# link-check-lite (pypi · link-check-lite)

Check web links for status codes, broken links and redirect chains.

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

## Components

- pypi · `link-check-lite`: 80/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/tidybytetools-link-check-lite/link-check-lite.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/tidybytetools-link-check-lite/link-check-lite)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `pypi`
- Package: `link-check-lite`
- Version: `1.1.1`
- Transport: `stdio`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically from public evidence about the published package, including repeated runs of it in an isolated sandbox, 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.

- **Supply Chain Security**: 100/100
  - No malware found by supply-chain analysis.
  - No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.
  - Runs setuptools.build_meta at install time, a recognised build step with no custom scripting around it.
  - 0 of 28 dependencies flagged as unhealthy.
- **Provenance & Transparency**: 97/100
  - Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL.
  - Cryptographically verified build provenance (signed, bound to tidybytetools/link-check-lite).
  - Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).
  - Actively maintained (last published 0 days ago).
  - Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 82/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 197 tokens (~197/item across 1 items; 1 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 0/100
  - Stability not yet verified: not enough scan history yet (needs a 30-day window).
- **Tool Coverage**: 71/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 0% 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 1 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 1 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.

**Unverified: 1 category.** A category scored 0 because we could not verify it: a data source with nothing on this package, evidence we could not reach, or a check we could not run. We only credit what we can confirm.

## Install

### How do I install the link-check-lite MCP server?

link-check-lite runs locally as a PyPI package, launched with uvx link-check-lite mcp. 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 tidybytetools-link-check-lite -- uvx link-check-lite mcp
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tidybytetools-link-check-lite": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "link-check-lite",
        "mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "tidybytetools-link-check-lite": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "link-check-lite",
        "mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add tidybytetools-link-check-lite -- uvx link-check-lite mcp
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "tidybytetools-link-check-lite": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "uvx",
        "link-check-lite",
        "mcp"
      ],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add tidybytetools-link-check-lite --command uvx --arg link-check-lite --arg mcp
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  tidybytetools-link-check-lite:
    command: "uvx"
    args: ["link-check-lite", "mcp"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "tidybytetools-link-check-lite": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "uvx",
      "Arguments": [
        "link-check-lite",
        "mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add tidybytetools-link-check-lite -t stdio -c uvx -a link-check-lite mcp
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tidybytetools-link-check-lite": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "link-check-lite",
        "mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## 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 80, +15)

- [security improvement] Malware scan: unverified → pass

### 2026-11-04 (score 65)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (1)

### `check_links` (~197 tokens)

Check links

Check web links and follow their redirects.

Use this when you have a list of URLs and need to know which ones work, which
are broken (404, 500, timeouts, bad hosts) and where redirects end up, for
example to clean up docs, a README, a sitemap list or bookmarks. It does not
crawl a site or read page content; pass the exact links you want checked.
Links that are not http or https come back with ok false and an error.

urls: up to 200 http(s) links.
timeout: seconds to wait for each link.

Returns one result per link: {url, status, ok, final_url, redirects, error}.
status is the HTTP code of the last hop (null if it could not connect).
ok is true for 200-399. redirects lists each hop as "CODE url".

Input parameters:

- `timeout` (number)
- `urls` (array, required)

Output parameters:

- `result` (array)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Install scripts, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/tidybytetools-link-check-lite/link-check-lite#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 80
- 2026-11-04: 65

## Common questions

### What is the link-check-lite MCP server?

link-check-lite is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.tidybytetools/link-check-lite. Check web links for status codes, broken links and redirect chains. This page covers its PyPI package (link-check-lite).

### Is the link-check-lite MCP server safe to use?

link-check-lite scores 80 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 5 November 2026. Its build provenance is signed and verified. 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 link-check-lite MCP server expose?

link-check-lite exposes 1 tool: check_links. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 197 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the link-check-lite MCP server still maintained?

link-check-lite 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.

### What licence is the link-check-lite MCP server under?

link-check-lite declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.

### What did VerifyMCP test on the link-check-lite MCP server?

VerifyMCP ran 15 checks on link-check-lite, covering Malware scan, Known CVEs, Install scripts, Dependency health and 11 more. One item could not be completed, a gap on our side rather than a finding about link-check-lite: Stability. One category scores 0 for that reason, because we only credit what we can confirm. Endpoint Security and Transport & Reachability do not apply to a PyPI package, so they were not tested. The score does not measure everything, and the scoring documentation lists what it leaves out.

## Links

- PyPI project: https://pypi.org/project/link-check-lite/
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/pypi/package/link-check-lite
- Repository: https://github.com/tidybytetools/link-check-lite
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/tidybytetools-link-check-lite/link-check-lite.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/tidybytetools-link-check-lite/link-check-lite/changelog.json
- Trust report (JSON): https://verifymcp.io/servers/tidybytetools-link-check-lite/link-check-lite.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/tidybytetools-link-check-lite/link-check-lite