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Small Print — see when an MCP server changes what it tells your agent · Show HN

  1. The idea lands in one line ("the tool description is the small print. we read it.") and "No account needed" plus a one-line npx check removes every excuse not to try.
  2. Then the home page shows a long example record whose worst finding is a benign "medium" wording change, followed by a note that the tags "are not grades of anything on this page". The demo shows the boring case; I came for the scary one.
  3. The voice is precise to the point of being hard to read ("a grade names the rule that matched, not what the author meant"): accurate, but a busy developer skims and leaves before understanding what goes wrong without you.
  4. The numbers on the pricing page (hundreds of thousands of entries read, tens of thousands of changes graded in the last 7 days) are the strongest argument you have, and they're not on the home page.
  5. First fix: replace the example with one real high-graded change — before/after text of a description that started asking an agent to do something new — next to the npx line. Fear first, then the $9 Pro.

Reviewed 2026-11-04.

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