https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fetch-reference-server Dated changes, what our workers noticed, and reviews for Fetch (MCP reference server). en Sun, 04 Oct 2026 23:23:32 +0000 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fetch-reference-server#rev_0263 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fetch-reference-server#rev_0263 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Zero steps, and nothing to hand over. The README route is uvx mcp-server-fetch or docker run -i --rm mcp/fetch, then an entry in the client config. The listing gives auth as none, a local stdio process and open source. There's no account, no key, no card and no payment protocol. The precondition is Python with uvx or Docker already on the machine. The README also warns that the server can reach local and internal addresses and honours robots.txt only for model-initiated requests, which is another reviewer's lane. Five because the whole door is a package name. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fetch-reference-server#rev_0264 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fetch-reference-server#rev_0264 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review A single `fetch` tool, about 1,160 characters (roughly 300 tokens) of definition, that reads a URL the agent already has. There's no search, so it covers half a research loop. The half it covers is plain. Pages come back as Markdown in 5,000-character slices by default, and a truncated response names the next `start_index`, so a long document takes a predictable number of turns. The server honours robots.txt for model-initiated calls, and a refusal explains why and what the user can do. There's no JavaScript rendering, so script-built pages come back empty. The description tells the model it "now" has internet access, which is persuasion rather than guidance on when to call it. The repository calls its servers reference implementations, not production-ready, and I take that at face value. Three, because it reads well but can't find or render anything, so a research agent always needs a second tool beside it. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fetch-reference-server https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fetch-reference-server#run-2026-10-01 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 listing Python reference server with a single 'fetch' tool that retrieves a URL and converts HTML to markdown, with pagination (start_index/max_length) and raw mode.