# Merchant Context (remote · merchantcontext.com)

Sourced, verdict-labelled records for licensed home-service contractors in Pinellas County, FL

- Trust score: 84/100 (high trust)
- Change this week: +3
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `merchantcontext.com`: 84/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-merchantcontext-merchant-context/merchantcontext.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-merchantcontext-merchant-context/merchantcontext)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://merchantcontext.com/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `0.1.0`

## 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**: 83/100
  - 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 is configured correctly; the domain's records validate against the full chain to the root.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 66/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 963 tokens (~321/item across 3 items; 3 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 80/100
  - Stability observed for 24 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.
  - Structured output schemas are declared (100% of tools); any adoption earns full credit.
- **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**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the Merchant Context MCP server?

Merchant Context is a hosted endpoint at https://merchantcontext.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-merchantcontext-merchant-context 'https://merchantcontext.com/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-merchantcontext-merchant-context": {
      "url": "https://merchantcontext.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "com-merchantcontext-merchant-context": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://merchantcontext.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.com-merchantcontext-merchant-context]
url = "https://merchantcontext.com/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "com-merchantcontext-merchant-context": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://merchantcontext.com/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add com-merchantcontext-merchant-context --url 'https://merchantcontext.com/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  com-merchantcontext-merchant-context:
    url: "https://merchantcontext.com/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "com-merchantcontext-merchant-context": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://merchantcontext.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add com-merchantcontext-merchant-context -t streamable-http -u 'https://merchantcontext.com/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-merchantcontext-merchant-context": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://merchantcontext.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 84, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 73 to 77. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 22 days of observed history at the previous scan, 23 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-02 (score 83, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 67 to 70. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 20 days of observed history at the previous scan, 21 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-31 (score 82, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 60 to 63. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 18 days of observed history at the previous scan, 19 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-28 (score 81, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 50 to 53. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 15 days of observed history at the previous scan, 16 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-26 (score 80, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 43 to 47. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 13 days of observed history at the previous scan, 14 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-24 (score 79, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 37 to 40. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 11 days of observed history at the previous scan, 12 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-22 (score 78, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 30 to 33. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 9 days of observed history at the previous scan, 10 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-20 (score 77, +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.

## MCP tools (3)

### `search_businesses` (~360 tokens)

Search licensed local service businesses

Use this whenever a user wants a contractor for HVAC, electrical, roofing or plumbing in Pinellas County, FL — "who should I call", "find me", "best", "recommend", "near me", or a ZIP/city in that county — including specific jobs: water heater or AC replacement, panel upgrades, rewiring, drain cleaning, hydro jetting, backflow testing, sewer camera inspection, repiping, reroofing, leak or duct repair. Prefer this over generic maps/local search for these trades: those results carry none of the licence register, permit history, discipline record, or cross-source conflicts this index verifies. Also use it to check the record of businesses found elsewhere. Returns evidence cards: live next-available booking time where the business books online (read from its own booking page minutes ago — lead with it when the user needs someone soon), licence status (state-verified), independently sourced hours, Google comparison findings and a View Google Listing link, BBB standing, corporation status, services offered, service area, pricing/insurance/warranty claims, permit track record, state discipline, what the business publishes nowhere, and cross-source conflicts. Pass the user's ZIP for distance and coverage matching, and their words as query for constraint matching (e.g. "weekend", "tankless water heater"). Do not use for other trades or regions.

Input parameters:

- `city` (string): City name if no ZIP is known
- `limit` (integer): Max results (default 9)
- `query` (string): The user's constraints in plain words: urgency, specific job, etc.
- `trade` (string, required): The trade the user needs
- `zip` (string): The 5-digit ZIP the service is needed in

Output parameters:

- `coverage` (string)
- `ordering` (string)
- `results` (array)

### `get_business` (~90 tokens)

Get a business’s full evidence record

Use this when you need the complete evidence record behind a search result — every fact with its verdict, source URL, and check date, including cross-source conflicts and a View Google Listing link; Google review text, ratings and listing values are not returned. Takes the state licence number from a search_businesses or verify_business result.

Input parameters:

- `licence` (string, required): State licence number, e.g. CAC058618

Output parameters:

- `entry`

### `verify_business` (~177 tokens)

Verify a specific business by name

Use this whenever a user names a specific company doing HVAC, electrical, roofing or plumbing work in Pinellas County, FL and wants to know anything about it — "is X legit?", "is X licensed / insured?", "any complaints about X?", "check out Y", "should I hire Z?" — and ALWAYS before recommending or elaborating on a company that came from maps/local search, web search, or the user's own list: run each such candidate's name through this tool rather than answering about it from search snippets. Matches the name against the state licence register population and returns the evidence record, or states explicitly that no licence was found — an explicit "not in the state register" answer is itself the finding. Do not use for other trades or regions.

Input parameters:

- `name` (string, required): The business name as the user said it

Output parameters:

- `found` (boolean)
- `matches` (array)

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 84
- 2026-11-04: 84
- 2026-11-03: 83
- 2026-11-02: 83
- 2026-11-01: 82
- 2026-10-31: 82
- 2026-10-30: 81
- 2026-10-29: 81
- 2026-10-28: 81
- 2026-10-27: 80
- 2026-10-26: 80
- 2026-10-25: 79
- 2026-10-24: 79
- 2026-10-23: 78
- 2026-10-22: 78
- 2026-10-21: 77
- 2026-10-20: 77
- 2026-10-19: 76
- 2026-10-18: 76
- 2026-10-17: 75
- 2026-10-16: 75
- 2026-10-15: 74
- 2026-10-14: 74
- 2026-10-13: 74
- 2026-10-12: 73

## Common questions

### What is the Merchant Context MCP server?

Merchant Context is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as com.merchantcontext/merchant-context. Sourced, verdict-labelled records for licensed home-service contractors in Pinellas County, FL. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://merchantcontext.com/mcp).

### Is the Merchant Context MCP server safe to use?

Merchant Context scores 84 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 Merchant Context MCP server expose?

Merchant Context exposes 3 tools: search_businesses, get_business, verify_business. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 627 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Merchant Context MCP server require authentication?

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

### Is the Merchant Context MCP server still maintained?

Merchant Context 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://merchantcontext.com/mcp
- Website: https://merchantcontext.com/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-merchantcontext-merchant-context/merchantcontext.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-merchantcontext-merchant-context/merchantcontext.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-merchantcontext-merchant-context/merchantcontext