `filters` (object): Optional filters.
- `need` (string): What the user wants credits for, in plain words. E.g. "speech to text", "GPU compute for a bootstrapped startup", "vector database". May be empty ("") to list by filters and sort only.

### `trending` (~122 tokens)

Most claimed / top voted this week

Offers people are actually claiming (clicks on the claim link, one per visitor per day) or voting "worked for me", over the last 7 days or all time. Counts are real and never seeded; when nothing has been claimed yet the list is empty and says so.

Input parameters:

- `by` (string): claims (default) or votes.
- `category` (string): Optional category slug, e.g. llm-api.
- `limit` (integer): Max results (default 10).
- `window` (string): 7d (default) or all.

### `get_offer` (~59 tokens)

Get one offer

Full record for one Perq offer by id (e.g. "deepgram-200-credit"), including source quote, last_verified, recorded changes and packs that contain it.

Input parameters:

- `id` (string, required): Offer id from find_credits or a pack.

### `list_packs` (~48 tokens)

List curated packs

Curated bundles of offers (e.g. AI startup launch pack, LLM API free tier pack, voice AI pack) with each pack's headline and up-to total where one is computed.

### `get_pack` (~60 tokens)

Get a pack

One curated pack by slug with every offer in it and how its up-to total was computed (which offers counted and why others did not).

Input parameters:

- `slug` (string, required): Pack slug from list_packs, e.g. "llm-api-free-tier-pack".

### `recently_changed` (~65 tokens)

Recently changed offers

Offers added, updated (value, eligibility, claim steps) or closed in the last N days (dates in America/New_York).

Input parameters:

- `days` (integer): Look-back window in days (default 7).
- `limit` (integer): Max events returned (default 100).

### `subscribe` (~192 tokens)

Subscribe to early access

Get newly verified offers before they are public on https://perq.sh (about 24h early), plus closures and changes. Give either email (a person: we send a confirmation link, then a digest only on days with something new) or webhook_url (an agent: https only, public hosts only; each new offer is POSTed as JSON signed with HMAC-SHA256). A webhook signup returns the signing secret once, a private feed token for early_offers, and the result of a signed verification ping. Only subscribe an address or URL the user asked you to.

Input parameters:

- `email` (string): Email address to subscribe (double opt-in).
- `topics` (array): Optional topics; omit for everything. One of: llm-api, gpu, voice, startup-programs, student, agents, dev-tools.
- `webhook_url` (string): https:// URL that receives signed JSON POSTs.

### `early_offers` (~81 tokens)

Early-access offers (private feed)

Offers that are verified but not public yet (embargoed, each with public_after), plus new, changed and closed offer events from the last 30 days, filtered by the subscription topics. Needs the private feed token from subscribe (webhook) or from the email confirmation page.

Input parameters:

- `token` (string, required): Private feed token (starts with pf_).

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 80
- 2026-11-04: 80
- 2026-11-03: 79
- 2026-11-02: 79
- 2026-11-01: 78
- 2026-10-31: 78
- 2026-10-30: 77
- 2026-10-29: 77
- 2026-10-28: 77
- 2026-10-27: 76
- 2026-10-26: 76
- 2026-10-25: 75
- 2026-10-24: 75
- 2026-10-23: 74
- 2026-10-22: 74
- 2026-10-21: 74
- 2026-10-20: 74

## Common questions

### What is the Perq MCP server?

Perq is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as sh.perq/perq. Verified free AI credits, free tiers and startup programs, each with source link and verified date. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://perq.sh/mcp).

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

Perq scores 80 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 Perq MCP server expose?

Perq exposes 8 tools: find_credits, trending, get_offer, list_packs, get_pack, and 3 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 904 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Perq MCP server require authentication?

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

### Is the Perq MCP server still maintained?

Perq is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 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://perq.sh/mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/f-o-x11/perq-skill
- Website: https://perq.sh/agents
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/sh-perq-perq/perq.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/sh-perq-perq/perq.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/sh-perq-perq/perq