# Vera (remote · vera.waggle.ae)

Scrape, search and extract the public web. 3,000 free credits at https://vera.waggle.ae/signup

- Trust score: 72/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-10-23

## Components

- remote · `vera.waggle.ae`: 72/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/ae-waggle-vera/v1-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/ae-waggle-vera/v1-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://vera.waggle.ae/v1/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `required (not validated)`
- Version: `0.2.0`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-10-23.

- **Endpoint Security**: 89/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - Authorisation is enforced on tool calls, but the challenge carries no valid RFC 9728 metadata, so a client cannot discover where to get a token.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - The HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security) header is present.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 54/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 3751 tokens (~234/item across 16 items; 16 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 10/100
  - Stability observed for 3 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 84/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 52% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 75/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - 0 of 1 tool(s) whose name or description implies an irreversible operation declare an MCP destructiveHint annotation; "google_serp" implies "execute" and declares readOnlyHint instead, contradicting what its own name says it does.
  - An AI judge read all 17 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the Vera MCP server?

Vera is a hosted endpoint at https://vera.waggle.ae/v1/mcp, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http ae-waggle-vera 'https://vera.waggle.ae/v1/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ae-waggle-vera": {
      "url": "https://vera.waggle.ae/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "ae-waggle-vera": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://vera.waggle.ae/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.ae-waggle-vera]
url = "https://vera.waggle.ae/v1/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "ae-waggle-vera": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://vera.waggle.ae/v1/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add ae-waggle-vera --url 'https://vera.waggle.ae/v1/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  ae-waggle-vera:
    url: "https://vera.waggle.ae/v1/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "ae-waggle-vera": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://vera.waggle.ae/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add ae-waggle-vera -t streamable-http -u 'https://vera.waggle.ae/v1/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ae-waggle-vera": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://vera.waggle.ae/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-10-22 (score 72, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 3 to 7. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 1 days of observed history at the previous scan, 2 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-21 (score 71, −4)

- [security] The server rewrote its instructions, which are the text every model session reads
- [security] Tool “extract_products” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [functional regression] Tool coverage: 100% → 52%
- [functional regression] Schema quality: 1887 → 3751
- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03
- [functional] Destructive annotations: pass → 0
- [functional] Server version: 0.1.0 → 0.2.0
- [functional] New tool “ai_answers”
- [functional] New tool “company_serp_footprint”
- [functional] New tool “extract_local_places”
- [functional] New tool “extract_shopping_results”
- [functional] New tool “find_discussion_candidates”
- [functional] New tool “geo_citation_radar”
- [functional] New tool “google_serp”
- [functional] New tool “keyword_ideas”

### 2026-10-20 (score 75)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (16)

### `scrape` (~543 tokens)

Read a web page

Read one public web page and return its content: the main text (as Markdown with response_format="markdown"), links, metadata and a quality score, plus the raw HTML if you ask (return_html). Set render=true for pages that build their content with JavaScript, or mode="auto" to render only when a plain fetch comes back empty. extract pulls named fields out with CSS selectors. Costs 1 credit for a plain fetch and 5 credits when the page is rendered; a failed call costs nothing. Pages that disallow automated access or need a login cannot be read.

Input parameters:

- `country` (string): Two-letter country code for the language headers of the request, for example ae or gb. It does not route the request through that country.
- `extract` (object): Named fields to pull out with a CSS selector, for example {"heading":{"selector":"h1"},"links":{"selector":"a","attribute":"href", "multiple":true}}. One tag, class, ID or attribute selector each. St…
- `idempotency_key` (string): Optional. Send the same key (16 to 128 letters, digits, _ . : -) to retry this exact call safely: a retry within 24 hours returns the first result and is not charged again.
- `max_cost` (integer): With mode=auto, the most to spend: 1 never renders, 5 may render.
- `min_quality_score` (integer): Refuse the page, at no charge, when its quality score is below this.
- `mode` (string): "manual" (the default) does what render says. "auto" fetches the page plainly and renders it only when it looks empty; it holds up to max_cost credits and charges what it used.
- `render` (boolean): Run the page's JavaScript in a browser first, for pages that build their content in the browser. Costs more.
- `response_format` (string): Use "markdown" to get the page's main content as Markdown in data.markdown, the best form for reading or summarising. "all" (the default) and "text" return the standard fields: text, links, metadata…
- `return_html` (boolean): Also return the page's raw HTML in data.html (up to 2 MB). Not with extract.
- `url` (string, required): The full public http(s) address of the page.
- `wait_for` (string): A CSS selector to wait for before reading. Needs render=true.
- `wait_ms` (integer): Milliseconds to wait after the page loads. Needs render=true.

