# Export Control (remote · export-control.toolstop.dev)

Does the US Commerce Country Chart require an export licence for an ECCN to a destination?

- Trust score: 56/100 (low)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-08-13

## Components

- remote · `export-control.toolstop.dev`: 56/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/dev-toolstop-export-control/export-control.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/dev-toolstop-export-control/export-control)
- npm · `@toolstop/export-control`: 77/100, [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/dev-toolstop-export-control/toolstop-export-control.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/dev-toolstop-export-control/toolstop-export-control)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://export-control.toolstop.dev`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `0.4.0`

## 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 2026-08-13.

- **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**: 66/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 1497 tokens (~374/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**: 7/100
  - Stability observed for 2 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.
- **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 dev-toolstop-export-control https://export-control.toolstop.dev/
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.dev-toolstop-export-control]
url = "https://export-control.toolstop.dev/"
```

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add dev-toolstop-export-control --url https://export-control.toolstop.dev/ --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  dev-toolstop-export-control:
    url: "https://export-control.toolstop.dev/"
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dev-toolstop-export-control": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://export-control.toolstop.dev/"
    }
  }
}
```

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.

### 2026-08-13 (score 56, +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.

### 2026-08-12 (score 55, 0)

- [security] The server rewrote its instructions, which are the text every model session reads
- [security] Tool “check_export_license” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [functional regression] Schema quality: 313 → 374
- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03
- [functional] Server version: 0.3.1 → 0.4.0

### 2026-08-11 (score 55)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (4)

### `check_export_license` (~355 tokens)

Does the country chart require an export licence

Given an ECCN and a destination country, report whether the Commerce Country Chart requires an export licence, and which reasons for control trigger it. Use this when someone is about to ship or transfer a controlled item abroad and needs the licence question answered before it moves. Returns the triggering reasons with the scope text from the Control List entry, because many controls apply to only part of an entry, plus any controls that are not decided by the chart at all. A `false` result means the chart alone does not require a licence; it is not clearance to export, and it says nothing about the Entity List, embargoes, end-use controls, or whether the ECCN is the right one. An entry the chart does not decide returns `indeterminate` with its requirement text instead of a verdict, which is an unanswered question rather than a negative answer. This tool cannot classify an item into an ECCN and will not try.

Every verdict carries its own evidence and you should report it rather than the boolean alone. `checked` lists each chart cell that was read and what it held, so a negative answer can be verified against 15 CFR part 738 Supplement No. 1 without trusting this server; `footnotes` carries row conditions this tool does not apply and which can change the answer; `sourceEdition` says which CFR edition the tables came from, and a snapshot older than the current regulation gives a stale answer that still reads as confident.

Input parameters:

- `country` (string, required): Destination country as spelled on the Commerce Country Chart, e.g. Japan or Korea, South.
- `eccn` (string, required): Export Control Classification Number, e.g. 3A001. Digit, letter A to E, three digits.

Output parameters:

- `candidates` (array): Possible destinations, when the country name matched more than one row.
- `checked` (array): Every chart-determined control on the entry, each with the column read, its reason code, the scope it applies to, and whether that column is marked for this destination. This is the citation for the…
- `controlsNotOnChart` (array): Controls on this entry that the chart does not decide, with the requirement text verbatim.
- `country` (string): The chart row that was matched.
- `countryColumns` (array): Every control column marked for this destination on the chart row, whether or not it bears on this ECCN.
- `eccn` (string): The normalised ECCN.
- `footnotes` (array): Footnotes on this chart row, each with its number and text. **They can change the answer and this tool does not apply them.** Footnote 6 is the Russia and Belarus sanctions and footnote 8 is Crimea.…
- `licenseRequired` (boolean): Whether the country chart requires a licence. Present only when status is `ok`. False does not mean the export is permitted.
- `message` (string): Why no verdict was returned, when status is not `ok`.
- `notCovered` (array): What this answer does not address. Always present on an answered lookup.
- `sourceEdition` (string): The CFR edition the tables were taken from. Present on every response, including errors. Data older than the current regulation is a stale answer, not a wrong one, and the regulation is the authority.
- `status` (string): Outcome of the lookup. Only `ok` carries an answer. `embargoed` means the chart does not govern the destination. `indeterminate` means the entry has no country-chart control in this data and the char…
- `title` (string): The Control List entry heading.
- `triggeredBy` (array): Each control whose chart column is marked for this destination, with its scope caveat.

