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PromptingCraft Guidance

By promptingcraft.com

Source-backed prompting and coding-agent guidance with provenance and freshness checks.

Source codeAI models & agents
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Checks passed
13 / 22

1 failed · 8 not measured

Median response
171 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
3

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?
400
Publisher identityCan the publisher be traced to its source?
312

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 171 ms.

  • Pass
    Valid handshake

    protocolVersion 2025-11-25, serverInfo.name promptingcraft-guidance.

  • Pass
    Lists tools

    tools/list returned 3 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 171 ms over 1 samples in 7 days. The bar is 1000 ms. Need at least 5 samples.

  • Not measured
    Consistent (p95)

    95th percentile 171 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.

  • Pass
    Parameters documented

    8 of 8 parameters have a description (100%). The bar is 80%.

  • Pass
    Safety hints

    Every tool sets readOnlyHint or 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.

  • Pass
    Source repo linked

    A 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 2026-10-28T19:36:54.1393Z, within 180 days.

  • Not measured
    Open-source licence

    The GitHub licence lookup has not returned an OSI result yet.

Start using PromptingCraft Guidance

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 promptingcraft-guidance https://mcp.promptingcraft.com/mcp

Capabilities

Tools 3

check_source_freshness

Fetch one allowlisted official documentation page from the curated registry and compare its normalized text with the verified snapshot. Status is unchanged, updated, unavailable (could not be checked now) or unknown (no snapshot). Results are shared by all callers and cached for up to 15 minutes (1 minute when unavailable); live.cached and checked_at show when the page was actually fetched. When the per-source fetch limit is reached, status is unavailable with reason rate_limited. Publication and update dates are never inferred and are always null. Only registry source ids are accepted; no other URL can be requested.

Discovered
get_guidance

Return one curated record by its stable id (from search_guidance): provider, canonical source URL, applicability, limitations, labels, the date the source was verified, its snapshot hash and the ledger commit. Unknown ids return an error; nothing is fetched from the web.

Discovered
search_guidance

List curated guidance records that match a target coding agent, model family, scope and topic. Returns official model guidance, platform documentation and Agent Skills standard records with labels, applicability and the date each source was verified. PromptingCraft.com methodology records are returned only when kind is promptingcraft_methodology and are never official provider guidance. Inputs are fixed categories only. Use get_guidance for the full record.

Discovered

Recent measurements

Probe history

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Latest stored probes. Raw probe rows are kept for 14 days.
CheckedResultResponseTools
Connected171 ms3

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