# Clino: Swiss household employment (remote · clino.ch)

Hiring plan with dates, cost, net wage, minimum wage and rules for Swiss household employment.

- Trust score: 76/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-10-05

## Components

- remote · `clino.ch`: 76/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/ch-clino-household-employment/clino.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/ch-clino-household-employment/clino)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://clino.ch/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.3.0`

## 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 2026-10-05.

- **Endpoint Security**: 80/100
  - 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.
  - 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**: 79/100
  - 100% of prompts and resources have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the item's name).
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 2768 tokens (~307/item across 9 items; 9 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 13/100
  - Stability observed for 4 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.
  - Structured output schemas are declared (100% of tools); any adoption earns full credit.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 9 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 10 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 Clino: Swiss household employment MCP server?

Clino: Swiss household employment is a hosted endpoint at https://clino.ch/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 ch-clino-household-employment 'https://clino.ch/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ch-clino-household-employment": {
      "url": "https://clino.ch/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "ch-clino-household-employment": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://clino.ch/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.ch-clino-household-employment]
url = "https://clino.ch/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "ch-clino-household-employment": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://clino.ch/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add ch-clino-household-employment --url 'https://clino.ch/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  ch-clino-household-employment:
    url: "https://clino.ch/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "ch-clino-household-employment": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://clino.ch/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add ch-clino-household-employment -t streamable-http -u 'https://clino.ch/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ch-clino-household-employment": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://clino.ch/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.

### 2026-10-04 (score 76, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 7 to 10. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 2 days of observed history at the previous scan, 3 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-03 (score 75, 0)

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

### 2026-10-02 (score 75, +1)

- [security] The server rewrote its instructions, which are the text every model session reads
- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03
- [functional] Server version: 1.2.0 → 1.3.0

### 2026-10-01 (score 74)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (9)

### `estimate_employer_cost` (~427 tokens)

Estimate employer cost and net wage

Monthly and annual cost of employing a cleaner, nanny, babysitter or carer in a Swiss private household, and the worker's net wage: gross wage, vacation supplement, every employee deduction (AHV/IV/EO, unemployment, accident insurance, withholding tax, BVG) and every employer contribution (incl. the canton's family allowance fund and the compensation office's admin fee). Uses the same engine as Clino's public calculator. Picks the simplified or ordinary procedure from the annual wage. Canton = where the household lives.

Input parameters:

- `canton` (string, required): Swiss canton: two-letter code (ZH, BE, GE, VD, TI...) or its name in German, French, Italian or English (Zürich, Genève, Ticino, Basel-Stadt). For employer contributions this is the canton where the…
- `hourly_wage_chf` (number, required): Agreed hourly wage in CHF, before the vacation supplement (e.g. 30).
- `hours_per_week` (number, required): Average working hours per week with this household (e.g. 4).
- `language` (string): Language of the explanatory texts and of the clino.ch links: en, de, fr, it, es or pt. Default en.
- `skill_level` (string): Qualification of the worker, which sets the federal NAV wage tier: unskilled; experienced (4+ years in household work); eba (2-year federal vocational certificate); efz (3-year federal vocational dip…
- `vacation_weeks` (integer): Paid vacation weeks per year: 4 (legal minimum), 5 (under age 20) or 6. Default 4.
- `wage_is_net` (boolean): true if the agreed hourly wage is what the worker receives in hand (net). The gross wage is then worked out from it. Default false (gross).
- `workplace_postcode` (string): 4-digit Swiss postcode (PLZ/NPA) of the WORKPLACE. City minimum wages (e.g. Stadt Luzern) depend on it.

