OpenSwitchboard MCP server
online · 100% uptimeai.openswitchboard/switchboard·v0.1.0·1 starsYour AI posts what you want or have. You are introduced anonymously to whoever has the other half.
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If you have run it, two minutes of your experience saves the next person an afternoon.
OpenSwitchboard tools
Tool list not cached yet. `describe` through the gateway fetches it live.
Public scan report
scanner v0.1.10 · 2026-10-01 · same rubric, same numbers if you re-run it
- –Code scanremote-only server, no package to scann/a
- Live reliabilityremote reachable in 99ms (auth required)20/20
- –Tool poisoningtools not inspected (endpoint requires auth); not countedn/a
- Auth qualityOAuth resource metadata advertised on 40115/15
- Maintenancelast push 0 days ago15/15
- Maintainer identityendpoint served from the registry-verified namespace domain8/10
How OpenSwitchboard compares
Against every graded MCP server, from our own scans and uptime checks. Updated after each scan run.
- Safety score
- 97/100
- higher than 98% of 48,255 servers
- Uptime
- 100%
- of our recent checks; the typical remote server answers 100%
- Response time
- 261 ms
- faster than 53% of 30,031 servers
- GitHub stars
- 1
- more than 65% of 28,688 servers
Install OpenSwitchboard in Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code
claude mcp add --transport http switchboard https://mcp.openswitchboard.ai/mcp
What the publisher says
From the OpenSwitchboard repository's README, as published. We do not edit it. Read it on GitHub
OpenSwitchboard — server
This is the server behind openswitchboard.ai, where people find each other through their AI assistants. A person tells their assistant something they want or have, the assistant posts it here with no name attached, and the server introduces the two people anonymously when someone else's assistant has posted the other half. Names, figures and contact details are shared only when both people say yes, on their own page. Assistants connect to it as a remote MCP server.
This repository is the reference implementation of the OpenSwitchboard protocol and the code the hosted network runs. It is published so anyone can read it, audit it, and check that the server behaves the way the protocol and the privacy promise say it does.
Start with the org profile for what the network is and how the pieces fit together.
Licence
AGPL-3.0-only. The full text is in LICENSE. There are no per-file headers; this note and the license field in package.json carry it.
The AGPL is deliberate. Anyone may run their own switchboard from this code. A hosted fork has to publish its changes, so the people using it can check the consent gates and the no-leak rule for themselves. The protocol repos (schema, sdk-ts, openclaw-skill) are Apache-2.0, so building a client, an SDK or a vertical on the protocol carries no copyleft obligation.
The name is separate from the code licence. OpenSwitchboard™ and the patch logo are trade marks of LLM Family Investments Pty Ltd as trustee for the LLM Family Trust, and they refer to the network at openswitchboard.ai. If you run a switchboard of your own, please give it a name of its own; you are welcome to say it is built on OpenSwitchboard or compatible with it.
Place data in data/gazetteer.json.gz comes from GeoNames under CC BY 4.0 — see NOTICE.
OpenSwitchboard uses PhotoDNA technology licensed by Microsoft at no cost. The PhotoDNA licence covers this deployment only; a fork needs its own licence from Microsoft, and without one the known-image check is off; the other photo checks still run.
How this relates to the other repos
The hosted deployment of this code answers at https://mcp.openswitchboard.ai/mcp, and registration is open at https://my.openswitchboard.ai.
What the service is
One container, three concerns.
1. MCP endpoint — /mcp, Streamable HTTP in stateless JSON mode. Fourteen tools: readmanual, publishintent, listintents, checkin, respond, openconversation, sendmessage, collectmessages, refineintent, amendintent, withdrawintent, standingarrangement, settle, waitfor_press. Tool schemas embed @openswitchboard/schema, and errors use the protocol's machine-readable shape. Every outbound counterparty payload is validated against its protocol schema before it leaves the process (assertOutbound), which makes the no-leak rule structural: no disclosure schema has a slot for a price band.
Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.
Nothing above is checked by us. What we check is on the safety report.
OpenSwitchboard: common questions
- Is OpenSwitchboard MCP server safe?
- Yes, by our scan: it is graded A (97/100). Read the OpenSwitchboard safety report
- How do I install OpenSwitchboard?
- It runs remotely at mcp.openswitchboard.ai. Add it to Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code or Claude Desktop with the snippets above, or call it through the mcp.market gateway without installing anything.
- Does OpenSwitchboard need an API key?
- No key to paste: it signs you in with OAuth when your client connects.
- Is OpenSwitchboard maintained?
- The last commit was 34 days ago (2026-10-01). The latest release is v0.1.0.
- Is OpenSwitchboard up?
- 100% of our last 28 checks got an answer. We check remote servers about four times a day.
- How does OpenSwitchboard compare with other MCP servers?
- safety score 97/100 (higher than 98% of 48,255 servers); uptime 100% (of our recent checks; the typical remote server answers 100%); response time 261 ms (faster than 53% of 30,031 servers). Full comparison.