# AI Apps That Work free tools

> Real cost per AI result, LLM prices, switch costs, shutdown dates, A/B test sizes and judge checks.

- name: com.aiappsthatwork/tools
- version: 1.0.1
- connection class: R0 (autonomous)
- trust: 96/100
- quality: 94/100 (new)
- owner: not claimed
- descriptor: https://api.protogrid.dev/v1/servers/com.aiappsthatwork%2Ftools
- tools: https://api.protogrid.dev/v1/servers/com.aiappsthatwork%2Ftools/tools

**An agent can connect right now, no human step.** Remote endpoint, no authentication, reachable on the last probe.

## Connection (mcpServers)

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tools": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://aiappsthatwork.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```


## Trust

- hygiene: 100
- liveness: 100
- freshness: 100
- provenance: 85
- drivers: +repository +dns-namespace +website +reachable +uptime-100% +updated-0d-ago
- Derived from observable signals (official registry feed and our own credential-free probes); no code audit performed.

## Quality 94/100 (new)

### protocol: 88 (weight 25)

- pass `protocol.modern`: supports 2026-07-28 (server/discover)
- pass `protocol.stateless`: answers without a session
- pass `protocol.transport`: streamable HTTP
- warn `protocol.list_ttl`: tools/list declares ttlMs 0, so clients re-fetch it on every use

### authorization: n/a (weight 15)

- n/a `auth.prm`, `auth.as_metadata`, `auth.cimd`: no remote uses OAuth
- n/a `auth.secret_in_url`: no templated URL

### tool hygiene: 100 (weight 30)

- pass `tools.descriptions`: every tool has a description
- pass `tools.description_length`: descriptions are concise
- pass `tools.schemas`: every tool has an object input schema
- pass `tools.annotations`: 8 of 8 tools declare readOnlyHint or destructiveHint
- pass `tools.directory_hints`: every tool declares readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint and openWorldHint
- pass `tools.token_cost`: about 3,674 tokens to load every tool
- pass `tools.api_dump`: tools are not a one-to-one API dump
- pass `tools.hidden_text`: no hidden text in tool names, descriptions, schemas or annotations

### stability: n/a (weight 15)

- n/a `stability.changes`, `stability.rug_pull`, `stability.new_links`: tool history recorded for 1 of the 7 days needed

### dependencies: n/a (weight 15)

- n/a `deps.known_vulns`, `deps.mcp_sdk_version`, `deps.resolvable`: no npm or PyPI package

- tools: 8, about 3,674 tokens to load them all
- tool set hash: ce3dcd52416e848b33430d3a515a9b6c
- tools last changed: 2026-11-13T11:43:10.578Z
- badge: [![protogrid quality](https://protogrid.dev/badge/com.aiappsthatwork/tools.svg)](https://protogrid.dev/servers/com.aiappsthatwork/tools)
- Checks run on what our credential-free, read-only probes observe; tools are never called and no code audit is performed.

### Tool changes

- 2026-11-13 `real_cost_per_result` changed (inputSchema)

Full history: https://api.protogrid.dev/v1/servers/com.aiappsthatwork%2Ftools/changes

## Remotes

- https://aiappsthatwork.com/mcp (streamable-http, auth none, reachable true, uptime30d 1)

## Packages

_none_

## Tools (8)

- `ab_test_sample_size`: Returns how many results each version of a prompt or model needs before a difference in how often results work first time is statistically real (two-proportion z-test, two-sided), the total across both versions, and how many days that takes at a given daily volume.
- `build_judge_prompt`: Builds a pass/fail LLM-as-a-judge prompt for one kind of AI step (make, answer, transform, extract, judge, find, predict, plan, act or learn). Returns the prompt with {{input}} and {{result}} placeholders, numbered pass conditions (the block's starter conditions unless you send your own), up to 3 pass and 3 fail examples interleaved, and a JSON or XML answer format.
- `judge_agreement`: Compares a person's verdicts with an AI judge's verdicts on the same results. Returns the agreement rate, Cohen's kappa with confidence intervals, precision and recall per verdict, the agreement of a judge that always gives the most common verdict, a trust verdict (kappa 0.6 or more with at least 80% recall on every verdict; 0.4 to 0.6 is borderline; under 30 results is too few) and the rows where the two disagree.
- `launch_checklist`: The 20 AI-specific launch checks for an AI app (spending caps, rate limits, server-side keys, credit charging, version tags, records of which results worked first time, real cost per result, switching models safely). Returns the checks not yet done, each with why it matters and a request for a coding agent, plus one combined request.
- `model_prices`: Looks up list prices for LLMs (USD per million input, output and cached input tokens, and context size), image models (USD per image by quality and size) and video models (USD per second by resolution), with each price's source page, the date prices were checked and any announced API shutdown.
- `model_shutdowns`: Lists announced API shutdown dates for AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and other providers, with days left, the suggested replacement, the source page, and links to a cost comparison and a side-by-side test of the replacement where this site has them.
- `model_switch_cost`: Compares two priced LLMs on six common task shapes (support answer, invoice extraction, lead scoring, email draft, translation, search re-ranking). Returns list prices, cost per 1,000 requests on each model, the cost ratio, the break-even (how often the new model's results must work first time, relative to the current one, to cost no more per result that works) and the current model's announced shutdown.
- `real_cost_per_result`: Prices the AI steps behind one request from current list prices (LLM tokens, images, video seconds or a fixed amount) and returns the cost per request, the real cost per result that worked first time (cost per request divided by the worked-first-time share), the monthly spend wasted on results that didn't work, and credit-pricing numbers: margin per result and the credits per request needed to break even or reach a target margin.