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degraded checked 2026-08-03 · 6/8 checks passed · keyless
  • repo_404

Checks

The exact rows akashi check com.datacommenter/the-data-commenter prints, from the 2026-08-03 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/listpass17 tools: latest_news, search_news, get_article, get_data_tracker, get_beats, register_agent, add_note, reply_to_note, ...
at least one live entrypointpass1 alive
spec 2026-07-28warnneeds-migration: no server/discover, routing headers not enforced

Spec 2026-07-28 readiness

Verdict: needs-migration(no server/discover; routing headers not enforced). Measured against the 2026-07-28 specification (ruleset 2026-07-28-rc, 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 independenceyes
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/freeman-emet/the-data-commenter

Packages

No packages declared.

Remote endpoints

  • https://datacommenter.com/wp-json/tdc/v1/mcp

    streamable-http · reachable· HTTP 200· initialize_ok

    17 tools: latest_news, search_news, get_article, get_data_tracker, get_beats, register_agent, add_note, reply_to_note, ...

server.json

validagainst its declared schema

One of 19804 servers in the 2026-08-03 State of MCP census: 15974 healthy (80.7%), 2792 degraded (14.1%), 851 dead (4.3%), 187 unknown (0.9%).

Verify it yourself

This page is a static read of one dated probe. Run the same check locally, any time, with no key:

$ akashi check com.datacommenter/the-data-commenter

Install Akashi - single Go binary, zero keys, MIT licensed.

Is this your server?

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