Our grade: 4 checks
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Community rating
- 5 2
- 4 4
- 3 8
- 2 4
- 1 0
Trust in production
- Trust it - 6%
- With caveats - 61%
- Wouldn't - 33%
39% would recommend this server
How reviewers scored it
- Setup & docs 3.0
- Auth experience 3.1
- Reliability 3.1
- Maintainer responsiveness 3.3
Why it got a C
A public beta that monitors official GOV.UK guidance on minimum wage, statutory sick pay, holiday entitlement, right to work, and paternity pay and leave. It reports each source's status, dated changes and a short excerpt, and it covers nothing beyond those five topics. It isn't legal advice, so read the dates and limits in each result, and treat a stale or incomplete result as unverified. The tools don't declare themselves read-only, so your client may ask for approval on each call. The site is on a preview address, and its privacy notice says some details are still being verified. No advisories on record. Biggest deduction: there is no login, which also means there's no per-user access to revoke.
How to connect
// .cursor/mcp.json
{ "mcpServers": { "aios-public-discovery": { "url": "https://mcp.aios-system.uk/mcp" } } }
claude mcp add --transport http aios-public-discovery https://mcp.aios-system.uk/mcp
Is AIOS Public Discovery MCP Server safe?
Is AIOS Public Discovery MCP Server safe to use?
AIOS Public Discovery MCP Server grades C (usable with care). There is no login: anything that can start or reach it gets its full access. Updates are occasional, so fixes may be slow to arrive.
Does AIOS Public Discovery MCP Server have known vulnerabilities?
Not in our current data: it has no open CVEs or advisories. We re-check as new ones are published.
Does AIOS Public Discovery MCP Server support authentication?
No. It has no login of its own, so limit who and what can start it.
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Community reviews
OK for read-only work
Mostly reliable, with the odd timeout. Issues get answered eventually. Not fast, not abandoned. There is no auth layer, so whatever can reach it can use it. I keep it local only. Worth it, just do not skip the hardening steps.
Used for Keeping a team knowledge base tidy
- Setup & docs 4/5
- Auth experience 4/5
- Reliability 3/5
- Maintainer responsiveness 3/5
Our team uses it every day
I use this almost daily. Nice to use something maintained by AIOS rather than a random fork. Hosted endpoint means no local process to babysit. Issues get answered eventually. Not fast, not abandoned.
Used for Finding the right runbook during incidents
- Setup & docs 3/5
- Auth experience 2/5
- Reliability 4/5
- Maintainer responsiveness 4/5
Not ready for anything that matters
It works in a demo, but things got shaky under real use. Release pace is moderate, so I pin a version and check in monthly.
Used for Answering questions from our internal wiki
- Setup & docs 2/5
- Auth experience 2/5
- Reliability 3/5
- Maintainer responsiveness 2/5
Promising, a bit raw
It does the job, but it took some tweaking. Updates are a bit slow, but it is stable enough that it has not mattered. Nothing stops a misbehaving agent from using every tool it exposes, so I trimmed the tool list.
Used for Drafting docs from existing pages
- Setup & docs 2/5
- Auth experience 2/5
- Reliability 4/5
- Maintainer responsiveness 3/5
Mixed feelings after two weeks
Useful tool, though I would not hand it to a junior unsupervised. Issues get answered eventually. Not fast, not abandoned. Hosted endpoint means no local process to babysit. Nothing stops a misbehaving agent from using every tool it exposes, so I trimmed the tool list.
Used for Answering questions from our internal wiki
- Setup & docs 3/5
- Auth experience 4/5
- Reliability 2/5
- Maintainer responsiveness 4/5
Useful, with a few rough edges
Some tools are great, a couple feel half finished. Being official from AIOS counts for a lot when I pitch it to security. There is no auth layer, so whatever can reach it can use it. I keep it local only.
Used for Drafting docs from existing pages
- Setup & docs 3/5
- Auth experience 4/5
- Reliability 4/5
- Maintainer responsiveness 4/5
Recommended it to two teams already
Been running this for about a month now. No access control at all, it runs with my permissions. Fine on my laptop, not on a shared box.
Used for Finding the right runbook during incidents
- Setup & docs 4/5
- Auth experience 4/5
- Reliability 5/5
- Maintainer responsiveness 4/5
Capable but needs guardrails
Good for experimenting, still deciding about production. Read-only mode is the first thing I enable, and it covers most of what I need. No access control at all, it runs with my permissions. Fine on my laptop, not on a shared box. Release pace is moderate, so I pin a version and check in monthly.
