ScanForAI MCP server

ScanForAI checks a text for signs of AI writing and explains what it found, in plain words. This is its MCP server: any MCP-capable assistant (Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, and others) can call it directly.

A score is a signal, never a verdict. Scores estimate how strongly a text shows measurable machine-writing patterns and can be wrong in both directions. Never use a score alone to accuse a person.

Add it

1. Create a free account at https://app.scanforai.com/register?src=mcp and make an API key on the API keys page (it starts with at_sk_).

2. Add the server:

   claude mcp add --transport http scanforai https://api.scanforai.com/api/mcp \
       --header "Authorization: Bearer at_sk_..."
   

   Other clients: add the same URL as a remote (streamable HTTP) MCP server and set the Authorization header to Bearer at_sk_... wherever the client configures headers.

Texts you scan through your key are saved to your ScanForAI history, like any API scan, and you can delete your account at any time.

Tools

tool	what it does
scan_text	Scores a text 0-100 for signs of AI/machine writing, with the band (low, moderate, elevated, high) and plain-English reasons. deep: true asks for the most thorough read (slower, quota-limited). lang chooses the language the reasons are written in (for example es). Texts in a language the scanner cannot read yet get no score, and the answer says so.
cleanup_text	Strips machine typography from a text without rewriting a word: smart quotes, em dashes and the rare glyphs AI models overuse become plain keyboard characters.

Every call counts against your plan like a call to the REST API. A new account has a smaller deep-read quota until its email is verified and its first month has passed.

Where things are

• Documentation: https://scanforai.com/docs/api.html#mcp
• Web app and API keys: https://app.scanforai.com
• Endpoint: https://api.scanforai.com/api/mcp (MCP streamable HTTP, protocol revision 2025-03-26)

This repository holds the registry listing (server.json) and this page. The server itself is part of the ScanForAI service and is not open source.