{"id":"nlinhvu-spring-boot-bitcoin-mcp-server-2025","name":"spring-boot-bitcoin-mcp-server-2025","af_score":41.8,"security_score":36.5,"reliability_score":25.0,"what_it_does":"Provides an MCP server (Spring Boot-based) that retrieves Bitcoin price data from CoinGecko’s API, intended for use with Claude Desktop via an MCP server configuration that launches a packaged JAR.","best_when":"You want a simple educational MCP integration that demonstrates calling an external HTTP API (CoinGecko) from a Java/Spring Boot MCP server and consuming it from Claude Desktop.","avoid_when":"You need robust operational guarantees (SLA/monitoring), strong security controls, or documented error/retry/idempotency behavior suitable for mission-critical workloads.","last_evaluated":"2026-04-04T19:41:15.819476+00:00","has_mcp":true,"has_api":false,"auth_methods":[],"has_free_tier":false,"known_gotchas":["README focuses on Claude Desktop configuration to launch a jar; it does not document the MCP tools, their schemas, parameter names, or expected outputs.","No documented strategy for handling CoinGecko API failures (timeouts, rate limits, non-200 responses) from the MCP server.","No documented rate limit headers/behavior mapping into MCP error messages."],"error_quality":0.0}