# Flathead Trades (remote · flatheadtrades.com)

Builders, tradespeople and home services in Montana's Flathead Valley, with phones and websites.

- Trust score: 78/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +3
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `flatheadtrades.com`: 78/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-flatheadtrades-directory/api-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-flatheadtrades-directory/api-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://flatheadtrades.com/api/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**: 80/100
  - 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.
  - 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**: 74/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 362 tokens (~120/item across 3 items; 3 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 47/100
  - Stability observed for 14 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.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 3 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 4 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 60/100
  - Spec-recency check failed: implements MCP spec 2025-06-18; the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the Flathead Trades MCP server?

Flathead Trades is a hosted endpoint at https://flatheadtrades.com/api/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-flatheadtrades-directory 'https://flatheadtrades.com/api/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-flatheadtrades-directory": {
      "url": "https://flatheadtrades.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

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

### Codex

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

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

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

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  com-flatheadtrades-directory:
    url: "https://flatheadtrades.com/api/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

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

### Vellum

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

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-flatheadtrades-directory": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://flatheadtrades.com/api/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 78, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 40 to 43. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 12 days of observed history at the previous scan, 13 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-02 (score 77, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 33 to 37. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 10 days of observed history at the previous scan, 11 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-30 (score 76, +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.

### 2026-10-28 (score 75, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 17 to 20. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 5 days of observed history at the previous scan, 6 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-27 (score 74, 0)

- [security] Tool “start_quote” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads

### 2026-10-26 (score 74, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 10 to 13. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 3 days of observed history at the previous scan, 4 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-24 (score 73, +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.

### 2026-10-23 (score 72, 0)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

## MCP tools (3)

### `find_pros` (~132 tokens)

Find Flathead Valley pros

List the businesses in the Flathead Trades directory for a kind of work, optionally in one town, with phone numbers, websites and a link to each listing. Covers Whitefish, Columbia Falls, Evergreen, Kalispell, Somers, Bigfork, Lakeside and Polson, Montana.

Input parameters:

- `town` (string): Optional town in the Flathead Valley, e.g. "Kalispell" or "Whitefish".
- `trade` (string, required): The kind of work, e.g. "roofing", "plumber", "electrician", "builder", "septic", "tree removal".

### `list_trades_and_towns` (~30 tokens)

List trades and towns

The trades and towns the Flathead Trades directory covers, with how many businesses each has.

### `start_quote` (~124 tokens)

Start a quote request

Make a link that opens the Flathead Trades quote form already filled with the work, the town and the description. The person finishes it and agrees to be contacted themselves; the request is then offered live to one local pro at a time who is on right now, the first to take it calls them, and they follow it on a private request page. Free for homeowners.

Input parameters:

- `description` (string): What needs doing, in the person’s words.
- `town` (string): The town in the Flathead Valley.
- `trade` (string, required): The kind of work.

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 78
- 2026-11-04: 78
- 2026-11-03: 77
- 2026-11-02: 77
- 2026-11-01: 76
- 2026-10-31: 76
- 2026-10-30: 76
- 2026-10-29: 75
- 2026-10-28: 75
- 2026-10-27: 74
- 2026-10-26: 74
- 2026-10-25: 73
- 2026-10-24: 73
- 2026-10-23: 72
- 2026-10-22: 72

## Common questions

### What is the Flathead Trades MCP server?

Flathead Trades is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as com.flatheadtrades/directory. Builders, tradespeople and home services in Montana's Flathead Valley, with phones and websites. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://flatheadtrades.com/api/mcp).

### Is the Flathead Trades MCP server safe to use?

Flathead Trades scores 78 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 Flathead Trades MCP server expose?

Flathead Trades exposes 3 tools: find_pros, list_trades_and_towns, start_quote. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 286 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Flathead Trades MCP server require authentication?

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

### Is the Flathead Trades MCP server still maintained?

Flathead Trades 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://flatheadtrades.com/api/mcp
- Website: https://flatheadtrades.com/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-flatheadtrades-directory/api-mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-flatheadtrades-directory/api-mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-flatheadtrades-directory/api-mcp