# check.tattoo: tattoo size and placement guide (remote · mcp.check.tattoo)

Tattoo size minimums, body-area comparison, line-spacing check and a pre-booking checklist.

- Trust score: 44/100 (low)
- Change this week: −28
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: degraded
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

> **Degraded**: one or more channels of this server are currently unreachable; their trust score is decaying and will reach 0 if they stay down.

## Components

- remote · `mcp.check.tattoo`: 44/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/tattoo-check-check-tattoo/mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/tattoo-check-check-tattoo/mcp)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://mcp.check.tattoo/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 2026-11-05.

- **Endpoint Security**: 0/100
  - TLS not yet verified: we couldn't open a connection to check the certificate.
  - Authorisation not yet verified: we couldn't confirm whether this endpoint requires it.
  - HTTPS enforcement could not be verified: the plaintext port answered with HTTP 404, which proves neither a plaintext path nor enforcement.
  - HSTS not yet verified: we couldn't read the response headers to check for it.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 0/100
  - Transport check failed: declared streamable-http, but we couldn't connect to verify it.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 0/100
  - Schema not yet verified: we couldn't read the endpoint's schema, or could read only part of its tool list.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 0/100
  - Stability not yet verified: not enough scan history yet (needs a 30-day window).
- **Tool Coverage**: 0/100
  - Tool coverage not yet verified: we couldn't read the endpoint's tools, or could read only part of the list.
- **Tool Safety**: 0/100
  - Tool safety not yet verified: we couldn't read the endpoint's tools, or could read only part of the list.
- **Capabilities**: 0/100
  - Capabilities not yet verified: we couldn't read the endpoint's capabilities.

**Unverified: 5 categories.** Categories scored 0 because we could not verify them: authentication we do not have, an unreachable endpoint, or not enough scan history. We only credit what we can confirm.

## Install

### How do I install the check.tattoo: tattoo size and placement guide MCP server?

check.tattoo: tattoo size and placement guide is a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.check.tattoo/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 tattoo-check-check-tattoo 'https://mcp.check.tattoo/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tattoo-check-check-tattoo": {
      "url": "https://mcp.check.tattoo/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

