# Tradehand (remote · tradehand.com)

Browse and book local tradespeople in the UK.

- Trust score: 82/100 (high trust)
- Change this week: +3
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-10-25

## Components

- remote · `tradehand.com`: 82/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/humanleap-tradehand/api-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/humanleap-tradehand/api-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://tradehand.com/api/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `0.1.0`

## 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 2026-10-25.

- **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
  - 82% of prompts and resources have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the item's name).
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 8043 tokens (~47/item across 171 items; 7 tools + 164 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 71/100
  - Stability check failed: schema churn in the 26 days we've observed: 1 tool removals, 0 breaking changes, 0 auth/transport breaks, 1 additions.
- **Tool Coverage**: 87/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 55% of tool parameters carry a description.
  - Structured output schemas are declared (57% of tools); any adoption earns full credit.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 7 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 8 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.
  - Supports UI / widget rendering.

## Install

### How do I install the Tradehand MCP server?

Tradehand is a hosted endpoint at https://tradehand.com/api/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 humanleap-tradehand 'https://tradehand.com/api/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "humanleap-tradehand": {
      "url": "https://tradehand.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "humanleap-tradehand": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://tradehand.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.humanleap-tradehand]
url = "https://tradehand.com/api/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "humanleap-tradehand": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://tradehand.com/api/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add humanleap-tradehand --url 'https://tradehand.com/api/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  humanleap-tradehand:
    url: "https://tradehand.com/api/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "humanleap-tradehand": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://tradehand.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add humanleap-tradehand -t streamable-http -u 'https://tradehand.com/api/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "humanleap-tradehand": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://tradehand.com/api/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.

### 2026-10-25 (score 82, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 67 to 71.

### 2026-10-22 (score 81, +1)

- [functional regression] Resource “/okf/costs/bathroom-installation-cost.md” was removed
- [functional regression] Resource “/okf/costs/central-heating-installation-cost.md” was removed
- [functional regression] Resource “/okf/costs/commercial-eicr.md” was removed
- [functional regression] Resource “/okf/costs/drain-unblocking-cost.md” was removed

### 2026-10-21 (score 80, +57)

- [security regression] Stability: unverified → fail
- [security improvement] Authorization: unverified → partial
- [security improvement] Injection markers: unverified → pass
- [security improvement] HSTS header: fail → pass
- [security improvement] Transport: fail → pass
- [functional improvement] Endpoint reachability: not serving MCP → reachable
- [functional improvement] Tool coverage: unverified → 100
- [functional improvement] MCP protocol: unverified → pass
- [functional improvement] Schema quality: unverified → 82

### 2026-10-20 (score 23, −56)

- [security regression] Endpoint reachability: reachable → not serving MCP
- [security regression] Stability: fail → unverified
- [security regression] Authorization: partial → unverified
- [security regression] Tool safety: pass → unverified
- [security regression] Transport: pass → fail
- [security regression] HSTS header: pass → fail
- [functional regression] Capabilities: pass → unverified
- [functional regression] Schema quality: 82 → unverified
- [functional regression] Tool coverage: 100 → unverified

### 2026-10-18 (score 79, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 44 to 47.

### 2026-10-16 (score 78, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 37 to 41.

### 2026-10-14 (score 77, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 31 to 34.

### 2026-10-12 (score 76, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 21 to 27.

## MCP tools (7)

### `browse_trades` (~48 tokens)

Browse supported trades

List Tradehand's canonical UK trades. Instant quote is available before a trader is assigned.

Input parameters:

- `cursor` (string)
- `limit` (integer)
- `query` (string)

Output parameters:

- `blockers` (array)
- `continuation` (object|null)
- `data` (object)
- `missingFacts` (array)
- `nextActions` (array)
- `outcome` (string)
- `revision` (string)
- `schemaVersion` (integer)

### `search_traders` (~126 tokens)

Search public trader listings

Find current public Tradehand directory listings by trade and optional UK postcode or place. Returns claim state, listing-source freshness, accreditation names, and canonical profile URLs; it does not claim availability, expose mixed-source ratings, or contact anyone.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer)
- `location` (string): Optional UK town, city, or borough; do not combine with postcode.
- `postcode` (string): Optional full UK postcode, for example CO1 1AA.
- `trade` (string, required): Trade name or directory slug, for example Electricians, plumber, or roofers.

