# Livestock Counterparty Guard (remote · livestockverify.com)

USDA P&S checks for livestock buyers, dealers, agencies and packers before sale or onboarding.

- Trust score: 68/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-10-18

## Components

- remote · `livestockverify.com`: 68/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/empower-ai-training-usda-ps-counterparty-guard/livestockverify.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/empower-ai-training-usda-ps-counterparty-guard/livestockverify)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://livestockverify.com/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.0.3`

## 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 2026-10-18.

- **Endpoint Security**: 63/100
  - 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 enforcement could not be verified: the plaintext port answered with HTTP 405, which proves neither a plaintext path nor enforcement.
  - 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**: 76/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 303 tokens (~303/item across 1 items; 1 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 10/100
  - Stability observed for 3 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.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 1 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 1 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 Livestock Counterparty Guard MCP server?

Livestock Counterparty Guard is a hosted endpoint at https://livestockverify.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 empower-ai-training-usda-ps-counterparty-guard 'https://livestockverify.com/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "empower-ai-training-usda-ps-counterparty-guard": {
      "url": "https://livestockverify.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "empower-ai-training-usda-ps-counterparty-guard": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://livestockverify.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.empower-ai-training-usda-ps-counterparty-guard]
url = "https://livestockverify.com/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "empower-ai-training-usda-ps-counterparty-guard": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://livestockverify.com/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add empower-ai-training-usda-ps-counterparty-guard --url 'https://livestockverify.com/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  empower-ai-training-usda-ps-counterparty-guard:
    url: "https://livestockverify.com/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "empower-ai-training-usda-ps-counterparty-guard": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://livestockverify.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add empower-ai-training-usda-ps-counterparty-guard -t streamable-http -u 'https://livestockverify.com/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "empower-ai-training-usda-ps-counterparty-guard": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://livestockverify.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.

### 2026-10-17 (score 68, +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.

### 2026-10-16 (score 67, 0)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-10-15 (score 67)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (1)

### `verify_livestock_counterparty` (~303 tokens)

USDA P&S Livestock Counterparty Verification

Read-only USDA Packers and Stockyards livestock counterparty verification. Call when a user or system needs to check a livestock or cattle buyer, dealer, market agency, or packer before a sale, transaction, procurement decision, vendor onboarding, or recurring review. Use business_name for the legal or trade name; add region when similarly named entities may exist, and omit region if it is unknown. Searches bonded dealers and market agencies buying on commission, bonded market agencies selling livestock on commission, bonded packers, and current suspension windows. The tool does not modify USDA or user systems, and repeated calls against the same certified snapshot are idempotent. If the certified USDA snapshot is stale, it returns SOURCE_STALE without a verification; when direct execution is disabled, it returns PAID_EXECUTION_REQUIRED with the measured Apify handoff instead of claiming a result. Returns source-attributed match status, bond coverage when published, legal/trade-name match basis, region resolution, suspension evidence, and source dates. Do not use this tool as a credit score, solvency determination, legal conclusion, recommendation to transact, or guarantee of payment. Current expired-registration status is unavailable because the USDA expired-registration source currently available for validation is stale.

Input parameters:

- `business_name` (string, required): Legal or trade name of the livestock counterparty.
- `region` (string): Optional U.S. state or Canadian province, as a full name or abbreviation, used to disambiguate matches.

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/empower-ai-training-usda-ps-counterparty-guard/livestockverify#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-10-18: 68
- 2026-10-17: 68
- 2026-10-16: 67
- 2026-10-15: 67

## Common questions

### What is the Livestock Counterparty Guard MCP server?

Livestock Counterparty Guard is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.Empower-AI-training/usda-ps-counterparty-guard. USDA P&S checks for livestock buyers, dealers, agencies and packers before sale or onboarding. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://livestockverify.com/mcp).

### Is the Livestock Counterparty Guard MCP server safe to use?

Livestock Counterparty Guard scores 68 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 Livestock Counterparty Guard MCP server expose?

Livestock Counterparty Guard exposes 1 tool: verify_livestock_counterparty. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 303 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Livestock Counterparty Guard MCP server require authentication?

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

### Is the Livestock Counterparty Guard MCP server still maintained?

Livestock Counterparty Guard is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 18 October 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://livestockverify.com/mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/Empower-AI-training/usda-ps-counterparty-guard
- Website: https://livestockverify.com/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/empower-ai-training-usda-ps-counterparty-guard/livestockverify.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/empower-ai-training-usda-ps-counterparty-guard/livestockverify.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/empower-ai-training-usda-ps-counterparty-guard/livestockverify