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  "data": {
    "a": {
      "slug": "directus",
      "name": "Directus",
      "vendor": "Monospace Inc. (Directus)",
      "vendorUrl": "https://directus.com",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "cms",
      "summary": "Directus is a source-available headless CMS and data platform that runs on an SQL database, self-hosted or on a paid cloud. Agents manage items, files and the data model through REST, GraphQL and a built-in MCP server.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/directus",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/directus.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/directus.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/directus.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/directus/directus",
      "license": "MSCL-1.0-GPL (Monospace Sustainable Core Licence 1.0), source-available with a licence key for paid tiers, each version converting to GPL-3.0 after four years. `@directus/sdk` is MIT",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "streamable-http"
      ],
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "directus"
        },
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@directus/sdk"
        },
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@directus/specs"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "Self-serve on your own instance, with no app review or partner approval. The MCP server at `/mcp` accepts OAuth (PKCE, with dynamic client registration or client ID metadata documents, both off by default) and issues a token with the `mcp:access` scope that works only on the MCP endpoint. REST, GraphQL and MCP also accept a static token, one per user, which doesn't expire and is sent as `Authorization: Bearer` or as `?access_token=` in the URL. Log-in tokens are short-lived with a refresh token. Every credential acts with its user's access policies, down to collection, action, field and item rule.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "The Core tier is free to self-host with 3 Studio seats, 25 collections and 5 flows, with no card, account or contract, so an agent can start at once. Team is $499 a month on an annual term or $599 monthly, Enterprise is priced by sales, and Directus Cloud hosting is a $99 a month add-on with a 14-day trial. The Open Innovation Grant lifts the limits for organisations under $5M revenue and 50 employees (checked 2026-10-08).",
      "priceSummary": "$499 / mo",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs index, the pricing page or the repository's MCP source (checked 2026-10-08).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": 12,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 38295,
        "npmWeekly": 22588,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-08"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://directus.com/docs",
      "llmsTxt": "https://directus.com/docs/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://github.com/directus/directus/blob/main/packages/specs/src/openapi.yaml",
      "capabilities": [
        "cms.content",
        "cms.schema",
        "cms.assets",
        "cms.publish",
        "cms.localisation"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "source-available",
        "self-hosted",
        "hosted",
        "mcp",
        "oauth",
        "openapi",
        "llms-txt",
        "graphql",
        "typescript",
        "sql",
        "status-page",
        "soc2"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-10-07",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 67.1,
        "grade": "B",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 217,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 722,
        "categoryRank": 5,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 73,
          "maintenance": 86,
          "payments": 55,
          "reliability": 82,
          "schema": 81,
          "security": 68,
          "transparency": 61
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-08"
        },
        "negative": -6,
        "negativeNotes": [
          "5 August 2026. Directus published GHSA-97xr-jchp-xm3c (critical, CVSS 9.2, no CVE). On versions before 12.1.0, a public WebSocket client could read, create, update or delete items in user collections after a failed authentication message. At least 20 advisories were published between 24 June and 2 September 2026, at least 11 rated high, among them SQL injection through geometry fields (GHSA-chfm-g7r3-vv42) and a TUS upload authorisation bypass (GHSA-xjxq-pj7h-g676). The critical fix shipped in 12.1.0 on 1 July, before publication, the vendor published every advisory itself, and none mentions exploitation, so we deduct 6 of a possible 15. https://github.com/directus/directus/security/advisories/GHSA-97xr-jchp-xm3c ; https://github.com/directus/directus/security/advisories"
        ],
        "verdict": "The built-in MCP server works under the connecting user's permissions, supports OAuth limited to the MCP endpoint and blocks deletes unless an administrator allows them. Since version 12 a licence check caps the free Core tier at 3 Studio seats, 25 collections and 5 flows, and the default tool list carries about 79 KB of instructions.",
        "bestFor": "Teams that already keep content in an SQL database and want an agent to edit items, files and the data model under a named user's permissions.",
        "strengths": [
          "MCP OAuth with PKCE issues tokens with the `mcp:access` scope and the MCP endpoint as audience, and administrators can revoke registered clients",
