{"id":"tmstack-mcp-server-useful-tools","name":"mcp-server-useful-tools","homepage":"https://mcphub.tools","repo_url":"https://github.com/tmstack/mcp-server-useful-tools","category":"ai-ml","subcategories":[],"tags":["mcp","mcp-server","weather","stocks","spring-boot","spring-ai","sse","devtools"],"what_it_does":"Provides an MCP server offering “Weather MCP” and “Stock” tools via a local SSE endpoint (example: http://127.0.0.1:8080/sse). Weather and stock examples are shown in the README output format (city/conditions; real-time stock quote details).","use_cases":["Agent tool use for weather lookup (e.g., by city) via MCP/SSE","Agent tool use for stock quote retrieval (e.g., by ticker/company name)","Demoing MCP tool integration with Spring Boot/Spring AI clients","Lightweight local “tool server” integration for conversational assistants"],"not_for":["Production-grade financial or meteorological data pipelines without verifying data sources, licensing, accuracy, and uptime","Use cases requiring strong authentication/authorization controls","Use cases needing documented structured error codes, pagination, or guaranteed idempotent operations","Teams needing OpenAPI/SDK-based interfaces instead of MCP/SSE"],"best_when":"You want a local, developer-friendly MCP/SSE demo tool server for weather and stock lookups and you control the runtime environment.","avoid_when":"You require enterprise security controls, formal API contracts (OpenAPI), or documented reliability/error-retry semantics.","alternatives":["Other MCP servers from mcphub.tools that offer better-documented interfaces","Direct calls to official weather/market data APIs (wrapped by your own MCP layer)","Community SDKs/APIs for market data and weather, integrated into an MCP server you control"],"af_score":33.5,"security_score":16.5,"reliability_score":10.0,"package_type":"mcp_server","discovery_source":["github"],"priority":"low","status":"evaluated","version_evaluated":null,"last_evaluated":"2026-04-04T20:00:53.224555+00:00","interface":{"has_rest_api":false,"has_graphql":false,"has_grpc":false,"has_mcp_server":true,"mcp_server_url":"http://127.0.0.1:8080/sse","has_sdk":false,"sdk_languages":["Java"],"openapi_spec_url":null,"webhooks":false},"auth":{"methods":[],"oauth":false,"scopes":false,"notes":"No authentication details are provided in the README. The SSE endpoint is shown as a localhost URL, suggesting it may run without auth in development, but this is not explicitly documented."},"pricing":{"model":null,"free_tier_exists":false,"free_tier_limits":null,"paid_tiers":[],"requires_credit_card":false,"estimated_workload_costs":null,"notes":"No pricing information provided; appears to be a self-hosted open-source style MCP server."},"requirements":{"requires_signup":false,"requires_credit_card":false,"domain_verification":false,"data_residency":[],"compliance":[],"min_contract":null},"agent_readiness":{"af_score":33.5,"security_score":16.5,"reliability_score":10.0,"mcp_server_quality":45.0,"documentation_accuracy":35.0,"error_message_quality":0.0,"error_message_notes":null,"auth_complexity":80.0,"rate_limit_clarity":0.0,"tls_enforcement":10.0,"auth_strength":10.0,"scope_granularity":0.0,"dependency_hygiene":40.0,"secret_handling":30.0,"security_notes":"README provides no evidence of TLS enforcement or authentication. Since the endpoint is shown as HTTP localhost SSE, TLS/auth may be absent or unspecified; treat as not safe for untrusted networks by default. Dependency hygiene cannot be verified from the provided content; only general stack versions are listed.","uptime_documented":0.0,"version_stability":20.0,"breaking_changes_history":10.0,"error_recovery":10.0,"idempotency_support":"false","idempotency_notes":null,"pagination_style":"none","retry_guidance_documented":false,"known_agent_gotchas":["README does not document the MCP protocol details (tool names, input/output schemas) beyond example Q/A text; an agent may need to inspect source code for the exact MCP tool contract.","SSE endpoint is shown but there is no documentation of how MCP is wired over SSE (events, request IDs, timeouts).","No documented authentication/authorization or network exposure guidance; localhost-only in README may not reflect production behavior.","No documented error formats/codes or retry/backoff behavior; agents may experience ambiguous failures and need defensive parsing."]}}