# BHX Fab Quote (remote · quote.bastionhelix.com)

Measure and price laser, plasma, waterjet and CNC jobs from DXF, G-code and STL files

- Trust score: 64/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `quote.bastionhelix.com`: 64/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-bastionhelix-fab-quote/quote.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-bastionhelix-fab-quote/quote)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://quote.bastionhelix.com/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- 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 2026-11-05.

- **Endpoint Security**: 63/100
  - 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 enforcement could not be verified: the plaintext port answered with HTTP 405, which proves neither a plaintext path nor enforcement.
  - 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**: 51/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 879 tokens (~219/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**: 20/100
  - Stability observed for 6 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 90/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 70% 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 4 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 5 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 BHX Fab Quote MCP server?

BHX Fab Quote is a hosted endpoint at https://quote.bastionhelix.com/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 com-bastionhelix-fab-quote 'https://quote.bastionhelix.com/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-bastionhelix-fab-quote": {
      "url": "https://quote.bastionhelix.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "com-bastionhelix-fab-quote": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://quote.bastionhelix.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.com-bastionhelix-fab-quote]
url = "https://quote.bastionhelix.com/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "com-bastionhelix-fab-quote": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://quote.bastionhelix.com/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add com-bastionhelix-fab-quote --url 'https://quote.bastionhelix.com/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  com-bastionhelix-fab-quote:
    url: "https://quote.bastionhelix.com/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "com-bastionhelix-fab-quote": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://quote.bastionhelix.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add com-bastionhelix-fab-quote -t streamable-http -u 'https://quote.bastionhelix.com/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-bastionhelix-fab-quote": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://quote.bastionhelix.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.

### 2026-11-04 (score 64, +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.

### 2026-11-01 (score 63, +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.

### 2026-10-31 (score 62, 0)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-10-30 (score 62)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (4)

### `analyse_dxf_for_cutting` (~295 tokens)

Analyse a DXF for laser, plasma or waterjet cutting

Reads a flat 2D DXF (text DXF, as exported by AutoCAD, Fusion, Inventor and most CAD) and returns the parts, cut length, number of pierces and drawing problems (duplicate lines, open contours, near-miss gaps, holes smaller than the thickness). With a cutting speed it also returns the cutting time per part, including acceleration and pierces; with pricing it returns a price. Sheet nesting is not included.

Input parameters:

- `cut_speed_mm_per_min` (number): Cutting speed for this material and thickness
- `dxf` (string, required): The DXF file content as text
- `machine`: A preset name (laser, plasma, waterjet) or {accel_mm_per_s2:[x,y,z], corner_tolerance_mm}
- `machine_rate_per_hour` (number): Machine cost per hour, for pricing
- `material` (object): For a material cost from the part area: {density_g_cm3, price_per_kg, utilisation_percent (expected sheet use, default 70)}
- `pierce_time_s` (number)
- `pricing` (object): Optional: turn the result into a price
- `quantity` (integer): How many of each part
- `thickness_mm` (number): Material thickness, used to flag small holes
- `units` (string): Override the drawing units if the file does not state them

### `estimate_gcode_run_time` (~297 tokens)

Estimate the run time of a G-code program

Simulates a CNC, laser or plasma G-code program (G0-G3 with arcs and helixes, drilling cycles G73/G81-G89, dwell, tool changes, inch/mm, absolute/incremental) with the machine's rapid speeds, acceleration and tool-change time. Returns the run time, time per tool, the program's size, and warnings such as rapid moves below Z0 or a program bigger than the machine. Accepts programs of up to 3,000 lines.

Input parameters:

- `calibration_factor` (number): Real time ÷ estimated time from one real job; default 1
- `dialect` (string): fanuc: G4 P in milliseconds (Fanuc, Haas). grbl: seconds (Grbl, LinuxCNC, Mach)
- `gcode` (string, required)
- `machine`: Preset (vmc, router, hobby, laser, plasma, waterjet) or {rapid_mm_per_min:[x,y,z], accel_mm_per_s2:[x,y,z], tool_change_s, travel_mm:[x,y,z], corner_tolerance_mm}
- `machine_rate_per_hour` (number)
- `pierce_time_s` (number): Laser/plasma: time added per pierce
- `pricing` (object): Optional: turn the result into a price
- `process` (string): Default: from the machine preset
- `quantity` (integer)

### `estimate_cnc_from_stl` (~203 tokens)

Estimate CNC machining of a 3D part (before CAM)

Budget estimate for machining a part from an STL: stock block, material removed, surface area, roughing and finishing time at the material removal rates given, and part mass. Based on volume and surface area only; holes and corner radii are not detected from STL. Accepts up to 60,000 triangles.

Input parameters:

- `allowance_mm` (number): Stock allowance per side, default 2
- `machine_rate_per_hour` (number)
- `material`: Preset (al6061, ms, ss304, brass, pom) or {name, density_g_cm3, rough_cm3_per_min, finish_cm2_per_min, price_per_kg}
- `pricing` (object): Optional: turn the result into a price
- `quantity` (integer)
- `setups` (integer)
- `stl_base64` (string, required): Binary or text STL, base64-encoded
- `up` (string)

### `get_example_rates` (~41 tokens)

Example machine and material figures

Returns the example machine presets and material rates this service uses by default. They are starting points, not quotes: a shop should replace them with its own figures.

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 64
- 2026-11-04: 64
- 2026-11-03: 63
- 2026-11-02: 63
- 2026-11-01: 63
- 2026-10-31: 62
- 2026-10-30: 62

## Common questions

### What is the BHX Fab Quote MCP server?

BHX Fab Quote is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as com.bastionhelix/fab-quote. Measure and price laser, plasma, waterjet and CNC jobs from DXF, G-code and STL files. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://quote.bastionhelix.com/mcp).

### Is the BHX Fab Quote MCP server safe to use?

BHX Fab Quote scores 64 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 BHX Fab Quote MCP server expose?

BHX Fab Quote exposes 4 tools: analyse_dxf_for_cutting, estimate_gcode_run_time, estimate_cnc_from_stl, get_example_rates. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 836 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the BHX Fab Quote MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to BHX Fab Quote without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the BHX Fab Quote MCP server still maintained?

BHX Fab Quote is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 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://quote.bastionhelix.com/mcp
- Website: https://bastionhelix.com/fabquote/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-bastionhelix-fab-quote/quote.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-bastionhelix-fab-quote/quote.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-bastionhelix-fab-quote/quote