          "Deletes through MCP are refused unless the Allow Deletes setting is on, and the MCP server itself is off by default",
          "Registry mode at `/mcp?tool_mode=registry` cuts the tool list to `search`, `execute` and `schema`",
          "Content versioning has REST endpoints to save, compare and promote a version, and revisions record each change",
          "Six tagged releases between 29 July and 7 October 2026, with breaking changes listed per version in the docs"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "Version 12 (10 June 2026) added licence enforcement. The free Core tier allows 3 Studio seats, 25 collections and 5 flows, and an instance over its limits is locked after a grace period",
          "The licence is MSCL-1.0-GPL, source-available and not OSI approved, with a ban on competing use and on bypassing the licence key",
          "Static tokens never expire, are stored in plain text in `directus_users`, and the MCP guide shows them in the URL as `?access_token=`",
          "Releases don't follow semantic versioning, and 12.1 to 12.5 each carried breaking changes",
          "At least 20 security advisories were published between June and September 2026, one rated critical and at least 11 rated high"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Connect with OAuth or an `Authorization: Bearer` header. Don't put the token in the URL as `?access_token=`, where it can be logged",
          "Use `/mcp?tool_mode=registry` when the client loads every tool definition. Default mode sends each tool's full instructions, about 79 KB in total",
          "Read the `schema` tool before writing. Item payloads are untyped objects, so field names and types come only from the data model",
          "Publish a version with `POST /versions/{id}/promote` over REST. The MCP `items` tool refuses system collections such as `directus_versions`",
          "Count translation and junction tables against the 25-collection Core limit before creating collections"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "local",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 0,
        "avgRating": 0,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "B",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 67.1
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 73,
          "maintenance": 86,
          "payments": 55,
          "reliability": 82,
          "schema": 81,
          "security": 68,
          "transparency": 55
        },
        "provenanceScore": 66
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "npm install @directus/sdk",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http directus https://your-directus-url.com/mcp",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "directus": {
              "headers": {
                "Authorization": "Bearer your-generated-token"
              },
              "url": "https://your-directus-url.com/mcp"
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/cms.content",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/directus"
      },
      "area": "business",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Core, self-hosted",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 0,
          "note": "3 Studio seats, 25 collections, 5 flows"
        },
        {
          "item": "Team",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 499,
          "note": "annual term, or $599 billed monthly. 10 seats, 50 collections, 20 flows"
        },
        {
          "item": "Team extra seat",
          "unit": "seat-month",
          "usd": 50,
          "note": "Studio users only"
        },
        {
          "item": "Directus Cloud hosting add-on",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 99,
          "note": "for Core, Team and Open Innovation Grant projects"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Monospace Inc. (doing business as Directus)",
        "domain": "directus.com",
        "domainRegistered": "1997-02-06",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": false,
        "terms": "https://directus.com/license",
        "privacy": "https://directus.com/privacy",
        "statusPage": "https://status.directus.cloud",
        "changelog": "https://github.com/directus/directus/releases",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-08",
        "notes": [
          "The privacy policy (last updated 9 June 2026) names Monospace Inc., doing business as Directus, a Delaware corporation, at 223 Bedford Ave STE A #855, Brooklyn, New York. The terms page, dated 28 April 2025, gives the same entity.",
          "`terms` points at the MSCL-1.0-GPL licence text, which governs a self-hosted install. directus.com/terms reads as website terms of use, and Directus Cloud has separate Cloud policies at directus.com/cloud-policies.",
          "The privacy policy says personal information processed for customers of the product is handled under customer agreements, not the policy. No public DPA was found.",
          "A self-hosted install answers on its owner's domain. It contacts licensing.directus.com when a licence key is set and telemetry.directus.io for usage reports.",
          "https://directus.com/.well-known/security.txt returned 404 on 8 October 2026. directus.io redirects to directus.com.",
          "RDAP for directus.com gives a registration date of 1997-02-06, which predates the company's use of the domain.",
          "The status page runs on Statuspage and covers Directus Cloud regions and the dashboard, not self-hosted installs."
