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— the operator's own registry description reported

Publisher news.asha · first seen 2026-08-20 · endpoint https://asha.news/api/v1/mcp

allow
verdict
mid-slow-solo
cluster
ok_tools
answers
25
tools served

Dependency rating derived

allow
allow — alive & usable · action ● · V n/a
allow — because answers ●, 25 tools legible (band A) ●, no confirmed drift in 3 probes ●, truth 0/2 agree vs primary ●

Cluster mid-slow-solo · distinctiveness 0.655 (unusual). Every figure is a percentile or class within the 15,472-server censussee the whole spectrum.

Does it answer? Q1 · observed
answersalive_tools
latency460 ms
vs populationslow
protocolcurrent
authopen
Can it be used? Q4 · observed
tools25
vs populationhigh
capabilities3
harnessA
Did it hold when checked? Q3–Q4 · derived
identitysolo
servers on its host1
verifiabilityunassessed
duplicate inventoryno
drift events0
answers true0/2 agree

🔏 Signed receipt rr_812afea3509f487eb651ea1e · 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 — 3 probes ●evidence ↓
Q2What is it?action ● evidence ↓
Q3Can it be checked?V n/a for this kind ◐evidence ↓
Q4Did it hold?harness A · truth 0/2 agree · no drift ●evidence ↓
Q5What company does it keep?mid-slow-solo · 1 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 (3 shown, 2026-08-23 → 2026-09-06). 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 (2 events)
datetypewhat changed
2026-08-30inventorytools 21 → 25
2026-08-23outcomefirst 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
action11changes the worldno true answer exists; we check the CONTRACT (destructive/read-only/idempotent declarations, error legibility) and never fire real actions
unclassified9not classifiable from its textTier-1 only until its tools describe themselves
retrieval-public3serves public factstruth-checkable against a public source — the V-ladder applies in full
generative2creates contentno answer key exists; disclosure + stability checks, never truth verdicts

Tools last seen observed

asha_blindspot asha_breaking asha_clusters_search asha_daily_brief asha_digest asha_editorial_guidelines asha_feed asha_market_context asha_mint_share_link asha_palestine asha_search asha_search_articles asha_share_pack asha_share_payload asha_sources asha_subscribe_newsletter conflict_events conflict_state palestine_check_claim palestine_evidence_health palestine_evidence_record palestine_evidence_search palestine_evidence_taxonomy palestine_genocide_case palestine_search_archive

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 & specific25/25
has a description25/25
description is substantive25/25
parameters are typed25/25
parameters are described17/2517/25

25 of 25 tools graded · 25 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

0/2 answers agree with the published primary source.

claim classkeyverdictprimary source
tariff-duty0901.21.00disagreesus-hts
tariff-duty6109.10.00disagreesus-hts

Protocol conformance observed

2025-06-18
protocol version
session model
1.0.0
server version Asha News

Capabilities: prompts resources tools

Drift observed

No confirmed drift on record. Baseline set 2026-09-06; changes appear here after human review.

raw probe records
probed (UTC) outcomehttpmsprotocol
2026-09-06T06:17:57Zok_tools2004602025-06-18
2026-08-30T06:17:40Zok_tools2004862025-06-18
2026-08-23T06:14:51Zok_tools2004882025-06-18

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