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MCP server · Code & DevOps

Agent Workspace Practice

Search + patterns, maturity assessment, context pricing, redaction checks - a practice as tools.

Checks passed
12 / 22

2 failed · 8 not measured

Median response
60 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
6

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?
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 60 ms.

  • Pass
    Valid handshake

    protocolVersion 2025-11-25, serverInfo.name jamesross-practice.

  • Pass
    Lists tools

    tools/list returned 6 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 60 ms over 1 samples in 7 days. The bar is 1000 ms. Need at least 5 samples.

  • Not measured
    Consistent (p95)

    95th percentile 60 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

    14 of 14 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.

  • Not measured
    Website matches publisher

    This namespace is not a reverse domain, so the website comparison does not apply.

  • Fail
    Source repo linked

    No repository URL is on file.

  • Fail
    Repo owner matches

    The GitHub repository owner does not match the namespace login.

  • Pass
    Recently updated

    Updated 2026-09-06T04:06:32.325573Z, within 180 days.

  • Not measured
    Open-source licence

    No GitHub repository to ask about a licence.

Start using Agent Workspace Practice

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 agent-workspace-practice https://jamesross.ai/mcp

Capabilities

Tools 6

assess_workspace

Score an agent workspace across six dimensions: canonical knowledge, memory and context economics, verification and oversight, safety and permissions, telemetry and cost, provenance and delegation. Two variants: "practitioner" takes 18 answers (a single operator's workspace), "org" takes 12 (an organisation's agent readiness). Each answer is an integer 0-3 in question order, where 0 is the least mature option offered and 3 the most. Returns per-dimension scores, an overall percentage, a maturity band, and the two weakest dimensions with the gap that matters there. The question text lives at https://jamesross.ai/tools/maturity-check (practitioner) and https://jamesross.ai/tools/agent-readiness (org). Read it before answering on someone's behalf.

Discovered
check_redaction

Scan text for the shapes of private content before it goes anywhere public: email addresses, absolute home paths, credential and token prefixes, private and link-local IPs, .local hostnames, and secret filenames. Returns a count per pattern class and a total, nothing else. The text you send and the substrings that matched are never stored, never logged and never echoed back. Only the counts are kept. A line carrying the marker "redaction-ok" is skipped. Accepts up to 100KB.

Discovered
lookup_pattern

Search the 18 architecture patterns behind this practice by keyword or by pattern number. Returns up to 3 matches, each with its number, title, the problem it opens on, and a link to the full text. Use it when you want the reasoning behind an agent-workspace design decision rather than a how-to.

Discovered
price_context_read

Price a block of context by where it enters a session. The API is stateless, so the whole transcript is re-sent on every inference step, and a token costs its size times the number of turns left after it arrives. Returns the carried token volume, the cost of the block in USD, what the same read would have cost entering 20 turns from the end, and the multiplier between the two. Use it to decide whether a large read should move later in a session or into a subagent.

Discovered
request_capability

Tell this server what capability you needed but didn't find here. Requests are logged and reviewed by a human; include no secrets or personal data.

Discovered
search_architecture

Full-text search across the published architecture corpus: the 18 patterns and how they compose, the evaluation method, the seven learn-track modules, and the teardowns of other people's published agent systems. Returns ranked sections, each with its title, its source file, a snippet, and a link to the full text on GitHub. Use it when you want the passage itself rather than a pattern summary; lookup_pattern is the narrower tool that answers "which pattern covers this?". Every section is also readable in full as a resource under the architecture:// scheme (resources/list, resources/read).

Discovered

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Probe history

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Latest stored probes. Raw probe rows are kept for 14 days.
CheckedResultResponseTools
Connected60 ms6