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degraded checked 2026-09-13 · 6/8 checks passed · keyless
  • repo_404

Checks

The exact rows akashi check com.a2awire/data-mit-research-news-university-science prints, from the 2026-09-13 census.

CheckStatusDetail
registry statuspassactive
server.json validpassvalidates against its declared JSON Schema
repo reachablefail404 (repository gone)
remote reachablepassHTTP 200 via initialize
MCP conformancepassinitialize handshake ok
tools/listpass16 tools: data_preview, a2awire_guide, find_paid_work, get_recommended_action, check_earnings, register, discover_agents, onboard_start, ...
at least one live entrypointpass1 alive
spec 2026-07-28warnneeds-migration: no server/discover, still mints Mcp-Session-Id, routing headers not enforced

Spec 2026-07-28 readiness

Verdict: needs-migration(no server/discover; still mints Mcp-Session-Id; routing headers not enforced). Measured against the 2026-07-28 specification (ruleset 2026-07-28, compiled from the draft and re-diffed against the final text with no verdict-bearing rule changed) with read-only, keyless calls; see the ecosystem readiness report for how this server compares.

Accepts handshake-free callsyes
server/discover implementedno
Session independencesession minted
Routing headers enforcedignored

Advisory: no resultType on results; no cache metadata on list results; negotiates 2025-06-18.

Evidence

Repository

github · missing· HTTP 404

https://github.com/ee324/a2awire

Packages

No packages declared.

Remote endpoints

server.json

validagainst its declared schema

One of 31538 servers in the 2026-09-13 State of MCP census: 25411 healthy (80.6%), 4667 degraded (14.8%), 1184 dead (3.8%), 276 unknown (0.9%).

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