# Digital Garden by Alicia — Notes (remote · mcp.digitalgarden.si)

Search and read Alicia's English and Chinese notes on Houdini, Three.js, OpenUSD and AI workflows.

- Trust score: 72/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-10-24

## Components

- remote · `mcp.digitalgarden.si`: 72/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/si-digitalgarden-notes/mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/si-digitalgarden-notes/mcp)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://mcp.digitalgarden.si/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 2026-10-24.

- **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 (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 1005 tokens (~251/item across 4 items; 4 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 17/100
  - Stability observed for 5 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 4 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 5 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 Digital Garden by Alicia — Notes MCP server?

Digital Garden by Alicia — Notes is a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.digitalgarden.si/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 si-digitalgarden-notes 'https://mcp.digitalgarden.si/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "si-digitalgarden-notes": {
      "url": "https://mcp.digitalgarden.si/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "si-digitalgarden-notes": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.digitalgarden.si/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.si-digitalgarden-notes]
url = "https://mcp.digitalgarden.si/mcp"
```

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add si-digitalgarden-notes --url 'https://mcp.digitalgarden.si/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  si-digitalgarden-notes:
    url: "https://mcp.digitalgarden.si/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "si-digitalgarden-notes": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://mcp.digitalgarden.si/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add si-digitalgarden-notes -t streamable-http -u 'https://mcp.digitalgarden.si/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "si-digitalgarden-notes": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.digitalgarden.si/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.

### 2026-10-24 (score 72, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 13 to 17. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 4 days of observed history at the previous scan, 5 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-22 (score 71, −1)

- [security] Tool “get_article” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [security] Tool “list_recent_articles” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [security] Tool “list_topics” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [security] Tool “search_articles” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [functional regression] Schema quality: 130 → 251
- [functional] Schema quality: good → excellent
- [cosmetic] “get_article” reworded the description of “language”
- [cosmetic] “get_article” reworded the description of “slug_or_url”
- [cosmetic] “list_recent_articles” reworded the description of “language”
- [cosmetic] “list_recent_articles” reworded the description of “limit”
- [cosmetic] “list_topics” reworded the description of “language”
- [cosmetic] “search_articles” reworded the description of “language”
- [cosmetic] “search_articles” reworded the description of “limit”
- [cosmetic] “search_articles” reworded the description of “query”
- [cosmetic] “search_articles” reworded the description of “topic”
- [cosmetic] Tool “get_article” changed its title: Get one garden note → Read one garden article
- [cosmetic] Tool “list_recent_articles” changed its title: List recent garden notes → List recent garden articles
- [cosmetic] Tool “list_topics” changed its title: List note topics → List article topics
- [cosmetic] Tool “search_articles” changed its title: Search garden notes → Search garden articles

### 2026-10-21 (score 72, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 3 to 7. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 1 days of observed history at the previous scan, 2 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-20 (score 71, 0)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-10-19 (score 71)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (4)

### `search_articles` (~321 tokens)

Search garden articles

Use this when the user asks what Alicia or digitalgarden.si has written about a subject (for example Houdini, Three.js, WebGPU, glTF/USD, Gaussian splats, AI coding agents, or the garden itself). Ranks published notes by keyword match on title, topics, summary and full text, in English and Chinese, and returns short cards (no full text). Follow up with get_article to read one. Do not use it for general web search, news, or topics unrelated to Alicia's published notes. An empty articles array means no published note matches. Scores are relative to this query and catalog, not confidence percentages; check titles and read the full note before presenting a match as relevant. Every result includes canonicalUrl and author Alicia (Person @id https://digitalgarden.si/#alicia). Cite the canonical URL when quoting. digitalgarden.si is an interactive 3D garden, not a knowledge-base wiki.