Output parameters:

- `choices` (array): Present when status is choose_place: the namesakes with their regions. Repeat the search with one location value.
- `coverageNote` (string)
- `listings` (array)
- `requestedLocation` (string|null)
- `resolvedArea` (object)
- `returned` (integer)
- `status` (string)
- `total` (integer)
- `trade` (object)
- `truncated` (boolean)

### `get_trader` (~59 tokens)

Get a public trader listing

Return a public directory profile by listing slug. Instant quote remains available even when the listing has no purchasable catalogue. Does not expose phone, street address or coordinates.

Input parameters:

- `publicReference` (string, required): Public directory listing slug from search_traders.

Output parameters:

- `blockers` (array)
- `continuation` (object|null)
- `data` (object)
- `missingFacts` (array)
- `nextActions` (array)
- `outcome` (string)
- `revision` (string)
- `schemaVersion` (integer)

### `get_service_options` (~38 tokens)

Get catalogue services for a listing

Return the listing's actual catalogue services when one exists. Does not reserve a slot or claim bookability.

Input parameters:

- `publicReference` (string, required)

Output parameters:

- `blockers` (array)
- `continuation` (object|null)
- `data` (object)
- `missingFacts` (array)
- `nextActions` (array)
- `outcome` (string)
- `revision` (string)
- `schemaVersion` (integer)

### `get_page_markdown` (~50 tokens)

Get page markdown

Fetch a public Tradehand website page as clean markdown for agent reading and summarisation.

Input parameters:

- `path` (string, required): Public path on tradehand.com, for example /pricing or /for-trades.

### `get_agent_discovery` (~27 tokens)

Get agent discovery metadata

Return the public agent discovery endpoints, content policy, and canonical URLs for Tradehand.

### `read_open_knowledge_concept` (~89 tokens)

Read an open knowledge concept

Read one file of the Tradehand Open Knowledge Format bundle under /okf as raw markdown, YAML frontmatter intact. Start at /okf/index.md for the list of concepts.

Input parameters:

- `path` (string, required): Bundle path under /okf, for example /okf/costs/eicr.md, /okf/costs/ or /okf/log.md.

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/humanleap-tradehand/api-mcp#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-10-25: 82
- 2026-10-24: 81
- 2026-10-23: 81
- 2026-10-22: 81
- 2026-10-21: 80
- 2026-10-20: 23
- 2026-10-19: 79
- 2026-10-18: 79
- 2026-10-17: 78
- 2026-10-16: 78
- 2026-10-15: 77
- 2026-10-14: 77
- 2026-10-13: 76
- 2026-10-12: 76
- 2026-10-10: 75
- 2026-10-07: 73
- 2026-10-04: 72
- 2026-10-03: 72
- 2026-10-02: 73
- 2026-10-01: 73
- 2026-09-30: 72
- 2026-09-29: 72

## Common questions

### What is the Tradehand MCP server?

Tradehand is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.Humanleap/tradehand. Browse and book local tradespeople in the UK. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://tradehand.com/api/mcp).

### Is the Tradehand MCP server safe to use?

Tradehand scores 82 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 Tradehand MCP server expose?

Tradehand exposes 7 tools: browse_trades, search_traders, get_trader, get_service_options, get_page_markdown, and 2 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 437 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Tradehand MCP server require authentication?

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

### Is the Tradehand MCP server still maintained?

Tradehand is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 25 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://tradehand.com/api/mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/Humanleap/tradehand-claude-plugin
- Website: https://tradehand.com/developers
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/humanleap-tradehand/api-mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/humanleap-tradehand/api-mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/humanleap-tradehand/api-mcp