### `search` (~265 tokens)

Search the web

Search Google and return the results: titles, URLs and snippets, plus Google's own answer boxes, People Also Ask and related searches when it shows them. vertical picks web (the default), news or videos. Returns up to 100 results per call (10 by default), with country and language. Costs 3 credits per call whatever the vertical or limit; a failed search costs nothing. Results are links and snippets: use scrape to read a page.

Input parameters:

- `country` (string): Two lowercase letters for the search market, for example us, gb or ae (default "us").
- `idempotency_key` (string): Optional. Send the same key (16 to 128 letters, digits, _ . : -) to retry this exact call safely: a retry within 24 hours returns the first result and is not charged again.
- `language` (string): Two lowercase letters for the result language, for example en or ar (default "en").
- `limit` (integer): How many results to return (10 by default). The price is the same whatever the number.
- `query` (string, required): What to search for. Quoted phrases and site: operators are kept.
- `vertical` (string): "web" (the default), "news" or "videos".

### `extract_contacts` (~142 tokens)

Find contact details on a page

Read one public page and return the contact details it publishes: email addresses, phone numbers, social profile links and links to contact pages, each with where it was found. Published details are not verified, and linked pages are not followed (call this tool again for one). Costs 1 credit; a failed call costs nothing.

Input parameters:

- `idempotency_key` (string): Optional. Send the same key (16 to 128 letters, digits, _ . : -) to retry this exact call safely: a retry within 24 hours returns the first result and is not charged again.
- `url` (string, required): The full public http(s) address of the page.

### `extract_products` (~193 tokens)

Read product data from a page

Read one public product page and return the product data it publishes in its structured markup: name, brand, SKU or GTIN, and offers with price, currency and availability. Prices are what the page states, never guessed. Set marketplace to amazon, walmart or shopee for those product pages; these parsers are best-effort and large marketplaces often block automated requests. Costs 1 credit; a failed call costs nothing.

Input parameters:

- `idempotency_key` (string): Optional. Send the same key (16 to 128 letters, digits, _ . : -) to retry this exact call safely: a retry within 24 hours returns the first result and is not charged again.
- `marketplace` (string): Set to "amazon", "walmart" or "shopee" for a product page on that marketplace.
- `url` (string, required): The full public http(s) address of the product page.

### `youtube_transcript` (~138 tokens)

Transcribe a YouTube video

Return the transcript of one public YouTube video as text. Costs 6 credits per started minute of video (a 10-minute video costs 60), up to 45 minutes. A video that cannot be transcribed, or any failure, costs nothing.

Input parameters:

- `idempotency_key` (string): Optional. Send the same key (16 to 128 letters, digits, _ . : -) to retry this exact call safely: a retry within 24 hours returns the first result and is not charged again.
- `url` (string, required): The link of a public YouTube video, like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...

### `company_profile` (~165 tokens)

Profile a company from its website

Given a company's domain, read its homepage and up to 3 standard pages (about, contact, team) and return a profile: name, description, logo, address, founding date, emails, phones and social links, as the company publishes them. Costs 1 credit for each page read, at most 5 credits (that many are held while it runs and the unused ones are given back); a failed call costs nothing.

Input parameters:

- `domain` (string, required): The company's domain or website address, for example example.com.
- `idempotency_key` (string): Optional. Send the same key (16 to 128 letters, digits, _ . : -) to retry this exact call safely: a retry within 24 hours returns the first result and is not charged again.

### `sitemap` (~155 tokens)

List a site's pages from its sitemap

Read a site's sitemap.xml (or a sitemap index) and return the page addresses it lists, up to limit (100 by default), optionally only those containing some text. Costs 1 credit; a failed call costs nothing.

Input parameters:

- `filter_pattern` (string): Keep only addresses that contain this text.
- `idempotency_key` (string): Optional. Send the same key (16 to 128 letters, digits, _ . : -) to retry this exact call safely: a retry within 24 hours returns the first result and is not charged again.
- `limit` (integer): How many page addresses to return (100 by default).
- `url` (string, required): The address of the sitemap.xml, or of a sitemap index.

