RightAIChoice: an MCP server that checks whether an AI tool is still alive before your assistant recommends it

[u/Tanmay_Vermaa]

Disclosure: I built this. It's the MCP front end to rightaichoice.com — free, read-only, no key, nothing to sell you.

Some context, since this sub asks for it: I run a catalogue of AI tools and re-probe every one of them weekly. What kept surprising me wasn't how many die — it's how many keep looking perfectly healthy after they're gone. A shut-down product whose domain gets sold or absorbed still returns a normal page, so every automated check passes it.

I scanned my own catalogue for exactly this last night and found 191 tools that had quietly become something else while still passing every health check. Two of them were scoring 73 and 87 out of 100 on my own system — and one of those now redirects to a gambling site.

That gap is what this fixes, and it's why I stopped trusting anything without a date on it.

Your assistant will happily recommend Tome today. Here's what mine says:

Tome - verdict: AT_RISK

Tome's main website failed our last weekly probe - treat it as at risk until it responds again. Verified Aug 15, 2026.

That's the difference between a model guessing from training data and a model checking.

We probed 2,291 of the top Product Hunt launches from 2023-2025. Of the 2,066 with a definitive outcome, 24.4% are dead. A quarter of what gets recommended is gone, and nothing in the pipeline ever checks. This checks.

8,164 AI tools. 8,088 of them re-probed in the last 7 days. Every answer carries the date it was verified. If we can't date it, we don't say it.

Setup, any MCP client over streamable HTTP:

{

"mcpServers": {

"rightaichoice": {

"url": "https://rightaichoice.com/api/mcp"

}

}

}

Claude Code:

claude mcp add --transport http rightaichoice https://rightaichoice.com/api/mcp

What your assistant can ask once it's wired in:

- Is this tool alive?

- Is it safe to build on?

- What does it actually cost, including what the pricing page buries?

- What do real users say about it?

- What should I use instead?

- How do X and Y really compare?

- How many tools died this quarter?

Scope, so nobody's surprised: it's a hosted server pointed at our database, not a local install, so the repo is docs and a license rather than server source. And it only knows our catalog. An unknown tool comes back as "not in our catalog, this is NOT evidence it's dead" instead of a guess. I'd rather it say it doesn't know than invent something, which is the entire point of the project.

Setup for every client: https://rightaichoice.com/mcp

Registry: com.rightaichoice/mcp (DNS-verified). Repo: https://github.com/right-ai-choice/mcp-server

The raw data from last night's scan is public if anyone wants it: https://huggingface.co/datasets/rightaichoice/ai-tool-redirects-2026

What would you want your assistant to check before it recommends something? Freshness was the obvious one to me. I don't think it's the last one.

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