Spotby Business Registry
REMOTE · MCP.SPOTBY.IO
Find local businesses with owner-verified hours, services, prices and contacts, for AI agents.
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Last scanned (23 hours ago)
Scores higher than 43% of remote servers
Reachable. Last reached 4 Nov 2026.
Category Search and Retrieval
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 Security57
- The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key. View diagnostics → Pass
- Authorisation not fully verified: no authorisation is required to call this server, and 3 tool(s) never declared a destructiveHint. The MCP spec treats an absent hint as destructive by default, so we cannot call this surface safe. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Unverified
- HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path. View diagnostics → Pass
- HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Fail
- DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Fail
Transport & Reachability100
- Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake. View diagnostics → Pass
Schema Quality & AI Usability64
- AI-judged instruction clarity (good).Pass
- Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 546 tokens (~182/item across 3 items; 3 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 Management7
- Stability observed for 2 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.Partial
Tool Coverage93
- 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
- 78% of tool parameters carry a description.Partial
Tool Safety100
- No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
- We read all 3 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
- An AI judge read all 4 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.Pass
Capabilities40
- Spec-recency check failed: implements MCP spec 2025-03-26; the latest is 2026-07-28. See how to fix → Fail
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.
- 3 Nov 26 −1
- Tool “search_businesses” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads security
- Schema quality: pass → fail ▼ functional
- Stability: unverified → 0.03 ▲ functional
- Server version: 0.1.0-beta → 1.0.0 functional
- “search_businesses” added an optional parameter “location” cosmetic
- “search_businesses” reworded the description of “category” cosmetic
- “search_businesses” reworded the description of “city” cosmetic
- “search_businesses” reworded the description of “industry” cosmetic
- “search_businesses” reworded the description of “query” cosmetic
- 2 Nov 26 61
First indexed and scored.
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 4 Nov 2026 · Probed https://mcp.spotby.io/
TLS valid
Negotiated TLS 1.3 with TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 .
| Subject | Issuer | Valid from | Valid until | Key | Signature | Serial |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN=*.spotby.io | CN=YR1,O=Let's Encrypt,C=US | 8 Sept 2026 | 7 Dec 2026 | RSA 2048 | SHA256-RSA | 6e64a61d3dfe8eb7e93658dfa51d10dd063 |
| SANs: *.spotby.io, spotby.io | ||||||
| CN=YR1,O=Let's Encrypt,C=US (CA) | CN=Root YR,O=ISRG,C=US | 3 Sept 2025 | 2 Sept 2028 | RSA 2048 | SHA256-RSA | a20253f15f2691c05dc1ce13b9bcca4e |
| CN=Root YR,O=ISRG,C=US (CA) | CN=ISRG Root X1,O=Internet Security Research Group,C=US | 13 May 2026 | 2 Sept 2032 | RSA 4096 | SHA256-RSA | f24b6d17f9d9ad7cb1c9fea78782699f |
Background: What to check on a remote MCP endpoint →
DNSSEC insecure
Validation of mcp.spotby.io. — Not signed
| Zone | DS | Keys | Algorithms | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| . | trust_anchor | 20326, 38696 | 8, 8 | Verified |
| io. | present | 38690 | 8 | Verified |
| spotby.io. | absent | Unsigned (proven) parent-signed NSEC/NSEC3 proves an unsigned delegation |
Authentication No authorisation required
The endpoint answered without asking for a token. Anyone who knows the URL can reach it.
| Result | No authorisation required |
|---|---|
| HTTP status | 200 |
Background: How OAuth 2.1 works in the 2026 MCP spec →
Transports 2 probes
| Transport | URL | Outcome | Status | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| streamable-http | https://mcp.spotby.io/ | Verified | 200 | |
| http (plaintext) | http://mcp.spotby.io/ | HTTPS enforced | 301 | https://mcp.spotby.io/ |
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 →
get_business ~66
Full profile of one business: identity, description, services with prices, weekly hours (all time ranges), contacts, photos with AI descriptions, FAQs, synced products, declared freshness.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| id | string | yes | Business id (public id) or slug, as returned by search_businesses |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
get_changes ~71
Businesses whose data changed since a given moment — the freshness feed. Use it to stay in sync without re-crawling.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | integer | – | – |
| since | string | yes | ISO 8601 datetime cursor, e.g. 2026-07-01T00:00:00Z |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
search_businesses ~293
Search businesses in the Spotby registry with natural-language terms (what they do, services, needs) and/or a location. Results are ranked: any term can match, businesses covering more terms come first. Location matches the business address and also the areas the owner says they serve. Each result includes provenance (asserted_by: owner-maintained or imported from open data) and why it matched. Use get_business for full details.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| category | string | – | Optional. Exact filter only for Spotby keys: ristorazione (food and drink), negozio (shop), servizi (personal services), professionisti (professional services), artigiani (trades and crafts), ricetti… |
| city | string | – | Alias of location |
| industry | string | – | Optional boost by industry the business serves (B2B): fashion, retail, food, hospitality, finance, healthcare, manufacturing, tech, realestate, services, nonprofit, public |
| limit | integer | – | – |
| location | string | – | City, town or area, e.g. "Newcastle". Matches where the business is located or the areas it serves. |
| query | string | – | Natural-language terms, any language (English or Italian work best), e.g. "24/7 emergency plumber blocked drains" or "gluten free trattoria" |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
How do I install the Spotby Business Registry MCP server?
Spotby Business Registry is a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.spotby.io/, 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 · mcp.spotby.io
claude mcp add --transport http io-spotby-registry 'https://mcp.spotby.io/'
What is the Spotby Business Registry MCP server?
Spotby Business Registry is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.spotby/registry. Find local businesses with owner-verified hours, services, prices and contacts, for AI agents. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://mcp.spotby.io/).
Is the Spotby Business Registry MCP server safe to use?
Spotby Business Registry scores 60 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 Spotby Business Registry MCP server expose?
Spotby Business Registry exposes 3 tools: search_businesses, get_business, get_changes. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 430 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Does the Spotby Business Registry MCP server require authentication?
No. We connected to Spotby Business Registry without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.
Is the Spotby Business Registry MCP server still maintained?
Spotby Business Registry is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 4 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.