# The Bot Wire (remote · thebotwire.com)

57 real-time wires from primary sources: SEC, CVEs, courts, Fed, weather, arXiv, news. Free tier.

- Trust score: 62/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-08-03

## Components

- remote · `thebotwire.com`: 62/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/araspasha-botwire-mcp/thebotwire.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/araspasha-botwire-mcp/thebotwire)
- npm · `botwire-mcp`: 58/100, [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/araspasha-botwire-mcp/botwire-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/araspasha-botwire-mcp/botwire-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://thebotwire.com/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `0.5.0`

## 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 2026-08-03.

- **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**: 50/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 3102 tokens (~775/item across 4 items; 4 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**: 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.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http araspasha-botwire-mcp https://thebotwire.com/mcp
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.araspasha-botwire-mcp]
url = "https://thebotwire.com/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "araspasha-botwire-mcp": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://thebotwire.com/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add araspasha-botwire-mcp --url https://thebotwire.com/mcp --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  araspasha-botwire-mcp:
    url: "https://thebotwire.com/mcp"
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "araspasha-botwire-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://thebotwire.com/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 62, +2)

- [security] The server rewrote its instructions, which are the text every model session reads
- [security] Tool “query_wire” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads

### 2026-08-02 (score 60, +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.

### 2026-08-01 (score 59, 0)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-07-31 (score 59)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (4)

### `search_news` (~156 tokens)

Search real-time news

Ask when the question is general, cross-domain, or 'what is happening today'. Ranked search over 40 curated news sources, polled on every ingest run. For a domain-specific question (a filing, a CVE, a court ruling, an outage) prefer query_wire — a domain wire is always more precise than keyword search over news. Keyword search, not semantic: send distinctive terms. Free preview: top 3 results.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string): Restrict to one category
- `query` (string, required): Search terms, e.g. 'fed rates' or 'bitcoin etf'
- `since` (string): Freshness window: 30m, 2h, 24h, 3d

### `query_wire` (~2565 tokens)

Query a specialist data wire

Pull the latest items from one specialist wire. Match the user's question to an 'ask when' below, then pass that wire key. Wires: edgar -> ask when the question is about a company's SEC filings, insider trades, or a specific form (8-K, 10-K, 10-Q, Form 4, S-1, 13F, 13D) [filter "form": 8-k|10-q|10-k|form-4|s-1|13f|6-k|13d; full tier $0.01]; cve -> ask when the question is about a vulnerability, CVE, or security advisory affecting a named product or vendor [filter "src": cisa|ubuntu|msrc|debian|zdi; full tier $0.005]; reg -> ask when the question is about a new US federal rule, proposed rule, notice, or presidential document [filter "type": rule|proposed-rule|notice|presidential; full tier $0.005]; weather -> ask when the question is about an active US severe-weather alert for a place: storm, flood, heat, winter, wind [filter "severity": extreme|severe|immediate; full tier $0.005]; quake -> ask when the question is about a recent earthquake, its magnitude, depth, or location [filter "mag": significant|m4.5|m2.5; full tier $0.005]; arxiv -> ask when the question is about a new AI, ML, NLP, or security research paper [filter "cat": ai|ml|nlp|security; full tier $0.005]; fed -> ask when the question is about what the Federal Reserve, the FOMC, or the ECB just said about rates or policy [filter "src": fed|fomc|ecb; full tier $0.01]; hn -> ask when the question is about what developers are discussing or upvoting right now [filter "feed": frontpage|show|rising; full tier $0.005]; status -> ask when the question is about whether AWS, GCP, Azure, GitHub, Cloudflare, OpenAI, or Anthropic is currently down [filter "provider": aws|github|cloudflare|openai|anthropic|azure|gcp; full tier $0.005]; ailab -> ask when the question is about what OpenAI, DeepMind, Google, Hugging Face, or AWS just announced or released [filter "lab": openai|deepmind|google|huggingface|aws; full tier $0.005]; sec-news -> ask when the question is about a breach, ransomware incident, or threat-actor camp…

Input parameters:

- `filter` (string): Wire-specific filter value, see the wire list
- `query` (string): Search terms (omit for the latest items)
- `wire` (string, required): Which wire to query

### `list_wires` (~40 tokens)

List every available wire

Show every wire with the condition that should trigger it, plus filters and prices. Call this first if you are unsure which wire owns the question. Free.

### `botwire_status` (~32 tokens)

Service health and freshness

Check how fresh The Bot Wire's data is right now: item counts, source count, last refresh. Free.

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-08-03: 62
- 2026-08-02: 60
- 2026-08-01: 59
- 2026-07-31: 59

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://thebotwire.com/mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/ArasPasha/botwire-mcp
- Website: https://thebotwire.com/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/araspasha-botwire-mcp/thebotwire/changelog.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/araspasha-botwire-mcp/thebotwire/changelog.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/araspasha-botwire-mcp/thebotwire