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Which MCP servers are Pillwise's own, from the official registry and from asking its own domain, whether they answer, and what they offer. A program checked each of these, nobody copied them from a product page.

read 2026-10-27

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Whose server it is
  • Registry namedev.pillwise/pillwiseverified in the MCP registry

The registry name sits under pillwise.dev. The registry only lets a publisher use that namespace after proving control of the domain through DNS or HTTP.

When we asked itchecked 2026-10-27
  • Stateanswerschecked 2026-10-27
  • Tools9
  • Server calls itselfpillwise
  • Server version0.1.0
  • Protocol version2025-06-18

On 2026-10-27 the server answered initialize and tools/list without a sign-in. First answer in 200 ms.

Should an agent connect itNot proven either way yet
  • Its tools do search drug names and choose a strength and form; match a dispensed package to its product and strength, but not store each member's medication list without holding their identity.
  • Checked on 6 of the 7 days it takes to judge reliability.

Once connected

  • For "search drug names and choose a strength and form", the likely first call is search_medications.
  • For "match a dispensed package to its product and strength", the likely first call is lookup_ndc.

Said by rules from the measurements above. The likely first call is a model's pick from the tool list; read its description before relying on it.

Measured dailydaily checks: 6, the first on 2026-10-27
  • INITE MCP scoreafter a weeka score needs 7 daily checks: 6 so far
  • What an agent can do with it2 of 3 use cases
  • Answeredmeasuring6 of the 7 daily checks it takes to print a share
  • Median first answer238 ms
  • Space in an agent's context≈ 991 tokensthe definitions of all its tools (9), which an agent carries on every turn
  • Tool definitionsA · 100 of 100
  • Typed results0 of 9 toolsdeclared outputSchema: results come typed, read once
  • Every tool passes all six checks.

What an agent can do with it

  • can do · search drug names and choose a strength and form
  • cannot · store each member's medication list without holding their identity
  • can do · match a dispensed package to its product and strength

Each of the product's use cases, put to Jev against this server's tool list: can an agent do it with these tools?

Worth a look

None of the five warning signs in these definitions.

A program checks the server once a day: initialize and tools/list, no model. Tokens are the definitions' length at about four characters a token. The grade averages six checks of every tool's name, description, schema and annotations; it says how well the tools are described, not whether they work. The score weighs what was measured and nothing else: answering (25%), doing the product's job (25%), definitions (20%), context (10%), use (10%) and how readily a client connects (10%). A part that was not measured is left out, and a hidden instruction caps the score at 40. The state of vendors' MCP servers: method and numbers →

Tools it offers9 tools · read 2026-10-27
  • search_medications

    Typeahead search by what a person calls a medication: brand, ingredient or everyday name. Returns brand and ingredient groups in the order a person would pick, not packages.

  • get_form_options

    The forms (tablet, liquid, patch…) and strengths a medication comes in, with labels for people and values to send back. Use the id from a search hit.

  • get_drug

    The full record for a Pillwise drug id: names, ingredients, form, strength, packages and recalls.

  • get_packages

    The package NDCs that belong to a Pillwise drug id.

  • lookup_ndc

    The package and drug for an NDC: 11 digits, 10 with hyphens (4-4-2, 5-3-2 or 5-4-1), or a product NDC. A bare 10-digit code is matched only as listed; no padding is guessed.

  • lookup_rxcui

    The clinical drug for an RxCUI.

  • list_recalls

    Drug recalls, filtered by at least one of ndc, drug_id or since.

  • list_shortages

    Drug shortages, filtered by at least one of ndc or drug_id.

  • catalog_freshness

    How current the catalog is: the snapshot served and when it was built.

How to connect

Add the server to your MCP client config. Claude Desktop, Cursor and most other clients read this shape:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pillwise": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.pillwise.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Add it

Claude Code, in a terminal

claude mcp add --transport http pillwise https://api.pillwise.dev/mcp

Add to CursorAdd to VS Code

claude.ai, ChatGPT and other clients: add https://api.pillwise.dev/mcp as a custom connector in the settings.

OpenAPI spec

19 paths, read 2026-10-27. Open the spec ↗

Each line is something a program found when it went looking: the registry entry, the server's own answer, a spec that parses. A missing line means we did not find it, not that it does not exist.