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io.github.tstockham96/rail-mcp

Rail

Is the Rail MCP server down? No. It answered initialize and tools/list in the probe of 2026-10-31.

Budgets, propose-then-approve, and receipts for agents that buy for a human. Dry-run by default.

alive probed 2026-11-15 · unchanged since 2026-10-31

7tools
1.6ktokens in Claude Opus 5.5
0.8 %of Claude's 200k window
0.6×the median server
255 msto initialize
12 msto list tools
Run it
npx -y rail-mcp@0.1.1 (stdio, probed in a container with the network off)
Host
npmjs.com
Reports itself as
rail 0.1.1
Capabilities
tools
Instructions
none
Of a 1M window
0.2 % of a 1M context window
Count
1.6k tokens in Claude Opus 5.5, exact, measured 2026-10-17. With the Claude Code prefix mcp__…__ on each tool name: 1.7k. The o200k_base estimate is 896. Counted again when the tool definitions change. Method.
Repository
https://github.com/tstockham96/rail-mcp
Website
https://github.com/tstockham96/rail-mcp#readme
Registry
active, updated 2026-09-29 · registry entry

Most expensive tools

The Claude column scales the o200k estimate of each tool by this server's ratio of exact to estimate, 1.78×.

Tool≈ Claude tokenso200k estimateShare of this server
decide_proposal35119722 %
propose_purchase32418220 %
set_budget23012914 %
refund_receipt22812814 %
list_proposals18210211 %

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