Approval Rules MCP Server

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Approval Rules is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 6 tools.

Auto-approve small agent actions under your rules; approval cards for the rest.

Uptime history 22 hours of history · worst hour 50%

22 hours agonow

97.5%

Uptime 24h

78 of 80 checks

Tools

read from the server

261 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Approval Rules does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 97.5% 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 2 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add approve --transport http https://approve.cloudforbots.com/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "approve": {
      "url": "https://approve.cloudforbots.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.approve]
url = "https://approve.cloudforbots.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "approve": {
      "url": "https://approve.cloudforbots.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "approve": {
      "url": "https://approve.cloudforbots.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 6

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

rules

get_rules

Show the rules in effect for your key (or the default starter rules).

set_rules

Save the user's rules (needs an API key so they stay yours). Each rule: {name, when:{type:[...], max_usd, min_usd, reversible, target_ends_with:[...]}, verdict:"auto"|"ask"|"deny"}. First matching rule wins; anything unmatched needs approval. Call once without confirm to preview, then with confirm=true.

action

check_action

Before a consequential action, ask whether the user's rules auto-approve it. Returns auto_approve, needs_approval (with a plain-English approval card and a link the user can tap) or deny. Free plan is watch-only: it reports what it WOULD decide and logs it for the weekly report, but nothing counts as approved, so ask your user as you normally would.

decision

get_decision

Check whether the user approved or rejected an approval card (by card_id and card_token). Only act when status is approved.

usage

usage_and_upgrade

Show today's usage for your key or IP and the $49/month All Access upgrade link (cloudforbots.com/offer). Free tier: 200 calls/day. Not metered.

weekly

weekly_report

Draft a plain-English report of the last 7 days: actions checked, how many your rules would auto-approve, how many needed you, top kinds of asks, and rule suggestions. Read-only; sends nothing.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://approve.cloudforbots.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	28 ms	2 min ago

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Approval Rules — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Approval Rules do?

It exposes 6 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: check_action, get_decision, get_rules, set_rules, usage_and_upgrade, weekly_report. 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 Approval Rules working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 78 of 80 checks got a reply (97.5%), average response time 261 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

The registry lists Approval Rules 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 Approval Rules?

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 Approval Rules need an API key?

No. Approval Rules completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 6 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Approval Rules?

It answers our handshake in 261 ms on average, which is faster than 50% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.