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Scanner is answering right now. Last checked 12 min ago. It exposes 18 tools.

AI-agent readiness of business websites: scans, city indexes, assistants' answers, direct links.

Uptime history 48 hours of history
48 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
92 of 92 checks
18
Tools
read from the server
245 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

What changed 20

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 15 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

16 Oct 18 tools changed the parameters they ask for assistant_destinations, assistant_recommendations, city_changes and 15 more
15 Oct 2 tool descriptions were rewritten find_direct_places, order_deep_report

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Today is the operative word: we check Scanner every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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

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

Available tools 18

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

assistant
assistant_destinations
Where the assistants send people in a city: the league table of destinations (the businesses' own sites, each marketplace and directory by name, press and guides, other sites) with the share of answers that link each one, per assistant and overall, and the headline shares (direct, marketplace, the top marketplace). Pages: https://directindex.org/city/{slug}/assistants and https://directindex.org/assistants for every city.
assistant_recommendations
The places ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini name in a city when asked the way people ask ('best pizza delivered right now', 'book me a table for Saturday'): per question, the places named, which assistant named each, whether with a link to the place's own site, and the direct booking or ordering link where the place has one. Pages: https://directindex.org/city/{slug}/recommended and /recommended/{question}.
city
city_changes
What changed in a city index over the last days: findings fixed or new, grades up or down, AI crawlers turned away or let in, direct booking or ordering channels and vendors gained or lost, and assistants that changed their answer about a business. Each change links the business's report. Also a page (https://directindex.org/city/{slug}/changes), an Atom feed (/changes.xml) and JSON (/api/city/{slug}/changes?days=30).
city_leaderboard
Businesses in a city index ranked by Agent-Direct Score, with grade, menu format, direct channel and whether AI crawlers are blocked.
direct
direct_record
The direct record of a business: the booking, ordering and menu links an agent should use instead of a marketplace, where each leads (the business's own site or a named vendor), whether and when a browser verified it, the hours (OpenStreetMap form and schema.org, with open_now), phone, address, the assistants' latest verdicts, how often agents read and followed it this month, the score, and the source and date of every fact. Corrected by the owner where the business is claimed. Also GET https://directindex.org/api/direct/{domain}.
find_direct_places
Places in a city that take a booking or an order on their own website, best Agent-Direct Scores first, with the direct booking or ordering link for each (the owner's corrected link where the business is claimed), the vendor behind it, verified_at when a browser reached the step before confirming, the vendor's terms for agents when noted, the hours, and follow links (https://directindex.org/go/{domain}/book, /order, /menu) that count. Use it to recommend places a person can book or order from directly, without a marketplace. Optional query: a cuisine, a dish or a few words, for example pizza, sushi, vegan, francesinha. Optional filters: lat, lon and radius_m for places near a point; open_now for places open at this moment in the city's zone (unknown hours stay in, marked null); verified_only for links a browser verified; vendor for one booking or ordering vendor (slug as on https://directindex.org/vendors). The same lists exist as pages at https://directindex.org/city/{slug}/direct, /direct/book, /direct/order and /direct/{want}; the full record of one place is available by domain.
vendor
vendor_report
A booking or ordering vendor across the index: software on the vendor's domain or a marketplace, booking or ordering, how many sites use it, their average score and A or B share, how the browser action test went on them, the cities, example sites, and the vendor's terms for agents when a note exists. Vendor slugs as on https://directindex.org/vendors (zenchef, sevenrooms, thefork, toast ...).
vendor_terms
Whether a booking or ordering vendor's terms let an AI agent book or order through it: allowed, partners only, banned, or not stated; with the vendor's own page and the date the terms were read. Without a vendor: every researched vendor. Use it before sending a person to book or order through a vendor on an agent's behalf.
cities
list_cities
List the city indexes that exist, with counts and status.
compare
compare_cities
Two city indexes side by side: business websites scanned, the share that take a booking or an order on their own site, the share that turn an AI crawler away, the share scoring A or B, grades, menus, channels, builders, vendors, the assistants' direct share where probed, and the month-by-month numbers. Takes index slugs or city names (lisbon, Porto, berlin-cafes-bars). Page: https://directindex.org/compare/{a}/{b}.
country
country_summary
A country's indexes added together (ISO code, for example PT or DE): sites scanned, direct share, crawler-blocked share, A-or-B share, the cities with their numbers, the kinds, the vendors common in the country. Without a code: every country with an index. Pages: https://directindex.org/country/{code} and /countries.
deep
get_deep_report
Status of a deep report order by its token, and the finished report itself as Markdown once it is done (every answer in full, the table of where answers sent people, the nearest similar places, the fix plan and the kit).
order
order_deep_report
Order the paid deep report (5 EUR, one-off) for a business in a city index: ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini are asked ten questions about it the way people ask, every answer is kept in full with where it sent people, plus the nearest similar places, the fix plan with the kit to paste, what an agent reads on the site, a page and a PDF. Returns the order token and a Stripe checkout link for the person to pay (nothing is charged until they do); the report is written in about fifteen minutes after payment and also emailed, and its status and text can be read by the token.
places
search_places
Find businesses in the city indexes by name or domain, filtered by city, kind, grade, builder, booking or ordering vendor and finding (for example menu_pdf, edge_blocks, no_structured, booking_marketplace). Fifty results a page, best Agent-Direct Scores first, each with its report link. Free, no contacts. Page: https://directindex.org/search.
rankings
rankings
Every city index of a kind ranked on three measures with its sample size and date: direct share (a booking or ordering path on the business's own domain), crawler-open share (not turned away at the edge) and A-or-B share. Indexes with fewer than 100 scanned sites are listed unranked. Page: https://directindex.org/rankings?kind=.
scan
scan_website
Scan a business website and return its Agent-Direct Score (0 to 100), grade, findings and fixes. Reuses a scan under 24 hours old; otherwise runs one, which takes 10 to 40 seconds.
site
get_site_report
Return the latest Agent-Direct report for a domain that has already been scanned, including findings, fixes and agent-discoverability checks.
what
what_assistants_say
What ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini answer about one business: the latest verdict per question (official website, where to book, where to order: own site, vendor, marketplace, directory, no link), the answers quoted, the questions people ask for which the business was named, and one sentence on why an assistant sent people elsewhere. For businesses in a city index that have been asked about; see the report at https://directindex.org/r/{domain}.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://directindex.org/mcp streamable-http answering 104 ms 12 min ago

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Scanner — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Scanner do?
It exposes 18 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: assistant_destinations, assistant_recommendations, city_changes, city_leaderboard, compare_cities, country_summary and 12 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 →
What is Scanner mostly used for?
Its tools cluster around assistant, city and vendor. That is what this server is built to work with — the grouping comes from the actual tool names, not from a category we assigned.
Is Scanner working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 245 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Scanner?
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 Scanner need an API key?
No. Scanner completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 18 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Scanner?
It answers our handshake in 245 ms on average, which is faster than 52% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.