# SpendTheBits Gift Cards (npm · @spendthebits/mcp-giftcards)

Let an AI agent buy gift cards with USDC over x402, within limits the wallet owner sets.

- Trust score: 76/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +3
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `x402.spendthebits.com`: 38/100, [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/jkambo1986-collab-stb-giftcards/x402.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/jkambo1986-collab-stb-giftcards/x402)
- npm · `@spendthebits/mcp-giftcards`: 76/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/jkambo1986-collab-stb-giftcards/spendthebits-mcp-giftcards.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/jkambo1986-collab-stb-giftcards/spendthebits-mcp-giftcards)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `npm`
- Package: `@spendthebits/mcp-giftcards`
- Version: `0.1.2`
- Transport: `stdio`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically from public evidence about the published package, including repeated runs of it in an isolated sandbox, 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.

- **Supply Chain Security**: 99/100
  - No malware found by supply-chain analysis.
  - No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.
  - No install/post-install scripts declared.
  - 30 of 111 dependencies flagged as unhealthy.
- **Provenance & Transparency**: 19/100
  - Repository check failed: no source repository is declared.
  - Provenance check failed: no build-provenance attestation is published.
  - Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).
  - Actively maintained (last published 16 days ago).
  - Security-disclosure policy not yet verified: we couldn't inspect the source repository.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 80/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 671 tokens (~111/item across 6 items; 6 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 73/100
  - Stability observed for 22 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **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 6 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 6 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.

## Install

### How do I install the SpendTheBits Gift Cards MCP server?

SpendTheBits Gift Cards runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y @spendthebits/mcp-giftcards. 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 jkambo1986-collab-stb-giftcards -- npx -y @spendthebits/mcp-giftcards
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "jkambo1986-collab-stb-giftcards": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@spendthebits/mcp-giftcards"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "jkambo1986-collab-stb-giftcards": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@spendthebits/mcp-giftcards"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add jkambo1986-collab-stb-giftcards -- npx -y @spendthebits/mcp-giftcards
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "jkambo1986-collab-stb-giftcards": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "npx",
        "-y",
        "@spendthebits/mcp-giftcards"
      ],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add jkambo1986-collab-stb-giftcards --command npx --arg -y --arg @spendthebits/mcp-giftcards
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  jkambo1986-collab-stb-giftcards:
    command: "npx"
    args: ["-y", "@spendthebits/mcp-giftcards"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "jkambo1986-collab-stb-giftcards": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "npx",
      "Arguments": [
        "-y",
        "@spendthebits/mcp-giftcards"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add jkambo1986-collab-stb-giftcards -t stdio -c npx -a -y @spendthebits/mcp-giftcards
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "jkambo1986-collab-stb-giftcards": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@spendthebits/mcp-giftcards"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## 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.

### 2026-11-04 (score 76, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 67 to 70. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 20 days of observed history at the previous scan, 21 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-02 (score 75, +1)

- [functional] Package version: 0.1.0 → 0.1.2

### 2026-10-31 (score 74, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 53 to 57. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 16 days of observed history at the previous scan, 17 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-29 (score 73, +3)

- [security improvement] CVE-2023-54404 no longer affects this package
- [security improvement] Known CVEs: fail → pass

### 2026-10-28 (score 70, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 43 to 47. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 13 days of observed history at the previous scan, 14 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-26 (score 69, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 37 to 40. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 11 days of observed history at the previous scan, 12 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-24 (score 68, −2)

- [security regression] CVE-2023-54404 affects this package: high
- [security regression] Known CVEs: pass → fail

### 2026-10-22 (score 70, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 23 to 27. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 7 days of observed history at the previous scan, 8 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

## MCP tools (6)

### `search_gift_cards` (~84 tokens)

Search gift cards

Free. Search the SpendTheBits gift-card catalogue for one country (USA, Canada and others). Returns brands with their slugs and the amounts they are sold in.

Input parameters:

- `country` (string, required): Country name or slug, e.g. "USA" or "Canada".
- `query` (string): Brand name to search for, e.g. "starbucks".

### `get_price` (~114 tokens)

Indicative price

Free. The indicative USDC total for one card, read from the card URL's unpaid 402. Creates nothing and pays nothing. An unknown brand comes back as unknown_product with suggestions.

