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io.github.kivtxs/pow

Proof of Work

Is the Proof of Work MCP server down? No. It answered initialize and tools/list in the probe of 2026-11-06.

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alive probed 2026-11-14 · unchanged since 2026-11-06

3tools
543tokens in Claude Opus 5.5
0.3 %of Claude's 200k window
0.2×the median server
1.2 sto initialize
2 msto list tools
Run it
uvx pow-agent@0.2.0 (stdio, probed in a container with the network off)
Host
pypi.org
Reports itself as
proof-of-work 0.1.1
Capabilities
prompts, resources, tools
Instructions
158 characters
Of a 1M window
<0.1 % of a 1M context window
Count
543 tokens in Claude Opus 5.5, exact, measured 2026-11-06. With the Claude Code prefix mcp__…__ on each tool name: 564. The o200k_base estimate is 306. Counted again when the tool definitions change. Method.
Repository
https://github.com/kivtxs/proof-of-work
Website
https://pow.offlineprotocol.com/agents.md
Registry
active, updated 2026-11-05 · registry entry

Most expensive tools

The Claude column scales the o200k estimate of each tool by this server's ratio of exact to estimate, 1.77×.

Tool≈ Claude tokenso200k estimateShare of this server
create_account40322774 %
get_started804515 %
status603411 %

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