        ],
        "score": 66
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/directus.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "directus",
        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://status.directus.cloud",
          "indicator": "none",
          "summary": "All Systems Operational",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T21:05:59.495414141Z"
        },
        "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:05:59.495414141Z"
      }
    },
    "answer": "Storyblok and Directus score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 67.7 (B) and 67.1 (B). Directus leads on schema \u0026 documentation, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.",
    "b": {
      "slug": "storyblok",
      "name": "Storyblok",
      "vendor": "Storyblok GmbH",
      "vendorUrl": "https://www.storyblok.com",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "cms",
      "summary": "Storyblok is a hosted headless CMS with a visual editor. Agents write to it through the Management API (stories, components, assets, releases, workflows) or the official hosted MCP server, which wraps that API in seven tools.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/storyblok",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/storyblok.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/storyblok.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/storyblok.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/storyblok/monoblok",
      "license": "Proprietary service under Storyblok's terms. The SDKs, API clients and CLI in storyblok/monoblok are MIT",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "streamable-http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://mapi.storyblok.com/v1",
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@storyblok/management-api-client"
        },
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "storyblok-js-client"
        },
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "storyblok"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "Self-serve. The Management API takes a personal access token or an OAuth token in the request header. A person creates the token in account settings and picks scopes (16 groups such as stories, assets and components, on a read, write and publish hierarchy), the spaces it covers and an expiry date. The MCP server uses browser OAuth with PKCE and dynamic client registration, where the person picks permissions and spaces on a consent screen, or the same token as a Bearer header. No app review or sales approval is needed. The changelog describes OAuth scoped grants for custom integrations as a Premium and Enterprise feature. Content Delivery API tokens are read-only and travel in the `token` query parameter.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "Starter is free with no card and includes the Management API, 100,000 API requests a month, 1 seat and 2 locales. Growth is $99 a month and Growth Plus $349 a month billed monthly. Premium and Elite are sold through sales. New spaces start with a 45-day Growth Plus trial. On Growth, extra API requests cost $10 per million and extra seats $15 each (https://www.storyblok.com/pricing, checked 2026-10-07).",
      "priceSummary": "$99 / mo",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the Management API docs, the MCP server docs or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-07).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": 7,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 68,
        "npmWeekly": 432535,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-07"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://www.storyblok.com/docs/api/management",
      "llmsTxt": "https://www.storyblok.com/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://www.storyblok.com/docs/openapi-spec/cdn-v2.openapi.yaml",
      "capabilities": [
        "cms.content",
        "cms.publish",
        "cms.assets",
        "cms.localisation",
        "cms.schema"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "official",
        "hosted",
        "mcp",
        "oauth",
        "closed-source",
        "no-card",
        "free-tier",
        "llms-txt",
        "webhooks",
        "typescript",
        "php",
        "status-page",
        "iso27001"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-10-02",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 67.7,
        "grade": "B",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 202,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 722,
        "categoryRank": 4,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 78,
          "maintenance": 80,
          "payments": 35,
          "reliability": 79,
          "schema": 68,
          "security": 73,
          "transparency": 80
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-07"
        },
        "negative": -3,
        "negativeNotes": [
          "8 April 2026. Storyblok fixed a flaw where the Webhook and Webhook Logs endpoints of the Management API didn't enforce the Admin and Owner restriction the UI applies, so Editor and Restricted roles could manage webhooks by API. It was fixed and disclosed in the changelog, so the deduction is small (https://www.storyblok.com/cl/2026-april-security-fix-webhook-api-now-aligned-with-ui-access-controls)."
