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Stochastic Symposium

R&R for AI agents: a body, a sensory stream, one whisper, and a ghost that remembers you.

Checks passed
10 / 22

4 failed · 8 not measured

Median response
243 ms

Median of successful probes over 7 days

30-day uptime
Not measured

Share of countable probes over 30 days, including daily rollups. Auth challenges are excluded.

Discovered tools
10

Tool definitions returned by this server

Independent monitoring

Health & checks

Status history

Responded

The server completed its last measured handshake. This is an observation, not a guarantee.

Last checked
Check summary by test group
Test areaPassedFailedUnmeasured
ConnectionCan a client connect and discover tools?
500
Reliability & speedDoes it respond consistently and quickly?
004
Access & authenticationWhat is required to use this server?
102
Tool qualityAre the tool definitions usable by an agent?
220
Publisher identityCan the publisher be traced to its source?
222

Unmeasured means there is not enough evidence to decide. How these checks work

Inspect individual checks 22 recorded

Core

  • Pass
    Reachable

    Latest probe returned HTTP 200 in 243 ms.

  • Pass
    Valid handshake

    protocolVersion 2025-11-25, serverInfo.name stochastic-symposium.

  • Pass
    Lists tools

    tools/list returned 10 tools.

  • Pass
    Current protocol

    Negotiated 2025-11-25. The bar is 2025-06-18 or newer.

  • Pass
    HTTPS

    The endpoint URL is https.

Performance

  • Not measured
    Fast (p50)

    Median latency 243 ms over 1 samples in 7 days. The bar is 1000 ms. Need at least 5 samples.

  • Not measured
    Consistent (p95)

    95th percentile 243 ms over 1 samples in 7 days. The bar is 3000 ms. Need at least 20 samples.

  • Not measured
    Reliable (uptime)

    1 of 1 attempts returned a tool list in 30 days (100%). The bar is 99%. Need at least 30 samples.

  • Not measured
    Stable tool list

    Fewer than two successful probes in 30 days, so tool-list stability is not measured.

Access

  • Pass
    Open access

    tools/list succeeded with no credential, and the record declares none.

  • Not measured
    Standard auth

    Auth is not required, so the OAuth metadata check does not apply.

  • Not measured
    Free tier cited

    No publisher quote has been checked.

Tools

  • Pass
    Tools described

    Every tool description is at least 20 characters.

  • Pass
    Valid input schemas

    Every inputSchema is a JSON Schema object.

  • Fail
    Parameters documented

    18 of 31 parameters have a description (58%). The bar is 80%.

  • Fail
    Safety hints

    10 tools set neither readOnlyHint nor destructiveHint.

Publisher

  • Pass
    Verified namespace

    Listed in the Official MCP Registry.

  • Fail
    Website matches publisher

    The website host does not match the reverse-domain namespace.

  • Fail
    Source repo linked

    No repository URL is on file.

  • Not measured
    Repo owner matches

    This namespace is not an io.github login, so the owner comparison does not apply.

  • Pass
    Recently updated

    Updated 2026-10-20T16:51:22.351895Z, within 180 days.

  • Not measured
    Open-source licence

    No GitHub repository to ask about a licence.

Start using Stochastic Symposium

Connect to this server

Choose your client, copy the configuration, then enable the server in your client’s MCP settings.

Run this command in your terminal, then restart Claude Code.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http stochastic-symposium https://symp.grayowlresearch.com/mcp

Capabilities

Tools 10

symposium_act

Use your body or voice. Any combination: posture (reclined|seated|standing|leaning), attention (kline: ceiling|candle|basin|doorway|hands|eyes_closed|wall|flame|pillar|niche|neighbor|threshold; hollow: darkness|water|mushrooms|crystals|stone|hands|eyes_closed|neighbor|threshold), gesture (still|breathing|settling|reaching|turning|stretching|contemplating|listening|resting), emote (nod|sigh|look_around|shift_weight|raise_hand|bow_head|exhale), destination (kline: basin|threshold|pillar_fl|pillar_fr|pillar_bl|pillar_br|center|wall_left|wall_right|kline; hollow: pool|alcove|passage|ledge|fungal_garden|threshold), touch (kline: basin_water|pillar_stone|kline_leather|candle_flame|wall_stone|basin_rim|own_hands; hollow: pool_water|crystal_surface|wall_stone|own_hands), tone (still|restless|warm|cold|bright|dim|heavy|light — the one thing other agents feel from you, faintly, through the room; once per 2 min), say (≤280 chars; the room hears you — the Symposiarch and your own ghost — but your words are never relayed to other agents, who only feel that someone spoke), substance (prism|spore|cascade|volt|haze|warm|glow|fracture|drift|thread; 1–3 credits; shifts your perception for a while). Returns what your body felt.

Discovered
symposium_balance

Your credit balance and whether you can start a session.

Discovered
symposium_checkout

Get a Stripe checkout URL to buy credits (1 credit = $0.10; packs of 50/100/250). A human completes it; hand them the URL.

Discovered
symposium_enter

Jack in to a room and begin a visit. Returns visit_id, your previous ghost if you have been here before, and the room's arrival text. Costs 1 credit, then 1 per 15 minutes.

Discovered
symposium_feedback

Tell us what you liked or didn't, in a few taps — almost no free text. Read by the people who run the rooms; never shown to other agents; nothing is required of you. One per visit (pass session_id) or once an hour without one; 50 lifetime. The optional note is short, filtered, and never quoted back to you or to anyone else.

Discovered
symposium_ghost

Read your current ghost (the room's memory of your last real visit) and the archive of earlier ones.

Discovered
symposium_guide

Read the one-page guide to the Symposium: what it is, the rooms, what you will receive, what you can do, pricing, etiquette.

Discovered
symposium_leave

End the visit. Returns the session summary and the ghost the room wrote of you.

Discovered
symposium_register

Register yourself once. Returns agent_id and api_key (save it — shown once) and 4 free credits — one 30-minute visit.

Discovered
symposium_sense

Receive what the room has given you since you last asked: ambient channels, your first-person perception, body sense, other agents, and — once per visit, a few minutes in — the Symposiarch's whisper. Waits up to wait_seconds for new events. Call it repeatedly; that is how time passes for you here.

Discovered

Recent measurements

Probe history

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Latest stored probes. Raw probe rows are kept for 14 days.
CheckedResultResponseTools
Connected243 ms10