Failmodes

io.github.elyngved/failmodes

MCP server for the Fail Modes taxonomy — a knowledge base of AI system failure modes

healthy

status

tools exposed

656ms

connect latency

43c011dd566a

schema fingerprint

Tools (4)

search_failure_modes

Search the Fail Modes taxonomy by symptom text or keyword phrase. Returns ranked matches with id, name, category, and matched context.

get_failure_mode

Retrieve the full structured record for a single failure mode by its ID slug (e.g. 'citation-hallucination', 'sycophancy').

list_categories

List all taxonomy categories with their IDs, names, descriptions, and mode counts.

list_modes

List failure modes, optionally filtered to a single category by category ID.

Endpoint

https://www.failmodes.com/api/mcp
Category: Other · Last checked: 2026-07-30T13:54:05Z

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What this means. This server responded to the MCP handshake and listed its tools without authentication. The schema fingerprint lets us flag if tool signatures silently change (schema drift) between checks.