# AwardSecrets Award Availability (remote · awardsecrets.com)

Award seat availability from a contracted GDS. One route, one airline, one date.

- Trust score: 61/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +4
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-08-20

## Components

- remote · `awardsecrets.com`: 61/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-awardsecrets-award-availability/awardsecrets.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-awardsecrets-award-availability/awardsecrets)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://awardsecrets.com/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `required`
- Version: `1.0.0`

## 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 2026-08-20.

- **Endpoint Security**: 57/100
  - 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 1 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.
  - 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**: 56/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 540 tokens (~540/item across 1 items; 1 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - 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**: 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**: 60/100
  - Spec-recency check failed: implements MCP spec 2025-06-18; the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http com-awardsecrets-award-availability https://awardsecrets.com/mcp
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.com-awardsecrets-award-availability]
url = "https://awardsecrets.com/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "com-awardsecrets-award-availability": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://awardsecrets.com/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add com-awardsecrets-award-availability --url https://awardsecrets.com/mcp --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  com-awardsecrets-award-availability:
    url: "https://awardsecrets.com/mcp"
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-awardsecrets-award-availability": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://awardsecrets.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.

### 2026-08-20 (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.

### 2026-08-17 (score 60, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 13 to 17. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 4 days of observed history at the previous scan, 5 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-08-15 (score 59, +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.

### 2026-08-14 (score 58, +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.

### 2026-08-13 (score 57, −1)

- [security] Tool “search_award_availability” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03
- [functional] Schema quality: excellent → good

### 2026-08-12 (score 58)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (1)

### `search_award_availability` (~498 tokens)

Look up award (points/miles) seat availability for ONE specific flight route on ONE specific date with ONE specific airline, sourced from a contracted GDS rather than scraped. Returns the flights found with cabin and seat count.

IMPORTANT — this tool is strictly literal. Every argument takes a single concrete value:
  • origin / destination: exactly one 3-letter IATA airport code each. Not a city, not a list, not a region.
  • airline: exactly one 2-letter IATA carrier code (e.g. VS, CX, NH). Not an alliance and not a loyalty programme.
  • date: exactly one date, YYYY-MM-DD. Not a range and not a month.

To cover several airports, airlines or dates, CALL THIS TOOL ONCE PER COMBINATION and combine the results yourself. Award space is scarce and volatile, so an empty result for one date says nothing about another — checking several dates is normal and expected.

Interpreting the result:
  • seats is an availability indicator, not a guaranteed bookable count, and not a reservation. Low counts are the more precise signal; treat higher ones as less certain. Do not present any count as a firm number of seats a user can book.
  • cabin is one of business, first, economy or premium_economy.
  • An empty result means no availability was surfaced for that exact combination at that moment; it is not proof that the route never has space.
  • Availability changes fast. Treat every result as a point-in-time observation, not a reservation.

If the call is declined for want of an API key, say so plainly and point the user at https://awardsecrets.com/api.html — access is in limited release and keys are issued individually. Do not invent availability, and do not substitute a guess for a result you could not retrieve.

Input parameters:

- `airline` (string, required): One 2-letter IATA airline code (e.g. VS, CX, NH).
- `cabin` (string): Cabin to search. Defaults to business.
- `date` (string, required): One departure date, YYYY-MM-DD.
- `destination` (string, required): Arrival airport, one 3-letter IATA code (e.g. LHR).
- `origin` (string, required): Departure airport, one 3-letter IATA code (e.g. JFK).
- `passengers` (integer): Number of seats required. Defaults to 1.

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-awardsecrets-award-availability/awardsecrets#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-08-20: 61
- 2026-08-19: 60
- 2026-08-18: 60
- 2026-08-17: 60
- 2026-08-16: 59
- 2026-08-15: 59
- 2026-08-14: 58
- 2026-08-13: 57
- 2026-08-12: 58

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://awardsecrets.com/mcp
- Authorisation metadata: https://awardsecrets.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/mcp
- Website: https://awardsecrets.com/api.html
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-awardsecrets-award-availability/awardsecrets.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-awardsecrets-award-availability/awardsecrets.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-awardsecrets-award-availability/awardsecrets