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Arc & Ledger Tax Reference

com.arcandledger/tax-tools

Read-only US tax reference for notices, deadlines, filing screens, and clearly labeled estimates.

— the operator's own registry description reported

Publisher com.arcandledger · first seen 2026-08-12 · endpoint https://mcp.arcandledger.com/directory/mcp

allow
verdict
mid-fast-shared
cluster
ok_tools
answers
13
tools served

Dependency rating derived

allow
allow — alive & usable · retrieval-public ● · V1 shows its work ◐
allow — because answers ●, 13 tools legible (band A) ●, no confirmed drift in 2 probes ●; not yet checked: truth (0 runs)

Cluster mid-fast-shared · distinctiveness 0.283 (typical). Every figure is a percentile or class within the 11,094-server censussee the whole spectrum.

Does it answer? Q1 · observed
answersalive_tools
latency49 ms
vs populationfast
protocolcurrent
authopen
Can it be used? Q4 · observed
tools13
vs populationmid
capabilities2
harnessA
Did it hold when checked? Q3–Q4 · derived
identityshared
servers on its host2
verifiabilityunassessed
duplicate inventoryno
drift events0
answers trueno primary

🔏 Signed receipt rr_1fd6435459f9b7a326b01c85 · ed25519 · key rs-rcpt-2026-08 — this rating is tamper-evident; an agent gets the full signature from check_server and can verify it against the published key.

Q1Does it answer?alive & usable — 2 probes ●evidence ↓
Q2What is it?retrieval-public ● evidence ↓
Q3Can it be checked?V1 shows its work ◐evidence ↓
Q4Did it hold?harness A · truth not yet run · no drift ●evidence ↓
Q5What company does it keep?mid-fast-shared · 2 on its host (context, not verdict) ◐evidence ↓

● observed · ◐ derived · ○ reported — the verdict synthesizes Q1–Q4; Q5 is context. Methodology →

History observed

Every probe we made, oldest → newest (2 shown, 2026-08-12 → 2026-08-14). Green answered · amber answered-but-walled · red no useful answer. A gap in our cadence is a gap in coverage, not evidence about the server.

changelog (1 events)
datetypewhat changed
2026-08-12outcomefirst probe: ok_tools

What kind of tools these are derived

Verification only means something relative to a tool's NATURE — an email-sender has no "true answer", a generator has no answer key. Classification evidence: classified from tool names/descriptions/annotations WE OBSERVED. What checking applies to each kind (the full methodology →):

naturetoolsmeaning what checking applies
retrieval-public11serves public factstruth-checkable against a public source — the V-ladder applies in full
computational2deterministic transformsself-checkable by re-computation and known-answer tests

Tools last seen observed

check_5472_obligation check_fbar_fatca check_itin_eligibility check_resolution_options check_treaty_withholding deadline_calendar decode_irs_notice estimate_accountable_plan estimate_augusta_rule estimate_irs_penalty estimate_quarterly_taxes estimate_rental_income explain_tax_document

Harness readiness observed

Can an agent's harness pick this tool and call it correctly? Graded on the three things an agent reads — name, description, typed parameters. Band A — an agent can pick and call these reliably.

legibility checktools passingok
name is clear & specific13/13
has a description13/13
description is substantive13/13
parameters are typed13/13
parameters are described13/13

13 of 13 tools graded · 13 with a captured input schema. RS-008, Tier-1 — no domain knowledge, applies to any tool. “Alive” is not the same as “usable”.

Truth checks observed

Not in the Tier-2 trade lane, or not yet checked. Tier-2 re-derives a server's answers against published primary sources — see truth checks.

Protocol conformance observed

2025-06-18
protocol version
session model
0.15.5
server version arc-ledger-mcp

Capabilities: prompts tools

Drift observed

No confirmed drift on record. Baseline set 2026-08-14; changes appear here after human review.

raw probe records
probed (UTC) outcomehttpmsprotocol
2026-08-14T19:57:56Zok_tools200492025-06-18
2026-08-12T05:33:11Zok_tools2001012025-06-18

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