# UK Data: Utilities (remote · ukdata.reliness.co.uk)

Agent utilities: RDAP domain lookup, unshorten URLs, HTTPS checks, QR codes, calendar invites

- Trust score: 69/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `ukdata.reliness.co.uk`: 69/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/uk-co-reliness-utilities/mcp-utilities.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/uk-co-reliness-utilities/mcp-utilities)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/utilities`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.4.0`

## 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**: 69/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - No authorisation is required to call this server. Nothing on it is marked destructive, but we can't show that an anonymous caller can only read: full credit needs the server to list at least one tool and every tool to be verifiably read-only. We use a best-effort check of tool names and descriptions to tell read-only tools from tools that change things, so some genuinely read-only tools may not get full credit. Names that start with a read verb (get, list, read, search and similar) and accurate readOnlyHint annotations help. Meet that to earn full credit, or require authorisation.
  - HTTPS check failed: the endpoint is reachable over plaintext HTTP.
  - 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**: 70/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 403 tokens (~50/item across 8 items; 8 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 3/100
  - Stability observed for 1 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.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 8 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 8 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 UK Data: Utilities MCP server?

UK Data: Utilities is a hosted endpoint at https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/utilities, 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 uk-co-reliness-utilities 'https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/utilities'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "uk-co-reliness-utilities": {
      "url": "https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/utilities"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "uk-co-reliness-utilities": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/utilities"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.uk-co-reliness-utilities]
url = "https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/utilities"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "uk-co-reliness-utilities": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/utilities",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add uk-co-reliness-utilities --url 'https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/utilities' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  uk-co-reliness-utilities:
    url: "https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/utilities"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "uk-co-reliness-utilities": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/utilities"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add uk-co-reliness-utilities -t streamable-http -u 'https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/utilities'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "uk-co-reliness-utilities": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/utilities"
    }
  }
}
```

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 69, +10)

- [security improvement] Authorization: unverified → partial
- [security improvement] HSTS header: fail → pass
- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-11-04 (score 59)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (8)

### `rdap_lookup` (~42 tokens)

Domain registration data via RDAP: registrar, dates, status, nameservers. (cost: 1 credit)

Input parameters:

- `domain` (string): string, required

### `unshorten` (~33 tokens)

Follow redirects to the final URL. (cost: 1 credit)

Input parameters:

- `url` (string): string, required

### `ssl_check` (~41 tokens)

Whether a domain answers over HTTPS, with status, server and HSTS headers. (cost: 1 credit)

Input parameters:

- `domain` (string): string, required

### `qr_code` (~49 tokens)

QR code image URL for any text or link. (cost: 1 credit)

Input parameters:

- `size` (number|string): number 64-1024
- `text` (string): string, required

### `ical_event` (~78 tokens)

Build an .ics calendar event. (cost: 1 credit)

Input parameters:

- `description` (string): string
- `end` (string): ISO datetime
- `location` (string): string
- `start` (string): ISO datetime, required
- `timezone` (string): IANA
- `title` (string): string, required

### `text_stats` (~44 tokens)

Word, sentence and paragraph counts, reading time, Flesch reading ease, top words. (cost: 1 credit)

Input parameters:

- `text` (string): string, required

### `hash_text` (~56 tokens)

SHA hash of text plus a fresh UUID. (cost: 1 credit)

Input parameters:

- `algorithm` (string): SHA-1|SHA-256|SHA-384|SHA-512
- `text` (string): string, required

### `json_validate` (~60 tokens)

Parse JSON and validate against a simple JSON Schema (type, required, properties, items, enum, min/max, pattern). (cost: 1 credit)

Input parameters:

- `json` (string): string or object, required
- `schema` (string): object

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 69
- 2026-11-04: 59

## Common questions

### What is the UK Data: Utilities MCP server?

UK Data: Utilities is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as uk.co.reliness/utilities. Agent utilities: RDAP domain lookup, unshorten URLs, HTTPS checks, QR codes, calendar invites. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/utilities).

### Is the UK Data: Utilities MCP server safe to use?

UK Data: Utilities scores 69 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 UK Data: Utilities MCP server expose?

UK Data: Utilities exposes 8 tools: rdap_lookup, unshorten, ssl_check, qr_code, ical_event, and 3 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 403 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the UK Data: Utilities MCP server require authentication?

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

### Is the UK Data: Utilities MCP server still maintained?

UK Data: Utilities 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 did VerifyMCP test on the UK Data: Utilities MCP server?

VerifyMCP ran 13 checks on UK Data: Utilities, covering TLS certificate, Authorization, HTTPS, HSTS header and 9 more. Supply Chain Security and Provenance & Transparency do not apply to a hosted endpoint, so they were not tested. The score does not measure everything, and the scoring documentation lists what it leaves out.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/utilities
- Website: https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/uk-co-reliness-utilities/mcp-utilities.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/uk-co-reliness-utilities/mcp-utilities/changelog.json
- Trust report (JSON): https://verifymcp.io/servers/uk-co-reliness-utilities/mcp-utilities.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/uk-co-reliness-utilities/mcp-utilities