# The Cost of Work Index (npm · nika-cost-of-work-mcp)

Cost of 13 back-office tasks per unit: person vs software, US, Greece, Ukraine. Sources cited.

- Trust score: 63/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-08-20

## Components

- npm · `nika-cost-of-work-mcp`: 63/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/kindrat86-cost-of-work/nika-cost-of-work-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/kindrat86-cost-of-work/nika-cost-of-work-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `npm`
- Package: `nika-cost-of-work-mcp`
- Version: `2026.3.0`
- 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 2026-08-20.

- **Supply Chain Security**: 98/100
  - 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 96 dependencies flagged as unhealthy.
- **Provenance & Transparency**: 6/100
  - Repository check failed: the declared repository URL returned HTTP 404.
  - Provenance check failed: no build-provenance attestation is published.
  - License check failed: the license (CC-BY-4.0) isn't a recognized OSI-approved license.
  - Actively maintained (last published 3 days ago).
  - Security-disclosure policy not yet verified: we couldn't inspect the source repository.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 87/100
  - 100% of prompts and resources have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the item's name).
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 720 tokens (~120/item across 6 items; 5 tools + 1 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.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

**Unverified: 1 category.** A category scored 0 because we could not verify it: a data source with nothing on this package, evidence we could not reach, or a check we could not run. We only credit what we can confirm.

## Install

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add kindrat86-cost-of-work -- npx -y nika-cost-of-work-mcp
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add kindrat86-cost-of-work -- npx -y nika-cost-of-work-mcp
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "kindrat86-cost-of-work": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "npx",
        "-y",
        "nika-cost-of-work-mcp"
      ],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add kindrat86-cost-of-work --command npx --arg -y --arg nika-cost-of-work-mcp
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  kindrat86-cost-of-work:
    command: "npx"
    args: ["-y", "nika-cost-of-work-mcp"]
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "kindrat86-cost-of-work": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "nika-cost-of-work-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## 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.

### 2026-08-18 (score 63, +15)

- [security improvement] Malware scan: unverified → pass

### 2026-08-17 (score 48)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (5)

### `list_work_tasks` (~50 tokens)

List covered tasks

List every task in the Cost of Work Index — the task id, what one unit is, and which AI employee performs it. Call this first when you do not already know the task id you need.

### `get_task_cost` (~187 tokens)

Cost of one task, one market

What one unit of a given task costs in a given market — the human cost per unit, the AI cost per unit, and the ratio between them, with the source behind every figure. Markets: `us` (United States), `gr` (Greece), `ua` (Ukraine). Note that `uk` means Ukraine in this dataset, not the United Kingdom.

Input parameters:

- `market` (string, required): Market: `us`, `gr` or `ua` (aliases `en`, `el`, `uk` are also accepted).
- `taskId` (string, required): Task id from `list_work_tasks`. One of: invoice-entry, lead-callback, appointment-rescue, review-reply, receivables-chase, returns-case, cod-confirmation, customer-winback, supplier-price-check, quot…

### `estimate_annual_cost` (~182 tokens)

Annualise a task volume

Turn a monthly volume of a task into monthly and annual cost, for a person and for the AI employee, in one market. Use this when someone asks what a workload costs them per year, or what they would save.

Input parameters:

- `market` (string, required): Market: `us`, `gr` or `ua` (aliases `en`, `el`, `uk` are also accepted).
- `taskId` (string, required): Task id from `list_work_tasks`. One of: invoice-entry, lead-callback, appointment-rescue, review-reply, receivables-chase, returns-case, cod-confirmation, customer-winback, supplier-price-check, quot…
- `unitsPerMonth` (number, required): How many units of this task happen per month, e.g. 120 invoices.

### `list_sources` (~57 tokens)

List the Index sources

The official statistics behind the human-cost side of the Index — publisher, exact release title, resolvable URL, reference period, and how the published figure became the number used here. Call this when you need to cite or verify a figure.

### `get_cost_of_work_index` (~85 tokens)

Get the whole Index as JSON

The complete Cost of Work Index as JSON — every task, every market, every source, plus the caveats. Use this when you need the dataset itself rather than one answer; prefer `get_task_cost` for a single figure.

Input parameters:

- `market` (string): Optional: restrict the per-market figures to one market (`us`, `gr` or `ua`).

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/kindrat86-cost-of-work/nika-cost-of-work-mcp#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-08-20: 63
- 2026-08-19: 63
- 2026-08-18: 63
- 2026-08-17: 48

## Links

- npm package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/nika-cost-of-work-mcp
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/npm/package/nika-cost-of-work-mcp
- Website: https://hirenika.com/mcp
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/kindrat86-cost-of-work/nika-cost-of-work-mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/kindrat86-cost-of-work/nika-cost-of-work-mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/kindrat86-cost-of-work/nika-cost-of-work-mcp