Input parameters:

- `language` (string): Optional language filter: en for English, zh or zh-CN for Simplified Chinese (both mean the same). Omit to include both languages.
- `limit` (integer): Maximum number of articles to return, 1-20. Default 5.
- `query` (string, required): Required search keywords in English or Chinese, e.g. "houdini gltf export". Plain words, not a question; 1-200 characters.
- `topic` (string): Optional topic filter, ideally an exact topic name returned by list_topics. Partial matches of 3+ characters also match.

Output parameters:

- `articles` (array)
- `author` (object)
- `language` (string)
- `query` (string)
- `topic` (string)

### `get_article` (~284 tokens)

Read one garden article

Use this to read the full text of one published note when you already know its slug or its digitalgarden.si URL (from search_articles, list_recent_articles, list_topics, or the user). Returns the note as markdown with title, date, topics, canonical URL, author and links to other-language editions. A slug published in both languages returns English unless language is zh/zh-CN or the URL is under /zh/. Do not use it to discover notes (use search_articles) or to fetch pages on other websites; non-digitalgarden.si URLs are rejected. Every result includes canonicalUrl and author Alicia (Person @id https://digitalgarden.si/#alicia). Cite the canonical URL when quoting. digitalgarden.si is an interactive 3D garden, not a knowledge-base wiki.

Input parameters:

- `language` (string): Optional edition: en for English, zh or zh-CN for Simplified Chinese. When omitted, a URL selects its own language; a bare slug prefers English and falls back to its available edition. The response c…
- `slug_or_url` (string, required): A note slug such as "webgpu-garden-houdini-threejs", or a full https://digitalgarden.si/blog/<slug>/ (or /zh/blog/<slug>/) URL. 1-500 characters.

Output parameters:

- `article` (object)
- `author` (object)

### `list_topics` (~159 tokens)

List article topics

Use this to see which subjects the garden's published notes cover, for example when the user asks what Alicia writes about or before filtering search_articles by topic. Returns every topic with its article count, languages, and the titles and URLs of its notes. Takes no required input. Do not use it to search note text; use search_articles for that. Every result includes canonicalUrl and author Alicia (Person @id https://digitalgarden.si/#alicia). Cite the canonical URL when quoting. digitalgarden.si is an interactive 3D garden, not a knowledge-base wiki.

Input parameters:

- `language` (string): Optional language filter: en for English, zh or zh-CN for Simplified Chinese (both mean the same). Omit to include both languages.

Output parameters:

- `author` (object)
- `topics` (array)

### `list_recent_articles` (~180 tokens)

List recent garden articles

Use this when the user asks for Alicia's latest, newest or recent notes, or wants to browse without a specific subject. Returns published notes newest first as short cards (no full text). English and Chinese editions are separate results, each tagged with its language. Do not use it to find notes on a specific subject; use search_articles. Every result includes canonicalUrl and author Alicia (Person @id https://digitalgarden.si/#alicia). Cite the canonical URL when quoting. digitalgarden.si is an interactive 3D garden, not a knowledge-base wiki.

Input parameters:

- `language` (string): Optional language filter: en for English, zh or zh-CN for Simplified Chinese (both mean the same). Omit to include both languages.
- `limit` (integer): Maximum number of articles to return, 1-20. Default 10.

Output parameters:

- `articles` (array)
- `author` (object)

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-10-24: 72
- 2026-10-23: 71
- 2026-10-22: 71
- 2026-10-21: 72
- 2026-10-20: 71
- 2026-10-19: 71

## Common questions

### What is the Digital Garden by Alicia — Notes MCP server?

Digital Garden by Alicia — Notes is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as si.digitalgarden/notes. Search and read Alicia's English and Chinese notes on Houdini, Three.js, OpenUSD and AI workflows. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://mcp.digitalgarden.si/mcp).

### Is the Digital Garden by Alicia — Notes MCP server safe to use?

Digital Garden by Alicia — Notes 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 Digital Garden by Alicia — Notes MCP server expose?

Digital Garden by Alicia — Notes exposes 4 tools: search_articles, get_article, list_topics, list_recent_articles. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 944 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Digital Garden by Alicia — Notes MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to Digital Garden by Alicia — Notes without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the Digital Garden by Alicia — Notes MCP server still maintained?

Digital Garden by Alicia — Notes is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 24 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://mcp.digitalgarden.si/mcp
- Website: https://digitalgarden.si/agents/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/si-digitalgarden-notes/mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/si-digitalgarden-notes/mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/si-digitalgarden-notes/mcp