# Livestock Counterparty Guard (remote · usda-ps-counterparty-guard.hwinkler5866.workers.dev)

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

- Trust score: 62/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-09-29

## Components

- remote · `usda-ps-counterparty-guard.hwinkler5866.workers.dev`: 62/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/empower-ai-training-usda-ps-counterparty-guard/usda-ps-counterparty-guard.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/empower-ai-training-usda-ps-counterparty-guard/usda-ps-counterparty-guard)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://usda-ps-counterparty-guard.hwinkler5866.workers.dev/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.0.1`

## 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 2026-09-29.

- **Endpoint Security**: 46/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - Authorisation not yet verified: we couldn't confirm whether this endpoint requires it.
  - 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**: 84/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - 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.
  - 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 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).

**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.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http empower-ai-training-usda-ps-counterparty-guard 'https://usda-ps-counterparty-guard.hwinkler5866.workers.dev/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "empower-ai-training-usda-ps-counterparty-guard": {
      "url": "https://usda-ps-counterparty-guard.hwinkler5866.workers.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "empower-ai-training-usda-ps-counterparty-guard": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://usda-ps-counterparty-guard.hwinkler5866.workers.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```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
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add empower-ai-training-usda-ps-counterparty-guard --url 'https://usda-ps-counterparty-guard.hwinkler5866.workers.dev/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  empower-ai-training-usda-ps-counterparty-guard:
    url: "https://usda-ps-counterparty-guard.hwinkler5866.workers.dev/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "empower-ai-training-usda-ps-counterparty-guard": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://usda-ps-counterparty-guard.hwinkler5866.workers.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add empower-ai-training-usda-ps-counterparty-guard -t streamable-http -u 'https://usda-ps-counterparty-guard.hwinkler5866.workers.dev/mcp'
```

### Other

```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 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.

### 2026-09-29 (score 62)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (1)

### `verify_livestock_counterparty` (~210 tokens)

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.

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/usda-ps-counterparty-guard#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-09-29: 62

## 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.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://usda-ps-counterparty-guard.hwinkler5866.workers.dev/mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/Empower-AI-training/usda-ps-counterparty-guard
- Website: https://usda-ps-counterparty-guard.hwinkler5866.workers.dev/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/empower-ai-training-usda-ps-counterparty-guard/usda-ps-counterparty-guard.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/empower-ai-training-usda-ps-counterparty-guard/usda-ps-counterparty-guard.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/empower-ai-training-usda-ps-counterparty-guard/usda-ps-counterparty-guard