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io.github.cyanheads/cdc-health-mcp-server

REMOTE · CDC.CASEYJHAND.COM · 2 COMPONENTS · SCANNED AUG 3

Search and query CDC public health data — mortality, vaccinations, surveillance, behavioral risk.

+4 this week 71 Trust /100
Trust breakdown (6 categories)

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. How we score →

Endpoint Security66
  • The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key. View diagnostics → Pass
  • 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. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Unverified
  • HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path. View diagnostics → Pass
  • The HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security) header is present. View diagnostics → Pass
  • DNSSEC is configured correctly; the domain's records validate against the full chain to the root. View diagnostics → Pass
Transport & Reachability100
Schema Quality & AI Usability79
  • 100% of prompts and resources have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the item's name).Pass
  • AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).Pass
  • Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 1542 tokens (~220/item across 7 items; 4 tools + 3 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params. See how to fix → Fail
  • Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management27
  • Stability observed for 8 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.Partial
Tool Coverage100
  • 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
  • 100% of tool parameters carry a description.Pass
  • Structured output schemas are declared (100% of tools); any adoption earns full credit.Pass
Capabilities100
  • Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.Pass
Install

Add this component to your MCP client. Where a client-specific snippet is available, pick your client below and copy it straight into your config; otherwise use the connection detail shown.

remote · cdc.caseyjhand.com

# add to Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http cyanheads-cdc-health-mcp-server https://cdc.caseyjhand.com/mcp
# ~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.cyanheads-cdc-health-mcp-server]
url = "https://cdc.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
// opencode.json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "cyanheads-cdc-health-mcp-server": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://cdc.caseyjhand.com/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
# add to OpenClaw
openclaw mcp add cyanheads-cdc-health-mcp-server --url https://cdc.caseyjhand.com/mcp --transport streamable-http
# ~/.hermes/config.yaml
mcp_servers:
  cyanheads-cdc-health-mcp-server:
    url: "https://cdc.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
// mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cyanheads-cdc-health-mcp-server": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://cdc.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

Changelog

Every change we have recorded for this component, newest first. Security-relevant changes are always shown. ▲ marks a change for the better, ▼ a change for the worse; unmarked changes are neutral.

  • 2 Aug 26 +1

    No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 20 to 23. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 6 days of observed history at the previous scan, 7 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

  • 31 Jul 26 +1
    • We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server See what changed → functional
  • 30 Jul 26 +1
    • We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server See what changed → functional
  • 28 Jul 26 +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.

  • 27 Jul 26 +1
    • We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server See what changed → functional
  • 26 Jul 26 66

    First indexed and scored.

Diagnostics

Diagnostic detail from the automated scan of this channel: what the scanner observed at each step, so you can see exactly where a check passed or failed. It is informational only and never changes the trust score.

Captured 3 Aug 2026 · Probed https://cdc.caseyjhand.com/mcp

TLS valid

Negotiated TLS 1.3 with TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 .

Subject Issuer Valid from Valid until Key Signature Serial
CN=caseyjhand.com CN=WE1,O=Google Trust Services,C=US 7 Jul 2026 5 Oct 2026 ECDSA 256 ECDSA-SHA256 5aad900eb2055a0b0ea55912ec19680c
SANs: caseyjhand.com, *.caseyjhand.com
CN=WE1,O=Google Trust Services,C=US (CA) CN=GTS Root R4,O=Google Trust Services LLC,C=US 13 Dec 2023 20 Feb 2029 ECDSA 256 ECDSA-SHA384 7ff31977972c224a76155d13b6d685e3
CN=GTS Root R4,O=Google Trust Services LLC,C=US (CA) CN=GlobalSign Root CA,OU=Root CA,O=GlobalSign nv-sa,C=BE 15 Nov 2023 28 Jan 2028 ECDSA 384 SHA256-RSA 7fe530bf331343bedd821610493d8a1b
DNSSEC secure

Validation of cdc.caseyjhand.com. Secure

Zone DS Keys Algorithms Outcome
. trust_anchor 20326, 38696 8, 8 Verified
com. present 19718 13 Verified
caseyjhand.com. present 2371 13 Verified
cdc.caseyjhand.com. Verified address RRset verified with the apex keys
Authentication No authorisation required

The endpoint answered without asking for a token. Anyone who knows the URL can reach it.

Result No authorisation required
HTTP status 200
Header Value
strict-transport-security max-age=63072000; includeSubDomains; preload
x-content-type-options nosniff
Transports 2 probes
Transport URL Outcome Status Location
streamable-http https://cdc.caseyjhand.com/mcp Verified 200
http (plaintext) http://cdc.caseyjhand.com/mcp HTTPS enforced 301 https://cdc.caseyjhand.com/mcp
MCP tools — 4 exposed · ~1,193 tokens

The tools this component advertises to a client, with an estimated token cost for each. Expand a tool to see its parameters and schema. The per-tool counts are indicative and are not scored directly; the schema's total context footprint is one signal in Schema Quality & AI Usability.

Tool Tokens
cdc_discover_datasets ~312

Search the CDC dataset catalog by keyword, category, or tag. Returns dataset IDs, names, truncated descriptions, column counts, and update timestamps. Use cdc_get_dataset_schema for the full column list of a chosen dataset.

