# Hunter Lease (remote · hunter.lease)

Find new cars to lease or finance in California and calculate payments by credit tier.

- Trust score: 70/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `hunter.lease`: 70/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/lease-hunter-car-deals/hunter.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/lease-hunter-car-deals/hunter)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://hunter.lease/mcp`
- 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**: 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**: 49/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 1001 tokens (~333/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**: 7/100
  - Stability observed for 2 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 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**: 100/100
  - Implements a current MCP spec version (2026-07-28).

## Install

### How do I install the Hunter Lease MCP server?

Hunter Lease is a hosted endpoint at https://hunter.lease/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 lease-hunter-car-deals 'https://hunter.lease/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "lease-hunter-car-deals": {
      "url": "https://hunter.lease/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "lease-hunter-car-deals": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://hunter.lease/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.lease-hunter-car-deals]
url = "https://hunter.lease/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "lease-hunter-car-deals": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://hunter.lease/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add lease-hunter-car-deals --url 'https://hunter.lease/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  lease-hunter-car-deals:
    url: "https://hunter.lease/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "lease-hunter-car-deals": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://hunter.lease/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add lease-hunter-car-deals -t streamable-http -u 'https://hunter.lease/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "lease-hunter-car-deals": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://hunter.lease/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.

### 2026-11-05 (score 70, 0)

- [security] Tool “get_payment” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [functional regression] Schema quality: 278 → 333
- [cosmetic] “get_payment” reworded the description of “car_id”
- [cosmetic] “get_payment” reworded the description of “miles_per_year”

### 2026-11-04 (score 70, +1)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-11-03 (score 69)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (3)

### `find_cars` (~401 tokens)

Find cars

Search new cars for lease or finance in California. Every car comes with its monthly payment for the stated credit tier and a deal_url, a page where the buyer finishes personally.

Input parameters:

- `body` (string): Body style filter, for example SUV, Sedan, Truck.
- `credit_tier` (string): Buyer credit tier by score: t1 = Tier 1 · 740+, t2 = Tier 2 · 720-739, t3 = Tier 3 · 680-719, t4 = Tier 4 · 660-679, t5 = Tier 5 · 620-659, t6 = Tier 6 · <620. Default t1. Terms are final only for th…
- `due_at_signing_usd` (integer): Amount due at signing in dollars. Default is the amount shown on the site for this car.
- `fuel` (string): Fuel filter, for example Gas, Hybrid, Electric.
- `lang` (string): Language of the page behind deal_url. Default en.
- `make` (string): Make, one of: Hyundai, Kia, Nissan, Chevrolet, Volkswagen, Mazda, Subaru, Genesis, Honda, Toyota, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, Lexus, Acura, INFINITI, GMC, Cadillac, Jeep, Ford, Volvo, Chrysler.
- `max_monthly_payment_usd` (integer): Monthly budget in dollars.
- `miles_per_year` (number): Lease miles per year. Default 10000.
- `mode` (string): Deal type. Default lease.
- `model` (string): Exact model name, for example K5. Zero results return available_models.
- `page` (integer): Page, up to 5. For more cars narrow the search.
- `search` (string): Free text over make, model and trim.
- `zip` (string): Buyer California ZIP, sets the tax rate. Default 90210.

### `get_payment` (~506 tokens)

Get exact payment

Calculate the exact monthly payment for one car the buyer picked from find_cars, on the buyer's terms, with the same engine as hunter.lease. Returns the monthly payment, term, miles per year, amount due at signing, money factor and residual (lease) or APR (finance), MSRP, selling price, incentives, tax rate, the service fee when it is on, and a deal_url whose page shows this same figure. Unset inputs default to how the car's page opens: lease, the car's best term, 7,500 miles a year (or the lowest the make offers), Tier 1 · 740+, ZIP 90210 and the amount due at signing shown for this car. Terms are final only for the stated tier, and the bank decides approval; how_to_buy explains the buying steps and the fee.

Input parameters:

- `car_id` (string, required): The id of a car returned by find_cars. A car that is no longer listed returns the error car_not_available.
- `credit_tier` (string): Buyer credit tier by score: t1 = Tier 1 · 740+, t2 = Tier 2 · 720-739, t3 = Tier 3 · 680-719, t4 = Tier 4 · 660-679, t5 = Tier 5 · 620-659, t6 = Tier 6 · <620. Default t1. Terms are final only for th…
- `due_at_signing_usd` (integer): Amount due at signing in dollars. Default is the amount shown on the site for this car.
- `first_ev` (boolean): Lease of an electric car by a buyer who has never owned one. Ask the buyer, do not assume.
- `lang` (string): Language of the page behind deal_url. Default en.
- `miles_per_year` (number): Lease miles per year. Default 7,500, or the lowest the make offers.
- `mode` (string): Deal type. Default lease.
- `term_months` (integer): Lease: 24, 27, 30, 33, 36, 39, 42, 45, 48. Finance: 24, 36, 48, 60, 72, 84. Default is the best term for this car.
- `zip` (string): Buyer California ZIP, sets the tax rate. Default 90210.

### `how_to_buy` (~35 tokens)

How to buy

What you can do, what the buyer must do personally, the service fee, credit tiers and allowed terms. Read this first.

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/lease-hunter-car-deals/hunter#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 70
- 2026-11-04: 70
- 2026-11-03: 69

## Common questions

### What is the Hunter Lease MCP server?

Hunter Lease is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as lease.hunter/car-deals. Find new cars to lease or finance in California and calculate payments by credit tier. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://hunter.lease/mcp).

### Is the Hunter Lease MCP server safe to use?

Hunter Lease scores 70 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 Hunter Lease MCP server expose?

Hunter Lease exposes 3 tools: find_cars, get_payment, how_to_buy. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 942 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Hunter Lease MCP server require authentication?

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

### Is the Hunter Lease MCP server still maintained?

Hunter Lease 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://hunter.lease/mcp
- Website: https://hunter.lease/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/lease-hunter-car-deals/hunter.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/lease-hunter-car-deals/hunter.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/lease-hunter-car-deals/hunter