# Tools Berry Paycheck (remote · mcp.tools-berry.com)

Live US paycheck and payroll-tax math for 2026, all 50 states and DC, powered by tools-berry.com.

- Trust score: 60/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +3
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-08-21

## Components

- remote · `mcp.tools-berry.com`: 60/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-tools-berry-paycheck/mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-tools-berry-paycheck/mcp)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://mcp.tools-berry.com`
- 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 2026-08-21.

- **Endpoint Security**: 46/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - Authorisation not fully verified: no authorisation is required to call this server, and 4 tool(s) never declared a destructiveHint. The MCP spec treats an absent hint as destructive by default, so we cannot call this surface safe.
  - HTTPS check failed: the endpoint is reachable over plaintext HTTP.
  - 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**: 71/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 664 tokens (~166/item across 4 items; 4 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 30/100
  - Stability observed for 9 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.
- **Capabilities**: 60/100
  - Spec-recency check failed: implements MCP spec 2025-06-18; the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http com-tools-berry-paycheck https://mcp.tools-berry.com/
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.com-tools-berry-paycheck]
url = "https://mcp.tools-berry.com/"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "com-tools-berry-paycheck": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://mcp.tools-berry.com/",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add com-tools-berry-paycheck --url https://mcp.tools-berry.com/ --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  com-tools-berry-paycheck:
    url: "https://mcp.tools-berry.com/"
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-tools-berry-paycheck": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.tools-berry.com/"
    }
  }
}
```

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.

### 2026-08-20 (score 60, +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.

### 2026-08-18 (score 59, +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.

### 2026-08-16 (score 58, +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.

### 2026-08-14 (score 57, +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.

### 2026-08-13 (score 56, 0)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-08-12 (score 56)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (4)

### `compute_take_home` (~128 tokens)

Take-home pay by state

Full 2026 paycheck breakdown for a salary in one state: federal income tax, Social Security, Medicare, state income tax, state payroll programs, net pay (annual/monthly/biweekly) and effective tax rate.

Input parameters:

- `filingStatus` (string): Filing status. Defaults to "single". "single" also covers married-filing-separately.
- `salary` (number, required): Gross annual salary in US dollars
- `state` (string, required): US state or DC: full name ("Ohio"), two-letter code ("OH"), or slug ("ohio", "district-of-columbia").

### `compute_bonus_withholding` (~157 tokens)

Bonus / supplemental withholding

What is actually withheld from a bonus in 2026: the federal flat 22% supplemental rate (37% above $1,000,000 of supplemental wages), the state supplemental treatment (flat rate, aggregate/regular method, or none), and FICA.

Input parameters:

- `bonusAmount` (number, required): Gross bonus in US dollars
- `filingStatus` (string): Filing status. Defaults to "single". "single" also covers married-filing-separately.
- `salary` (number): Optional regular annual salary — improves FICA and aggregate-method accuracy
- `state` (string, required): US state or DC: full name ("Ohio"), two-letter code ("OH"), or slug ("ohio", "district-of-columbia").

### `compare_states` (~85 tokens)

Compare take-home across states

Net pay on the same salary in several states, ranked best-first, with each state's gap to the best one.

Input parameters:

- `filingStatus` (string): Filing status. Defaults to "single". "single" also covers married-filing-separately.
- `salary` (number, required): Gross annual salary in US dollars
- `states` (array, required): 2 to 51 states/DC

### `get_state_rates` (~106 tokens)

State 2026 rate schedule

A state's 2026 schedule: flat rate or bracket ladder, standard deduction, employee payroll programs, bonus/supplemental method, and the statutory source the figures come from.

Input parameters:

- `filingStatus` (string): Filing status. Defaults to "single". "single" also covers married-filing-separately.
- `state` (string, required): US state or DC: full name ("Ohio"), two-letter code ("OH"), or slug ("ohio", "district-of-columbia").

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-08-21: 60
- 2026-08-20: 60
- 2026-08-19: 59
- 2026-08-18: 59
- 2026-08-17: 58
- 2026-08-16: 58
- 2026-08-15: 57
- 2026-08-14: 57
- 2026-08-13: 56
- 2026-08-12: 56

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://mcp.tools-berry.com/
- Repository: https://github.com/edyda99/tools-berry-mcp
- Website: https://tools-berry.com/mcp/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-tools-berry-paycheck/mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-tools-berry-paycheck/mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-tools-berry-paycheck/mcp