# Drop Beacon (remote · edc4me.com)

Live EDC knife, flashlight and fidget prices across retailers, deal checks, top deals and new drops.

- Trust score: 73/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `edc4me.com`: 73/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/direct-web-drop-beacon-mcp/edc4me.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/direct-web-drop-beacon-mcp/edc4me)
- npm · `drop-beacon-mcp`: 60/100, [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/direct-web-drop-beacon-mcp/drop-beacon-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/direct-web-drop-beacon-mcp/drop-beacon-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://edc4me.com/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.1.0`

## 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 2026-11-05.

- **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**: 73/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 836 tokens (~139/item across 6 items; 6 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 0/100
  - Stability not yet verified: not enough scan history yet (needs a 30-day window).
- **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 6 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 7 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

**Unverified: 1 category.** A category scored 0 because we could not verify it: authentication we do not have, an unreachable endpoint, or not enough scan history. We only credit what we can confirm.

## Install

### How do I install the Drop Beacon MCP server?

Drop Beacon is a hosted endpoint at https://edc4me.com/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 direct-web-drop-beacon-mcp 'https://edc4me.com/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "direct-web-drop-beacon-mcp": {
      "url": "https://edc4me.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "direct-web-drop-beacon-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://edc4me.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.direct-web-drop-beacon-mcp]
url = "https://edc4me.com/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "direct-web-drop-beacon-mcp": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://edc4me.com/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add direct-web-drop-beacon-mcp --url 'https://edc4me.com/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  direct-web-drop-beacon-mcp:
    url: "https://edc4me.com/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "direct-web-drop-beacon-mcp": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://edc4me.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add direct-web-drop-beacon-mcp -t streamable-http -u 'https://edc4me.com/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "direct-web-drop-beacon-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://edc4me.com/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.

### 2026-11-05 (score 73)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (6)

### `search_products` (~140 tokens)

Search EDC products

Search Drop Beacon's catalog of 150,000+ everyday-carry products (knives, flashlights, fidget sliders and coins, pens, multitools). Returns matching products with brand, the catalog price and the edc4me.com page; models and configurations (steel, color) are separate products. Use find_offers next for live prices across retailers.

Input parameters:

- `in_stock_only` (boolean): Only products currently in stock somewhere (default true).
- `limit` (integer): Default 10.
- `query` (string, required): Product, brand, model or steel, e.g. "Benchmade Bugout" or "titanium slider".

### `find_offers` (~124 tokens)

Find live offers across retailers

For one product, list the retailers that currently have it in stock, with price, configuration (blade steel, color, finish), when Drop Beacon last checked, any coupon, and a tracked buy link. If a name matches several models, the reply says so and lists other_matches. Prices are observed by Drop Beacon and can change; the retailer page is authoritative at checkout.

Input parameters:

- `product` (string, required): An edc4me.com product URL (most precise), a product slug, or a product name such as "Spyderco UK Penknife Salt LC200N".

### `deal_check` (~104 tokens)

Is this price a deal?

Compare a product's lowest current in-stock price with the range Drop Beacon has observed (90-day low, all-time low, high, how long it has been watched) and return a plain verdict with a confidence level. Summary only; it does not return the full price history.

Input parameters:

- `product` (string, required): An edc4me.com product URL (most precise), a product slug, or a product name such as "Spyderco UK Penknife Salt LC200N".

### `top_deals` (~207 tokens)

Biggest discounts right now

Live markdowns across the EDC products Drop Beacon tracks: in-stock items priced at least 10% below the seller's own compare-at ("was") price, checked in the last 3 days. Each result has the price, the was-price, percent and dollars off, the lowest price Drop Beacon itself has recorded (to sanity-check the was-price), any coupon, and a tracked buy link. Filter by keyword, category or brand.

Input parameters:

- `brand` (string): Optional brand or retailer name.
- `category` (string): Optional category.
- `limit` (integer): Default 10.
- `min_percent_off` (integer): Default 15.
- `query` (string): Optional keyword, e.g. "titanium", "Spyderco" or "flashlight".
- `sort` (string): best (percent and dollars off combined, verified was-prices first, at most 2 per brand; default), percent_off, dollars_off, or price_low.

### `upcoming` (~75 tokens)

New drops and live giveaways

What's new in EDC right now: in-stock products Drop Beacon first saw in the last 7 days, plus Drop Beacon's live giveaways (free to enter) with draw dates and entry links.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string): Optional product category filter for new drops.
- `limit` (integer): Max new drops (default 10).

### `get_brand_info` (~59 tokens)

Brand profile

A brand's Drop Beacon profile: page link, official website, whether it is a maker or a retailer, its in-stock product count and any public discount code.

Input parameters:

- `brand` (string, required): Brand name, e.g. "Spyderco".

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/direct-web-drop-beacon-mcp/edc4me#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 73

## Common questions

### What is the Drop Beacon MCP server?

Drop Beacon is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.direct-web/drop-beacon-mcp. Live EDC knife, flashlight and fidget prices across retailers, deal checks, top deals and new drops. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://edc4me.com/mcp).

### Is the Drop Beacon MCP server safe to use?

Drop Beacon scores 73 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 Drop Beacon MCP server expose?

Drop Beacon exposes 6 tools: search_products, find_offers, deal_check, top_deals, upcoming, get_brand_info. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 709 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Drop Beacon MCP server require authentication?

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

### Is the Drop Beacon MCP server still maintained?

Drop Beacon is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 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://edc4me.com/mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/direct-web/drop-beacon-mcp
- Website: https://edc4me.com/ai
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/direct-web-drop-beacon-mcp/edc4me.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/direct-web-drop-beacon-mcp/edc4me.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/direct-web-drop-beacon-mcp/edc4me