### `seo_audit` (~197 tokens)

Audit a page's SEO

Audit one public page's technical SEO and how ready it is for AI search: title, description, canonical, robots and indexing directives, headings, links, images, structured data and a score. Costs 1 credit, or 5 credits with render=true (audited after its JavaScript runs); a failed call costs nothing.

Input parameters:

- `country` (string): Two-letter country code for the language headers of the request, for example ae or gb. It does not route the request through that country.
- `idempotency_key` (string): Optional. Send the same key (16 to 128 letters, digits, _ . : -) to retry this exact call safely: a retry within 24 hours returns the first result and is not charged again.
- `render` (boolean): Audit the page after its JavaScript has run. Costs more.
- `url` (string, required): The full public http(s) address of the page.

### `google_serp` (~240 tokens)

Google Search Results

Execute a full Google SERP search query with strict Google provenance (depth 10 to 100). Returns verified Google organic results with classification tagging (forums, video, ecommerce) and the results page's features (AI Overview, PAA, Knowledge Graph). The local pack and shopping are add-ons: set local_pack and/or shopping to true to include them. A result searched in the last 24 hours is served from the cache at a lower price; set fresh to true to search live. The most the call can cost is held first and you are charged for what it returns; a call that fails costs nothing.

Input parameters:

- `depth` (integer)
- `fresh` (boolean)
- `gl` (string)
- `hl` (string)
- `idempotency_key` (string): Optional. Send the same key (16 to 128 letters, digits, _ . : -) to retry this exact call safely: a retry within 24 hours returns the first result and is not charged again.
- `local_pack` (boolean)
- `location`
- `query` (string, required)
- `shopping` (boolean)

### `find_discussion_candidates` (~176 tokens)

Forum and Discussion Finder

Search Google and filter organic results (positions 1-100) specifically for community discussions and forum threads (Reddit, Quora, HackerNews, StackExchange, niche forums). Ideal for sentiment analysis, user discussions, and customer problem discovery. The most the call can cost is held first and you are charged for what it returns; a call that fails costs nothing.

Input parameters:

- `depth` (integer)
- `fresh` (boolean)
- `gl` (string)
- `hl` (string)
- `idempotency_key` (string): Optional. Send the same key (16 to 128 letters, digits, _ . : -) to retry this exact call safely: a retry within 24 hours returns the first result and is not charged again.
- `location`
- `query` (string, required)

### `extract_local_places` (~161 tokens)

Google Local Places

Extract Google Local Pack (3-pack) and Google Places listings for local queries. Returns place_id/cid, title, rating, review count, address, latitude/longitude, category, phone, and website. The most the call can cost is held first and you are charged for what it returns; a call that fails costs nothing.

Input parameters:

- `fresh` (boolean)
- `gl` (string)
- `hl` (string)
- `idempotency_key` (string): Optional. Send the same key (16 to 128 letters, digits, _ . : -) to retry this exact call safely: a retry within 24 hours returns the first result and is not charged again.
- `location`
- `query` (string, required)

### `extract_shopping_results` (~155 tokens)

Google Shopping Results

Extract Google Shopping carousel listings for e-commerce and product queries. Returns product title, price, currency, merchant, rating, reviews, image URL, link, and product ID. The most the call can cost is held first and you are charged for what it returns; a call that fails costs nothing.

Input parameters:

- `fresh` (boolean)
- `gl` (string)
- `hl` (string)
- `idempotency_key` (string): Optional. Send the same key (16 to 128 letters, digits, _ . : -) to retry this exact call safely: a retry within 24 hours returns the first result and is not charged again.
- `location`
- `query` (string, required)

### `geo_citation_radar` (~212 tokens)

GEO Citation Radar

Run GEO Citation & Injection Radar for a topic query and brand. Calculates citation probability score (0-100), identifies high-impact Reddit/Quora threads with injection playbooks, extracts listicle PR outreach targets with Vera contacts payload, discovers AEO question gaps from PAA, and produces an LLM-ready markdown injection brief. The most the call can cost is held first and you are charged for what it returns; a call that fails costs nothing.

