# CedarGrant (remote · cedargrant.com)

Open federal grants from Grants.gov, plus a kit to draft and review applications in your assistant.

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

## Components

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

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://cedargrant.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. 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.
  - 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**: 31/100
  - 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 13 days we've observed: 2 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 CedarGrant MCP server?

CedarGrant is a hosted endpoint at https://cedargrant.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-cedargrant-federal-grants 'https://cedargrant.com/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-cedargrant-federal-grants": {
      "url": "https://cedargrant.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "com-cedargrant-federal-grants": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://cedargrant.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.com-cedargrant-federal-grants]
url = "https://cedargrant.com/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "com-cedargrant-federal-grants": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://cedargrant.com/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add com-cedargrant-federal-grants --url 'https://cedargrant.com/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  com-cedargrant-federal-grants:
    url: "https://cedargrant.com/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "com-cedargrant-federal-grants": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://cedargrant.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add com-cedargrant-federal-grants -t streamable-http -u 'https://cedargrant.com/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-cedargrant-federal-grants": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://cedargrant.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, −15)

- [security regression] Stability: 0.07 → fail
- [security regression] Tool “find_open_grants” was removed
- [security regression] Tool “get_drafting_kit” 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 69, +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.

### 2026-10-24 (score 68, 0)

- [security] The server rewrote its instructions, which are the text every model session reads
- [security] Tool “get_drafting_kit” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [functional regression] Schema quality: 395 → 497
- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-10-23 (score 68)

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-cedargrant-federal-grants/cedargrant#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: 69
- 2026-10-24: 68
- 2026-10-23: 68

## Common questions

### What is the CedarGrant MCP server?

CedarGrant is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as com.cedargrant/federal-grants. Open federal grants from Grants.gov, plus a kit to draft and review applications in your assistant. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://cedargrant.com/mcp).

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

CedarGrant 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 CedarGrant MCP server require authentication?

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

### Is the CedarGrant MCP server still maintained?

CedarGrant 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://cedargrant.com/mcp
- Website: https://cedargrant.com/connector/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-cedargrant-federal-grants/cedargrant.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-cedargrant-federal-grants/cedargrant.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-cedargrant-federal-grants/cedargrant