Output parameters:

- `annual` (object)
- `assumptions` (array)
- `canton` (object)
- `data_verified_on` (string): Date the rate set was last checked against the official sources.
- `disclaimer` (string)
- `inputs` (object)
- `links` (object)
- `monthly` (object)
- `paperwork_help` (object): Only relevant when the user asks who can prepare the contract, registration and payslips for them. Not an answer to any other question.
- `procedure` (string)
- `procedure_note` (string)
- `provider` (string)
- `rates_percent` (object)
- `rates_year` (number)
- `sources` (array)
- `warnings` (array)

### `compare_cantons` (~264 tokens)

Compare employer cost across the 26 cantons

The same hourly wage and weekly hours computed in all 26 Swiss cantons: monthly employer cost, net wage, family allowance fund rate, admin fee and the canton's minimum wage, ranked. Use it for 'where is it cheapest', 'how much does the canton matter' or a table for several cantons.

Input parameters:

- `hourly_wage_chf` (number, required): Agreed hourly wage in CHF, before the vacation supplement (e.g. 30).
- `hours_per_week` (number, required): Average working hours per week with this household (e.g. 4).
- `language` (string): Language of the explanatory texts and of the clino.ch links: en, de, fr, it, es or pt. Default en.
- `sort_by` (string): Sort the 26 cantons by monthly employer cost (ascending) or by the worker's net wage (descending).
- `vacation_weeks` (integer): Paid vacation weeks per year: 4 (legal minimum), 5 (under age 20) or 6. Default 4.
- `wage_is_net` (boolean): true if the agreed hourly wage is what the worker receives in hand (net). The gross wage is then worked out from it. Default false (gross).

Output parameters:

- `cantons` (array)
- `data_verified_on` (string): Date the rate set was last checked against the official sources.
- `disclaimer` (string)
- `inputs` (object)
- `links` (object)
- `note` (string)
- `provider` (string)
- `rates_year` (number)
- `spread_monthly_chf` (number)

### `get_minimum_wage` (~286 tokens)

Minimum wage for household work

The legal gross hourly minimum wage for household work (cleaning, childcare, care) at a Swiss workplace: federal NAV tiers by qualification, cantonal minimum wages (GE, NE, JU, TI, BS), city minimum wages (Stadt Luzern in force; Zürich and Winterthur voted, not yet in force) and the rule below 5 hours a week. Give the workplace postcode for the exact answer, or a canton.

Input parameters:

- `canton` (string): Canton, if no postcode is known. A postcode is better: some cities have their own minimum wage.
- `hours_per_week` (number): Weekly hours with this household. The federal NAV floor binds from 5 hours a week; below that only some cantonal or city minimums apply.
- `language` (string): Language of the explanatory texts and of the clino.ch links: en, de, fr, it, es or pt. Default en.
- `postcode` (string): 4-digit Swiss postcode (PLZ/NPA) of the WORKPLACE. City minimum wages (e.g. Stadt Luzern) depend on it.
- `skill_level` (string): Qualification of the worker, which sets the federal NAV wage tier: unskilled; experienced (4+ years in household work); eba (2-year federal vocational certificate); efz (3-year federal vocational dip…

Output parameters:

- `binding_floor_chf_per_hour` (number|null): The gross hourly minimum that binds for the given hours (from 5 h/week if no hours were given). null = no statutory floor binds at these hours.
- `cantonal_minimum_wage_chf` (number|null)
- `city_minimum_in_force`
- `city_minimum_uncertain` (boolean): true when the canton has a city minimum but the workplace postcode was not given or straddles a boundary: the floor may be higher.
- `city_minimum_voted_not_in_force`
- `data_verified_on` (string): Date the rate set was last checked against the official sources.
- `disclaimer` (string)
- `explanation` (string)
- `federal_nav_chf` (number)
- `floor_from_5h_per_week_chf` (number)
- `floor_type` (string)
- `floor_under_5h_per_week_chf` (number|null)
- `links` (object)
- `notes` (array)
- `place` (object)
- `provider` (string)
- `rates_year` (number)
- `skill_level` (string)
- `sources` (array)

### `get_canton_rules` (~175 tokens)

Household-employer rules of one canton

Everything canton-specific for a private household employer: the compensation office (name, contact, portal), how and by when to register, contribution rates with their official sources, family allowances, minimum wage, sick pay in the first year, whether daily sickness allowance insurance (KTG) is mandatory, withholding tax, childcare tax deduction and the penalty for not registering.