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

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.tattoo-check-check-tattoo]
url = "https://mcp.check.tattoo/mcp"
```

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add tattoo-check-check-tattoo --url 'https://mcp.check.tattoo/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  tattoo-check-check-tattoo:
    url: "https://mcp.check.tattoo/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

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

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add tattoo-check-check-tattoo -t streamable-http -u 'https://mcp.check.tattoo/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tattoo-check-check-tattoo": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.check.tattoo/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.

### 2026-11-05 (score 44, −14)

The score moved with no change recorded against any check. We would rather say so than guess.

### 2026-11-04 (score 58, −15)

The score moved with no change recorded against any check. We would rather say so than guess.

### 2026-11-02 (score 73, 0)

- [security regression] Endpoint reachability: reachable → unreachable
- [security regression] HSTS header: fail → unverified
- [security regression] Authorization: partial → unverified
- [security regression] Tool safety: pass → unverified
- [security regression] TLS certificate: pass → unverified
- [security regression] Stability: 0.50 → unverified
- [security regression] Transport: pass → fail
- [functional regression] Capabilities: pass → unverified
- [functional regression] Tool coverage: 100 → unverified
- [functional] First check of Schema quality: unverified

### 2026-10-31 (score 73, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 43 to 47. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 13 days of observed history at the previous scan, 14 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-29 (score 72, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 37 to 40. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 11 days of observed history at the previous scan, 12 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-27 (score 71, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 30 to 33. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 9 days of observed history at the previous scan, 10 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-25 (score 70, +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.

### 2026-10-23 (score 69, +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.

## MCP tools (5)

### `assess_tattoo_idea` (~281 tokens)

Assess a tattoo idea's size, placement and style

Use when the user describes a specific tattoo idea and asks whether it will hold up at a given size and body placement. Compares the design with published minimum sizes for its kind of design and returns the placement's fade, sun, friction, stretch and curvature estimates, style notes, things to look at and questions for the artist. Lettering is sized by capital letter height (letter_height_mm); everything else by the longest side (size_cm). It does not generate designs, look at images, or give medical advice.

Input parameters:

- `design_type` (string, required): Kind of design: block_capitals (capital letters), script_lettering, eye, bold_symbol_or_short_word (silhouette, simple symbol), fine_botanical (flower or plant with veins/stamens), moderate_detail (t…
- `letter_height_mm` (number): Height of a capital letter in millimetres. Use for block_capitals and script_lettering.
- `placement` (string): Body area, if the user has one in mind.
- `size_cm` (number): Longest side of the whole design in centimetres. Use for every design_type except block_capitals and script_lettering.
- `style` (string): Tattoo style, if the user has one in mind.

Output parameters:

- `design_type` (string)
- `note` (string)
- `placement_profile` (object)
- `questions_for_the_artist` (array)
- `size_check` (object)
- `sources` (array)
- `style_notes` (object)
- `things_to_look_at` (array)
- `touch_ups` (string)

### `check_line_spacing` (~193 tokens)

Check whether the gap between lines will stay open

Use when the user gives a line width and the gap between two lines or letters in millimetres and asks whether the gap will stay open as the tattoo ages. Applies the published rule of thumb that a line widens by about 0.1 mm per decade: returns the line width and gap after the given number of years (default 20), whether the gap meets the guides' 'at least as wide as the line' rule, and what the guide's worked example would do to it. Illustrative arithmetic, not a measurement.

Input parameters:

- `gap_mm` (number, required): Width of the space between the two lines or letters, in millimetres.
- `line_width_mm` (number, required): Width of the line in millimetres, as drawn today (for example 0.3 fine line, 1.5 bold outline).
- `years` (number): Years to project. Defaults to 20.

Output parameters:

- `after` (object)
- `assumptions` (object)
- `explanation` (string)
- `guide_gap_range_mm` (object)
- `note` (string)
- `source` (string)
- `sources` (array)
- `status` (string)
- `today` (object)
- `worked_example` (object)
- `years_until_gap_used_up` (number)

### `get_tattoo_size_chart` (~103 tokens)

Get the tattoo size chart

Use when the user asks how big or how small a kind of tattoo can be, or what fits at a given size. Returns the smallest and better size for eight kinds of design (letters by height, other designs by longest side), real-world size comparisons and the small/medium/large ranges. Optional size_cm marks which designs meet their minimum at that size.

Input parameters:

- `size_cm` (number): Optional size in centimetres to look up what fits.

Output parameters:

- `note` (string)
- `rows` (array)
- `scale` (array)
- `source` (string)
- `updated` (string)

### `compare_tattoo_placements` (~102 tokens)

Compare body areas for a tattoo

Use when the user asks how body areas compare for pain, fading, sun, friction, stretch or curvature, or which areas hold ink longest. Returns the ten common areas (or the ones requested), ordered by fade by default. Estimates are coarse 0-100 comparisons, not measurements.

Input parameters:

- `placements` (array): Areas to compare. Omit for all ten.
- `sort_by` (string): Order, lowest first. Defaults to fade.

Output parameters:

- `areas` (array)
- `note` (string)
- `sorted_by` (string)
- `source` (string)

### `get_pre_booking_checklist` (~73 tokens)

Get a checklist to use before booking a tattoo

Use when the user asks how to decide whether they are ready to book a tattoo, what to ask an artist, or what red flags to watch for in a consultation. Returns a short ordered checklist, the one question to ask when an artist pushes back, how to judge healed work, and consultation red flags.

Output parameters:

- `ask_the_artist` (string)
- `note` (string)
- `red_flags` (string)
- `source` (string)
- `steps` (array)

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 44
- 2026-11-04: 58
- 2026-11-03: 73
- 2026-11-02: 73
- 2026-11-01: 73
- 2026-10-31: 73
- 2026-10-30: 72
- 2026-10-29: 72
- 2026-10-28: 71
- 2026-10-27: 71
- 2026-10-26: 70
- 2026-10-25: 70
- 2026-10-24: 69
- 2026-10-23: 69
- 2026-10-22: 68
- 2026-10-21: 68
- 2026-10-20: 67
- 2026-10-19: 67
- 2026-10-18: 66
- 2026-10-17: 66

## Common questions

### What is the check.tattoo: tattoo size and placement guide MCP server?

check.tattoo: tattoo size and placement guide is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as tattoo.check/check-tattoo. Tattoo size minimums, body-area comparison, line-spacing check and a pre-booking checklist. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://mcp.check.tattoo/mcp).

### Is the check.tattoo: tattoo size and placement guide MCP server safe to use?

check.tattoo: tattoo size and placement guide scores 44 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 check.tattoo: tattoo size and placement guide MCP server expose?

check.tattoo: tattoo size and placement guide exposes 5 tools: assess_tattoo_idea, check_line_spacing, get_tattoo_size_chart, compare_tattoo_placements, get_pre_booking_checklist. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 752 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the check.tattoo: tattoo size and placement guide MCP server require authentication?

Its publisher declares no required credentials for check.tattoo: tattoo size and placement guide. We have not been able to confirm that against the live endpoint, and a server can require authorisation without declaring it here.

### Is the check.tattoo: tattoo size and placement guide MCP server still maintained?

check.tattoo: tattoo size and placement guide is still listed in the MCP registry, but we have not been able to reach this channel for several days and its score is decaying. We last reached this channel on 1 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://mcp.check.tattoo/mcp
- Website: https://check.tattoo/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/tattoo-check-check-tattoo/mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/tattoo-check-check-tattoo/mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/tattoo-check-check-tattoo/mcp