NameTypeReqDescription
categorystringFilter by domain category (e.g., "NNDSS", "Vaccinations", "Behavioral Risk Factors").
domainstringCDC Socrata portal to search. "data.cdc.gov" (default) is the main CDC catalog; "chronicdata.cdc.gov" hosts chronic-disease and small-area datasets (PLACES, the Heart Disease & Stroke Atlas, Environm…
limitintegerResults to return (default 10, max 100).
offsetintegerPagination offset for browsing beyond first page (max 9999).
orderstringResult ordering. "dataset_id" (default) sorts deterministically by each dataset's unique catalog ID — required for stable offset pagination, since consecutive pages form a gap-free, duplicate-free tr…
querystringFull-text search across dataset names and descriptions (e.g., "diabetes mortality", "lead exposure children").
tagsarrayFilter by domain tags (e.g., ["covid19", "surveillance"]).
NameTypeReqDescription
appliedFiltersobjectyesFilters applied to this query; absent fields indicate no filter on that dimension.
datasetsarrayyesMatching datasets.
noticestringGuidance when no datasets matched — echoes the applied filters and suggests how to broaden the search.
totalCountnumberyesTotal matching datasets in the catalog (for pagination).

No examples provided.

cdc_get_dataset_schema ~130

Fetch the full column schema for a CDC dataset — names, data types, descriptions, row count, and last-updated timestamp. Get dataset IDs from cdc_discover_datasets.

NameTypeReqDescription
datasetIdstringyesFour-by-four dataset identifier (e.g., "bi63-dtpu"). Obtain from cdc_discover_datasets.
domainstringCDC Socrata portal hosting the dataset. Use the same portal you found the dataset on via cdc_discover_datasets: "data.cdc.gov" (default) or "chronicdata.cdc.gov".
NameTypeReqDescription
columnsarrayyesDataset columns with types and descriptions.
descriptionstringDataset description when provided.
namestringyesDataset display name from the catalog (e.g., "Provisional COVID-19 Deaths by Sex and Age").
rowCountnumberTotal number of rows when reported by upstream; omitted when unknown.
updatedAtstringLast data update timestamp when provided.

No examples provided.

cdc_query_dataset ~403

Execute a SoQL query against any CDC dataset. Supports filtering, aggregation, sorting, full-text search, and field selection. Use cdc_discover_datasets to find dataset IDs and cdc_get_dataset_schema to inspect columns before querying.

NameTypeReqDescription
datasetIdstringyesFour-by-four dataset identifier (e.g., "bi63-dtpu"). Obtain from cdc_discover_datasets.
domainstringCDC Socrata portal hosting the dataset. Must match the portal the dataset lives on: "data.cdc.gov" (default) or "chronicdata.cdc.gov" (PLACES and other chronic-disease/small-area datasets).
groupstringSoQL GROUP BY clause. Requires aggregate functions in select.
havingstringSoQL HAVING clause. Filters aggregated results.
limitintegerMax rows to return (default 100, max 5000).
offsetintegerRow offset for pagination (max 1,000,000).
orderstringSoQL ORDER BY clause. Field name with optional ASC/DESC: "total_deaths DESC".
searchstringFull-text search across all text columns. For precise filtering use the where parameter instead.
selectstringSoQL SELECT clause — column names, aliases, or aggregates: "state, sum(deaths) as total_deaths". Omit for all columns. To enumerate distinct values of a column, set select to "{column}, count(*) as c…
wherestringSoQL WHERE clause. Strings must be single-quoted: "state='California' AND year=2020". If a column name matches a SoQL keyword (group, select, where, order, limit, offset, having, search), wrap it in…
NameTypeReqDescription
capnumberThe requested limit that bounded this response.
effectiveQuerystringyesAssembled SoQL query string sent to the Socrata API.
noticestringGuidance when no rows matched or results were truncated — how to verify filters, paginate, or broaden the query.
rowCountnumberyesNumber of rows returned in this response.
rowsarrayyesResult rows with requested fields. Most values are strings (including numbers/dates); geo columns return GeoJSON objects.
shownnumberNumber of rows returned in this response.
truncatedbooleanTrue when the result row count hit the requested limit and may be incomplete.

No examples provided.

cdc_query_wonder ~348

Query CDC WONDER for national US mortality statistics — deaths, population, and crude/age-adjusted death rates — from the Underlying Cause of Death database (D76, 1999–2020). Break results out by year, age group, sex, and/or race, and filter by ICD-10 cause of death, sex, age group, or year range. WONDER is a separate CDC system from the Socrata datasets the other cdc_* tools query. Data is national only — sub-national (state/county) breakdowns are not available through the API (CDC vital-statistics policy). Cause of death is a filter, not a grouping. CDC suppresses any cell with fewer than 10 deaths (returned as null). The API is rate-limited to one request every ~15 seconds, so requests may be briefly spaced.

NameTypeReqDescription
age_groupsarrayRestrict to specific ten-year age groups — e.g. ["25-34","35-44"]. "1" is the under-1-year group. Omit for all ages.
cause_icd10Filter to a specific ICD-10 underlying cause of death. Omit for all causes.
group_byarrayDimensions to break results out by (1–4), in output-column order — e.g. ["year"], ["year","sex"], ["age_group","race"]. Results are always national. Cause of death is a filter (cause_icd10), not a gr…
sexstringFilter by sex.
year_rangeobjectInclusive year range within 1999–2020. Omit for all years.
NameTypeReqDescription
caveatsarrayyesCDC-provided caveats and footnotes: data revisions, population-estimate sources, suppression and rate-reliability rules.
databasestringyesWONDER database queried (D76 — Underlying Cause of Death, 1999–2020).
effectiveQuerystringyesHuman-readable summary of the grouping and filters sent to WONDER.
noticestringGuidance when no rows matched, or a note that CDC suppressed some cells.
rowCountnumberyesNumber of rows returned.
rowsarrayyesResult rows. Each carries the requested group-by dimensions plus deaths, population, crude_rate, and — unless grouped by age_group — age_adjusted_rate (per 100,000). Suppressed measure cells (< 10 de…
suppressedCountnumberyesNumber of measure cells CDC suppressed (< 10 deaths), returned as null.

No examples provided.