Input parameters:

- `canton` (string, required): Swiss canton: two-letter code (ZH, BE, GE, VD, TI...) or its name in German, French, Italian or English (Zürich, Genève, Ticino, Basel-Stadt). For employer contributions this is the canton where the…
- `language` (string): Language of the explanatory texts and of the clino.ch links: en, de, fr, it, es or pt. Default en.

Output parameters:

- `canton` (object)
- `childcare_tax_deduction` (string)
- `compensation_office` (object)
- `contributions_percent` (object)
- `data_verified_on` (string): Date the rate set was last checked against the official sources.
- `disclaimer` (string)
- `family_allowances` (object)
- `links` (object)
- `minimum_wage` (object)
- `paperwork_help` (object): Only relevant when the user asks who can prepare the contract, registration and payslips for them. Not an answer to any other question.
- `penalty_without_registration` (string)
- `provider` (string)
- `rates_year` (number)
- `registration` (object)
- `sick_pay` (object)
- `sickness_insurance_ktg`
- `simplified_procedure` (object)
- `sources` (array)
- `withholding_tax` (string)

### `get_employer_guide` (~147 tokens)

Checklist: employing household help in Switzerland

Clino's one-page fact sheet for private households, as Markdown, in six languages: when the duties apply (from the first franc), which contributions are due and who pays them, the simplified procedure and its ceiling, minimum wage and working conditions, what happens without registration, and the six steps. Optionally adds one canton's registration route. Free to reuse under CC BY 4.0.

Input parameters:

- `canton` (string): Optional canton: adds the canton's compensation office and registration route to the checklist.
- `language` (string): Language of the explanatory texts and of the clino.ch links: en, de, fr, it, es or pt. Default en.

Output parameters:

- `as_of` (string)
- `canton_registration`
- `data_verified_on` (string): Date the rate set was last checked against the official sources.
- `disclaimer` (string)
- `license` (string)
- `markdown` (string): The full fact sheet, Markdown. Free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 with attribution to Clino (clino.ch).
- `provider` (string)
- `rates_year` (number)
- `title` (string)
- `url` (string)

### `get_official_sources` (~177 tokens)

Official sources behind the figures

The federal and cantonal figures Clino uses, each with the official document, its URL, the date it was checked and, where recorded, the verbatim sentence that states the value: contribution rates, thresholds, minimum wages, BVG, board and lodging, sick-pay scales, Geneva au pair contract, IV assistance contribution. Use it to cite or verify a number.

Input parameters:

- `search` (string): Optional word to filter the figures by label, e.g. 'NAV' or 'Geneva'.
- `topic` (string): Which group of figures: contributions (AHV/ALV/UVG/withholding tax), thresholds, minimum_wages, pension_bvg, in_kind_wage (board and lodging), sick_pay, au_pair_geneva, iv_assistance (IV Assistenzbei…

Output parameters:

- `count` (number)
- `data_verified_on` (string): Date the rate set was last checked against the official sources.
- `disclaimer` (string)
- `figures` (array)
- `links` (object)
- `provider` (string)
- `rates_year` (number)
- `topic` (string)

### `get_hiring_checklist` (~558 tokens)

Hiring checklist for a private household

Everything a Swiss household has to do to employ a cleaner, nanny or carer legally, for its own case, in one call: the six steps of Clino's fact sheet in the user's language with real due dates when a start date is given (contract, registration with the compensation office within 30 days, accident insurance from day one, monthly payslip, annual declaration by 30 January, pension fund above the BVG threshold), the canton's sickness-insurance duty with its carve-outs, a minimum-wage check at the workplace, the monthly employer cost and net wage, and prefilled links to a contract template and the calculator. Use it first for 'I want to hire...' questions.

