# Local Trades Kit (remote · mcp.modernmustardseed.com)

US data for home-service trades: service-area ZIPs, seasonal demand, review timing, service pages.

- Trust score: 76/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +3
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-10-22

## Components

- remote · `mcp.modernmustardseed.com`: 76/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-modernmustardseed-trades-kit/trades-kit.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-modernmustardseed-trades-kit/trades-kit)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://mcp.modernmustardseed.com/trades-kit`
- 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 2026-10-22.

- **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**: 62/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 1183 tokens (~236/item across 5 items; 5 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 33/100
  - Stability observed for 10 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 5 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 6 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 Local Trades Kit MCP server?

Local Trades Kit is a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.modernmustardseed.com/trades-kit, 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-modernmustardseed-trades-kit 'https://mcp.modernmustardseed.com/trades-kit'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-modernmustardseed-trades-kit": {
      "url": "https://mcp.modernmustardseed.com/trades-kit"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "com-modernmustardseed-trades-kit": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.modernmustardseed.com/trades-kit"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.com-modernmustardseed-trades-kit]
url = "https://mcp.modernmustardseed.com/trades-kit"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "com-modernmustardseed-trades-kit": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://mcp.modernmustardseed.com/trades-kit",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add com-modernmustardseed-trades-kit --url 'https://mcp.modernmustardseed.com/trades-kit' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  com-modernmustardseed-trades-kit:
    url: "https://mcp.modernmustardseed.com/trades-kit"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "com-modernmustardseed-trades-kit": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://mcp.modernmustardseed.com/trades-kit"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add com-modernmustardseed-trades-kit -t streamable-http -u 'https://mcp.modernmustardseed.com/trades-kit'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-modernmustardseed-trades-kit": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.modernmustardseed.com/trades-kit"
    }
  }
}
```

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.

### 2026-10-22 (score 76, +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 75, +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.

### 2026-10-17 (score 74, +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.

### 2026-10-15 (score 73, +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.

### 2026-10-13 (score 72, +1)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-10-12 (score 71)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (5)

### `service_area` (~254 tokens)

Map a service area

Work out what a local service business covers. Give a base (a 5-digit ZIP or "City, ST") and a radius in miles, or a list of ZIPs. Returns every ZIP Code Tabulation Area inside it with distance, population, housing units and owner-occupied homes; the cities, towns and Census places inside it; the counties it touches with the population inside the area; totals; and up to 20 candidate areas for a Google Business Profile service area with Google's written rules. Uses Census Gazetteer, relationship-file and ACS 2020-2024 data stored on the server. Distances are straight-line miles, not driving distance.

Input parameters:

- `base` (string): Where the business is based: a 5-digit ZIP such as 59901, or a city with its state such as "Kalispell, MT". Use with radius_miles.
- `max_zips` (integer): How many ZIPs to list (default and maximum 250). Totals always count every ZIP.
- `radius_miles` (number): Straight-line radius in miles, 1 to 100.
- `zips` (array): Instead of a base and radius: the ZIPs the business serves.

### `seasonal_demand` (~275 tokens)

Get seasonal demand

Show the busy and slow months for a home-service trade in a US state, a NOAA climate region (Northeast, Upper Midwest, Ohio Valley, Southeast, Northern Rockies and Plains, South, Southwest, Northwest, West) or the whole country. The month-by-month index is measured from BLS QCEW private-sector employment for the trade's NAICS industry, 2022 to 2024. Beside it: NOAA 1991-2020 monthly temperature, degree day and precipitation normals for the same area, and seasonal drivers for the trade (tune-up seasons, freeze months, hurricane season, lawn fertilization windows, termite swarms and others) where a public source supports them. Every claim carries its source.

Input parameters:

- `region` (string): Instead of a state, a NOAA climate region: Northeast, Upper Midwest, Ohio Valley, Southeast, Northern Rockies and Plains, South, Southwest, Northwest, West.
- `state` (string): A US state: two-letter code (MT) or full name (Montana).
- `trade` (string, required): The trade: an id from list_trades (plumbing, hvac, electrical, roofing, landscaping, lawn_care, tree_service, pest_control and more) or a common name such as "plumber" or "AC repair".

### `review_request_timing` (~256 tokens)

Time review requests

Plan when and how a home-service business asks customers for reviews, by trade and job type: what to say at completion, the window for the one written request (with dates when a completion date is given), the moment the customer can first judge the work, and the rules that apply, from Google Maps policy, Yelp, the FTC consumer review rule (16 CFR 465) and the TCPA for texts, each cited with an as-of date. Includes the field-experiment and survey findings the timing rests on. Informational, not legal advice.

Input parameters:

- `completed_on` (string): The date the job was finished, YYYY-MM-DD, to get the request window as dates.
- `job_type` (string): One job type id from list_trades, such as water_heater, replacement or mowing, or a job class (repair, install, project, recurring, emergency, inspection). Leave out to get every job type for the tra…
- `trade` (string, required): The trade: an id from list_trades (plumbing, hvac, electrical, roofing, landscaping, lawn_care, tree_service, pest_control and more) or a common name such as "plumber" or "AC repair".

### `trade_service_pages` (~245 tokens)

Plan trade service pages

List the standard website page set for a home-service trade: home, services hub, one page per core service with what it must cover, projects, service area, reviews, about, questions and contact, plus location pages for up to 20 cities. Comes with Google's written rules on doorway pages, people-first content, LocalBusiness structured data and business names, each cited. The service taxonomy is curated per trade and mapped to the trade's 2022 NAICS industry.

Input parameters:

- `cities` (array): Towns the business really serves, for location pages, such as ["Whitefish, MT", "Columbia Falls, MT"].
- `emergency_service` (boolean): Whether the business takes emergency or after-hours calls. Defaults to what is typical for the trade.
- `maintenance_plans` (boolean): Whether the business sells recurring service or maintenance plans. Defaults to what is typical for the trade.
- `trade` (string, required): The trade: an id from list_trades (plumbing, hvac, electrical, roofing, landscaping, lawn_care, tree_service, pest_control and more) or a common name such as "plumber" or "AC repair".

### `list_trades` (~41 tokens)

List trades

List every trade the kit covers with its id, common names it matches, its 2022 NAICS industry code and its job type ids. Static reference.

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-10-22: 76
- 2026-10-21: 75
- 2026-10-20: 75
- 2026-10-19: 74
- 2026-10-18: 74
- 2026-10-17: 74
- 2026-10-16: 73
- 2026-10-15: 73
- 2026-10-14: 72
- 2026-10-13: 72
- 2026-10-12: 71

## Common questions

### What is the Local Trades Kit MCP server?

Local Trades Kit is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as com.modernmustardseed/trades-kit. US data for home-service trades: service-area ZIPs, seasonal demand, review timing, service pages. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://mcp.modernmustardseed.com/trades-kit).

### Is the Local Trades Kit MCP server safe to use?

Local Trades Kit scores 76 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 Local Trades Kit MCP server expose?

Local Trades Kit exposes 5 tools: service_area, seasonal_demand, review_request_timing, trade_service_pages, list_trades. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 1,071 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Local Trades Kit MCP server require authentication?

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

### Is the Local Trades Kit MCP server still maintained?

Local Trades Kit is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 22 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://mcp.modernmustardseed.com/trades-kit
- Website: https://mcp.modernmustardseed.com/docs/trades-kit
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-modernmustardseed-trades-kit/trades-kit.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-modernmustardseed-trades-kit/trades-kit.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-modernmustardseed-trades-kit/trades-kit