MCPRated FAQs

Name: MCPRated
Author: mcprated

Question 1

What is MCPRated and who is it for?

Accepted Answer

MCPRated is an agent-readable index that provides open, daily-updated quality ratings for Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. It's designed specifically for LLMs to discover, vet, and select tools at runtime, rather than for human browsing.

Question 2

What tools does MCPRated offer for LLMs?

Accepted Answer

LLMs can access 8 specialized tools like `find_server` (to map needs to capabilities and rank servers), `vet` (for trust verdicts), `search` (free-text server search), and `find_tool` (to discover specific tools by name across servers), among others, via its MCP endpoint or static catalog.

Question 3

How does MCPRated evaluate the quality of MCP servers?

Accepted Answer

MCPRated evaluates servers across four critical axes: Reliability, Documentation, Trust, and Community. These evaluations are deterministic and use an open ruleset (MIT license) with open data (CC-BY-4.0 license) for full transparency.

Question 4

How can an LLM client integrate with MCPRated?

Accepted Answer

LLM clients can integrate via a live Model Context Protocol endpoint (streamable HTTP) or by using the comprehensive static catalog API. Instructions are provided for popular clients like Claude Code/Desktop, Cursor, and Cline.

Question 5

What kind of information does MCPRated provide for each server?

Accepted Answer

For each server, MCPRated publishes a composite score, individual scores for the four axes, server `kind` and `subkind`, a list of `capabilities`, `tool_count`, `license`, `language`, and recency information, along with any hard flags.

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