Input parameters:

- `brand`
- `depth` (integer)
- `domain`
- `engine` (string)
- `fresh` (boolean)
- `gl` (string)
- `hl` (string)
- `idempotency_key` (string): Optional. Send the same key (16 to 128 letters, digits, _ . : -) to retry this exact call safely: a retry within 24 hours returns the first result and is not charged again.
- `location` (string)
- `query` (string, required)

### `company_serp_footprint` (~190 tokens)

Company Search Footprint

Audit a company's SERP digital footprint, brand reputation, owned domains, and entity profiles. Separates owned web properties, social/entity profiles (Wikipedia, LinkedIn, Instagram, Crunchbase), Google Maps locations, third-party mentions, and customer brand questions (PAA). The most the call can cost is held first and you are charged for what it returns; a call that fails costs nothing.

Input parameters:

- `company` (string, required)
- `depth` (integer)
- `domain`
- `fresh` (boolean)
- `gl` (string)
- `hl` (string)
- `idempotency_key` (string): Optional. Send the same key (16 to 128 letters, digits, _ . : -) to retry this exact call safely: a retry within 24 hours returns the first result and is not charged again.
- `location` (string)

### `keyword_ideas` (~299 tokens)

Keyword Ideas

Keyword ideas for a seed keyword from Google autocomplete (the seed plus question words or the alphabet), People Also Ask and related searches, cleaned and de-duplicated. Each idea carries its sources and an intent label (question, comparison, commercial, local, informational). Works in Arabic. Ideas only: no search volumes. Charged for the results page (3 credits live, 1 from your cache) plus 3 credits for each autocomplete call that returns suggestions, so at most 6 credits for expand 'none', 30 for 'questions' (the default), 84 for 'alphabet' (90 for an Arabic seed) and 93 for 'all'; it stops early once `limit` ideas are found, which is 6. Set fresh to true to search the results page live; autocomplete is always live. The most the call can cost is held first and you are charged for what it returns; a call that fails costs nothing.

Input parameters:

- `expand`
- `fresh` (boolean)
- `gl`
- `hl`
- `idempotency_key` (string): Optional. Send the same key (16 to 128 letters, digits, _ . : -) to retry this exact call safely: a retry within 24 hours returns the first result and is not charged again.
- `limit` (integer)
- `location`
- `location_code`
- `seed` (string, required)

### `ai_answers` (~378 tokens)

AI Answers and Brand Visibility

Put a buyer's question to an AI assistant that searches the live web, and see whether a brand and its competitors are named in the answer, in what rank, with the citations and cited domains behind it. The assistant is ChatGPT unless `engine` names claude, perplexity or gemini; an assistant the server has no key for answers not_configured and costs nothing. `samples` (1 to 5, default 1) asks the same question more than once, for a mention rate. Returns metrics per assistant, not the raw answers. Charged per call to the assistant at the price list in credits (see llms.txt), the same as POST /v1/ai/answers: the worst case is held first, only the calls made are charged, and a call where the assistant failed is charged nothing. The most the call can cost is held first and you are charged for what it returns; a call that fails costs nothing.

Input parameters:

- `brand` (string, required): Brand name to look for in the answer
- `brand_domain`: The brand's domain, for example roasters.ae
- `competitors`: Competitor names or domains to track
- `country` (string): Two-letter ISO country code of the market
- `engine` (string): The assistant to ask
- `idempotency_key` (string): Optional. Send the same key (16 to 128 letters, digits, _ . : -) to retry this exact call safely: a retry within 24 hours returns the first result and is not charged again.
- `language` (string): Language tag of the market, for example en or ar
- `prompt` (string, required): The question to put to the assistant, as a buyer would ask it
- `samples` (integer): Times the question is asked of the assistant

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ae-waggle-vera/v1-mcp#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-10-23: 72
- 2026-10-22: 72
- 2026-10-21: 71
- 2026-10-20: 75

## Common questions

### What is the Vera MCP server?

Vera is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as ae.waggle/vera. Scrape, search and extract the public web. 3,000 free credits at https://vera.waggle.ae/signup. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://vera.waggle.ae/v1/mcp).

### Is the Vera MCP server safe to use?

Vera scores 72 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. 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 Vera MCP server expose?

Vera exposes 16 tools: scrape, search, extract_contacts, extract_products, youtube_transcript, and 11 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 3,609 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Vera MCP server require authentication?

Yes. Vera asked us for credentials when we connected, so you will need to authorise it in your MCP client before it can do anything.

### Is the Vera MCP server still maintained?

Vera is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 23 October 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://vera.waggle.ae/v1/mcp
- Authorisation metadata: https://vera.waggle.ae/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/v1/mcp
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ae-waggle-vera/v1-mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ae-waggle-vera/v1-mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ae-waggle-vera/v1-mcp