# Mind the Gates — UK level crossings (remote · mindthegates.uk)

Live barrier status and closure forecasts for ~1,600 UK level crossings. Public data, no auth.

- Trust score: 68/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +8
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-08-03

## Components

- remote · `mindthegates.uk`: 68/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/uk-mindthegates-crossings/mindthegates.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/uk-mindthegates-crossings/mindthegates)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://mindthegates.uk/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 2026-08-03.

- **Endpoint Security**: 66/100
  - 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 4 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 is configured correctly; the domain's records validate against the full chain to the root.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 75/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 628 tokens (~157/item across 4 items; 4 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**: 60/100
  - Spec-recency check failed: implements MCP spec 2025-06-18; the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http uk-mindthegates-crossings https://mindthegates.uk/mcp
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.uk-mindthegates-crossings]
url = "https://mindthegates.uk/mcp"
```

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add uk-mindthegates-crossings --url https://mindthegates.uk/mcp --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  uk-mindthegates-crossings:
    url: "https://mindthegates.uk/mcp"
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "uk-mindthegates-crossings": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mindthegates.uk/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 68, +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 67, +1)

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

### 2026-07-30 (score 66, +3)

- [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, +2)

- [security improvement] HSTS header: fail → pass

### 2026-07-28 (score 61, +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.

### 2026-07-27 (score 60, +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 59)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (4)

### `list_crossings` (~152 tokens)

Search level crossings

Search UK level crossings by name, URL word or region name (substring, case-insensitive). Returns one line per match — name, crossing type, region, and a status URL ending .md that returns that crossing's live markdown status. Reports the total match count and returns the first `limit`; there is no pagination, so narrow the query to see different matches. Names starting with the query sort first.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer): Maximum matches to return; clamped to 1-50. The total match count is reported regardless.
- `query` (string, required): Substring of a crossing name, its URL word, or a region name, e.g. 'thatcham' or 'kent'.

### `crossing_status` (~129 tokens)

Live crossing status

Live barrier status, the next-30-minute closure timeline and approaching trains for ONE crossing, as markdown. Forecasts are rebuilt per request from the live train feeds, so the answer changes minute to minute. Informational only — never a substitute for the signals and barriers at the crossing itself. An ambiguous name returns the candidate URL words to choose between; an unknown one asks you to call list_crossings first.

Input parameters:

- `crossing` (string, required): The crossing's URL word as returned by list_crossings (e.g. 'thatcham'), or its name — spaces are accepted and hyphenated internally.

### `crossings_near` (~174 tokens)

Crossings near a point

Nearest listed level crossings to a point, closest first. Returns one line per crossing — distance in MILES, then name, type, region and a status URL ending .md. Distance is straight-line (great circle) between the point and the crossing, NOT distance by road or along the railway: it answers 'which crossings are near this place', not 'which will this train reach next'.

Input parameters:

- `lat` (number, required): Latitude in WGS84 decimal degrees, e.g. 51.3958. Positive is north.
- `limit` (integer): How many crossings to return, nearest first; clamped to 1-25.
- `lon` (number, required): Longitude in WGS84 decimal degrees, e.g. -1.2637. NEGATIVE is west, which is most of Great Britain.

### `busiest_today` (~115 tokens)

Busiest crossings today

The ten UK level crossings with the most predicted road-closed time today. Takes no arguments. Each line gives the rank, crossing name, predicted minutes closed across the whole day, and a status URL ending .md. The ranking is computed from today's timetable once per day, shortly after UK midnight, and the build timestamp is included in the reply — it is a whole-day total, not a live reading, so use crossing_status for what a barrier is doing now. Briefly unavailable right after a restart while the first build runs.

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-08-03: 68
- 2026-08-02: 68
- 2026-08-01: 67
- 2026-07-31: 67
- 2026-07-30: 66
- 2026-07-29: 63
- 2026-07-28: 61
- 2026-07-27: 60
- 2026-07-26: 59

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://mindthegates.uk/mcp
- Website: https://mindthegates.uk/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/uk-mindthegates-crossings/mindthegates/changelog.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/uk-mindthegates-crossings/mindthegates/changelog.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/uk-mindthegates-crossings/mindthegates