The MCP Census is a remote MCP server that gives an AI agent 13 tools, among them census_coverage, census_credits, census_lookalikes. It answers at https://api.mcpcensus.com/mcp over streamable HTTP, and it listed its tools to an anonymous client, so no sign-in was needed for that. Our probes reached it 10 of 10 times since 5 September 2026; the last check, on 18 October 2026, succeeded.
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Description as the publisher wrote it.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
census_coverage | Public transparency report (same payload as GET /v1/coverage). Unmetered. Live D1 census/identity/remote/protocol/adoption/pipeline counts plus method notes — never invents completeness percentages or a brand_audit punch list. |
census_credits | Show remaining Census credits for this API key (wallet after the UTC-month grant). Unmetered. Without a key, returns anonymous unique-per-day remaining — not a wallet. |
census_lookalikes | Contested identity for one exact server_name: official_for, name_collision_count, and up to 10 other census server_name values sharing the same namespace brand or tail. Never invents lookalikes. Cost 1. Inputs: server_name |
census_lookup | Get the live health verdict for one MCP server by its exact registry name (e.g. 'io.github.owner/name'). Returns stars, last-push recency, gone/archived/deprecated flags, name-collision count, and a fact-based health verdict (healthy | issu Inputs: name |
census_policy_list | List the exact immutable Preflight v1 built-in policy objects, canonical ruleset, and policy digests. Unmetered. |
census_preflight | Evaluate one exact MCP server under a documented built-in install policy. Returns PASS, REVIEW, or BLOCK with evidence reasons, freshness, digests, and explicit limits. This is a first gate, not a security audit. refresh=if_stale requires x Inputs: server_name, policy_id, refresh |
census_recent | Newest MCP servers by real first_seen_at (same payload as GET /v1/recent). Unmetered. Only rows with a known first-seen date — never invents or guesses discovery times. Optional limit 1–50 (default 20). Inputs: limit |
census_search | Search MCP servers by keyword or partial name (e.g. 'github', 'postgres'). Returns ranked matches with health/trust. Also returns: resolved_query (auto typo fix), disambiguate (when unsure), known_brand (we recognize a strong product but it Inputs: query, limit |
census_stamp | Census stamp for one exact MCP server under a built-in policy. Same input as census_preflight. Returns the preflight body plus compact CENSUS-STAMP/1 text and stamp_json. Cost matches preflight. Never connect without a stamp. PASS is not a Inputs: server_name, policy_id, refresh |
census_stats | Ecosystem headline numbers from the live census (same payload as GET /v1/stats). Unmetered. Returns total servers, healthy/issues counts, popular (gh_stars>=1000), remote-capable count, github-linked count, and captured_at. No invented metr |
census_watch_list | List active per-server watches for this API key. Requires x-api-key. |
census_watch_subscribe | Subscribe this agent (or a human email) to alerts for ONE specific MCP server. Fires only on real observed changes: remote_down, remote_up, health_change, verified_change, security. Requires x-api-key. Prefer webhook_url (https) so your age Inputs: server_name, webhook_url, email, events, label |
census_watch_unsubscribe | Deactivate a watch by id. Requires x-api-key that owns the watch. Inputs: id |
Every block below points at https://api.mcpcensus.com/mcp. Pick your client and copy.
claude mcp add --transport http the-mcp-census https://api.mcpcensus.com/mcp
{
"mcpServers": {
"the-mcp-census": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://api.mcpcensus.com/mcp"]
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"the-mcp-census": {
"url": "https://api.mcpcensus.com/mcp"
}
}
}{
"servers": {
"the-mcp-census": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://api.mcpcensus.com/mcp"
}
}
}{
"context_servers": {
"the-mcp-census": {
"url": "https://api.mcpcensus.com/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"the-mcp-census": {
"serverUrl": "https://api.mcpcensus.com/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"the-mcp-census": {
"url": "https://api.mcpcensus.com/mcp"
}
}
}name: The MCP Census
version: 0.0.1
schema: v1
mcpServers:
- name: The MCP Census
type: streamable-http
url: https://api.mcpcensus.com/mcp{
"mcpServers": {
"the-mcp-census": {
"httpUrl": "https://api.mcpcensus.com/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"the-mcp-census": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://api.mcpcensus.com/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"the-mcp-census": {
"url": "https://api.mcpcensus.com/mcp"
}
}
}goose://extension?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.mcpcensus.com%2Fmcp&type=streamable_http&id=the-mcp-census&name=The%20MCP%20Census
It answered our last check on 18 October 2026 in 154 ms. Over 10 checks since 5 September 2026 it answered 10. Status here comes from Neuronto's own probes, not from the publisher.
Yes. It is published by mcpcensus.com and served from api.mcpcensus.com, the vendor's own domain: https://api.mcpcensus.com/mcp.
13, as returned by the server's own tools/list on 31 August 2026: census_coverage, census_credits, census_lookalikes, census_lookup, census_policy_list, census_preflight, census_recent, census_search, and 5 more.
It answered our last check on 18 October 2026 in 154 ms. Over 10 checks since 5 September 2026 it answered 10.
Put the server under mcpServers in ~/.cursor/mcp.json with the URL https://api.mcpcensus.com/mcp. The exact JSON is above, with the same setup for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, VS Code, Windsurf, Zed, Gemini CLI and the rest.
It listed its tools to an anonymous client, so reading the tool list needs no key. Individual tools can still ask for credentials in their own inputs.
Publisher: com.mcpcensus. Endpoint host: api.mcpcensus.com. ARD identifier: urn:air:com.mcpcensus:mcp:census.
First indexed 31 August 2026. The tools are exactly what the server returned; nothing on this page
is inferred from its name. Ranking in Neuronto search is never for sale.