# Licensed House Painters (remote · house-painters.ottobot.agency)

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

- Trust score: 70/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-09-28

## Components

- remote · `house-painters.ottobot.agency`: 70/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/agency-ottobot-licensed-house-painters/house-painters.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/agency-ottobot-licensed-house-painters/house-painters)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://house-painters.ottobot.agency/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `0.1.2`

## 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 2026-09-28.

- **Endpoint Security**: 74/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent.
  - 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**: 74/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - 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.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 7/100
  - Stability observed for 2 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 100/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 100% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 3 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 3 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 60/100
  - Spec-recency check failed: implements MCP spec 2025-06-18; the latest is 2026-07-28.

## 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.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http agency-ottobot-licensed-house-painters 'https://house-painters.ottobot.agency/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "agency-ottobot-licensed-house-painters": {
      "url": "https://house-painters.ottobot.agency/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "agency-ottobot-licensed-house-painters": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://house-painters.ottobot.agency/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```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
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add agency-ottobot-licensed-house-painters --url 'https://house-painters.ottobot.agency/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  agency-ottobot-licensed-house-painters:
    url: "https://house-painters.ottobot.agency/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "agency-ottobot-licensed-house-painters": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://house-painters.ottobot.agency/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add agency-ottobot-licensed-house-painters -t streamable-http -u 'https://house-painters.ottobot.agency/mcp'
```

### Other

```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 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.

### 2026-09-28 (score 70, 0)

- [functional] We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server

### 2026-09-27 (score 70, +1)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-09-26 (score 69)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (3)

### `search_painters` (~179 tokens)

Find licensed house painters

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.

Input parameters:

- `city` (string, required): City name, e.g. Sacramento
- `limit` (integer): Max results, 1 to 25 (default 10)
- `state` (string, required): Two-letter US state code. Covered: AZ, CA, CT, DE, FL, IA, NV, NY, OR, VA, WA.

### `get_painter` (~84 tokens)

Painter details

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.

Input parameters:

- `painter_id` (string, required): painter_id from search_painters, e.g. ca/sacramento/acme-painting-sacramento-ca

### `request_estimate` (~281 tokens)

Request a painting estimate

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.

Input parameters:

- `city` (string, required): City where the painting work is
- `contact_email` (string): Email address (give this or contact_phone)
- `contact_name` (string, required): Homeowner's name
- `contact_phone` (string): Phone number (give this or contact_email)
- `homeowner_confirmed` (boolean, required): Must be true: the homeowner agreed to share these details
- `job_description` (string, required): The painting work: interior or exterior, rooms or areas, rough size, condition. 20 to 2000 characters.
- `painter_ids` (array): Optional: up to 5 painter_id values the homeowner chose from search_painters
- `preferred_timing` (string): Optional, e.g. 'next month' or 'before October 15'
- `state` (string, required): Two-letter US state code. Covered: AZ, CA, CT, DE, FL, IA, NV, NY, OR, VA, WA.

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/agency-ottobot-licensed-house-painters/house-painters#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-09-28: 70
- 2026-09-27: 70
- 2026-09-26: 69

## 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.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://house-painters.ottobot.agency/mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/registry
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/agency-ottobot-licensed-house-painters/house-painters.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/agency-ottobot-licensed-house-painters/house-painters.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/agency-ottobot-licensed-house-painters/house-painters