# Writing Style Checker (remote · wsc.theserverless.dev)

Prose linter + AI-slop detector: weasel words, passive voice, hedging, and research-cited AI tells

- Trust score: 64/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +2
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-08-03

## Components

- remote · `wsc.theserverless.dev`: 64/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/theserverlessdev-wsc/wsc.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/theserverlessdev-wsc/wsc)
- npm · `wsc-mcp`: 68/100, [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/theserverlessdev-wsc/wsc-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/theserverlessdev-wsc/wsc-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://wsc.theserverless.dev/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `2.2.2`

## 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 2026-08-03.

- **Endpoint Security**: 57/100
  - 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 3 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.
  - 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**: 77/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 409 tokens (~136/item across 3 items; 3 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 27/100
  - Stability observed for 8 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.
- **Capabilities**: 40/100
  - Spec-recency check failed: implements MCP spec 2025-03-26; the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http theserverlessdev-wsc https://wsc.theserverless.dev/mcp
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.theserverlessdev-wsc]
url = "https://wsc.theserverless.dev/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "theserverlessdev-wsc": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://wsc.theserverless.dev/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add theserverlessdev-wsc --url https://wsc.theserverless.dev/mcp --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  theserverlessdev-wsc:
    url: "https://wsc.theserverless.dev/mcp"
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "theserverlessdev-wsc": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://wsc.theserverless.dev/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.

### 2026-08-02 (score 64, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 20 to 23. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 6 days of observed history at the previous scan, 7 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-07-31 (score 63, 0)

- [functional] We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server

### 2026-07-30 (score 63, 0)

- [functional] We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server

### 2026-07-29 (score 63, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 7 to 10. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 2 days of observed history at the previous scan, 3 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-07-27 (score 62, +1)

- [functional] We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server

### 2026-07-26 (score 61)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (3)

### `check_text` (~239 tokens)

Check text for writing style issues

Analyze text for writing style issues: weasel words, passive voice, duplicate words, long sentences, nominalizations, hedging, filler adverbs, and research-cited AI tells. Read-only and stateless — text is analyzed in memory on the hosted server and never stored. Returns a plain-text report with each issue's line and column, the matched text, surrounding context, and the reason for AI tells; texts over 100,000 characters return an error message. This hosted server has no filesystem access — the wsc-mcp npm package adds a check_file tool for local files. It only reports issues — to auto-remove duplicate words, follow up with fix_duplicates.

Input parameters:

- `config` (object): Optional config to enable/disable detectors or add/remove word-list entries; same schema as .wscrc.json (https://wsc.theserverless.dev/schema.json)
- `format` (string): Set to "markdown" to mask code blocks, inline code, tables, and headings so they are not linted as prose; default "plain" lints everything
- `text` (string, required): The text to analyze for writing style issues

### `fix_duplicates` (~93 tokens)

Remove duplicate adjacent words

Remove duplicate adjacent words (case-insensitive, including across line breaks) and return the cleaned text plus the list of words that were removed. Read-only with no side effects: the fix is returned in the response, nothing is written anywhere. Use after check_text reports duplicate words; other issue types are report-only and have no auto-fix.

Input parameters:

- `text` (string, required): The text to clean by removing duplicate adjacent words

### `list_word_lists` (~77 tokens)

List detector word lists

Return every detector word/phrase list with its entry count, config key, and sample entries, plus a link to the full browsable library. Read-only, takes no parameters, and returns the same catalog for a given release. Use it to see what the detectors match before tuning a config for check_text; not needed for ordinary checking.

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-08-03: 64
- 2026-08-02: 64
- 2026-08-01: 63
- 2026-07-31: 63
- 2026-07-30: 63
- 2026-07-29: 63
- 2026-07-28: 62
- 2026-07-27: 62
- 2026-07-26: 61

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://wsc.theserverless.dev/mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/theserverlessdev/wsc
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/theserverlessdev-wsc/wsc/changelog.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/theserverlessdev-wsc/wsc/changelog.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/theserverlessdev-wsc/wsc