It provides local access to web-page archives while stating the setup requirements up front.

wayback-machine — MCP server by Mearman/mcp-wayback-machine

wayback-machine

wayback-machine is an MCP server for Claude Code from Mearman/mcp-wayback-machine. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, original, no licence file.

A local server and command-line tool for interacting with the Wayback Machine, an archive of older web pages. It works without API keys but requires two environment variables to run.

In plain words

What is it for?: Use it to work with Wayback Machine data from a local tool or command line. The description does not list the exact operations available.
Why use it?: It provides local access to web-page archives while stating the setup requirements up front.

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: listed in a Claude config.

Part of the mcp-wayback-machine plugin — 2 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it to work with Wayback Machine data from a local tool or command line. The description does not list the exact operations available.

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Install with agentmods

npx agentmods add mcp/mearman/mcp-wayback-machine/wayback-machine

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Mearman/mcp-wayback-machine

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install mcp-wayback-machine, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 MCP servers.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/mcp/mearman/mcp-wayback-machine/wayback-machine/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/mcp/mearman/mcp-wayback-machine/wayback-machine)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/mcp/mearman/mcp-wayback-machine/wayback-machine"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/mcp/mearman/mcp-wayback-machine/wayback-machine/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/mcp/mearman/mcp-wayback-machine/wayback-machine"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/mcp/mearman/mcp-wayback-machine/wayback-machine.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.

When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin unknown No closer match found in the catalogue.

Security

Grade A, and why

wayback-machine scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.mcp.json · 13 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

2mo ago First seen · 13 lines scan A da787a3cd464

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wayback-machine is an MCP server published in the GitHub repository Mearman/mcp-wayback-machine (65 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), with no licence file. Its token cost is not measured: an MCP server costs its tool schemas, not its config file. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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