Input parameters:

- `amount` (required): Face value in the card's own currency, e.g. 25 or "12.50".
- `brand` (string, required): Brand name or slug from search_gift_cards, e.g. "amazon-com".
- `country` (string, required): Country name or slug, e.g. "USA" or "Canada".

### `quote` (~176 tokens)

Lock a price (pays a small quote fee)

COSTS A FEW CENTS OF USDC. Pays the card URL's quote fee, which creates the order at the card provider's exact price and returns order_id, total_usdc and pay_by. The card is always issued to the agent's OWNER, in the owner's name. If the card is over the owner's limits the owner is asked on their phone (status awaiting_owner) — then do not buy. A refusal (unknown agent, over a limit, gift cards off) is free.

Input parameters:

- `amount` (required): Face value in the card's own currency, e.g. 25 or "12.50".
- `brand` (string, required): Brand name or slug from search_gift_cards, e.g. "amazon-com".
- `country` (string, required): Country name or slug, e.g. "USA" or "Canada".

### `buy` (~96 tokens)

Pay for a quoted card

SPENDS USDC: pays the exact total of a quote to its per-order forwarder contract on Base (it can only forward to the card provider or refund the agent). Only for an order in status awaiting_payment, before pay_by, and within this server's per-payment cap. Never call twice for the same order; after any in-flight error, poll order_status instead.

Input parameters:

- `order_id` (string, required): order_id returned by quote.

### `order_status` (~80 tokens)

Order status

Free. Status of an order quoted by this server: awaiting_payment, awaiting_owner, processing, completed, expired, declined, refunded, failed or credited, plus valid_until. Never contains the card code. A card usually completes about five minutes after payment; poll every 15-30 seconds.

Input parameters:

- `order_id` (string, required): order_id returned by quote.

### `reveal_card_code` (~121 tokens)

Reveal the card code (one time)

ONE-TIME and usually unavailable. Returns the gift-card code only if the owner turned on 'Let the agent read card codes' for this agent, and only once: SpendTheBits never serves it to the agent again. The code is bearer money — only call this when the task genuinely needs the code (the owner already has the card in their app), and never repeat or log it.

Input parameters:

- `confirm_one_time` (boolean, required): Must be true: you understand the code is served once.
- `order_id` (string, required): order_id returned by quote.

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/jkambo1986-collab-stb-giftcards/spendthebits-mcp-giftcards#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 76
- 2026-11-04: 76
- 2026-11-03: 75
- 2026-11-02: 75
- 2026-11-01: 74
- 2026-10-31: 74
- 2026-10-30: 73
- 2026-10-29: 73
- 2026-10-28: 70
- 2026-10-27: 69
- 2026-10-26: 69
- 2026-10-25: 68
- 2026-10-24: 68
- 2026-10-23: 70
- 2026-10-22: 70
- 2026-10-21: 69
- 2026-10-20: 69
- 2026-10-19: 53
- 2026-10-18: 66
- 2026-10-17: 66
- 2026-10-16: 66
- 2026-10-15: 66
- 2026-10-14: 66
- 2026-10-13: 34
- 2026-10-12: 34
- 2026-10-11: 34

## Common questions

### What is the SpendTheBits Gift Cards MCP server?

SpendTheBits Gift Cards is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.jkambo1986-collab/stb-giftcards. Let an AI agent buy gift cards with USDC over x402, within limits the wallet owner sets. This page covers its npm package (@spendthebits/mcp-giftcards).

### Is the SpendTheBits Gift Cards MCP server safe to use?

SpendTheBits Gift Cards scores 76 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 5 November 2026. It declares no install or post-install scripts. 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 SpendTheBits Gift Cards MCP server expose?

SpendTheBits Gift Cards exposes 6 tools: search_gift_cards, get_price, quote, buy, order_status, reveal_card_code. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 671 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the SpendTheBits Gift Cards MCP server still maintained?

SpendTheBits Gift Cards 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.

### What licence is the SpendTheBits Gift Cards MCP server under?

SpendTheBits Gift Cards declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.

## Links

- npm package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@spendthebits/mcp-giftcards
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/npm/package/@spendthebits/mcp-giftcards
- Website: https://superapp.spendthebits.com/agents/gift-cards
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/jkambo1986-collab-stb-giftcards/spendthebits-mcp-giftcards.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/jkambo1986-collab-stb-giftcards/spendthebits-mcp-giftcards.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/jkambo1986-collab-stb-giftcards/spendthebits-mcp-giftcards