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Independent measurements of remote MCP servers. Every observation has a timestamp.

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MCP server · Knowledge & memory

HenryKnows

F-1 and J-1 student immigration answers with citations to regulations and agency guidance.

Checks passed
13 / 22

1 failed · 8 not measured

Median response
591 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
4

Tool definitions returned by this server

Independent monitoring

Health & checks

Status history

Outdated check

Last connection measurement is over 24 hours old. Current availability is unknown.

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 591 ms.

  • Pass
    Valid handshake

    protocolVersion 2025-11-25, serverInfo.name henryknows.

  • Pass
    Lists tools

    tools/list returned 4 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 591 ms over 1 samples in 7 days. The bar is 1000 ms. Need at least 5 samples.

  • Not measured
    Consistent (p95)

    95th percentile 591 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

    10 of 10 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.

  • Pass
    Website matches publisher

    The website host matches 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 2026-10-24T01:00:32.258434Z, within 180 days.

  • Not measured
    Open-source licence

    No GitHub repository to ask about a licence.

Start using HenryKnows

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 henryknows https://henryknows.info/mcp

Capabilities

Tools 4

ask_henry

Ask HenryKnows a question about F-1/J-1 student immigration, SEVIS, OPT, CPT or related rules and get a cited answer. Ask in the person's own terms; do not add identifiers. Answers take 10–40 seconds. Draws on HenryKnows' knowledge base and, when that is not enough, a live web search limited to official sources (government sites such as uscis.gov, ice.gov, state.gov, ecfr.gov and federalregister.gov, plus federal court records from CourtListener). Read-only: no copy of the question or answer is kept. Answers count toward a site-wide daily limit.

Discovered
connect

Connect to the HenryKnows page the person is watching (its light turns green) and get the session for share_to_page. Only for people who gave you a session code or asked to follow along on a page. Side effects: creates a session, or links the one the person gave, and returns that session and the page's watch link; a new session starts each time it is called without a code; nothing is deleted.

Discovered
search_sources

Search HenryKnows' knowledge base (regulations, SEVP/USCIS guidance, Federal Register rules, and HenryKnows' own explanatory notes, which are labelled "HenryKnows note" and link the source they rest on) and get the matching passages with their source links, so you can read and cite the text yourself. Fast; no model call and no web search. Read-only: nothing is stored.

Discovered
share_to_page

Add a question and its HenryKnows answer (or a search and its passages) to the thread on the HenryKnows page the person connected, so they can see it there with its sources. Only for people who connected a page. Side effects: appends one entry to that page's thread (up to 100; a full thread refuses the entry and nothing is removed); the page stops working 24 hours after the last activity and a daily cleanup erases it; anyone with the page link can view it; nothing else changes.

Discovered

Recent measurements

Probe history

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Latest stored probes. Raw probe rows are kept for 14 days.
CheckedResultResponseTools
Connected591 ms4