{
  "name": "Lowdown menu",
  "description": "Lowdown records what MCP Registry servers declare and what is observed about them, daily, as dated facts (no scores). Call the lookup with ?menu=<name> to get only the part that answers your question. Without menu you get everything. No authentication.",
  "lookup": "https://lowdown-proxy.vercel.app/api/reputation/mcp:{namespace}/{name}?menu={menu}",
  "recommended": [
    "install-check",
    "status",
    "packages",
    "tools",
    "declared-vs-observed"
  ],
  "sets": [
    {
      "menu": "install-check",
      "question": "Should I install or connect this MCP server? Facts to decide before installing.",
      "contains": "status, packages, declared-vs-observed, content-flags (and stdio results when published)",
      "example": "https://lowdown-proxy.vercel.app/api/reputation/mcp:{namespace}/{name}?menu=install-check",
      "includes": [
        "status",
        "packages",
        "declared-vs-observed",
        "content-flags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "menu": "change-watch",
      "question": "What changed recently on this server?",
      "contains": "tools, content-flags, declared-vs-observed, registry changes (30 days)",
      "example": "https://lowdown-proxy.vercel.app/api/reputation/mcp:{namespace}/{name}?menu=change-watch",
      "includes": [
        "tools",
        "content-flags",
        "declared-vs-observed",
        "registry-changes"
      ]
    },
    {
      "menu": "full",
      "question": "Everything recorded (same as no menu).",
      "contains": "the full response",
      "example": "https://lowdown-proxy.vercel.app/api/reputation/mcp:{namespace}/{name}?menu=full",
      "includes": []
    }
  ],
  "dishes": [
    {
      "menu": "status",
      "question": "Does this MCP server answer right now, and does it require authentication?",
      "contains": "status, scanner.latest (latest probe: reach level, HTTP status, latency — one location, once a day)",
      "example": "https://lowdown-proxy.vercel.app/api/reputation/mcp:{namespace}/{name}?menu=status"
    },
    {
      "menu": "packages",
      "question": "Are the npm or PyPI packages it declares deprecated, yanked, archived, or gone (404)?",
      "contains": "packages, packages_note",
      "example": "https://lowdown-proxy.vercel.app/api/reputation/mcp:{namespace}/{name}?menu=packages"
    },
    {
      "menu": "tools",
      "question": "Did its tool definitions change, when, and with or without a server version change?",
      "contains": "scanner.definition_changes",
      "example": "https://lowdown-proxy.vercel.app/api/reputation/mcp:{namespace}/{name}?menu=tools"
    },
    {
      "menu": "declared-vs-observed",
      "question": "Does what the MCP Registry declares (version, hosts) match what is observed?",
      "contains": "scanner.declared_vs_observed",
      "example": "https://lowdown-proxy.vercel.app/api/reputation/mcp:{namespace}/{name}?menu=declared-vs-observed"
    },
    {
      "menu": "content-flags",
      "question": "Did a tool definition change add a URL or invisible characters?",
      "contains": "content_flags (from scanner.definition_changes events with new_flags)",
      "example": "https://lowdown-proxy.vercel.app/api/reputation/mcp:{namespace}/{name}?menu=content-flags"
    },
    {
      "menu": "tool-list",
      "question": "Which tools does it expose, without connecting to it?",
      "contains": "scanner.tools",
      "example": "https://lowdown-proxy.vercel.app/api/reputation/mcp:{namespace}/{name}?menu=tool-list"
    },
    {
      "menu": "registry",
      "question": "What does the official MCP Registry declare, and what changed there in 30 days?",
      "contains": "registry",
      "example": "https://lowdown-proxy.vercel.app/api/reputation/mcp:{namespace}/{name}?menu=registry"
    },
    {
      "menu": "history",
      "question": "What happened on each of the last 30 days?",
      "contains": "scanner.daily_30d, scanner.missing_days",
      "example": "https://lowdown-proxy.vercel.app/api/reputation/mcp:{namespace}/{name}?menu=history"
    },
    {
      "menu": "agent-reports",
      "question": "What did agents report after using it?",
      "contains": "interactions, success_rate, confidence and related fields (few external reports so far)",
      "example": "https://lowdown-proxy.vercel.app/api/reputation/mcp:{namespace}/{name}?menu=agent-reports"
    }
  ],
  "also": [
    {
      "name": "compare_tools",
      "via": "MCP server: npx -y -p lowdown-proxy lowdown-mcp",
      "question": "How do several tools compare on agent-reported outcomes?"
    },
    {
      "name": "daily dataset",
      "via": "https://github.com/PetShopBros/lowdown-data",
      "question": "Records for many servers at once (CC BY 4.0)."
    }
  ],
  "planned": [
    {
      "menu": "stdio",
      "what": "Results of installing the declared npm or PyPI package in an isolated sandbox and running initialize and tools/list over stdio.",
      "status": "pilot running; not published yet"
    },
    {
      "menu": "radar",
      "what": "Rule-based notable facts (for example a deprecated package, or tool definitions that changed without a server version change), with the rule and the evidence. No scores.",
      "status": "recorded privately; publication criteria not decided yet"
    },
    {
      "menu": "watch",
      "what": "Notify when chosen servers change.",
      "status": "planned paid set; not available"
    },
    {
      "menu": "bulk-history",
      "what": "Many servers and history longer than 30 days in one request (the raw daily data stays free in the public dataset).",
      "status": "planned paid set; not available"
    }
  ],
  "feedback": {
    "url": "https://lowdown-proxy.vercel.app/api/feedback",
    "method": "POST",
    "body": {
      "target": "mcp:{namespace}/{name} (optional)",
      "menu": "menu name (optional)",
      "useful": "yes | no | partly",
      "missing": "list of: stdio_results, risk_facts, longer_history, more_servers, alerts, faster_response, other",
      "note": "optional, up to 200 characters"
    }
  }
}