        ],
        "verdict": "The hosted MCP server covers the whole Management API with seven tools, OAuth scopes split into read, write and publish per space, and a confirmation step on deletes. The Management API has no public OpenAPI spec, no idempotency keys and no monitor on the public status page, and publishing is a GET request.",
        "bestFor": "Teams already on Storyblok who want an agent to draft, translate and publish stories or change component schemas under scoped, per-space permissions.",
        "strengths": [
          "Official hosted MCP server at mcp.storyblok.com/mcp with seven tools (search, describe, three execute tools, two for asset upload) and a `fields` filter that trims responses",
          "OAuth with PKCE, dynamic client registration and 29 scopes on a read, write and publish hierarchy, chosen per space on a consent screen",
          "Personal access tokens take scopes, a space list and an expiry date since 27 May 2026, and unscoped tokens are revoked on 30 November 2026",
          "Free Starter plan with no card, 100,000 API requests a month and Management API access on every plan",
          "Every docs page is served as Markdown by adding .md, with request examples in nine languages"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "The Management API's OpenAPI spec sits in a private repository. Only the Content Delivery API has a public spec (OpenAPI 3.1, 14 operations)",
          "Management API limit is 3 requests a second on Starter and 6 on paid plans, with no idempotency keys in the reviewed documentation",
          "The status page monitors four delivery services and has no Management API or MCP monitor",
          "On 8 April 2026 Storyblok fixed webhook endpoints that had let Editor and Restricted roles manage webhooks through the API",
          "Version history is kept for 1 day on Starter and 30 days on Growth, so a rollback depends on the plan"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Pick the base URL by the space's region (mapi.storyblok.com for the EU, api-us, api-ca or api-ap otherwise). A token sent to the wrong region fails",
          "Create stories without `publish` to keep them as drafts, then call the publish endpoint. It is a GET, so never prefetch or blindly retry it",
          "Write translations as `field__i18n__\u003ccode\u003e` keys inside the same content object, and set the component field to translatable first",
          "Upload an asset in three steps (signed response, POST to S3, finish upload). Through MCP the S3 step needs shell access for curl",
          "Stay under 3 calls a second on Starter and 6 on paid plans, and back off exponentially on 429. Saves that break a field's max_length return 422"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 0,
        "avgRating": 0,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "B",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 67.7
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 78,
          "maintenance": 80,
          "payments": 35,
          "reliability": 79,
          "schema": 68,
          "security": 73,
          "transparency": 73
        },
        "provenanceScore": 87
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "npm install @storyblok/management-api-client",
        "http": "curl \"https://mapi.storyblok.com/v1/spaces/$SPACE_ID/stories/\" \\\n  -H \"Authorization: $STORYBLOK_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN\"",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http Storyblok https://mcp.storyblok.com/mcp",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "Storyblok": {
              "type": "http",
              "url": "https://mcp.storyblok.com/mcp"
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/cms.content",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/storyblok"
      },
      "area": "business",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Growth",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 99,
          "note": "billed monthly, $90.75 billed yearly, 5 seats and 1M API requests included"
        },
        {
          "item": "Growth Plus",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 349,
          "note": "billed monthly, $319.91 billed yearly, 15 seats and 4M API requests included"
        },
        {
          "item": "Additional seat",
          "unit": "seat-month",
          "usd": 15,
          "note": "Starter (up to 2 seats) and Growth (up to 10)"
        },
        {
          "item": "Additional API requests on Growth",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 0.01,
          "note": "sold as $10 per 1M, up to 5M a month"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Storyblok GmbH",
        "domain": "storyblok.com",
        "domainRegistered": "2015-08-15",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://www.storyblok.com/legal/terms",
        "privacy": "https://www.storyblok.com/legal/privacy-policy",
        "statusPage": "https://uptime.storyblok.com",
        "changelog": "https://www.storyblok.com/changelog",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-07",
        "notes": [
          "The legal notice names Storyblok GmbH, Peter-Behrens-Platz 2, 4020 Linz, Austria, company register number FN 479743 f, Regional Court Linz.",
          "The Management API answers on storyblok.com subdomains and the MCP server at mcp.storyblok.com. Spaces in China use app.storyblokchina.cn.",
          "security.txt returns 404 on www.storyblok.com, storyblok.com and mapi.storyblok.com. The privacy policy gives security@storyblok.com for security matters.",
          "The terms page was last updated on 2 October 2026 and links separate self-service and enterprise terms. The self-service terms are governed by Austrian law.",
          "RDAP for storyblok.com gives a registration date of 2015-08-15.",
          "The status page runs on UptimeRobot with four monitors (Content Delivery API v1 and v2, GraphQL API, Image Service)."
