Gridscoot
NPM · @GRIDSCOOT/MCP · 2 COMPONENTS
AU price comparison via MCP — search, compare, track. 6 tools; anonymous demo (30/day/IP).
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Last scanned (18 hours ago)
Scores higher than 62% of npm servers
Category E-commerce
How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically from public evidence about the published package, including repeated runs of it in an isolated sandbox, and we only credit what we can confirm. How we score → Why this is hard to score →
Supply Chain Security98
- No malware found by supply-chain analysis.Pass
- No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.Pass
- No install/post-install scripts declared.Pass
- 30 of 101 dependencies flagged as unhealthy. View diagnostics → Partial
Provenance & Transparency19
- Repository check failed: the declared repository URL returned HTTP 404. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Fail
- Provenance check failed: no build-provenance attestation is published. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Fail
- Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).Pass
- Actively maintained (last published 165 days ago).Pass
- Security-disclosure policy not yet verified: we couldn't inspect the source repository.Unverified
Schema Quality & AI Usability79
- AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).Pass
- Tool/resource definitions use about 664 tokens (~110/item across 6 items; 6 tools + 0 resources), lean.Pass
- Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management100
- No destabilizing schema changes in the last 30 days.Pass
Tool Coverage100
- 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
- 100% of tool parameters carry a description.Pass
Tool Safety100
- No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
- We read all 6 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
- An AI judge read all 6 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.Pass
Capabilities100
- Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.Pass
Every change we have recorded for this component, newest first. Security-relevant changes are always shown. ▲ marks a change for the better, ▼ a change for the worse; unmarked changes are neutral.
- 3 Nov 26 0
- Stability: 0.97 → pass security
- 2 Nov 26 0
- Stability: pass → 0.97 functional
- 27 Oct 26 0
- Stability: 0.97 → pass security
- 26 Oct 26 0
- Stability: pass → 0.97 functional
- 20 Oct 26 0
- Stability: 0.97 → pass security
- 19 Oct 26 0
- Stability: pass → 0.97 functional
- 17 Oct 26 +1
- Stability: 0.87 → pass security
- 16 Oct 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 83 to 87. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 25 days of observed history at the previous scan, 26 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
Diagnostic detail from the automated scan of this channel: what the scanner observed at each step, so you can see exactly where a check passed or failed. It is informational only and never changes the trust score.
Captured 4 Nov 2026 · Analysed npm/@gridscoot/mcp@0.2.3
Provenance No attestation
The registry publishes no build provenance for this version, so there is nothing to verify.
| Result | No attestation |
|---|---|
| Ecosystem | npm |
Background: How many MCP packages publish verified provenance →
Dependencies 101 packages
| Packages resolved | 101 |
|---|---|
| Stale | 30 |
| Tree resolution | Complete |
Background: SBOMs and build attestations, explained →
The tools this component advertises to a client, with an estimated token cost for each. Expand a tool to see its parameters and schema. The per-tool counts are indicative and are not scored directly; the schema's total context footprint is one signal in Schema Quality & AI Usability. A tool's description is untrusted text the model reads on every call, which is what makes this list a security surface and not just an inventory: how tool poisoning works →
check_availability ~85
Real-time stock check at a specific retailer for a specific product, including click-and-collect availability at the nearest store to a postcode (where supported).
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| postcode | string | – | AU postcode for click-and-collect availability |
| product_id | string | yes | Canonical product ID |
| retailer_id | string | yes | Specific retailer slug (e.g. "ebay-au") |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
compare_product ~116
Get all retailer offers for a specific product. Use after search_products when the user wants to compare prices across all retailers for a known item.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| gtin | string | – | Alternative lookup by GTIN if product_id not known |
| include_shipping | boolean | – | Include shipping cost in returned total (default true) |
| location_postcode | string | – | AU postcode for delivery estimation |
| product_id | string | yes | Canonical product ID returned by search_products |
| sort_by | string | – | Sort order for the returned offer list |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
get_price_history ~88
Returns price history for a product across retailers over the past 365 days. Use to evaluate whether current pricing represents a genuine deal versus business-as-usual.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| days | integer | – | Trailing days of history (default 90, max 365) |
| product_id | string | yes | Canonical product ID |
| retailers | array | – | Optional filter — only include these retailer slugs |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
list_retailers ~74
List all retailers indexed by Gridscoot. Useful for meta queries ("which retailers do you cover?") and for filtering other tool calls.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| category | string | – | Filter to retailers indexed for this category |
| country | string | – | Country filter (AU at MVS; NZ from Phase 2+) |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
search_products ~196
Search products across all connected Australian retailers. Returns matched products with current pricing, availability, and delivery estimates. Use this as the entry point for any price-discovery query.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| category_hint | string | – | Category narrowing hint, e.g. "tools/hand-tools" |
| delivery_by | string | – | ISO date by which the product must be delivered |
| in_stock_only | boolean | – | Exclude out-of-stock offers (default true) |
| location_postcode | string | – | AU postcode for delivery-time estimation |
| max_price_aud | number | – | Maximum total price including shipping, in AUD |
| max_results | integer | – | Max results to return (default 10) |
| min_price_aud | number | – | Minimum total price filter (useful to exclude scam-priced outliers) |
| query | string | yes | Natural language query, e.g. "15mm bent socket wrench in Melbourne with 2-day delivery" |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
track_price ~105
Subscribe to price-drop alerts for a product. Returns a subscription ID. The user receives email when the threshold is met.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| product_id | string | yes | Canonical product ID to track |
| retailers | array | – | Track only at these retailers (default: all) |
| target_price_aud | number | – | Notify when total price (incl. shipping) drops to this AUD value or below |
| user_token | string | yes | User token (from /account/keys signup) |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
How do I install the Gridscoot MCP server?
Gridscoot runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y @gridscoot/mcp. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.
npm · @gridscoot/mcp
claude mcp add aardappvark-gridscoot -- npx -y @gridscoot/mcp
What is the Gridscoot MCP server?
Gridscoot is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.aardappvark/gridscoot. AU price comparison via MCP, search, compare, track. 6 tools; anonymous demo (30/day/IP). This page covers its npm package (@gridscoot/mcp).
Is the Gridscoot MCP server safe to use?
Gridscoot scores 79 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 4 November 2026. It declares no install or post-install scripts. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.
What tools does the Gridscoot MCP server expose?
Gridscoot exposes 6 tools: search_products, compare_product, get_price_history, check_availability, list_retailers, track_price. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 664 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Is the Gridscoot MCP server still maintained?
Gridscoot is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 4 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.
What licence is the Gridscoot MCP server under?
Gridscoot declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.