# China Safe (npm · @pipeworx/mcp-china-safe)

China SAFE (State Administration of Foreign Exchange) — 国家外汇管理局

- Trust score: 83/100 (high trust)
- Change this week: +4
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `gateway.pipeworx.io`: 77/100, [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-china-safe/china-safe-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-china-safe/china-safe-mcp)
- npm · `@pipeworx/mcp-china-safe`: 83/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-china-safe/pipeworx-mcp-china-safe.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-china-safe/pipeworx-mcp-china-safe)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `npm`
- Package: `@pipeworx/mcp-china-safe`
- Version: `0.2.1`
- 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.
  - No install/post-install scripts declared.
  - No production dependencies, so there is no dependency health to assess.
- **Provenance & Transparency**: 97/100
  - Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL.
  - Cryptographically verified build provenance (signed, bound to pipeworx-io/mcp-china-safe).
  - Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).
  - Actively maintained (last published 5 days ago).
  - Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 67/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 713 tokens (~178/item across 4 items; 4 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 23/100
  - Stability observed for 7 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 4 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 5 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 China Safe MCP server?

China Safe runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-china-safe. 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 pipeworx-io-china-safe -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-china-safe
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx-io-china-safe": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-china-safe"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "pipeworx-io-china-safe": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-china-safe"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add pipeworx-io-china-safe -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-china-safe
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "pipeworx-io-china-safe": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "npx",
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-china-safe"
      ],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add pipeworx-io-china-safe --command npx --arg -y --arg @pipeworx/mcp-china-safe
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  pipeworx-io-china-safe:
    command: "npx"
    args: ["-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-china-safe"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "pipeworx-io-china-safe": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "npx",
      "Arguments": [
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-china-safe"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add pipeworx-io-china-safe -t stdio -c npx -a -y @pipeworx/mcp-china-safe
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx-io-china-safe": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-china-safe"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## 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 83, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 20 to 23. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 6 days of observed history at the previous scan, 7 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-03 (score 82, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 13 to 17. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 4 days of observed history at the previous scan, 5 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-01 (score 81, +1)

- [functional regression] Security disclosure: unverified → fail

### 2026-10-31 (score 80, 0)

- [functional regression] Security disclosure: fail → unverified
- [functional] Package version: 0.2.0 → 0.2.1

### 2026-10-30 (score 80, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 0 to 3. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 0 days of observed history at the previous scan, 1 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-29 (score 79)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (4)

### `china_fx_reserves` (~173 tokens)

China's official reserve assets (官方储备资产) by month, from SAFE's English site: headline FX reserves (外汇储备), IMF reserve position, SDR holdings, gold (value + ounces), other reserve assets, and the total. MONTHLY data, published roughly one week after month-end (verified 2026-09-07: August 2026 reserves — USD 3,438.325bn FX reserves, USD 3,854.885bn total — were the newest data, published 2026-09-07). Values in 100-million USD/SDR as SAFE publishes them, plus a convenience *_usd_billion field for the two headline totals.

Input parameters:

- `months` (integer): How many of the most recent months to return (default 12, max 24).

### `china_balance_of_payments` (~204 tokens)

China's quarterly balance of payments (国际收支平衡表) from SAFE's English site — current account (goods, services, primary/secondary income), capital and financial account, reserve-assets change, and net errors and omissions. QUARTERLY, with roughly a 3-month lag after quarter-end (verified 2026-09-07: latest available quarter was 2026Q1, published 2026-06-26 — this is the standard BPM6 release cadence, not a stale site; Q2 2026 was not yet due). Sign convention for the financial account: a positive value for assets is a net DECREASE, negative is a net INCREASE (SAFE's own footnote).

Input parameters:

- `currency` (string): Reporting currency: "usd" (default), "rmb", or "sdr".
- `quarters` (integer): How many of the most recent quarters to return (default 8, max 40).

### `china_external_debt` (~162 tokens)

China's gross external debt position by sector (外债, since 2014Q4) from SAFE's English site — total, by maturity (short-term/long-term, on an original-contract basis), and by institutional sector (general government, central bank, other depository corporations, other sectors, direct-investment intercompany lending). QUARTERLY, roughly a 3-month lag after quarter-end (verified 2026-09-07: latest was 2026Q1, published 2026-06-26 — same normal BPM6 cadence as the balance-of-payments release). Values in 100-million USD.

Input parameters:

- `quarters` (integer): How many of the most recent quarters to return (default 8, max 40).

### `china_safe_releases` (~121 tokens)

Lists the actual publish dates of SAFE's reserves/BOP/external-debt English pages, straight from each page's own PubDate metadata and its attached file's upload timestamp — NOT the article's permalink date, which is frequently years stale (SAFE republishes data in place at old URLs; a 2026 reserves table can sit at a 2021-dated link). Use this to check how current the other three tools' data is before citing it.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer): Max releases to return (default 6, max 15).

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-china-safe/pipeworx-mcp-china-safe#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 83
- 2026-11-04: 82
- 2026-11-03: 82
- 2026-11-02: 81
- 2026-11-01: 81
- 2026-10-31: 80
- 2026-10-30: 80
- 2026-10-29: 79

## Common questions

### What is the China Safe MCP server?

China Safe is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.pipeworx-io/china-safe. China SAFE (State Administration of Foreign Exchange), 国家外汇管理局. This page covers its npm package (@pipeworx/mcp-china-safe).

### Is the China Safe MCP server safe to use?

China Safe scores 83 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 5 November 2026. It declares no install or post-install scripts. Its build provenance is signed and verified. 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 China Safe MCP server expose?

China Safe exposes 4 tools: china_fx_reserves, china_balance_of_payments, china_external_debt, china_safe_releases. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 660 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the China Safe MCP server still maintained?

China Safe 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 China Safe MCP server under?

China Safe 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

- npm package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@pipeworx/mcp-china-safe
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/npm/package/@pipeworx/mcp-china-safe
- Repository: https://github.com/pipeworx-io/mcp-china-safe
- Website: https://pipeworx.io/packs/china-safe
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-china-safe/pipeworx-mcp-china-safe.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-china-safe/pipeworx-mcp-china-safe.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-china-safe/pipeworx-mcp-china-safe