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Licensed House Painters

REMOTE · HOUSE-PAINTERS.OTTOBOT.AGENCY · SCANNED SEP 28

Find licensed house painters in 11 US states, with dated license status from state boards.

70 Trust /100
Trust breakdown (7 categories)

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. How we score → Why this is hard to score →

Endpoint Security74
Transport & Reachability100
Schema Quality & AI Usability74
  • AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).Pass
  • Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 544 tokens (~181/item across 3 items; 3 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params. See how to fix → Fail
  • Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management7
  • Stability observed for 2 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.Partial
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 3 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
  • An AI judge read all 3 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.Pass
Capabilities60
  • Spec-recency check failed: implements MCP spec 2025-06-18; the latest is 2026-07-28. See how to fix → Fail
Install

How do I install the Licensed House Painters MCP server?

Licensed House Painters is a hosted endpoint at https://house-painters.ottobot.agency/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.

remote · house-painters.ottobot.agency

# add to Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http agency-ottobot-licensed-house-painters 'https://house-painters.ottobot.agency/mcp'
// .cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "agency-ottobot-licensed-house-painters": {
      "url": "https://house-painters.ottobot.agency/mcp"
    }
  }
}
// .vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "agency-ottobot-licensed-house-painters": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://house-painters.ottobot.agency/mcp"
    }
  }
}
# ~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.agency-ottobot-licensed-house-painters]
url = "https://house-painters.ottobot.agency/mcp"
// opencode.json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "agency-ottobot-licensed-house-painters": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://house-painters.ottobot.agency/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
# add to OpenClaw
openclaw mcp add agency-ottobot-licensed-house-painters --url 'https://house-painters.ottobot.agency/mcp' --transport streamable-http
# ~/.hermes/config.yaml
mcp_servers:
  agency-ottobot-licensed-house-painters:
    url: "https://house-painters.ottobot.agency/mcp"
// ~/.netclaw/config/netclaw.json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "agency-ottobot-licensed-house-painters": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://house-painters.ottobot.agency/mcp"
    }
  }
}
# add to Vellum
assistant mcp add agency-ottobot-licensed-house-painters -t streamable-http -u 'https://house-painters.ottobot.agency/mcp'
// mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "agency-ottobot-licensed-house-painters": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://house-painters.ottobot.agency/mcp"
    }
  }
}

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

Changelog

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.

  • 28 Sept 26 0
    • We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server See what changed → functional
  • 27 Sept 26 +1
    • Stability: unverified → 0.03 ▲ functional
  • 26 Sept 26 69

    First indexed and scored.

Diagnostics

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 28 Sept 2026 · Probed https://house-painters.ottobot.agency/mcp

TLS valid

Negotiated TLS 1.3 with TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 .

Subject Issuer Valid from Valid until Key Signature Serial
CN=ottobot.agency CN=WE1,O=Google Trust Services,C=US 26 Sept 2026 25 Dec 2026 ECDSA 256 ECDSA-SHA256 b275b99a3e7bb0af1311e62d4192516d
SANs: ottobot.agency, house-painters.ottobot.agency, *.house-painters.ottobot.agency
CN=WE1,O=Google Trust Services,C=US (CA) CN=GTS Root R4,O=Google Trust Services LLC,C=US 13 Dec 2023 20 Feb 2029 ECDSA 256 ECDSA-SHA384 7ff31977972c224a76155d13b6d685e3
CN=GTS Root R4,O=Google Trust Services LLC,C=US (CA) CN=GlobalSign Root CA,OU=Root CA,O=GlobalSign nv-sa,C=BE 15 Nov 2023 28 Jan 2028 ECDSA 384 SHA256-RSA 7fe530bf331343bedd821610493d8a1b

Background: What to check on a remote MCP endpoint →

DNSSEC insecure

Validation of house-painters.ottobot.agency. — Not signed

Zone DS Keys Algorithms Outcome
. trust_anchor 20326, 38696 8, 8 Verified
agency. present 3424 8 Verified
ottobot.agency. absent Unsigned (proven) parent-signed NSEC/NSEC3 proves an unsigned delegation
Authentication No authorisation required

The endpoint answered without asking for a token. Anyone who knows the URL can reach it.

Result No authorisation required
HTTP status 200

Background: How OAuth 2.1 works in the 2026 MCP spec →

Transports 2 probes
Transport URL Outcome Status Location
streamable-http https://house-painters.ottobot.agency/mcp Verified 200
http (plaintext) http://house-painters.ottobot.agency/mcp HTTPS enforced 301 https://house-painters.ottobot.agency/mcp
MCP tools · 3 exposed · ~544 tokens

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 →

Tool Tokens
get_painter ~84

Full record for one painter returned by search_painters, by its painter_id: business name, address, phone, website, license number and dated license status, and the state board's lookup page. Read-only.

NameTypeReqDescription
painter_idstringyespainter_id from search_painters, e.g. ca/sacramento/acme-painting-sacramento-ca

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

request_estimate ~281

Record a homeowner's request for a painting estimate, with their contact details. Only call this after the homeowner has seen what will be shared and agreed to share it, and set homeowner_confirmed to true to say so. The request is stored and the reply lists licensed painters the homeowner can contact directly. This is an early service: no painter is assigned automatically and a reply is not guaranteed.

NameTypeReqDescription
citystringyesCity where the painting work is
contact_emailstring–Email address (give this or contact_phone)
contact_namestringyesHomeowner's name
contact_phonestring–Phone number (give this or contact_email)
homeowner_confirmedbooleanyesMust be true: the homeowner agreed to share these details
job_descriptionstringyesThe painting work: interior or exterior, rooms or areas, rough size, condition. 20 to 2000 characters.
painter_idsarray–Optional: up to 5 painter_id values the homeowner chose from search_painters
preferred_timingstring–Optional, e.g. 'next month' or 'before October 15'
statestringyesTwo-letter US state code. Covered: AZ, CA, CT, DE, FL, IA, NV, NY, OR, VA, WA.

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

search_painters ~179

Find licensed house painters and painting contractors in a US city (AZ, CA, CT, DE, FL, IA, NV, NY, OR, VA, WA), from state licensing-board records. Each result has the license number and its status with the date it was read from the board's own file, the phone number and website the board lists, and the board's lookup page for re-checking before hiring. Active licenses are listed first. Not a rating or an endorsement. Read-only.

NameTypeReqDescription
citystringyesCity name, e.g. Sacramento
limitinteger–Max results, 1 to 25 (default 10)
statestringyesTwo-letter US state code. Covered: AZ, CA, CT, DE, FL, IA, NV, NY, OR, VA, WA.

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

Common questions

What is the Licensed House Painters MCP server?

Licensed House Painters is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as agency.ottobot/licensed-house-painters. Find licensed house painters in 11 US states, with dated license status from state boards. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://house-painters.ottobot.agency/mcp).

Is the Licensed House Painters MCP server safe to use?

Licensed House Painters scores 70 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 Licensed House Painters MCP server expose?

Licensed House Painters exposes 3 tools: search_painters, get_painter, request_estimate. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 544 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

Does the Licensed House Painters MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to Licensed House Painters without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

Is the Licensed House Painters MCP server still maintained?

Licensed House Painters is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 28 September 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.