In-depth architectural comparison of the Trust Tools and Kryptos MCP servers. Compare execution transports, security boundaries, tool capabilities, quality scores, and ready-to-paste client installation snippets for Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, and VS Code.
At a Glance & Executive Verdict
Trust Tools
Finance & Fintech · Remote HTTP/SSE
Quality: 51/100 (Good) | Auth: No auth required
Kryptos
Finance & Fintech · Remote HTTP/SSE
Quality: 75/100 (Great) | Auth: OAuth 2.0
Verdict Summary: Choose Trust Tools if you need specialized Finance & Fintech tools running via a hosted cloud SSE transport. Choose Kryptos if your workspace requires Finance & Fintech integration with remote web transport. Both servers can be configured concurrently in your client's mcpServers manifest.
Which MCP Server Should You Choose?
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Choose Trust Tools when:
You need dedicated capabilities in the Finance & Fintech domain.
You prefer remote streaming HTTP/SSE transport architecture.
Your security boundary fits: No auth required (Free / Open Source).
Website security ratings, token verification, and tamper-evident ledger heads from Obelisk Gate.
Kryptos: connect AI agents to your Kryptos workspace. Read your crypto portfolio, transactions across 5,000+ exchanges, wallets and blockchains, capital gains and tax reports, and run crypto bookkeeping with Xero, QuickBooks and Softledger. Hosted remote server (https://mcp.kryptos.io/) with OAuth sign-in.
Category & Scope
Tools & Capabilities Breakdown
Trust Tools Tools (8)
scan_trust
Run Obelisk's public trust scan on an https URL — TLS and security-header posture, scored as an Obelisk Rating. Read-only, SSRF-guarded.
verify_token
Verify that a JSON Web Token was minted by this Obelisk Gate (ES256, correct issuer) and report its type, subject, assurance, and principal. Never returns secrets.
get_org_rating
Read the public Obelisk Rating (0-100 score, trust band, and trend) for a registered organization by its slug.
verify_agent_run_proof
Verify the structural integrity, agent binding, delegation continuity, and commitments of an Obelisk action-scoped run proof. Does not reveal or infer raw task data.
get_agent_proof
Read an Obelisk agent's public proof vector by opaque proof id. Returns independent claims with freshness and scope; never a scalar trust score or a claim of non-humanness.
Ready-to-Paste Client Configurations
Paste either (or both) of these JSON server blocks into your client config file (e.g. claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json).
Trust Tools is categorized under Finance & Fintech and uses a remote streaming HTTP/SSE transport. In contrast, Kryptos belongs to Finance & Fintech using remote streaming HTTP/SSE transport. Select Trust Tools when you need capabilities focused on finance & fintech and Kryptos when you require tools for finance & fintech.
Read the current signed transparency head of Obelisk's tamper-evident receipt ledger — pin it and compare later to prove history only extends. Same data as /.well-known/obelisk-transparency.json.
gate_status
Read the Gate's public liveness facts: issuer, served code revision, OIDC availability, and supported protocols. No posture internals.
explain_rating
Explain what an Obelisk Rating number means: its trust band, how the public scan scores, and what typically moves a score. Deterministic by default; pass narrate:true for an additional one-line model-written narrative (cached, public-scope, never required). Pure function of the number — no data is read.