# BuildFeed (remote · buildfeed.tech)

Startup, product, and design takes from curated tech YouTube, with timestamped transcript passages.

- Trust score: 68/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-10-18

## Components

- remote · `buildfeed.tech`: 68/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/tech-buildfeed-buildfeed/api-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/tech-buildfeed-buildfeed/api-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://buildfeed.tech/api/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 2026-10-18.

- **Endpoint Security**: 63/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - Authorisation not fully verified: no authorisation is required to call this server, and 10 tool(s) never declared a destructiveHint. The MCP spec treats an absent hint as destructive by default, so we cannot call this surface safe.
  - 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**: 77/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 1095 tokens (~109/item across 10 items; 10 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**: 86/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 58% 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 10 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 10 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 BuildFeed MCP server?

BuildFeed is a hosted endpoint at https://buildfeed.tech/api/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 tech-buildfeed-buildfeed 'https://buildfeed.tech/api/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tech-buildfeed-buildfeed": {
      "url": "https://buildfeed.tech/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "tech-buildfeed-buildfeed": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://buildfeed.tech/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.tech-buildfeed-buildfeed]
url = "https://buildfeed.tech/api/mcp"
```

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add tech-buildfeed-buildfeed --url 'https://buildfeed.tech/api/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  tech-buildfeed-buildfeed:
    url: "https://buildfeed.tech/api/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "tech-buildfeed-buildfeed": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://buildfeed.tech/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add tech-buildfeed-buildfeed -t streamable-http -u 'https://buildfeed.tech/api/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tech-buildfeed-buildfeed": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://buildfeed.tech/api/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.

### 2026-10-18 (score 68, +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.

### 2026-10-16 (score 67, +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.

### 2026-10-15 (score 66, 0)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-10-14 (score 66)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (10)

### `search_videos` (~197 tokens)

Full-text search over BuildFeed's curated AI/startup/VC YouTube video library. Scores videos by keyword match across title, topics, TLDR summary, channel name, and key takeaways, ranked by relevance (then recency). Use this when the user asks about a specific topic, person, product, or company and you need to find relevant videos with summaries — not when you just want to browse everything (use list_videos for that instead).

Input parameters:

- `category` (string): Restrict results to one category: AI, VC, Startup, Product, Design, or Tools.
- `limit` (integer): Max results to return (default 20, hard cap 50).
- `query` (string, required): Search keywords, e.g. "Claude agents", "seed fundraising", "Figma design systems".
- `since` (string): Only videos published on or after this ISO 8601 date (reads the archive index).

### `search_transcript_passages` (~93 tokens)

Search inside transcript passages, returning the most relevant timestamped excerpts across multiple videos. Use this for evidence, quotations, implementation details, or questions whose answer may not appear in a title or summary.

Input parameters:

- `audience` (string)
- `category` (string)
- `contentType` (string)
- `limit` (integer)
- `query` (string, required)
- `topic` (string)

### `get_transcript` (~71 tokens)

Get a bounded transcript window for one video. Prefer search_transcript_passages for discovery; use this tool to inspect surrounding context after selecting a video.

Input parameters:

- `endSeconds` (number)
- `maxChars` (integer)
- `startSeconds` (number)
- `videoId` (string, required)

### `list_videos` (~183 tokens)

List curated BuildFeed videos, optionally filtered by category and sorted by recency, views, likes, or quality score. Returns compact video records (title, channel, categories, view/like counts, quality score) without transcript or description text. Use this to browse recent/top videos; use search_videos instead when looking for a specific topic.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string): Restrict to one category: AI, VC, Startup, Product, Design, or Tools.
- `limit` (integer): Max videos to return (default 20, hard cap 50).
- `since` (string): Only videos published on or after this ISO 8601 date. Searches the full archive; videos outside the rolling cache have qualityScore 0 and commentCount 0.
- `sort` (string): Sort order: recent (default), views, likes, or quality.

### `get_video` (~116 tokens)

Get full detail for a single BuildFeed video — description, channel info, stats, categories, topics, TLDR, and key takeaways (the raw transcript text itself is excluded). Accepts either an 11-character YouTube video ID or a BuildFeed article slug. Use this after search_videos/list_videos to drill into one specific result.

Input parameters:

- `id` (string, required): YouTube video ID (11 chars, e.g. "dQw4w9WgXcQ") or a BuildFeed article slug.

### `list_channels` (~84 tokens)

List YouTube channels tracked by BuildFeed, with per-channel video counts and categories, sorted by video count descending. Use this to discover which creators BuildFeed covers, optionally filtered to a category.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string): Restrict to channels that have published in this category.
- `limit` (integer): Max channels to return (default 20, hard cap 50).

### `list_categories` (~56 tokens)

List all of BuildFeed's video categories (AI, VC, Startup, Product, Design, Tools) with the number of videos in each. Use this to understand the taxonomy before filtering search_videos/list_videos/list_channels by category.

### `list_topics` (~99 tokens)

List canonical topic clusters from the full BuildFeed archive, grouped into stable families such as AI & Models, Building, Product, Startups, and Industry. Returns video counts, aliases, content-type distribution, and audience labels.

Input parameters:

- `group` (string): Optional exact topic family, e.g. "Building" or "Startups".
- `limit` (integer)
- `minVideos` (integer): Only return clusters with at least this many videos.

### `get_stats` (~63 tokens)

Get aggregate statistics for the entire BuildFeed corpus: total videos, channels, categories, topics, and views; the published-date range; and transcript/TLDR enrichment coverage. Use this for high-level "how much data / how fresh" questions rather than per-video detail.

### `get_weekly_roundup` (~133 tokens)

Get BuildFeed's weekly roundup content. Without a date, returns the index of available weekly roundups (most recent first) — useful for discovering which weeks exist. With a date (YYYY-MM-DD week key), returns that week's full roundup detail. Use this for "what happened this week" or historical week-by-week summary questions.

Input parameters:

- `date` (string): ISO date (YYYY-MM-DD) identifying a specific week. Omit to list available weeks.
- `limit` (integer): When listing weeks (no "date" given), max entries to return (default 20, hard cap 50).

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-10-18: 68
- 2026-10-17: 67
- 2026-10-16: 67
- 2026-10-15: 66
- 2026-10-14: 66

## Common questions

### What is the BuildFeed MCP server?

BuildFeed is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as tech.buildfeed/buildfeed. Startup, product, and design takes from curated tech YouTube, with timestamped transcript passages. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://buildfeed.tech/api/mcp).

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

BuildFeed scores 68 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 BuildFeed MCP server expose?

BuildFeed exposes 10 tools: search_videos, search_transcript_passages, get_transcript, list_videos, get_video, and 5 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 1,095 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the BuildFeed MCP server require authentication?

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

### Is the BuildFeed MCP server still maintained?

BuildFeed is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 18 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://buildfeed.tech/api/mcp
- Website: https://buildfeed.tech/docs/mcp/overview
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/tech-buildfeed-buildfeed/api-mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/tech-buildfeed-buildfeed/api-mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/tech-buildfeed-buildfeed/api-mcp