# No License Nearby (pypi · nolicense-nearby-mcp)

Search 880+ artist-owned tracks and get sync licenses for social, TV and film.

- Trust score: 81/100 (high trust)
- Change this week: +1
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- pypi · `nolicense-nearby-mcp`: 81/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/nobanks-nolicense-nearby-mcp/nolicense-nearby-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/nobanks-nolicense-nearby-mcp/nolicense-nearby-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `pypi`
- Package: `nolicense-nearby-mcp`
- Version: `0.1.1`
- 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**: 100/100
  - No malware found by supply-chain analysis.
  - No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.
  - Runs hatchling.build at install time, a recognised build step with no custom scripting around it.
  - 0 of 28 dependencies flagged as unhealthy.
- **Provenance & Transparency**: 45/100
  - Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL.
  - Provenance check failed: no build-provenance attestation is published.
  - Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).
  - Actively maintained (last published 33 days ago).
  - Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 72/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 406 tokens (~67/item across 6 items; 6 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 100/100
  - No destabilizing schema changes in the last 30 days.
- **Tool Coverage**: 67/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 0% 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 7 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 No License Nearby MCP server?

No License Nearby runs locally as a PyPI package, launched with uvx nolicense-nearby-mcp. 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 nobanks-nolicense-nearby-mcp -- uvx nolicense-nearby-mcp
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nobanks-nolicense-nearby-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "nolicense-nearby-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "nobanks-nolicense-nearby-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "nolicense-nearby-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add nobanks-nolicense-nearby-mcp -- uvx nolicense-nearby-mcp
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "nobanks-nolicense-nearby-mcp": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "uvx",
        "nolicense-nearby-mcp"
      ],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add nobanks-nolicense-nearby-mcp --command uvx --arg nolicense-nearby-mcp
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  nobanks-nolicense-nearby-mcp:
    command: "uvx"
    args: ["nolicense-nearby-mcp"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "nobanks-nolicense-nearby-mcp": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "uvx",
      "Arguments": [
        "nolicense-nearby-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add nobanks-nolicense-nearby-mcp -t stdio -c uvx -a nolicense-nearby-mcp
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nobanks-nolicense-nearby-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "nolicense-nearby-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.

### 2026-11-01 (score 81, 0)

- [security] Stability: 0.97 → pass

### 2026-10-31 (score 81, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 93 to 97. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 28 days of observed history at the previous scan, 29 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-28 (score 80, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 83 to 87. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 25 days of observed history at the previous scan, 26 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-26 (score 79, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 77 to 80. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 23 days of observed history at the previous scan, 24 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-24 (score 78, +16)

- [security improvement] Malware scan: unverified → pass

### 2026-10-23 (score 62, −15)

- [security regression] Malware scan: pass → unverified

### 2026-10-22 (score 77, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 63 to 67. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 19 days of observed history at the previous scan, 20 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-20 (score 76, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 57 to 60. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 17 days of observed history at the previous scan, 18 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

## MCP tools (6)

### `search_tracks` (~99 tokens)

Use this when the user wants to find licensable music by mood, genre, energy, key, or title words.

Input parameters:

- `bpm_max`
- `bpm_min`
- `camelot_key`
- `energy_max`
- `energy_min`
- `genre`
- `limit` (integer)
- `mood`
- `offset` (integer)
- `query`
- `use_case`

### `get_track` (~29 tokens)

Use this when the user wants the full details of one track.

Input parameters:

- `track_id` (integer, required)

### `get_preview_url` (~53 tokens)

Use this when the user wants to listen to (audition) a track. The URL is for auditioning only; any use of the track in a project requires a license.

Input parameters:

- `track_id` (integer, required)

### `list_license_tiers` (~26 tokens)

Use this when the user asks what licenses cost or which license fits their project.

### `quote_license` (~40 tokens)

Use this when the user wants a price estimate for licensing specific tracks for a use.

Input parameters:

- `tier` (string, required)
- `track_ids` (array, required)

### `get_license_checkout_link` (~70 tokens)

Use this when the user is ready to buy a license for a track. There is no instant checkout: the human requests and pays the license on the No License Nearby website. This tool never submits anything and never takes payment.

Input parameters:

- `tier` (string, required)
- `track_id` (integer, required)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Install scripts, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/nobanks-nolicense-nearby-mcp/nolicense-nearby-mcp#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 81
- 2026-11-04: 81
- 2026-11-03: 81
- 2026-11-02: 81
- 2026-11-01: 81
- 2026-10-31: 81
- 2026-10-30: 80
- 2026-10-29: 80
- 2026-10-28: 80
- 2026-10-27: 79
- 2026-10-26: 79
- 2026-10-25: 78
- 2026-10-24: 78
- 2026-10-23: 62
- 2026-10-22: 77
- 2026-10-21: 76
- 2026-10-20: 76
- 2026-10-19: 75
- 2026-10-18: 75
- 2026-10-17: 74
- 2026-10-16: 74
- 2026-10-15: 73
- 2026-10-14: 58
- 2026-10-13: 52
- 2026-10-12: 67
- 2026-10-04: 52
- 2026-10-03: 52
- 2026-10-02: 52

## Common questions

### What is the No License Nearby MCP server?

No License Nearby is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.NoBanks/nolicense-nearby-mcp. Search 880+ artist-owned tracks and get sync licenses for social, TV and film. This page covers its PyPI package (nolicense-nearby-mcp).

### Is the No License Nearby MCP server safe to use?

No License Nearby scores 81 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 5 November 2026. 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 No License Nearby MCP server expose?

No License Nearby exposes 6 tools: search_tracks, get_track, get_preview_url, list_license_tiers, quote_license, get_license_checkout_link. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 317 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the No License Nearby MCP server still maintained?

No License Nearby 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 No License Nearby MCP server under?

No License Nearby 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

- PyPI project: https://pypi.org/project/nolicense-nearby-mcp/
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/pypi/package/nolicense-nearby-mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/NoBanks/nolicense-nearby-mcp
- Website: https://license.nomusicnearby.com/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/nobanks-nolicense-nearby-mcp/nolicense-nearby-mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/nobanks-nolicense-nearby-mcp/nolicense-nearby-mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/nobanks-nolicense-nearby-mcp/nolicense-nearby-mcp