# govauctions.app (remote · govauctions.app)

US government-surplus auction search, sold-price comps, and Flip Score resale signals.

- Trust score: 61/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +8
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-08-03

## Components

- remote · `govauctions.app`: 61/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/app-govauctions-govauctions/api-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/app-govauctions-govauctions/api-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://govauctions.app/api/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.0.1`

## 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 2026-08-03.

- **Endpoint Security**: 63/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - Authorisation not fully verified: no authorisation is required to call this server, and 4 tool(s) never declared a destructiveHint. The MCP spec treats an absent hint as destructive by default, so we cannot call this surface safe.
  - 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**: 64/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 368 tokens (~92/item across 4 items; 4 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 27/100
  - Stability observed for 8 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 76/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 27% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Capabilities**: 20/100
  - Spec-recency check failed: implements MCP spec 2024-11-05; the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http app-govauctions-govauctions https://govauctions.app/api/mcp
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.app-govauctions-govauctions]
url = "https://govauctions.app/api/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "app-govauctions-govauctions": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://govauctions.app/api/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add app-govauctions-govauctions --url https://govauctions.app/api/mcp --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  app-govauctions-govauctions:
    url: "https://govauctions.app/api/mcp"
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "app-govauctions-govauctions": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://govauctions.app/api/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.

### 2026-08-03 (score 61, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 23 to 27. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 7 days of observed history at the previous scan, 8 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-08-01 (score 60, +2)

- [security] Tool “get_sold_comps” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [functional regression] Schema quality: 71 → 92
- [functional improvement] Tool coverage: 21% → 27%
- [functional] Schema quality: fair → good
- [cosmetic] “get_sold_comps” added an optional parameter “state”

### 2026-07-31 (score 58, +3)

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

### 2026-07-30 (score 55, +1)

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

### 2026-07-29 (score 54, 0)

- [functional] Server version: 1.0.0 → 1.0.1

### 2026-07-28 (score 54, +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.

### 2026-07-27 (score 53, +1)

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

### 2026-07-26 (score 52)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (4)

### `search_listings` (~123 tokens)

Search live GSA federal-surplus auction listings (facts only — no images). Filter by state, category, keyword, and price. Raw listings cover sanctioned federal sources; sold-price comps span the full market.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string)
- `country` (string)
- `limit` (integer)
- `offset` (integer)
- `priceMax` (number)
- `priceMin` (number)
- `q` (string): Title keyword
- `source` (string)
- `state` (string): 2-letter state code

### `get_listing` (~28 tokens)

Get one live GSA listing by its id (facts only).

Input parameters:

- `id` (string, required)

### `get_sold_comps` (~169 tokens)

Sold-price comps for a described item, computed across the full government-surplus market in the US, UK, CA or AU. Without an API key: coverage only (how many comparable sales, confidence, and a coarse price band). With an API key: the actual 25th/median/75th percentile final prices. Free keys at https://govauctions.app/developers.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string)
- `country` (string)
- `q` (string, required): Item description, e.g. '2015 Ford F-150'
- `state` (string): Optional 2-letter state/region code for a regional range. Falls back to the national range when that state has too few sales; the response's `scope` field says which you got.

### `get_flip_score` (~48 tokens)

GovAuctions Flip Score resale signal for a live GSA listing (valued against the full-market comp archive): estimated value, effective bid, and discount.

Input parameters:

- `id` (string, required)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/app-govauctions-govauctions/api-mcp#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-08-03: 61
- 2026-08-02: 60
- 2026-08-01: 60
- 2026-07-31: 58
- 2026-07-30: 55
- 2026-07-29: 54
- 2026-07-28: 54
- 2026-07-27: 53
- 2026-07-26: 52

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://govauctions.app/api/mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/benswork-space/govauctions-mcp
- Website: https://govauctions.app/developers
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/app-govauctions-govauctions/api-mcp/changelog.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/app-govauctions-govauctions/api-mcp/changelog.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/app-govauctions-govauctions/api-mcp