# CedarBid (remote · cedarbid.com)

VA HVAC and plumbing contracts from USAspending: what ends soon, who holds it, typical prices.

- Trust score: 54/100 (low)
- Change this week: 0
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `cedarbid.com`: 54/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-cedarbid-va-contracts/cedarbid.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-cedarbid-va-contracts/cedarbid)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://cedarbid.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**: 74/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - No authorisation is required to call this server. Nothing on it is marked destructive, but we can't show that an anonymous caller can only read: full credit needs the server to list at least one tool and every tool to be verifiably read-only. We use a best-effort check of tool names and descriptions to tell read-only tools from tools that change things, so some genuinely read-only tools may not get full credit. Names that start with a read verb (get, list, read, search and similar) and accurate readOnlyHint annotations help. Meet that to earn full credit, or require authorisation.
  - 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**: 33/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (poor).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 14 tokens (~14/item across 0 items; 0 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Nothing to assess: this server has no tools to check for usage examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 0/100
  - Stability check failed: schema churn in the 16 days we've observed: 6 tool removals, 0 breaking changes, 0 auth/transport breaks, 0 additions.
- **Tool Coverage**: 0/100
  - Nothing to assess: this server exposes no tools, so there are no tool definitions to check for coverage.
- **Tool Safety**: 75/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - Destructive-tool annotations not yet verified: our capture listed no tools, so there were no annotations to read.
  - An AI judge read all 1 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 CedarBid MCP server?

CedarBid is a hosted endpoint at https://cedarbid.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-cedarbid-va-contracts 'https://cedarbid.com/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-cedarbid-va-contracts": {
      "url": "https://cedarbid.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "com-cedarbid-va-contracts": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://cedarbid.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.com-cedarbid-va-contracts]
url = "https://cedarbid.com/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "com-cedarbid-va-contracts": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://cedarbid.com/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add com-cedarbid-va-contracts --url 'https://cedarbid.com/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  com-cedarbid-va-contracts:
    url: "https://cedarbid.com/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "com-cedarbid-va-contracts": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://cedarbid.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add com-cedarbid-va-contracts -t streamable-http -u 'https://cedarbid.com/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-cedarbid-va-contracts": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://cedarbid.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.

### 2026-10-26 (score 54, −17)

- [security regression] Stability: 0.17 → fail
- [security regression] Tool “buying_calendar” was removed
- [security regression] Tool “company_profile” was removed
- [security regression] Tool “find_expiring_contracts” was removed
- [security regression] Tool “location_contracts” was removed
- [security regression] Tool “lookup_contract” was removed
- [security regression] Tool “typical_prices” was removed
- [security] The server rewrote its instructions, which are the text every model session reads
- [functional regression] Schema quality: fail → unverified
- [functional regression] Destructive annotations: pass → unverified
- [functional regression] Tool coverage: 100 → fail
- [functional improvement] Schema quality: fail → pass
- [functional] Schema quality: good → poor
- [functional] Server version: 0.1.0 → maintenance

### 2026-10-25 (score 71, +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.

### 2026-10-24 (score 70, −1)

- [security] The server rewrote its instructions, which are the text every model session reads
- [security] Tool “find_expiring_contracts” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [functional regression] Schema quality: 168 → 221
- [cosmetic] “find_expiring_contracts” reworded the description of “set_aside”

### 2026-10-23 (score 71, +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.

### 2026-10-21 (score 70, +1)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-10-20 (score 69)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (0)

No tool schema has been captured from this endpoint yet.

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 54
- 2026-11-04: 54
- 2026-11-03: 54
- 2026-11-02: 54
- 2026-11-01: 54
- 2026-10-31: 54
- 2026-10-30: 54
- 2026-10-29: 54
- 2026-10-28: 54
- 2026-10-27: 54
- 2026-10-26: 54
- 2026-10-25: 71
- 2026-10-24: 70
- 2026-10-23: 71
- 2026-10-22: 70
- 2026-10-21: 70
- 2026-10-20: 69

## Common questions

### What is the CedarBid MCP server?

CedarBid is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as com.cedarbid/va-contracts. VA HVAC and plumbing contracts from USAspending: what ends soon, who holds it, typical prices. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://cedarbid.com/mcp).

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

CedarBid scores 54 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.

### Does the CedarBid MCP server require authentication?

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

### Is the CedarBid MCP server still maintained?

CedarBid 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.

### What did VerifyMCP test on the CedarBid MCP server?

VerifyMCP ran 12 checks on CedarBid, covering TLS certificate, Authorization, HTTPS, HSTS header and 8 more. One item could not be completed, a gap on our side rather than a finding about CedarBid: Destructive annotations. Supply Chain Security and Provenance & Transparency do not apply to a hosted endpoint, so they were not tested. The score does not measure everything, and the scoring documentation lists what it leaves out.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://cedarbid.com/mcp
- Website: https://cedarbid.com/connector/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-cedarbid-va-contracts/cedarbid.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-cedarbid-va-contracts/cedarbid/changelog.json
- Trust report (JSON): https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-cedarbid-va-contracts/cedarbid.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-cedarbid-va-contracts/cedarbid