# Spotby Business Registry (remote · mcp.spotby.io)

Find local businesses with owner-verified hours, services, prices and contacts, for AI agents.

- Trust score: 61/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `mcp.spotby.io`: 61/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/io-spotby-registry/mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/io-spotby-registry/mcp)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://mcp.spotby.io/`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.0.0`

## 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 2026-11-05.

- **Endpoint Security**: 57/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - 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.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - 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**: 64/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - 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.
  - 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**: 93/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 78% 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 3 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 4 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 40/100
  - Spec-recency check failed: implements MCP spec 2025-03-26; the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### 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.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http io-spotby-registry 'https://mcp.spotby.io/'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "io-spotby-registry": {
      "url": "https://mcp.spotby.io/"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "io-spotby-registry": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.spotby.io/"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.io-spotby-registry]
url = "https://mcp.spotby.io/"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "io-spotby-registry": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://mcp.spotby.io/",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add io-spotby-registry --url 'https://mcp.spotby.io/' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  io-spotby-registry:
    url: "https://mcp.spotby.io/"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "io-spotby-registry": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://mcp.spotby.io/"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add io-spotby-registry -t streamable-http -u 'https://mcp.spotby.io/'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "io-spotby-registry": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.spotby.io/"
    }
  }
}
```

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.

### 2026-11-05 (score 61, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 7 to 10. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 2 days of observed history at the previous scan, 3 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-03 (score 60, −1)

- [security] Tool “search_businesses” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [functional regression] Schema quality: pass → fail
- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03
- [functional] Server version: 0.1.0-beta → 1.0.0
- [cosmetic] “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”

### 2026-11-02 (score 61)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (3)

### `search_businesses` (~293 tokens)

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.

Input parameters:

- `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"

### `get_business` (~66 tokens)

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.

Input parameters:

- `id` (string, required): Business id (public id) or slug, as returned by search_businesses

### `get_changes` (~71 tokens)

Businesses whose data changed since a given moment — the freshness feed. Use it to stay in sync without re-crawling.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer)
- `since` (string, required): ISO 8601 datetime cursor, e.g. 2026-07-01T00:00:00Z

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 61
- 2026-11-04: 60
- 2026-11-03: 60
- 2026-11-02: 61

## Common questions

### 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 61 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 5 November 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://mcp.spotby.io/
- Website: https://spotby.io/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/io-spotby-registry/mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/io-spotby-registry/mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/io-spotby-registry/mcp