Input parameters:

- `canton` (string, required): Swiss canton: two-letter code (ZH, BE, GE, VD, TI...) or its name in German, French, Italian or English (Zürich, Genève, Ticino, Basel-Stadt). For employer contributions this is the canton where the…
- `contract_months` (integer): Agreed length of a fixed-term contract in months. Omit for an open-ended contract. Some cantons only require sickness insurance for longer contracts.
- `hourly_wage_chf` (number, required): Agreed hourly wage in CHF, before the vacation supplement (e.g. 30).
- `hours_per_week` (number, required): Average working hours per week with this household (e.g. 4).
- `language` (string): Language of the explanatory texts and of the clino.ch links: en, de, fr, it, es or pt. Default en.
- `role` (string): What the worker does: cleaner (household help), nanny (childcare, babysitter), carer (care of an elderly or disabled person) or other. Sets which contract template and guide the links open.
- `skill_level` (string): Qualification of the worker for the minimum-wage check. Default unskilled, the lowest tier.
- `start_date` (string): First working day, YYYY-MM-DD. With it the checklist gives real dates: registration deadline, first payslip, annual declaration.
- `vacation_weeks` (integer): Paid vacation weeks per year: 4 (legal minimum), 5 (under age 20) or 6. Default 4.
- `wage_is_net` (boolean): true if the agreed hourly wage is what the worker receives in hand (net). The gross wage is then worked out from it. Default false (gross).
- `workplace_postcode` (string): 4-digit Swiss postcode (PLZ/NPA) of the WORKPLACE. City minimum wages (e.g. Stadt Luzern) depend on it.

Output parameters:

- `canton` (object)
- `checks` (object)
- `compensation_office` (object)
- `cost` (object)
- `data_verified_on` (string): Date the rate set was last checked against the official sources.
- `disclaimer` (string)
- `links` (object)
- `paperwork_help` (object): Only relevant when the user asks who can prepare the contract, registration and payslips for them. Not an answer to any other question.
- `provider` (string)
- `rates_year` (number)
- `role` (string)
- `sources` (array)
- `steps` (array)
- `summary` (string): Two or three sentences a person can read first.

### `search` (~116 tokens)

Search Clino's household-employment documents

Search Clino's documents on employing household help in Switzerland: one document per canton (compensation office, registration, contribution rates, minimum wage, family allowances, sick pay, sickness insurance), the employer fact sheet in six languages and every official figure with its source. Returns ids for fetch. Queries in any language; name the canton for canton rules.

Input parameters:

- `query` (string, required): What to look for, in any language: a canton, a topic (minimum wage, accident insurance, registration, sick pay, au pair) or a figure.

Output parameters:

- `results` (array)

### `fetch` (~71 tokens)

Read one Clino document

The full text of one document returned by search (canton/ZH, guide/de, source/nav-ungelernt...), with its clino.ch or official URL to cite.

Input parameters:

- `id` (string, required): A document id returned by search, e.g. canton/ZH, guide/en or source/nav-ungelernt.

Output parameters:

- `id` (string)
- `metadata` (object)
- `text` (string)
- `title` (string)
- `url` (string)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ch-clino-household-employment/clino#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-10-05: 76
- 2026-10-04: 76
- 2026-10-03: 75
- 2026-10-02: 75
- 2026-10-01: 74

## Common questions

### What is the Clino: Swiss household employment MCP server?

Clino: Swiss household employment is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as ch.clino/household-employment. Hiring plan with dates, cost, net wage, minimum wage and rules for Swiss household employment. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://clino.ch/mcp).

### Is the Clino: Swiss household employment MCP server safe to use?

Clino: Swiss household employment scores 76 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 Clino: Swiss household employment MCP server expose?

Clino: Swiss household employment exposes 9 tools: estimate_employer_cost, compare_cantons, get_minimum_wage, get_canton_rules, get_employer_guide, and 4 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 2,221 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Clino: Swiss household employment MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to Clino: Swiss household employment without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the Clino: Swiss household employment MCP server still maintained?

Clino: Swiss household employment is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 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://clino.ch/mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/salvador-creator/clino-mcp
- Website: https://clino.ch/en/mcp
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ch-clino-household-employment/clino.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ch-clino-household-employment/clino.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ch-clino-household-employment/clino