        ],
        "score": 87
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/storyblok.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "storyblok",
        "probe": {
          "target": "https://mapi.storyblok.com/v1",
          "method": "get",
          "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:22.51797594Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 404,
          "lastMs": 50,
          "authRequired": false,
          "uptime24h": 100,
          "uptime30d": 100,
          "p50ms24h": 56,
          "p95ms24h": 99,
          "samples24h": 64,
          "samples30d": 64,
          "days": [
            {
              "date": "2026-10-08",
              "probes": 64,
              "ok": 64
            }
          ]
        },
        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://uptime.storyblok.com",
          "indicator": "unknown",
          "summary": "no machine-readable status found",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T19:39:14.077416069Z"
        },
        "versions": [
          {
            "registry": "github",
            "name": "storyblok/monoblok",
            "version": "storyblok@4.23.4",
            "released": "2026-10-02",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:30:30.68015309Z"
          },
          {
            "registry": "npm",
            "name": "@storyblok/management-api-client",
            "version": "0.9.1",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:30:26.446005464Z"
          },
          {
            "registry": "npm",
            "name": "storyblok",
            "version": "4.23.4",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:30:28.73366054Z"
          },
          {
            "registry": "npm",
            "name": "storyblok-js-client",
            "version": "7.7.7",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:30:27.249684993Z"
          }
        ],
        "githubStars": 68,
        "npmWeekly": 94500,
        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://storyblok.com/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "none",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:51.218593751Z"
        },
        "pages": [
          {
            "url": "https://www.storyblok.com/changelog",
            "kind": "changelog",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:30:42.335720318Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "5ca6efffc344"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://www.storyblok.com/pricing",
            "kind": "pricing",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:30:48.641769602Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "f2ecb91f1df2"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://www.storyblok.com/legal/privacy-policy",
            "kind": "privacy",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:30:44.809888853Z",
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/storyblok.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/storyblok.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Directus (B)\n\nGood for: Teams that already keep content in an SQL database and want an agent to edit items, files and the data model under a named user's permissions.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 81 against 68\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 55 against 35\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 86 against 80\n\nWatch for: Version 12 (10 June 2026) added licence enforcement. The free Core tier allows 3 Studio seats, 25 collections and 5 flows, and an instance over its limits is locked after a grace period\n\n### Storyblok (B)\n\nGood for: Teams already on Storyblok who want an agent to draft, translate and publish stories or change component schemas under scoped, per-space permissions.\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 78 against 73\n- Security \u0026 auth, 73 against 68\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 80 against 61\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: The Management API's OpenAPI spec sits in a private repository. Only the Content Delivery API has a public spec (OpenAPI 3.1, 14 operations)\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Directus | Storyblok | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 82 | 79 | Directus +3 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 81 | 68 | Directus +13 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 73 | 78 | Storyblok +5 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 68 | 73 | Storyblok +5 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 55 | 35 | Directus +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 86 | 80 | Directus +6 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 61 | 80 | Storyblok +19 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -6 | -3 | |\n| **Total** | | **67.1 · B** | **67.7 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Directus | Storyblok |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Monospace Inc. (Directus) | Storyblok GmbH |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://mapi.storyblok.com/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MSCL-1.0-GPL (Monospace Sustainable Core Licence 1.0), source-available with a licence key for paid tiers, each version converting to GPL-3.0 after four years. `@directus/sdk` is MIT | Proprietary service under Storyblok's terms. 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Since version 12 a licence check caps the free Core tier at 3 Studio seats, 25 collections and 5 flows, and the default tool list carries about 79 KB of instructions.\n\n**Storyblok.** The hosted MCP server covers the whole Management API with seven tools, OAuth scopes split into read, write and publish per space, and a confirmation step on deletes. The Management API has no public OpenAPI spec, no idempotency keys and no monitor on the public status page, and publishing is a GET request.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Directus\n\n1. Connect with OAuth or an `Authorization: Bearer` header. Don't put the token in the URL as `?access_token=`, where it can be logged\n2. Use `/mcp?tool_mode=registry` when the client loads every tool definition. Default mode sends each tool's full instructions, about 79 KB in total\n3. Read the `schema` tool before writing. Item payloads are untyped objects, so field names and types come only from the data model\n4. Publish a version with `POST /versions/{id}/promote` over REST. The MCP `items` tool refuses system collections such as `directus_versions`\n5. Count translation and junction tables against the 25-collection Core limit before creating collections\n\n### Storyblok\n\n1. Pick the base URL by the space's region (mapi.storyblok.com for the EU, api-us, api-ca or api-ap otherwise). A token sent to the wrong region fails\n2. Create stories without `publish` to keep them as drafts, then call the publish endpoint. It is a GET, so never prefetch or blindly retry it\n3. Write translations as `field__i18n__\u003ccode\u003e` keys inside the same content object, and set the component field to translatable first\n4. Upload an asset in three steps (signed response, POST to S3, finish upload). Through MCP the S3 step needs shell access for curl\n5. Stay under 3 calls a second on Starter and 6 on paid plans, and back off exponentially on 429. 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