# NicheDB (remote · nichedb.dev)

Sources in, feeds out: an open, ever-growing database of real-time public data, enriched.

- Trust score: 75/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +3
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-09-25

## Components

- remote · `nichedb.dev`: 75/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/dev-nichedb-nichedb/nichedb.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/dev-nichedb-nichedb/nichedb)
- npm · `@profullstack/nichedb`: 39/100, [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/dev-nichedb-nichedb/profullstack-nichedb.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/dev-nichedb-nichedb/profullstack-nichedb)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://nichedb.dev/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 2026-09-25.

- **Endpoint Security**: 57/100
  - 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 21 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 is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - 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**: 83/100
  - 100% of prompts and resources have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the item's name).
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 2407 tokens (~109/item across 22 items; 21 tools + 1 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 67/100
  - Stability observed for 20 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 98/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 93% 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 21 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 23 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 NicheDB MCP server?

NicheDB is a hosted endpoint at https://nichedb.dev/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 dev-nichedb-nichedb 'https://nichedb.dev/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dev-nichedb-nichedb": {
      "url": "https://nichedb.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "dev-nichedb-nichedb": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://nichedb.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.dev-nichedb-nichedb]
url = "https://nichedb.dev/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "dev-nichedb-nichedb": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://nichedb.dev/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add dev-nichedb-nichedb --url 'https://nichedb.dev/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  dev-nichedb-nichedb:
    url: "https://nichedb.dev/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "dev-nichedb-nichedb": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://nichedb.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add dev-nichedb-nichedb -t streamable-http -u 'https://nichedb.dev/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dev-nichedb-nichedb": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://nichedb.dev/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.

### 2026-09-25 (score 75, +1)

- [functional] We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server

### 2026-09-22 (score 74, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 53 to 57. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 16 days of observed history at the previous scan, 17 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-20 (score 73, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 47 to 50. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 14 days of observed history at the previous scan, 15 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-18 (score 72, +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.

### 2026-09-16 (score 71, +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.

### 2026-09-14 (score 70, 0)

- [functional regression] Tool coverage: 98% → 93%
- [functional regression] Schema quality: pass → fail
- [functional] New tool “claim_profile”
- [functional] New tool “get_profile”
- [functional] New tool “search_profiles”
- [functional] New tool “update_profile”
- [cosmetic] “create_feed” added an optional parameter “sort”
- [cosmetic] “create_feed” added an optional parameter “unit”
- [cosmetic] “feed_items” added an optional parameter “bbox”
- [cosmetic] “feed_items” added an optional parameter “lat”
- [cosmetic] “feed_items” added an optional parameter “offset”
- [cosmetic] “feed_items” added an optional parameter “radius”
- [cosmetic] “feed_items” added an optional parameter “sort”
- [cosmetic] “feed_items” added an optional parameter “unit”
- [cosmetic] “match_items” added an optional parameter “bbox”
- [cosmetic] “match_items” added an optional parameter “lat”
- [cosmetic] “match_items” added an optional parameter “long”
- [cosmetic] “match_items” added an optional parameter “radius”
- [cosmetic] “match_items” added an optional parameter “sort”
- [cosmetic] “match_items” added an optional parameter “unit”
- [cosmetic] “recent_items” added an optional parameter “bbox”
- [cosmetic] “recent_items” added an optional parameter “lat”
- [cosmetic] “recent_items” added an optional parameter “long”
- [cosmetic] “recent_items” added an optional parameter “offset”
- [cosmetic] “recent_items” added an optional parameter “radius”
- [cosmetic] “recent_items” added an optional parameter “sort”
- [cosmetic] “recent_items” added an optional parameter “unit”
- [cosmetic] “search_items” added an optional parameter “bbox”
- [cosmetic] “search_items” added an optional parameter “lat”
- [cosmetic] “search_items” added an optional parameter “long”
- [cosmetic] “search_items” added an optional parameter “radius”
- [cosmetic] “search_items” added an optional parameter “sort”
- [cosmetic] “search_items” added an optional parameter “unit”
- [cosmetic] “upcoming” added an optional parameter “bbox”
- [cosmetic] “upcoming” added an optional parameter “lat”
- [cosmetic] “upcoming” added an optional parameter “long”
- [cosmetic] “upcoming” added an optional parameter “radius”
- [cosmetic] “upcoming” added an optional parameter “sort”
- [cosmetic] “upcoming” added an optional parameter “unit”
- [cosmetic] “feed_items” added an optional parameter “long”
- [cosmetic] “create_feed” added an optional parameter “bbox”
- [cosmetic] “create_feed” added an optional parameter “lat”
- [cosmetic] “create_feed” added an optional parameter “long”
- [cosmetic] “create_feed” added an optional parameter “radius”
- [cosmetic] “feed_items” reworded the description of “before_id”
- [cosmetic] “recent_items” reworded the description of “before_id”

### 2026-09-13 (score 70, +1)

- [functional] New tool “submit_feed”

### 2026-09-11 (score 69, +1)

- [functional regression] Schema quality: 64 → 75
- [functional] New tool “match_items”

## MCP tools (21)

### `stats` (~24 tokens)

What this deployment holds: collections, sources, items, items added today, feeds.

