Should my agent depend on the MCP server global.rootz.food/grocery?

Verdict: allow — mid-shared — safe to depend on As of 2026-08-15T11:28:18Z: a dated observation with receipts, not a warranty.

grocery

global.rootz.food/grocery

Signed US food & grocery data: Kroger prices, nutrition, allergens, recalls, diet filters.

— the operator's own registry description reported

Publisher global.rootz.food · first seen 2026-08-12 · endpoint https://food.rootz.global/mcp

allow

verdict

mid-shared

cluster

ok_tools

answers

tools served

Dependency rating derived

allow — mid-shared — safe to depend on

Cluster mid-shared · distinctiveness 0.198 (typical). Every figure is a percentile or class within the 11,094-server census — see the whole spectrum.

Reach — can an agent get to it?

answersalive_tools

latency287 ms

vs populationtypical

protocolcurrent

authopen

Use — can it use it?

tools18

vs populationmid

capabilities1

harnessA

Trust — can it rely on it?

identityshared

servers on its host1

servers on its domain9

verifiabilityunassessed

duplicate inventoryno

drift events0

answers trueno primary

🔏 Signed receipt rr_1b173c3d947e728478a346ce · 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.

Tools last seen

food_commodity_prices food_compare food_data_sources food_diet_filter food_household_meal food_ingredients_lookup food_kroger_product food_meal_recommend food_new_products food_nutrition food_price_compare food_profile food_recall_check food_recall_search food_receipt_lookup food_retail_prices food_search food_supply_chain

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 check	tools passing	ok
name is clear & specific	18/18	✓
has a description	18/18	✓
description is substantive	18/18	✓
parameters are typed	18/18	✓
parameters are described	11/18	11/18

18 of 18 tools graded · 18 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

2.0.0

server version food-intel

Capabilities: tools

Drift

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

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)

date	type	what changed
2026-08-12	outcome	first probe: ok_tools

raw probe records

probed (UTC)	outcome	http	ms	protocol
2026-08-14T19:58:49Z	ok_tools	200	287	2025-06-18
2026-08-12T05:34:03Z	ok_tools	200	508	2025-06-18

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Operators: put the live verdict in your README — it updates with every census, links back here, and is a dated observation, never a warranty:

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