MCP server health, State of MCP census

GoldenCheck

io.github.benseverndev-oss/goldencheck

Auto-discover validation rules from data — scan, profile, health-score. No rules to write.

degraded checked 2026-08-03 · 8/10 checks passed · keyless
  • repo_archived

Checks

The exact rows akashi check io.github.benseverndev-oss/goldencheck prints, from the 2026-08-03 census.

CheckStatusDetail
registry statuspassactive
server.json validpassvalidates against its declared JSON Schema
repo reachablewarnarchived (read-only)
package pypipasspublished (3.2.0)
remote reachablepassHTTP 200 via initialize
MCP conformancepassinitialize handshake ok
tools/listpass19 tools: scan, validate, profile, health_score, list_checks, get_column_detail, list_domains, get_domain_info, ...
at least one live entrypointpass2 alive
license presentpassMIT
spec 2026-07-28failat-risk: requires the removed Mcp-Session-Id session mechanism

Spec 2026-07-28 readiness

Verdict: at-risk(requires the removed Mcp-Session-Id session mechanism). 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 callsno
server/discover implementedno
Session independencesession required
Routing headers enforcedignored

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

Evidence

Packages

  • pypi goldencheck · published(3.2.0)

Remote endpoints

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

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$ akashi check io.github.benseverndev-oss/goldencheck

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