Fetch MCP server tool surface audit
- Token footprint
- ~238
- Tools
- 1
- Findings
- 0
- Scanned
Fetch's MCP server publishes 1 tools. Loaded into a conversation, those definitions occupy roughly 238 tokens of context before anyone types a word. MCP Surface Lint scores that surface 100 out of 100 (grade A) with no scored findings against it.
Surface is the strongest category at 100/100, and annotations the weakest at 100/100. It is catalogued here under Search and Browsing, alongside other servers agents reach for in the same kind of work.
Token footprint
238 tokens is roughly 0% of a 200,000-token window, paid again on every request rather than once per session. That averages 238 tokens per tool definition, counted with the o200k_base encoding.
The median Search and Browsing server in this directory carries 2,728 tokens, so Fetch sits about 91% below its peers.
Findings
Nothing in the catalogue fires on this surface. Fetch passes all 19 rules: the surface stays inside a sensible tool and token budget, the tool names follow one convention end to end, every tool carries a description long enough to disambiguate it, the input schemas are typed tightly enough to constrain what a model sends, read and write operations are machine-distinguishable before a client runs them and the surface is shaped around user intents rather than mirrored REST endpoints.
A clean result is not a claim that the server is well designed for your particular workflow — only that its published tool surface holds up against every static check we run.
Tool inventory
The surface is a single tool, `fetch`, at 236 tokens. Every tool carries a description, ranging from 307 to 307 characters.
None declare annotations, so a client cannot tell a read from a write without reading the prose. Across the surface, schemas carry 4 top-level parameters on average and reach a maximum depth of 1.
All 1 tools as published, heaviest first. Token counts use the o200k_base encoding and are approximate.
| Tool | Tokens | Description | Params | Required | Depth | Annotations |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
fetch | 236 | 307 chars | 4 | 1 | 1 | no |
How this compares
Within Search and Browsing this is rank 2 of 4 scanned servers — 1 point above the category median of 99.
The closest comparisons in this directory are Exa, Hugging Face and Brave Search, which sit nearest on score and face the same kind of surface-design pressure.
- Category
- Search and Browsing
- Rank in category
- 2
- Category median score
- 99
- Category median tokens
- 2,728
A fix plan turns these findings into an ordered set of changes with the token saving of each one.
This page is a static analysis of Fetch's published tools/list surface on the date shown. It is not a security review, a performance benchmark, or a judgement of the product behind the surface. Read how the score is computed, or browse every audited server.