The MCP 2026-07-28 spec is final - check your server in one command!

The Model Context Protocol's 2026-07-28 spec revision went final, moving to stateless requests. The open-source tool mcpscore, built by the mcp-box team, provides a one-command audit for MCP servers, scoring them 0–100 based on 72 deterministic rules and supporting auth-gated servers with token-based audits and partial audits for 401 responses.

The Model Context Protocol's 2026-07-28 revision https://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/2026-07-28/ went final on July 28. It's a meaningful one: the lifecycle moves to stateless requests. If you maintain an MCP server, the two questions are: is my server still well-built, and is it ready for the new spec? mcpscore answers both in one command: uvx mcpscore https://your-server.example/mcp No install, no API key. In a few seconds you get a 0–100 quality score and a list of exactly what to fix. 72 deterministic rules, each citing the spec section it enforces, grouped into four categories: It's deterministic - the same server always gets the same score, so it's stable in CI, and it's read-only: it lists your tools and probes behavior but never calls a tool, so auditing is side-effect-free. Local servers in any language audit over stdio too — mcpscore --stdio ./my-go-server , --stdio java -jar server.jar — not just .py / .js files. Most production MCP servers are auth-gated, and until now that meant unauditable. This release changes that: full audit with your token also reads MCPSCORE TOKEN uvx mcpscore --token $TOKEN https://api.example.com/mcp And with no credentials at all, a 401 server gets a partial audit of its observable surface, including auth-posture rules that check the WWW-Authenticate challenge, RFC 9728 protected-resource metadata, the authorization server's RFC 8414 metadata, and PKCE support. The gate itself Tokens never appear in logs or reports. - uses: mcp-box/mcpscore-action@v1 with: target: https://your-server.example/mcp min-score: 90 It comments the report on the PR and fails the check below your threshold. Add a live score badge to your README from the report page at mcpscore.dev https://mcpscore.dev - it reflects your server's latest score. There's a good official conformance suite for "is my server legal." mcpscore is the other question - "how good is it" - the way Lighthouse scores a web page's quality, not just its validity. It runs on the official MCP Python SDK v2, it's open source MIT , and the methodology is public: https://docs.mcpscore.dev/methodology https://docs.mcpscore.dev/methodology Point it at your server and see where you land