Othermile border costs
REMOTE · APP.OTHERMILE.COM
Duties, tariffs, taxes and fees for parcels and freight between Canada and the US.
Available components
Last scanned (17 hours ago)
Scores higher than 60% of remote servers
Reachable. Last reached 22 Oct 2026.
Category Finance and Payments
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. How we score → Why this is hard to score →
Endpoint Security77
- The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key. View diagnostics → Pass
- No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Partial
- HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path. View diagnostics → Pass
- HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Fail
- DNSSEC is configured correctly; the domain's records validate against the full chain to the root. View diagnostics → Pass
Transport & Reachability100
- Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake. View diagnostics → Pass
Schema Quality & AI Usability58
- AI-judged instruction clarity (good).Pass
- Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 800 tokens (~200/item across 4 items; 4 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params. See how to fix → Fail
- Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management7
- Stability observed for 2 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.Partial
Tool Coverage93
- 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
- 79% of tool parameters carry a description.Partial
Tool Safety100
- No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
- We read all 4 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
- An AI judge read all 5 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.Pass
Capabilities100
- Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.Pass
Every change we have recorded for this component, newest first. Security-relevant changes are always shown. ▲ marks a change for the better, ▼ a change for the worse; unmarked changes are neutral.
- 22 Oct 26 +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.
- 21 Oct 26 0
- Stability: unverified → 0.03 ▲ functional
- 20 Oct 26 69
First indexed and scored.
Diagnostic detail from the automated scan of this channel: what the scanner observed at each step, so you can see exactly where a check passed or failed. It is informational only and never changes the trust score.
Captured 22 Oct 2026 · Probed https://app.othermile.com/mcp
TLS valid
Negotiated TLS 1.3 with TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 .
| Subject | Issuer | Valid from | Valid until | Key | Signature | Serial |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN=app.othermile.com | CN=YE2,O=Let's Encrypt,C=US | 2 Oct 2026 | 31 Dec 2026 | ECDSA 256 | ECDSA-SHA384 | 5df3a9044d9b8a2da7d8b9595b3a172711e |
| SANs: app.othermile.com | ||||||
| CN=YE2,O=Let's Encrypt,C=US (CA) | CN=Root YE,O=ISRG,C=US | 3 Sept 2025 | 2 Sept 2028 | ECDSA 384 | ECDSA-SHA384 | 4df3b15dd6c0784c507cd37b58e6f115 |
| CN=Root YE,O=ISRG,C=US (CA) | CN=ISRG Root X2,O=Internet Security Research Group,C=US | 13 May 2026 | 2 Sept 2032 | ECDSA 384 | ECDSA-SHA384 | 872165fc34b6e5fba8add5b3705fb53a |
| CN=ISRG Root X2,O=Internet Security Research Group,C=US (CA) | CN=ISRG Root X1,O=Internet Security Research Group,C=US | 13 May 2026 | 2 Sept 2032 | ECDSA 384 | SHA256-RSA | 6c8f1dc727c7117f7baf853ac980f9cd |
Background: What to check on a remote MCP endpoint →
DNSSEC secure
Validation of app.othermile.com. — Secure
| Zone | DS | Keys | Algorithms | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| . | trust_anchor | 20326, 38696 | 8, 8 | Verified |
| com. | present | 19718 | 13 | Verified |
| othermile.com. | present | 2371 | 13 | Verified |
| app.othermile.com. | Verified address RRset verified with the apex keys |
Authentication No authorisation required
The endpoint answered without asking for a token. Anyone who knows the URL can reach it.
