# BidProwl (remote · bidprowl.com)

US government surplus auctions: search live lots by ZIP radius, sold prices and Flip Scores.

- Trust score: 67/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +4
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-10-18

## Components

- remote · `bidprowl.com`: 67/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-bidprowl-bidprowl/api-v1-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-bidprowl-bidprowl/api-v1-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://bidprowl.com/api/v1/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 2026-10-18.

- **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 7 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 706 tokens (~100/item across 7 items; 7 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**: 82/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 45% 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 7 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 8 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a current MCP spec version (2026-07-28).

## Install

### How do I install the BidProwl MCP server?

BidProwl is a hosted endpoint at https://bidprowl.com/api/v1/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-bidprowl-bidprowl 'https://bidprowl.com/api/v1/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-bidprowl-bidprowl": {
      "url": "https://bidprowl.com/api/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "com-bidprowl-bidprowl": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://bidprowl.com/api/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.com-bidprowl-bidprowl]
url = "https://bidprowl.com/api/v1/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "com-bidprowl-bidprowl": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://bidprowl.com/api/v1/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add com-bidprowl-bidprowl --url 'https://bidprowl.com/api/v1/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  com-bidprowl-bidprowl:
    url: "https://bidprowl.com/api/v1/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "com-bidprowl-bidprowl": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://bidprowl.com/api/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add com-bidprowl-bidprowl -t streamable-http -u 'https://bidprowl.com/api/v1/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-bidprowl-bidprowl": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://bidprowl.com/api/v1/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.

### 2026-10-17 (score 67, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 20 to 23. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 6 days of observed history at the previous scan, 7 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-15 (score 66, +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.

### 2026-10-13 (score 65, +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.

### 2026-10-12 (score 64, +1)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.07

### 2026-10-10 (score 63)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (7)

### `search_listings` (~138 tokens)

Search live government auctions

Search 90,000+ live US government surplus auction listings from 26 official sources. Supports keyword, category, state, ZIP-radius, and price filters.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string)
- `limit` (integer): Results per page, default 25
- `page` (integer)
- `price_max_usd` (number)
- `query` (string): Keyword search, e.g. 'forklift'
- `radius_miles` (integer)
- `sort` (string)
- `state` (string): 2-letter US state code
- `zip` (string): Center a radius search on this ZIP

### `get_listing` (~29 tokens)

Get one auction listing

Fetch a single listing by its BidProwl id or slug.

Input parameters:

- `id` (string, required)

### `sold_comps` (~78 tokens)

Sold-price comparables

Sold-price stats from 250,000+ closed government auctions, nearly all from the last 12 months. Category+state aggregates, or exact percentile comps for a live listing via listing_id.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string)
- `listing_id` (string): Pro: exact comps for this live listing
- `state` (string)

### `flip_score` (~34 tokens)

Flip Score for a listing

BidProwl's deal score for a live listing, with its condition-adjusted tier.

Input parameters:

- `id` (string, required)

### `get_api_usage` (~49 tokens)

API quota and usage

This API key's plan, monthly call limit, calls used, calls remaining and when the quota resets (first of next month, UTC). Free to call: it does not count against the quota.

### `sold_comps_batch` (~116 tokens)

Sold-price comparables, many at once

Up to 25 sold_comps lookups in one call (100 on Pro+), each costing one API call. Each query is a listing id, a tracked item slug ("forklift"), a category ("vehicles"), or text naming a tracked item ("2015 Ford F150"). Item-level and per-listing answers need Pro or Pro+; categories work on every plan. Amounts are in cents.

Input parameters:

- `queries` (array, required)
- `state` (string): Default 2-letter state for item and category queries

### `get_sold_history` (~151 tokens)

Individual sold lots

The actual sold lots behind a comps number, newest close first: title, final price (cents), close date, state, source, BidProwl link. Pass one of category, item (tracked item slug) or q (free text, matched like a listing title), plus optional state. Paginate with cursor.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string)
- `cursor` (string): next_cursor from the previous call
- `item` (string): Pro: tracked item slug, e.g. forklift
- `limit` (integer): Default 25
- `q` (string): Pro: free text, e.g. 2015 ford f150
- `state` (string)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-bidprowl-bidprowl/api-v1-mcp#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-10-18: 67
- 2026-10-17: 67
- 2026-10-16: 66
- 2026-10-15: 66
- 2026-10-14: 65
- 2026-10-13: 65
- 2026-10-12: 64
- 2026-10-10: 63

## Common questions

### What is the BidProwl MCP server?

BidProwl is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as com.bidprowl/bidprowl. US government surplus auctions: search live lots by ZIP radius, sold prices and Flip Scores. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://bidprowl.com/api/v1/mcp).

### Is the BidProwl MCP server safe to use?

BidProwl scores 67 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 BidProwl MCP server expose?

BidProwl exposes 7 tools: search_listings, get_listing, sold_comps, flip_score, get_api_usage, and 2 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 595 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the BidProwl MCP server require authentication?

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

### Is the BidProwl MCP server still maintained?

BidProwl is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 18 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://bidprowl.com/api/v1/mcp
- Website: https://bidprowl.com/developers
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-bidprowl-bidprowl/api-v1-mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-bidprowl-bidprowl/api-v1-mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-bidprowl-bidprowl/api-v1-mcp