About Upshift
Upshift is a remote MCP server for site audits, website template matching, and price quotes for web and MCP server work. Its quotes use live store data, and its tools are also presented as a reference implementation.
Key features
- 01Audit structured data and page metadata
- 02Score findings and suggest fixes
- 03Match trades to website templates
- 04Show live template links and prices
- 05Quote website and MCP server work
Use cases
- 01Review a site's technical and content signals
- 02Find template options for a trade
- 03Check current prices for a project
- 04Use a working MCP server as a reference
MCP support
Provides three tools to MCP clients through a remote HTTP endpoint. The same server can also run locally over stdio or HTTP.
Configuration
Remote servers need no local install. Pick your client, then copy the config or install in one click.
https://mcp.upshiftsites.com/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http com-upshiftsites https://mcp.upshiftsites.com/mcp{"mcpServers":{"com-upshiftsites":{"type":"http","url":"https://mcp.upshiftsites.com/mcp"}}}Open in Cursor{"servers":{"com-upshiftsites":{"type":"http","url":"https://mcp.upshiftsites.com/mcp"}}}Open in VS Code{"mcpServers":{"com-upshiftsites":{"type":"http","url":"https://mcp.upshiftsites.com/mcp"}}}{"mcpServers":{"com-upshiftsites":{"serverUrl":"https://mcp.upshiftsites.com/mcp"}}}Run commands in a terminal; paste JSON into the client’s MCP config and restart. Servers that need sign-in will prompt on first connect.
Tools
3| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| url | string | Yes | Absolute http(s) URL of the page to audit, e.g. https://example.com |
Details
From the project READMEupshift-mcp
Upshift's reference MCP server. Three tools, deployed remote, on MCP spec revision 2026-07-28.
It exists to do two jobs at once: be genuinely useful to an agent, and be the worked example a buyer looks at before paying us to build theirs. Every price it quotes is generated from the live store, so it cannot invent one.
https://mcp.upshiftsites.com/mcp
{
"mcpServers": {
"upshift": { "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.upshiftsites.com/mcp" }
}
}
Or run the same server locally, for clients that spawn a command rather than call a URL. Nothing to clone or build — it is published on npm:
{
"mcpServers": {
"upshift": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "upshift-mcp"] }
}
}
The same binary from a shell. stdio is the default; --http serves the full
Worker on localhost instead:
npx upshift-mcp
Tools
| Tool | Does |
|---|---|
upshift_site_audit(url) | Fetches a live page and reports structured data, llms.txt, robots.txt, title and meta budgets, headings, alt-text coverage, HTTPS and document weight, with a 0-100 score and a fix for each finding. |
upshift_template_match(industry, needs?) | Ranks the 14 website template lines against a trade, with live demo links, store links and real prices, and explains why each matched. |
upshift_quote(job_type, scope?) | The real price table for MCP server work and for websites. |
Free and rate limited to 20 calls/minute per IP.
Layout
src/
worker.ts Cloudflare entrypoint: routing, origin policy, rate limit
server.ts The three tools; the one place production layers are applied
audit.ts Audit rules — pure, so every rule is testable without a network
safe-fetch.ts The SSRF guard for the one tool that takes a caller's URL
match.ts Template matching
services.ts What we charge for MCP work
catalog.generated.ts Template lines + prices, generated from the store
landing.ts The page a human gets at /
evals/ 12 qa_pairs, run over the real protocol
test/ 32 tests: protocol conformance + the pure logic
Working on it
npm install
npm run dev # http://127.0.0.1:8788/mcp
npm run ci:verify # typecheck + tests + evals
wrangler dev needs macOS 13.5+ and will not boot on the build machine, so
npm run dev serves the production src/worker.ts on Node against an
in-memory KV. Same handler, same routes, same tools — not a second
implementation. Deployment is still wrangler deploy.
Prices come from ../upshift-agency-site/src/data/store.ts. After changing
them there:
npm run gen:catalog
Deploying
Live since 2026-08-16 at https://mcp.upshiftsites.com/mcp. KV namespace
and custom domain are provisioned; npm run deploy ships a new version.
Listed
- Official MCP registry:
com.upshiftsites/mcp, publishedactiveagainst the DNS-verified namespace. - Glama — installable, with a released container built from this repo.
- npm:
upshift-mcp—npx upshift-mcpruns this same server locally.
Honest gaps
In docs/VALIDATION.md — what is verified, what is not, the four real bugs the eval suite caught during the build (one of them a security bypass), and the fifth it missed. That document is the argument for shipping evals alongside a server, which is the part of this we sell; the miss is part of the argument, not an exception to it.
Licence
MIT. Lift anything useful. If you would rather we built and ran it for you, that is at https://upshiftsites.com/store/mcp-server-service/.
Comments
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