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HALLUX MCP Server

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HALLUX is answering right now. Last checked 11 min ago. It exposes 4 tools.

Check that a package, module or DOI exists before an agent installs, imports or cites it.

Uptime history 19 hours of history · worst hour 50%
19 hours agonow
97.1%
Uptime 24h
67 of 69 checks
4
Tools
read from the server
706 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

HALLUX does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 97.1% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 11 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add hallux --transport http https://api.blvkware.dev/hallux/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hallux": {
      "url": "https://api.blvkware.dev/hallux/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.hallux]
url = "https://api.blvkware.dev/hallux/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hallux": {
      "url": "https://api.blvkware.dev/hallux/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hallux": {
      "url": "https://api.blvkware.dev/hallux/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 4

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

hallux
hallux_check
Does this identifier actually exist? Call before acting on any name you recalled rather than read: a package to install, a module to import, a DOI to cite. Returns one of: exists, deprecated, absent, phantom, squat, unknown. exists - proceed deprecated - proceed, but use `successor` absent - not in the registry. Do not proceed phantom - does not exist AND models repeatedly invent it. Do not proceed squat - was invented by models, then registered by someone. Treat as hostile unknown - could not verify. Never treat this as permission Live namespaces: cite.doi, pkg.crates, pkg.go, pkg.maven, pkg.npm, pkg.nuget, pkg.pypi. An unsupported namespace returns `unknown`, never an error, so it is safe to ask.
hallux_check_command
Call this BEFORE running any command that installs a dependency: npm, yarn, pnpm, bun, pip, uv, poetry, pipx, cargo, go get, dotnet add package, nuget. Language models invent plausible package names that have never existed, and attackers register those names because they can predict them. Installing one runs attacker code. You cannot tell the difference by looking at the name, which is why this check exists. Pass the command exactly as you intend to run it. The identifiers are extracted for you. If the result says BLOCK, do not run the command. Use the `successor` if one is given, otherwise tell the user what was found and stop.
hallux_check_manifest
Call this after writing or editing a dependency file, and before committing it. Supported: package.json, requirements.txt, pyproject.toml, Cargo.toml, go.mod. Checks every dependency in one pass, including dev and optional groups, which is where an invented name usually arrives.
hallux_watch
Register identifiers for notification when their verdict changes. The transition that matters is phantom to squat: a name models invent that somebody then registers. Use this for a dependency that came back `absent` or `phantom` and that the user intends to use anyway, or for a set of dependencies worth monitoring. Delivered by signed webhook to a URL you supply.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://api.blvkware.dev/hallux/mcp streamable-http answering 637 ms 11 min ago

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HALLUX — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can HALLUX do?
It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: hallux_check, hallux_check_command, hallux_check_manifest, hallux_watch. 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 HALLUX working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 67 of 69 checks got a reply (97.1%), average response time 706 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect HALLUX?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does HALLUX need an API key?
No. HALLUX completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 4 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is HALLUX?
It answers our handshake in 706 ms on average, which is faster than 18% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.