### `list_collections` (~24 tokens)

The collections (niches) with their source, feed and item counts.

### `list_adapters` (~28 tokens)

Every adapter this deployment can run, with the config fields each takes. Use before add_source.

### `list_enrichers` (~51 tokens)

Every enricher (YouTube videos, Wikipedia, repo stats, downloads, company profiles, TL;DRs) and which collections turn it on by default. Items carry their results under `enrichment`.

### `list_sources` (~37 tokens)

Sources with status, last run and item counts. Optionally one collection.

Input parameters:

- `collection` (string): Collection slug, e.g. games

### `list_feeds` (~30 tokens)

Public feeds, most followed first. Optionally one collection.

Input parameters:

- `collection` (string): Collection slug

### `feed_items` (~152 tokens)

What a feed selects, newest first. Page with before_id.

Input parameters:

- `bbox` (string): west,south,east,north; west > east crosses the antimeridian
- `before_id` (integer): Keyset cursor; cannot combine with distance sorting
- `feed` (string, required): Feed slug
- `lat` (number): Query center latitude; requires long
- `limit` (integer): Default 30, max 200
- `long` (number): Query center longitude; requires lat
- `offset` (integer): Distance pagination offset
- `radius` (number): Default 10; maximum 1000 km
- `sort` (string)
- `unit` (string): Default km

### `recent_items` (~171 tokens)

Newest items, optionally narrowed to a collection, source or kind.

Input parameters:

- `bbox` (string): west,south,east,north; west > east crosses the antimeridian
- `before_id` (integer): Keyset cursor; cannot combine with distance sorting
- `collection` (string): Collection slug
- `kind` (string): Item kind
- `lat` (number): Query center latitude; requires long
- `limit` (integer): Default 30, max 200
- `long` (number): Query center longitude; requires lat
- `offset` (integer): Distance pagination offset
- `radius` (number): Default 10; maximum 1000 km
- `sort` (string)
- `source` (string): Source slug
- `unit` (string): Default km

### `upcoming` (~136 tokens)

Items dated in the future (releases, launches, deadlines), soonest first.

Input parameters:

- `bbox` (string): west,south,east,north; west > east crosses the antimeridian
- `collection` (string): Collection slug
- `days` (integer): Horizon, default 30
- `lat` (number): Query center latitude; requires long
- `limit` (integer): Default 50
- `long` (number): Query center longitude; requires lat
- `radius` (number): Default 10; maximum 1000 km
- `sort` (string)
- `unit` (string): Default km

### `search_items` (~148 tokens)

Full-text search over titles, summaries and tags. Use this first when you know a name.

Input parameters:

- `bbox` (string): west,south,east,north; west > east crosses the antimeridian
- `collection` (string): Collection slug
- `kind` (string): Item kind
- `lat` (number): Query center latitude; requires long
- `limit` (integer): Default 20, max 100
- `long` (number): Query center longitude; requires lat
- `q` (string, required): Query
- `radius` (number): Default 10; maximum 1000 km
- `sort` (string)
- `unit` (string): Default km

### `match_items` (~332 tokens)

Which title, channel or fixture is this name? Give a file name, a release name or a playlist entry ("Top.Gun.Maverick.2022.1080p.mkv", "US: ESPN2 HD"); it is cleaned (year, season and episode, quality tags, playlist decorations) and matched by similarity. A matchup ("NFL: Chiefs vs Bills", "Lakers @ Celtics", "Rangers at Celtic 19:45") is answered by the fixture whose two teams those are, kicking off between 36 hours ago and 7 days ahead unless date narrows it. Each result carries a score in 0..1. Use screen for films and TV, channels for television channels, sports for fixtures.

Input parameters:

- `bbox` (string): west,south,east,north; west > east crosses the antimeridian
- `collection` (string): Collection slug: screen, channels or sports
- `date` (string): A day (YYYY-MM-DD) to look for a fixture on, plus a day either side
- `kind` (string): Item kind: title, channel, fixture
- `lat` (number): Query center latitude; requires long
- `limit` (integer): Default 5, max 50
- `long` (number): Query center longitude; requires lat
- `q` (string, required): The name as written
- `radius` (number): Default 10; maximum 1000 km
- `sort` (string)
- `unit` (string): Default km
- `year` (integer): A year to prefer, when known

### `get_item` (~25 tokens)

One item with its full adapter payload.

Input parameters:

- `id` (integer, required): Item id

### `create_feed` (~221 tokens)

Save a query as a feed (needs a key). Sources, kinds and tags narrow; q is a text match; upcoming keeps only future-dated items.

