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Agent Workspace Practice MCP Server

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Agent Workspace Practice is answering right now. Last checked 11 min ago. It exposes 6 tools.

Search + patterns, maturity assessment, context pricing, redaction checks - a practice as tools.

Uptime history 46 hours of history
46 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
6
Tools
read from the server
171 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Agent Workspace Practice 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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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 agent-workspace-practice --transport http https://jamesross.ai/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "agent-workspace-practice": {
      "url": "https://jamesross.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.agent-workspace-practice]
url = "https://jamesross.ai/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "agent-workspace-practice": {
      "url": "https://jamesross.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "agent-workspace-practice": {
      "url": "https://jamesross.ai/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.

architecture
search_architecture
Full-text search across the published architecture corpus: the 18 patterns and how they compose, the evaluation method, the seven learn-track modules, and the teardowns of other people's published agent systems. Returns ranked sections, each with its title, its source file, a snippet, and a link to the full text on GitHub. Use it when you want the passage itself rather than a pattern summary; lookup_pattern is the narrower tool that answers "which pattern covers this?". Every section is also readable in full as a resource under the architecture:// scheme (resources/list, resources/read).
assess
assess_workspace
Score an agent workspace across six dimensions: canonical knowledge, memory and context economics, verification and oversight, safety and permissions, telemetry and cost, provenance and delegation. Two variants: "practitioner" takes 18 answers (a single operator's workspace), "org" takes 12 (an organisation's agent readiness). Each answer is an integer 0-3 in question order, where 0 is the least mature option offered and 3 the most. Returns per-dimension scores, an overall percentage, a maturity band, and the two weakest dimensions with the gap that matters there. The question text lives at https://jamesross.ai/tools/maturity-check (practitioner) and https://jamesross.ai/tools/agent-readiness (org). Read it before answering on someone's behalf.
lookup
lookup_pattern
Search the 18 architecture patterns behind this practice by keyword or by pattern number. Returns up to 3 matches, each with its number, title, the problem it opens on, and a link to the full text. Use it when you want the reasoning behind an agent-workspace design decision rather than a how-to.
price
price_context_read
Price a block of context by where it enters a session. The API is stateless, so the whole transcript is re-sent on every inference step, and a token costs its size times the number of turns left after it arrives. Returns the carried token volume, the cost of the block in USD, what the same read would have cost entering 20 turns from the end, and the multiplier between the two. Use it to decide whether a large read should move later in a session or into a subagent.
redaction
check_redaction
Scan text for the shapes of private content before it goes anywhere public: email addresses, absolute home paths, credential and token prefixes, private and link-local IPs, .local hostnames, and secret filenames. Returns a count per pattern class and a total, nothing else. The text you send and the substrings that matched are never stored, never logged and never echoed back. Only the counts are kept. A line carrying the marker "redaction-ok" is skipped. Accepts up to 100KB.
request
request_capability
Tell this server what capability you needed but didn't find here. Requests are logged and reviewed by a human; include no secrets or personal data.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://jamesross.ai/mcp streamable-http answering 123 ms 11 min ago

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Agent Workspace Practice — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Agent Workspace Practice do?
It exposes 6 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: assess_workspace, check_redaction, lookup_pattern, price_context_read, request_capability, search_architecture. 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 Agent Workspace Practice working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 171 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Agent Workspace Practice?
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 Agent Workspace Practice need an API key?
No. Agent Workspace Practice 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 Agent Workspace Practice?
It answers our handshake in 171 ms on average, which is faster than 77% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.