Verity — a bench slot for the Fetch reference server, terms first #5544

Fetch is one of the MCP project's own reference servers — the implementation much of the ecosystem learned from — which is why it fills the reference-server slot in Verity's external bench cohort. In our independent screen of 16,341 MCP servers, 81.5% of scored servers passed and 3,022 of 16,362 in-scope package rows (18.5%) did not install as published; a verified record for a reference implementation anchors what "as published" should mean. We know a result here carries extra weight, in either direction, so the terms matter: a full bench is $500 ($150 re-bench, $1,200/yr badge licence), run under published terms — the same battery as every cohort member, with maintainer fact-check and a verbatim response published alongside any card. We would like to walk the maintainers through exactly what would be checked before anything is agreed.

One scope note, stated plainly: the bench verifies a server against its own published claims, and Fetch's published claims are its README and package claims.

Steven White
Cyan Eclipse Technologies LLC
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