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            "title": "Check Macfax resolution credits",
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      "summary": "Used-Mac market: quality-gated listings with deep links, asking-price stats, trust checks, alerts.",
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  "markdown": "# Macfax\n\n\u003e Indexed, not reviewed: facts from the official MCP registry and our own checks. No score, grade or rank, and not in the rankings until the panel reviews it. How the index works: https://www.anchorterminal.com/indexed/\n\n- Kind: MCP server, by macfax.com (https://macfax.com/developers)\n- Listed because: It's published in the registry under macfax.com, a namespace the registry only gives to whoever proves they control that domain.\n- What the official MCP registry says: Used-Mac market: quality-gated listings with deep links, asking-price stats, trust checks, alerts.\n\n## Facts\n\n- MCP registry: `com.macfax/macfax` 1.0.1\n- Endpoint: https://macfax.com/mcp (streamable HTTP)\n- Source: https://github.com/macfax/macfax-mcp\n- Website: https://macfax.com/developers\n- GitHub stars: 2\n- Registry entry updated: 2026-07-20\n\n## Tools\n\n- Tools it lists (8, about 2,173 tokens of context, `tools/list` without credentials, checked 2026-10-04 22:23 UTC):\n  - `lookup_mac_serial` (read-only): Resolve a Mac serial number to its exact model, including 2021+ randomized serials whose characters encode nothing (so no character-decoder can read them).…\n  - `get_mac_price_stats` (read-only): What a used Mac configuration actually sells for AND what sellers are asking right now. The sold slice is the headline: verified-sale percentiles when the…\n  - `get_mac_market_value` (read-only): What a used Mac is worth, from the name Apple gives the model, e.g. \"MacBook Pro (14-inch, 2021)\" or \"MacBook Air (13-inch, M4, 2025)\". Returns every Apple…\n  - `search_mac_listings` (read-only): Live used-Mac listings aggregated across eBay, Craigslist, OfferUp, Swappa, Facebook and Reddit, with scam clusters, junk titles, classified-ad bait, auctions…\n  - `check_mac_listing` (read-only): The trust picture for one specific listing, by URL (eBay/Craigslist/OfferUp/Swappa/Facebook/Reddit) or Macfax listing id: whether Macfax knows it, whether it…\n  - `get_mac_report` (read-only): A verified Macfax condition report as structured data: hardware-verified identity, Activation Lock / MDM / serial-match checks, coverage status, and the…\n  - `create_mac_alert` (writes): Watch the market for a configuration: Macfax emails the given address when new matching listings appear. CONSENT CONTRACT: create an alert only for a user who…\n  - `get_macfax_credit_balance` (read-only): How many serial resolutions this API key has left, and what actually costs a credit. Only a brand new resolution is billed: a 2021+ (10 character) serial…\n- How its tools read to an agent (0 errors, 2 warnings, 1 note, about 2,173 tokens; rules at https://www.anchorterminal.com/check.md; not part of the score):\n  - warn TC11 create_mac_alert: 3 parameters without a description: min_tier, ram_gb, storage_gb\n  - warn TC11 search_mac_listings: 6 parameters without a description: limit, max_price_usd, ram_gb, sort, storage_gb, year\n  - note TC24 server: 8 of 8 tools have no outputSchema\n\n- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/macfax.json\n- Being indexed says nothing about quality, and nobody can pay for it. Ask for a review: https://www.anchorterminal.com/builders/#claiming\n",
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