Magist is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. 47 installs a week from npm. It exposes 9 tools. Last commit 17 Oct 2026.
Deterministic, cited regulatory research for product launches; legal information, not legal advice.
Installs per day
peak 18 · avg 4 · +18% w/w
a month agotoday
Uptime history
24 days of history · worst day 0%
24 days agonow
0.0%
Uptime 24h
0 of 91 checks
9
Tools
read from the server
106 ms
Response time
average over 24h
47
Installs / week
npm and PyPI
Magist does not always answer
Over the last week it answered 0.8% 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 11 min ago.
run in your terminal
claude mcp add magist --transport http https://magist.io/api/mcpSettings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://magist.io/api/mcp~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.magist]
url = "https://magist.io/api/mcp".cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"magist": {
"url": "https://magist.io/api/mcp"
}
}
}.vscode/mcp.json
{
"servers": {
"magist": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://magist.io/api/mcp"
}
}
}Available tools 9
Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on.
If a tool disappears, we record the date.
compute
compute_requirements
Run Magist’s deterministic compliance engine over a product description (features, target markets, audience age bands, optional business model) and return the regulations and Controls that may be triggered, a complexity tier with a numeric score, a blocker count, and a per-audience cohort breakdown. The call also creates or refreshes an idempotent public report URL for the receipt, retained for up to 90 days. Deterministic and reproducible: the same inputs always produce the same output, with no LLM in the path. Returns which obligations may apply for research purposes; it is not a determination that they do apply, and does not replace counsel. Consult a licensed attorney before relying on the result.
controls
find_controls
Given a regulation id, return the compliance Controls that may satisfy it, each with a priority signal (blocker / required / evaluate / best-practice) and a short summary of the work involved. Returns research information about typical control mappings, not a determination that a given product needs them. Consult counsel for scoping.
counsel
find_counsel
Search Magist’s open counsel directory for law firms by jurisdiction and practice area. Returns an editorial / firm-claimed directory to help a user identify licensed attorneys to consult. Inclusion is not endorsement; verify bar status and conflicts independently before engaging.
enforcement
get_enforcement
Return recent regulatory enforcement actions from Magist’s catalog, optionally filtered by regulation id and a since-date. Each action includes the penalty, authority, a primary-source link, and (where authored) a practitionerAnalysis: a hedged, third-person editorial note on what the action illustrates, informational context that never addresses a specific product. penaltyAmount is null when no monetary amount is recorded (pending, confidential, annulled, or non-monetary outcomes; the amount string carries the honest description). Returns historical facts about what regulators have done: informational context, not a prediction about a specific product.
feature
list_feature_catalog
Return Magist’s closed catalogs of valid product feature ids and target market ids, each with a short human-readable label -- the exact identifiers compute_requirements accepts as "features" and "markets". Use this to validate ids before calling compute_requirements; ids outside these catalogs are rejected with an actionable error. Deterministic and reproducible; this is reference data, not itself a regulatory determination.
lookup
lookup_regulation
Look up one regulation by its Magist id and return structured research information: title, citation, jurisdiction, status, review dates, a plain-language summary, and the Controls that may satisfy it. Returns facts about what a regulation says, not a determination of how it applies to a specific product. Consult counsel for situation-specific questions.
regulations
search_regulations
Search Magist’s regulation corpus by keyword with optional filters (jurisdiction, domain, status, content-review status, coverage depth). Returns a paginated list of matching regulations with permanent citation URLs. Deterministic: the same query and filters return the same results every time. Returns research information for discovery, not a determination of which regulations apply to a specific product.
vendors
find_vendors
Given a Control id, list third-party vendors and in-house approaches that may implement it, with effort/cost signals and a source-disclosure (editorial research vs vendor submission). Magist does not accept payment from vendors and does not rank or endorse them. Returns a neutral catalog for research; evaluate fit independently.
verify
verify_ai_answer
Verify a Magist grounding-proof token: the "groundingProof" field on a regulation or control record from the REST API (GET /api/v1/regulations/{id} or /api/v1/controls/{id}) when the server has signing enabled. MCP tool responses do not carry these tokens. Proves the citation was genuinely served by Magist's server for that exact atom at that exact corpus version; it does NOT verify legal correctness or that any obligation applies to a product. Returns valid:false with a reason when the token is missing, malformed, unsigned, or fails signature verification; this is expected when the record never carried a token (signing is an opt-in server setting).
Endpoints
| URL | Transport | State | Latency | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://magist.io/api/mcp | streamable-http | answering | 106 ms | 11 min ago |
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Magist — questions
Answers built from our own checks of this server.
What can Magist do?
It exposes 9 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: compute_requirements, find_controls, find_counsel, find_vendors, get_enforcement, list_feature_catalog and 3 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 Magist working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 0 of 91 checks got a reply (0.0%), average response time 106 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
The registry lists Magist 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 Magist?
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 Magist need an API key?
No. Magist completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 9 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How many people use Magist?
The npm package @magist/mcp-server was installed 47 times in the last week. Week over week that is +18%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Magist open source?
The code is open source: it is published under the MIT licence, written in Python and 0 stars on GitHub. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at magist.io, which runs on its operator's own terms.