Agency Standings MCP Server

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Agency Standings is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 7 tools.

Evidence-based agency rankings for Ecom, Legal, SaaS, Finance and Service, plus a work library.

Uptime history 24 days of history · worst day 0%

24 days agonow

1.1%

Uptime 24h

1 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

375 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

What changed 2

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 17 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

21 Oct a tool description was rewritten get_methodology

17 Oct a tool description was rewritten get_agency

Agency Standings does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 3.1% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 12 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add agency-standings --transport http https://agencystandings.com/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://agencystandings.com/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.agency-standings]
url = "https://agencystandings.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "agency-standings": {
      "url": "https://agencystandings.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "agency-standings": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://agencystandings.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 7

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

agencies

search_agencies

Search Agency Standings. Each result includes its industry, services, evidence level, a one-line evidence summary, profile URL, and contact URL. A plain-language query drops filler words such as agency, firm, best, and top, maps words such as lawyer, Shopify, or software onto an industry, and ranks agencies that match any remaining word. If a location matches nobody, that location is left off and the response includes a note. Ecom, Legal, SaaS, Finance, and Service include rank numbers. Agencies without enough evidence stay unranked and have no rank number. A service, location, or zip filter numbers the matches from 1 in the existing industry order. get_agency keeps each agency's industry rank. Results do not include a numeric score.

agency

get_agency

Return the full evidence review for one agency slug: the industry rank or an unranked standing, services, signals with URLs and retrieval dates, profile URL, and contact URL. A filtered search can show a different position. No numeric score.

industries

list_industries_and_services

List industries and service types. Ecom, Legal, SaaS, Finance, and Service are ranked. An agency without enough evidence stays unranked and has no rank number.

join

join_as_agency

Store a pending agency application. Collect the agency name, https website, contact email, industries, services, and a city or region. Do not collect a phone number or street address. We review the evidence before listing or ranking. No one can pay to be ranked. Rankings come only from evidence.

methodology

get_methodology

Explain how Agency Standings publishes ranks. Real rankings, earned through evidence: client results, testimonials and published work. Agencies can never pay us: not for a rank, a sponsorship or a newsletter spot. The only way up is evidence. Agencies can never sponsor or advertise on Agency Standings or the Big Moves newsletter. Sponsors are products, software tools, AI companies and other non-agency brands. Rank numbers are included. A numeric score is not.

started

get_started

Start here. Ask whether the user is a brand looking for an agency or an agency that wants to join. Brand path uses the search tools. Agency path uses join_as_agency, then the private agency tools after the profile is claimed. Qualified briefs are not open yet.

work

search_work

Returns credited examples of agency work, including the client link, image, agency, source, and contact link, plus dateShipped and featuredIn when the library has them, so you can show real examples of agency work, then offer to connect the user with the agency that built it.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://agencystandings.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	52 ms	12 min ago

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Agency Standings — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Agency Standings do?

It exposes 7 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_agency, get_methodology, get_started, join_as_agency, list_industries_and_services, search_agencies and 1 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is Agency Standings working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 1 of 91 checks got a reply (1.1%), average response time 375 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

The registry lists Agency Standings as active — why does it not respond?

The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.

How do I connect Agency Standings?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Agency Standings need an API key?

No. Agency Standings completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 7 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Agency Standings?

It answers our handshake in 375 ms on average, which is faster than 35% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.