Should my agent depend on the MCP server io.github.fmadore/iwac-mcp-server?

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

Islam West Africa Collection (IWAC)

io.github.fmadore/iwac-mcp-server

Read-only access to the Islam West Africa Collection via Hugging Face datasets.

— the operator's own registry description reported

Publisher io.github.fmadore · first seen 2026-08-12 · endpoint https://islam.zmo.de/mcp/

allow

verdict

rich-slow-solo

cluster

ok_tools

answers

tools served

Dependency rating derived

allow — rich-slow-solo — safe to depend on

Cluster rich-slow-solo · distinctiveness 0.706 (unusual). 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

latency513 ms

vs populationslow

protocolcurrent

authopen

Use — can it use it?

tools34

vs populationhigh

capabilities3

harnessA

Trust — can it rely on it?

identitysolo

servers on its host1

verifiabilityunassessed

duplicate inventoryno

drift events0

answers true0/0 agree

🔏 Signed receipt rr_7bc1bcab118e6656fe4214a0 · 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

fetch get_article get_audiovisual get_collection_stats get_cooccurrence get_country_comparison get_document get_field_distribution get_image get_index_entry get_lexical_metrics get_newspaper_stats get_place_distribution get_publication_fulltext get_reference get_semantic_map get_sentiment_distribution get_similar_items get_temporal_distribution get_topic_distribution list_audiovisual list_locations list_periodicals list_persons list_subjects search search_articles search_audiovisual search_by_sentiment search_documents search_images search_index search_publications search_references

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	34/34	✓
has a description	34/34	✓
description is substantive	34/34	✓
parameters are typed	34/34	✓
parameters are described	14/34	14/34

34 of 34 tools graded · 34 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

0/0 answers agree with the published primary source · 1 unverifiable.

claim class	key	verdict	primary source
tariff-duty	unmapped	unverifiable	us-hts

Protocol conformance observed

2025-06-18

protocol version

—

session model

3.0.0

server version iwac-mcp-server

Capabilities: prompts resources 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
2026-08-14T19:59:33Z	ok_tools	200	513	2025-06-18
2026-08-12T05:34:45Z	ok_tools	200	526	2025-06-18

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