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Livestock Counterparty Guard

REMOTE · USDA-PS-COUNTERPARTY-GUARD.HWINKLER5866.WORKERS.DEV · SCANNED SEP 29

Verify livestock buyers, dealers, market agencies, and packers against USDA P&S records.

62 Trust /100
Trust breakdown (7 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 → Why this is hard to score →

Endpoint Security46
Transport & Reachability100
Schema Quality & AI Usability84
  • AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).Pass
  • Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 210 tokens (~210/item across 1 items; 1 tools + 0 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 Management0
  • Stability not yet verified: not enough scan history yet (needs a 30-day window).Unverified
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
Tool Safety100
  • No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
  • We read all 1 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
  • An AI judge read all 1 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.Pass
Capabilities100
  • Implements a current MCP spec version (2026-07-28).Pass

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 Livestock Counterparty Guard MCP server?

Livestock Counterparty Guard is a hosted endpoint at https://usda-ps-counterparty-guard.hwinkler5866.workers.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.

remote · usda-ps-counterparty-guard.hwinkler5866.workers.dev

# add to Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http empower-ai-training-usda-ps-counterparty-guard 'https://usda-ps-counterparty-guard.hwinkler5866.workers.dev/mcp'
// .cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "empower-ai-training-usda-ps-counterparty-guard": {
      "url": "https://usda-ps-counterparty-guard.hwinkler5866.workers.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}
// .vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "empower-ai-training-usda-ps-counterparty-guard": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://usda-ps-counterparty-guard.hwinkler5866.workers.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}
# ~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.empower-ai-training-usda-ps-counterparty-guard]
url = "https://usda-ps-counterparty-guard.hwinkler5866.workers.dev/mcp"
// opencode.json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "empower-ai-training-usda-ps-counterparty-guard": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://usda-ps-counterparty-guard.hwinkler5866.workers.dev/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
# add to OpenClaw
openclaw mcp add empower-ai-training-usda-ps-counterparty-guard --url 'https://usda-ps-counterparty-guard.hwinkler5866.workers.dev/mcp' --transport streamable-http
# ~/.hermes/config.yaml
mcp_servers:
  empower-ai-training-usda-ps-counterparty-guard:
    url: "https://usda-ps-counterparty-guard.hwinkler5866.workers.dev/mcp"
// ~/.netclaw/config/netclaw.json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "empower-ai-training-usda-ps-counterparty-guard": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://usda-ps-counterparty-guard.hwinkler5866.workers.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}
# add to Vellum
assistant mcp add empower-ai-training-usda-ps-counterparty-guard -t streamable-http -u 'https://usda-ps-counterparty-guard.hwinkler5866.workers.dev/mcp'
// mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "empower-ai-training-usda-ps-counterparty-guard": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://usda-ps-counterparty-guard.hwinkler5866.workers.dev/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.

  • 29 Sept 26 62

    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 29 Sept 2026 · Probed https://usda-ps-counterparty-guard.hwinkler5866.workers.dev/mcp

TLS valid

Negotiated TLS 1.3 with TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 .

Subject Issuer Valid from Valid until Key Signature Serial
CN=hwinkler5866.workers.dev CN=YE1,O=Let's Encrypt,C=US 24 Sept 2026 23 Dec 2026 ECDSA 256 ECDSA-SHA384 626a688ba7da6690a8aa909c1295287cba0
SANs: *.hwinkler5866.workers.dev, hwinkler5866.workers.dev
CN=YE1,O=Let's Encrypt,C=US (CA) CN=Root YE,O=ISRG,C=US 3 Sept 2025 2 Sept 2028 ECDSA 384 ECDSA-SHA384 5ddd70dd31f801c85c186a7a04b80afe
CN=Root YE,O=ISRG,C=US (CA) CN=ISRG Root X2,O=Internet Security Research Group,C=US 13 May 2026 2 Sept 2032 ECDSA 384 ECDSA-SHA384 872165fc34b6e5fba8add5b3705fb53a
CN=ISRG Root X2,O=Internet Security Research Group,C=US (CA) CN=ISRG Root X1,O=Internet Security Research Group,C=US 13 May 2026 2 Sept 2032 ECDSA 384 SHA256-RSA 6c8f1dc727c7117f7baf853ac980f9cd

Background: What to check on a remote MCP endpoint →

DNSSEC insecure

Validation of usda-ps-counterparty-guard.hwinkler5866.workers.dev. — Not signed

Zone DS Keys Algorithms Outcome
. trust_anchor 20326, 38696 8, 8 Verified
dev. present 60074 8 Verified
workers.dev. absent Unsigned (proven) parent-signed NSEC/NSEC3 proves an unsigned delegation
Authentication Inconclusive

We could not reach the endpoint well enough to judge its authorisation posture.

Result Inconclusive
HTTP status 400

Background: How OAuth 2.1 works in the 2026 MCP spec →

Transports 2 probes
Transport URL Outcome Status Location
streamable-http https://usda-ps-counterparty-guard.hwinkler5866.workers.dev/mcp Verified 200
http (plaintext) http://usda-ps-counterparty-guard.hwinkler5866.workers.dev/mcp Inconclusive 405
MCP tools · 1 exposed · ~210 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. A tool's description is untrusted text the model reads on every call, which is what makes this list a security surface and not just an inventory: how tool poisoning works →

Tool Tokens
verify_livestock_counterparty ~210

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. Searches bonded dealers and market agencies buying on commission, bonded market agencies selling livestock on commission, bonded packers, and current suspension windows. 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.

NameTypeReqDescription
business_namestringyesLegal or trade name of the livestock counterparty.
regionstring–Optional U.S. state or Canadian province, as a full name or abbreviation, used to disambiguate matches.

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

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. Verify livestock buyers, dealers, market agencies, and packers against USDA P&S records. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://usda-ps-counterparty-guard.hwinkler5866.workers.dev/mcp).

Is the Livestock Counterparty Guard MCP server safe to use?

Livestock Counterparty Guard scores 62 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 210 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

Does the Livestock Counterparty Guard MCP server require authentication?

Its publisher declares no required credentials for Livestock Counterparty Guard. We have not been able to confirm that against the live endpoint, and a server can require authorisation without declaring it here.

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 29 September 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.