| Result | No authorisation required |
|---|---|
| HTTP status | 200 |
Background: How OAuth 2.1 works in the 2026 MCP spec →
Transports 2 probes
| Transport | URL | Outcome | Status | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| streamable-http | https://app.othermile.com/mcp | Verified | 200 | |
| http (plaintext) | http://app.othermile.com/mcp | HTTPS enforced | 301 | https://app.othermile.com/mcp |
The tools this component advertises to a client, with an estimated token cost for each. Expand a tool to see its parameters and schema. The per-tool counts are indicative and are not scored directly; the schema's total context footprint is one signal in Schema Quality & AI Usability. A tool's description is untrusted text the model reads on every call, which is what makes this list a security surface and not just an inventory: how tool poisoning works →
border_lane_insights Real border outcomes ~68
What shoppers and sellers actually paid and how long parcels actually took on a route, from real reports. Only shown when enough reports exist.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| from | string | – | Two letter country code, for example CA or US |
| mode | string | – | – |
| to | string | yes | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
border_quote Border cost check ~309
Estimate duties, tariffs, taxes and fees for goods moving into Canada or the US, by parcel or freight (truck, rail, air, ocean), and whether any item is banned. Gives who pays under the Incoterm, and what the exporting country requires. Use before buying from or shipping across the border.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| date | string | – | Date the parcel enters the destination country |
| freight | number | – | International transport cost in the destination currency, to split costs by the Incoterm |
| from | string | yes | Country the parcel ships from |
| incoterm | string | – | Incoterms 2020 term of sale; FAS, FOB, CFR and CIF are for sea and inland waterway |
| insurance | number | – | Cargo insurance cost in the destination currency |
| items | array | yes | – |
| mode | string | yes | mail or courier for parcels (low value allowances apply); road (truck), rail, air, sea or inland_waterway for commercial freight |
| paidBy | string | – | Who pays border charges: the customer at the door (DAP), or the seller in advance (DDP). Ignored when incoterm is given |
| personal | boolean | – | true when a person buys the goods for their own use, as a shopper's parcel is; some surtaxes spare those. Leave out for a business import |
| region | string | – | Destination province or state, for example AB or ON |
| to | string | yes | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
border_rules_status Current border rules ~40
Which Canada and US border rules are in force right now: tariff measures, rates, start dates and whether each list has been checked against the official text.
Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
door_cost_estimate What a parcel may cost at the door ~276
Estimate what a shopper may pay at the door for one parcel shipped between Canada and the United States: duty, tariffs and surtaxes, sales tax and carrier or postal fees, with the official rules in force today. Describe the product in plain words; a tariff code is suggested from it. Use for questions like "what will I pay on a hoodie from a US store shipped to Ontario?"
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| currency | string | yes | – |
| cusmaClaim | boolean | – | True only if the seller says the goods qualify for CUSMA and claims it |
| from | string | yes | Country the parcel ships from |
| madeIn | string | yes | Country where the product was made, for example CN; ask if unknown |
| mode | string | – | Postal mail (USPS, Canada Post) or a courier (UPS, FedEx, Purolator, DHL); courier if unknown |
| product | string | yes | What the product is, in a few words, for example cotton hoodie |
| province | string | – | Province or territory when it goes to Canada, for example ON; leave out if unknown |
| tariffCode | string | – | The product's tariff code, only if known |
| to | string | yes | Country the parcel goes to |
| value | number | yes | What the goods in the parcel cost |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
How do I install the Othermile border costs MCP server?
Othermile border costs is a hosted endpoint at https://app.othermile.com/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.
remote · app.othermile.com
claude mcp add --transport http nagiunlimited-othermile 'https://app.othermile.com/mcp'
What is the Othermile border costs MCP server?
Othermile border costs is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.NagiUnlimited/othermile. Duties, tariffs, taxes and fees for parcels and freight between Canada and the US. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://app.othermile.com/mcp).
Is the Othermile border costs MCP server safe to use?
Othermile border costs 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 Othermile border costs MCP server expose?
Othermile border costs exposes 4 tools: door_cost_estimate, border_quote, border_rules_status, border_lane_insights. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 693 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Does the Othermile border costs MCP server require authentication?
No. We connected to Othermile border costs without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.
Is the Othermile border costs MCP server still maintained?
Othermile border costs is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 22 October 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.