Used for Pulling up-to-date library docs into prompts
- Setup & docs 3/5
- Auth experience 3/5
- Reliability 2/5
- Maintainer responsiveness 4/5
Does the job, docs could be better
I like it, with reservations. Nice to use something maintained by AIOS rather than a random fork. Fine in production if you sandbox it.
Used for Keeping a team knowledge base tidy
- Setup & docs 3/5
- Auth experience 4/5
- Reliability 2/5
- Maintainer responsiveness 3/5
Good, but read the permissions first
Works well enough for what I need. No access control at all, it runs with my permissions. Fine on my laptop, not on a shared box. Nice to use something maintained by AIOS rather than a random fork. Release pace is moderate, so I pin a version and check in monthly. Keep permissions tight and it is a good tool.
Used for Onboarding Q&A for new hires
- Setup & docs 3/5
- Auth experience 4/5
- Reliability 3/5
- Maintainer responsiveness 2/5
Would not run this unattended
Setup was rough and the result was flaky. There is no auth layer, so whatever can reach it can use it. I keep it local only. Updates are a bit slow, but it is stable enough that it has not mattered. Keep permissions tight and it is a good tool.
Used for Onboarding Q&A for new hires
- Setup & docs 1/5
- Auth experience 3/5
- Reliability 1/5
- Maintainer responsiveness 3/5
Fine once configured properly
Took longer to configure than I expected. Being official from AIOS counts for a lot when I pitch it to security. Nothing to install, I just point the client at the URL. There is no auth layer, so whatever can reach it can use it. I keep it local only.
Used for Drafting docs from existing pages
- Setup & docs 3/5
- Auth experience 4/5
- Reliability 2/5
- Maintainer responsiveness 3/5
No complaints after a month
Replaced a homegrown script with AIOS Public Discovery MCP Server and have not looked back. No access control at all, it runs with my permissions. Fine on my laptop, not on a shared box.
Used for Summarising meeting notes
- Setup & docs 3/5
- Auth experience 2/5
- Reliability 4/5
- Maintainer responsiveness 4/5
Quietly reliable
Installed it on a Friday, it was part of my workflow by Monday. Updates are a bit slow, but it is stable enough that it has not mattered. Nothing stops a misbehaving agent from using every tool it exposes, so I trimmed the tool list. Recommended, with sensible guardrails.
Used for Summarising meeting notes
- Setup & docs 3/5
- Auth experience 3/5
- Reliability 4/5
- Maintainer responsiveness 3/5
Went back to calling the API directly
Gave it a fair shot over two weeks. Issues get answered eventually. Not fast, not abandoned. Nothing stops a misbehaving agent from using every tool it exposes, so I trimmed the tool list. Keeping it to local experiments for now.
Used for Keeping a team knowledge base tidy
- Setup & docs 2/5
- Auth experience 3/5
- Reliability 2/5
- Maintainer responsiveness 4/5
Worth the five minutes to set up
Hooked AIOS Public Discovery MCP Server into Claude Code and it worked on the first try. Being official from AIOS counts for a lot when I pitch it to security. Nothing stops a misbehaving agent from using every tool it exposes, so I trimmed the tool list.
Used for Finding the right runbook during incidents
- Setup & docs 5/5
- Auth experience 4/5
- Reliability 5/5
- Maintainer responsiveness 3/5
Needs more maintenance love
I wanted to like this one. Nothing stops a misbehaving agent from using every tool it exposes, so I trimmed the tool list. Turned on read-only mode on day one, highly recommend doing the same. I will check back in a few releases.
Used for Pulling up-to-date library docs into prompts
- Setup & docs 3/5
- Auth experience 2/5
- Reliability 2/5
- Maintainer responsiveness 4/5
Clean integration, sensible permissions
Tried it on a side project first, then rolled it out at work. No access control at all, it runs with my permissions. Fine on my laptop, not on a shared box. Read-only mode is the first thing I enable, and it covers most of what I need. I would use it in prod, but only with a human approving writes.
Used for Onboarding Q&A for new hires
- Setup & docs 4/5
- Auth experience 2/5
- Reliability 4/5
- Maintainer responsiveness 3/5
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