### `lookup_eccn` (~187 tokens)

Read a Control List entry's reasons for control

Look up one ECCN on the Commerce Control List and return its title, its reasons for control, and the chart column each reason maps to. Use this to understand why an item is controlled, or to see the scope caveats before relying on a licence answer, since a control often applies to only some sub-paragraphs of an entry. Some entries are not decided by the country chart at all, and those return `chartDetermined: false` with the requirement text instead, or `indeterminate` when the entry carries no chart control at all. Knowing an entry's reasons for control does not tell you whether a licence is required for a destination; pass the ECCN to check_export_license for that. This tool cannot tell you whether an item falls under this ECCN.

Input parameters:

- `eccn` (string, required): Export Control Classification Number, e.g. 5A002.

Output parameters:

- `chartDetermined` (boolean): Whether any control on this entry is decided by the country chart.
- `controls` (array): Each control, its scope text, and the chart column or other requirement it maps to.
- `eccn` (string): The normalised ECCN.
- `reasons` (array): Reason-for-control codes on the entry, with their expanded names.
- `status` (string): Outcome of the lookup. Only `ok` carries an answer. `embargoed` means the chart does not govern the destination. `indeterminate` means the entry has no country-chart control in this data and the char…
- `title` (string): The entry heading as published.

### `lookup_country` (~145 tokens)

Which control columns a destination carries

Return the Commerce Country Chart row for a destination: which of the sixteen control columns are marked, with each reason expanded. Use this to see how heavily controlled a destination is, or to check the chart's spelling of a country before another lookup. Special-controls destinations such as Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Syria return `embargoed` with a referral, because the chart does not govern them and reading a blank row as permission would be badly wrong. A marked column means a licence is required for items controlled for that reason; it says nothing about any particular item until you pair it with an ECCN.

Input parameters:

- `country` (string, required): Destination country name, e.g. Germany.

Output parameters:

- `candidates` (array): Possible destinations, when the name matched more than one row.
- `columns` (array): Marked control columns, each with its reason code and expanded name.
- `country` (string): The chart row that was matched.
- `footnotes` (array): Chart footnotes on this row, each with its number and text. They carry conditions the grid cannot show, such as the Russia and Belarus sanctions and the Crimea controls, and they can change the answe…
- `referral` (string): Where to look instead, for a special-controls destination.
- `status` (string): Outcome of the lookup. Only `ok` carries an answer. `embargoed` means the chart does not govern the destination. `indeterminate` means the entry has no country-chart control in this data and the char…

### `explain_reason_code` (~129 tokens)

Expand a reason-for-control code

Expand a reason-for-control code such as NS, AT or CB into its full name. Use this when reading a Control List entry or a chart column and the two-letter code is not obvious. Returns the code and the name it stands for, or the whole glossary when called with no argument. This is a glossary lookup only: it reports what a code means, never whether that control applies to anything you are shipping, and it cannot tell you whether a licence is required.

Input parameters:

- `code` (string): A two-letter reason code, e.g. NS. Omit to list all of them.

Output parameters:

- `code` (string): The code, uppercased.
- `codes` (array): Every known code, when none was given.
- `name` (string): What the code stands for.
- `status` (string): Outcome of the lookup.

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-08-13: 56
- 2026-08-12: 55
- 2026-08-11: 55

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://export-control.toolstop.dev/
- Repository: https://github.com/toolstop/toolstop
- Website: https://export-control.toolstop.dev/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/dev-toolstop-export-control/export-control.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/dev-toolstop-export-control/export-control.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/dev-toolstop-export-control/export-control