# CompShop (remote · www.comp-shop.com)

Search 350+ compensation surveys by industry, region, or job title. Independent directory.

- Trust score: 66/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +4
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-08-03

## Components

- remote · `www.comp-shop.com`: 66/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/mkibrick-compshop/api-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/mkibrick-compshop/api-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://www.comp-shop.com/api/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `0.1.0`

## 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 2026-08-03.

- **Endpoint Security**: 63/100
  - 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 7 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.
  - 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**: 77/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 771 tokens (~110/item across 7 items; 7 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 27/100
  - Stability observed for 8 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.
- **Capabilities**: 20/100
  - Spec-recency check failed: implements MCP spec 2024-11-05; the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http mkibrick-compshop https://www.comp-shop.com/api/mcp
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.mkibrick-compshop]
url = "https://www.comp-shop.com/api/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "mkibrick-compshop": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://www.comp-shop.com/api/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add mkibrick-compshop --url https://www.comp-shop.com/api/mcp --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  mkibrick-compshop:
    url: "https://www.comp-shop.com/api/mcp"
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mkibrick-compshop": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.comp-shop.com/api/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.

### 2026-08-03 (score 66, +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.

### 2026-08-01 (score 65, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 17 to 20. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 5 days of observed history at the previous scan, 6 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-07-31 (score 64, 0)

- [functional] We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server

### 2026-07-30 (score 64, +1)

- [functional] We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server

### 2026-07-28 (score 63, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 3 to 7. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 1 days of observed history at the previous scan, 2 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-07-27 (score 62, +1)

- [functional] We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server

### 2026-07-26 (score 61)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (7)

### `search` (~91 tokens)

Free-text search across the CompShop directory of compensation surveys. Returns matching vendors, reports, job families, and positions. Use for open-ended discovery questions like 'biotech surveys in Europe' or 'CEO compensation data'.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer): Max results per group (default 5, max 15)
- `query` (string, required): Free-text query (job title, industry, vendor, geography, etc.)

### `list_vendors_by_industry` (~87 tokens)

List every CompShop vendor that publishes surveys for a given industry. Use when the user asks 'what survey publishers cover [industry]?'

Input parameters:

- `industry` (string, required): Industry category. One of: general-industry, healthcare, life-sciences, tech, media, financial-services, insurance, energy, construction, retail, higher-ed, legal, nonprofit, executive, free.

### `list_vendors_by_region` (~79 tokens)

List vendors with survey coverage in a given region. Use when the user asks 'what publishers cover [region]?' Region is matched against both vendor-level scope and individual report scopes.

Input parameters:

- `region` (string, required): One of: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, Middle East & Africa, Global.

### `find_surveys_for_position` (~150 tokens)

Find compensation surveys that benchmark a specific job title or position (e.g. 'Software Engineer', 'CPA', 'Sr Acct', 'head of finance'). Combines literal title matching with embedding-based semantic similarity, so abbreviations and paraphrases work — 'CPA' returns 'Certified Public Accountant', 'Sr Acct' returns 'Senior Accountant'. Reports per position are ranked to surface broad-coverage surveys (general-industry, US scope) before niche cuts.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer): Max position matches to return (default 5, max 20)
- `position` (string, required): Job title or position to look up (free text). Abbreviations and paraphrases are fine.

### `get_vendor` (~68 tokens)

Detailed info on a specific vendor by slug, including all of their reports. Use after `search` or `list_vendors_by_industry` returns a candidate.

Input parameters:

- `slug` (string, required): Vendor slug (e.g. 'mercer-benchmark-database', 'pas', 'wtw').

### `get_report` (~38 tokens)

Detailed info on a single survey report by slug.

Input parameters:

- `slug` (string, required): Report slug (e.g. 'pas-aggregates-industry').

### `recommend_surveys` (~195 tokens)

Recommend the best-fit compensation surveys given a hiring/benchmarking context. Use when the user asks 'what survey should I use for [situation]?' Returns ranked vendors with rationale. Required: industry. Optional: region, role focus.

Input parameters:

- `industry` (string, required): Primary industry. One of: general-industry, healthcare, life-sciences, tech, media, financial-services, insurance, energy, construction, retail, higher-ed, legal, nonprofit, executive, free.
- `limit` (integer): Max recommendations (default 5, max 10)
- `region` (string): Optional. One of: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, Middle East & Africa, Global.
- `role_focus` (string): Optional free-text describing the role types being benchmarked (e.g. 'software engineers', 'physicians', 'sales reps', 'CEO and C-suite').

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-08-03: 66
- 2026-08-02: 65
- 2026-08-01: 65
- 2026-07-31: 64
- 2026-07-30: 64
- 2026-07-29: 63
- 2026-07-28: 63
- 2026-07-27: 62
- 2026-07-26: 61

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://www.comp-shop.com/api/mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/mkibrick/compshop
- Website: https://www.comp-shop.com/mcp
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/mkibrick-compshop/api-mcp/changelog.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/mkibrick-compshop/api-mcp/changelog.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/mkibrick-compshop/api-mcp