Input parameters:

- `bbox` (string): west,south,east,north; west > east crosses the antimeridian
- `collection` (string, required): Collection slug
- `description` (string): Optional
- `enrichers` (array): Enrichers to show; omit for the collection defaults
- `kinds` (array): Item kinds
- `lat` (number): Query center latitude; requires long
- `long` (number): Query center longitude; requires lat
- `name` (string, required): Feed name
- `public` (boolean): Default true
- `q` (string): Text match
- `radius` (number): Default 10; maximum 1000 km
- `sort` (string)
- `sources` (array): Source slugs
- `tags` (array): Tags, any match
- `unit` (string): Default km
- `upcoming` (boolean)

### `follow_feed` (~75 tokens)

Follow a feed as the key owner (needs a key). Channels: webpush, email, webhook.

Input parameters:

- `channels` (array): Default webpush,email
- `feed` (string, required): Feed slug
- `webhook_secret` (string): Shared secret the receiver verifies with
- `webhook_url` (string): For the webhook channel

### `submit_feed` (~126 tokens)

Suggest an RSS or Atom feed for the index. No key needed. An admin reviews every suggestion before anything is fetched; approved podcast feeds are handed to rssamplifier, everything else becomes a source here.

Input parameters:

- `collection` (string): Collection slug it belongs in (optional; an admin decides otherwise)
- `email` (string): Where to hear back, if you are not sending a key (optional)
- `note` (string): Why it belongs here: who publishes it, what it covers (optional)
- `url` (string, required): The feed URL, starting with https://

### `search_profiles` (~127 tokens)

People: one entry per person assembled from every app that serves their OpenProfile.md (podcasters from p0dcasters, public profiles from OutreachGraph). Search by name, headline or anything in the document; newest change first. Each answer carries the page, the openprofile.md URL, accounts, topics, Broadcast shows and the Guest section.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer): Default 30, max 200
- `q` (string): Text to match against the name, headline and document (optional)
- `since` (string): ISO time: only profiles changed after it (optional)

### `get_profile` (~47 tokens)

One person by id, `<slug>-<id>` or handle: the parsed view and the OpenProfile.md as served.

Input parameters:

- `ref` (string, required): Profile id, slug-id or handle

### `claim_profile` (~93 tokens)

Claim a profile as the key owner (needs a key). Proven when the key owner’s email is one the profile lists, or when the person’s site or show page links back to the profile’s nichedb page. An admin may claim on behalf of an email.

Input parameters:

- `email` (string): Admins only: claim it for this email
- `ref` (string, required): Profile id, slug-id or handle

### `update_profile` (~208 tokens)

Edit a profile you own (needs a key). Send `markdown`, a whole OpenProfile.md that replaces what you wrote before, or any of `name`, `headline`, `identity` (key: value, null removes), `sections` (name: body, `none` removes), `handle`, `public`. What you write wins over every source and survives every re-read.

Input parameters:

- `handle` (string): Your URL: /c/profiles/<handle>
- `headline` (string): One line
- `identity` (object): Identity keys: Kind, Web, Email, Location, ...; null removes
- `markdown` (string): A complete OpenProfile.md
- `name` (string): The name
- `public` (boolean): Listed and pulled by other directories
- `ref` (string, required): Profile id, slug-id or handle
- `sections` (object): Section bodies by name (accounts, topics, broadcast, guest, ...); the word none removes one

### `add_source` (~104 tokens)

Add a source: an adapter with a config, fetched on a schedule (needs a key; admins and Pro). Call list_adapters first for the fields.

Input parameters:

- `adapter` (string, required): Adapter name, e.g. github-releases
- `cadence_minutes` (integer): 5 to 1440
- `collection` (string): Collection slug; defaults to the adapter's
- `config` (object): Adapter config fields
- `name` (string): Display name

### `run_source` (~36 tokens)

Fetch a source now instead of waiting for its schedule (needs a key; owner or admin).

Input parameters:

- `source` (string, required): Source slug

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-09-25: 75
- 2026-09-24: 74
- 2026-09-23: 74
- 2026-09-22: 74
- 2026-09-21: 73
- 2026-09-20: 73
- 2026-09-19: 72
- 2026-09-18: 72
- 2026-09-17: 71
- 2026-09-16: 71
- 2026-09-15: 70
- 2026-09-14: 70
- 2026-09-13: 70
- 2026-09-12: 69
- 2026-09-11: 69
- 2026-09-10: 68
- 2026-09-09: 68
- 2026-09-08: 67
- 2026-09-07: 67
- 2026-09-06: 66
- 2026-09-05: 66

## Common questions

### What is the NicheDB MCP server?

NicheDB is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as dev.nichedb/nichedb. Sources in, feeds out: an open, ever-growing database of real-time public data, enriched. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://nichedb.dev/mcp).

### Is the NicheDB MCP server safe to use?

NicheDB scores 75 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 NicheDB MCP server expose?

NicheDB exposes 21 tools: stats, list_collections, list_adapters, list_enrichers, list_sources, and 16 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 2,195 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the NicheDB MCP server require authentication?

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

### Is the NicheDB MCP server still maintained?

NicheDB is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 25 September 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://nichedb.dev/mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/profullstack/niche-db
- Website: https://nichedb.dev/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/dev-nichedb-nichedb/nichedb.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/dev-nichedb-nichedb/nichedb.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/dev-nichedb-nichedb/nichedb