Ebid
NPM · @PIPEWORX/MCP-EBID · 2 COMPONENTS
eBid MCP.
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Last scanned (5 hours ago)
Scores higher than 69% of npm servers
Category E-commerce
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. How we score → Why this is hard to score →
Supply Chain Security100
- No malware found by supply-chain analysis.Pass
- No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.Pass
- No install/post-install scripts declared.Pass
- No production dependencies, so there is no dependency health to assess. View diagnostics → Pass
Provenance & Transparency97
- Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL. View diagnostics → Pass
- Cryptographically verified build provenance (signed, bound to pipeworx-io/mcp-ebid). View diagnostics → Pass
- Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).Pass
- Actively maintained (last published 4 days ago).Pass
- Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository. See how to fix → Fail
Schema Quality & AI Usability60
- AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).Pass
- Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 1259 tokens (~314/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 Management23
- Stability observed for 7 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.Partial
Tool Coverage100
- 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
- 100% of tool parameters carry a description.Pass
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.
- 3 Nov 26 +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.
- 1 Nov 26 +2
- Tool safety: pass → unverified ▼ security
- Stability: Stability not yet verified: we do not have a sandbox capture of the MCP schema this version of the package serves yet. security
- Capabilities: pass → unverified ▼ functional
- Tool coverage: 100 → unverified ▼ functional
- Stability: unverified → 0.10 ▲ functional
- First check of Schema quality: unverified functional
- Package version: 0.2.0 → 0.2.1 functional
- 29 Oct 26 78
First indexed and scored.
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Captured 5 Nov 2026 · Analysed npm/@pipeworx/mcp-ebid@0.2.1
Provenance Verified
A signed build attestation was found and verified, binding this exact artifact to the source repository it claims to come from.
| Result | Verified |
|---|---|
| Ecosystem | npm |
| Reason | Verified |
| Discovered via | Registry attestation endpoint |
| Source repo | pipeworx-io/mcp-ebid |
| Certificate issuer | https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com |
| Certificate SAN | https://github.com/pipeworx-io/mcp-ebid/.github/workflows/publish.yml@refs/heads/main |
| Rekor log index | 3617580762 |
| Predicate type | SLSA build provenance https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1 |
| Subject digest | sha512:9fe39bb5a3c42597957f4f8dc69ad6f30508c9e643ac71863393685b39c5208cb4eb5e481b177dae6cc711ae4e378fd7e264549633d0cdc587e01a38c |
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Dependencies 0 packages
| Packages resolved | 0 |
|---|---|
| Tree resolution | Complete |
Background: SBOMs and build attestations, explained →
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 →
ebid_categories ~203
Browse the eBid.net marketplace category tree (eBid Trading API GetCategoryList): category IDs, names, full paths and per-category item counts for an eBid country site. Pass a parent category_id to list its subcategories, or omit it for the root categories. Use the returned CategoryID to filter ebid_search.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| _apiKey | string | – | Optional — eBid API credentials as "AppId:AppKey" (both issued together, free, at the eBid developer portal ebid.3scale.net). The gateway supplies a platform key, so omit this and calls still work; p… |
| category_id | number | – | Parent CategoryID to list children of. Omit for root categories. |
| site | string | – | eBid country site to query (2-letter code, e.g. "us", "uk", "de"). Defaults to "us". Prices come back in that site's currency. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
ebid_listing ~285
Fetch one eBid.net listing by its numeric ListingID (eBid Trading API GetListingSingle): title, description, seller, current price, bid count, quantity, condition, start/end times, and shipping cost calculated to a destination country. Works for live and ended listings on any eBid country site. Get ListingIDs from ebid_search. Bids are served through a 5-minute result cache, so the current bid can be up to five minutes old: near the close of an auction treat it as a lower bound, never as the final price.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| _apiKey | string | – | Optional — eBid API credentials as "AppId:AppKey" (both issued together, free, at the eBid developer portal ebid.3scale.net). The gateway supplies a platform key, so omit this and calls still work; p… |
| listing_id | number | yes | Numeric eBid ListingID (from ebid_search results or an ebid.net listing URL). |
| ship_to | string | – | ISO country code to calculate shipping to (e.g. "us", "uk"). Defaults to the site's country. |
| site | string | – | eBid country site to query (2-letter code, e.g. "us", "uk", "de"). Defaults to "us". Prices come back in that site's currency. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
ebid_listing_bids ~223
Bid history for one eBid.net listing (eBid Trading API GetListingBids): each bid's amount, quantity, bidder username, timestamp, and whether it was a buy-now or proxy bid. On an ended auction the winning (highest) bid is the realized price. Get ListingIDs from ebid_search. Bid history is served through a 5-minute result cache, so the latest bids on a live auction can be up to five minutes behind.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| _apiKey | string | – | Optional — eBid API credentials as "AppId:AppKey" (both issued together, free, at the eBid developer portal ebid.3scale.net). The gateway supplies a platform key, so omit this and calls still work; p… |
| listing_id | number | yes | Numeric eBid ListingID. |
| site | string | – | eBid country site to query (2-letter code, e.g. "us", "uk", "de"). Defaults to "us". Prices come back in that site's currency. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
ebid_search ~496
Search listings on the eBid.net online marketplace and auction site (eBid Trading API SearchEbid). Filter by keyword, category, price range, item condition (NEW/USED/UNUSED/REFURBISHED), buy-now only, seller username, or country of origin, on any of eBid's 20+ country sites. Set closed=true to search ended listings instead of live ones — ended listings with bids are where realized sale prices live. Returns total match count and listings with ListingID, title, bid count, currency and buy-now price. eBid is a small marketplace; treat results as a secondary listings and price source.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| _apiKey | string | – | Optional — eBid API credentials as "AppId:AppKey" (both issued together, free, at the eBid developer portal ebid.3scale.net). The gateway supplies a platform key, so omit this and calls still work; p… |
| buy_now_only | boolean | – | true = only listings with a buy-now option. |
| category_id | number | – | Restrict to an eBid category (numeric CategoryID from ebid_categories). |
| closed | boolean | – | true = search ONLY closed (ended) listings instead of live ones. Sort defaults to most recently closed. |
| condition | string | – | Item condition filter. |
| country | string | – | Only items located in this country (2-letter code, e.g. "us"). |
| keyword | string | – | Search keyword(s), same rules as the eBid site search box. Searched in titles by default. |
| max_price | number | – | Maximum price, in the site's currency. |
| min_price | number | – | Minimum price, in the site's currency. |
| rows | number | – | Rows per page, max 75 (eBid API cap). Default 25. |
| search_descriptions | boolean | – | true = search item descriptions as well as titles. |
| site | string | – | eBid country site to query (2-letter code, e.g. "us", "uk", "de"). Defaults to "us". Prices come back in that site's currency. |
| sort | string | – | Sort order. CLOSED_* sorts apply only when closed=true. |
| start | number | – | Result offset for paging (0-based). Default 0. |
| username | string | – | Only listings from this eBid seller username. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
How do I install the Ebid MCP server?
Ebid runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-ebid. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.
npm · @pipeworx/mcp-ebid
claude mcp add pipeworx-io-ebid -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-ebid
What is the Ebid MCP server?
Ebid is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.pipeworx-io/ebid. eBid MCP. This page covers its npm package (@pipeworx/mcp-ebid).
Is the Ebid MCP server safe to use?
Ebid scores 81 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 Ebid MCP server expose?
Ebid exposes 4 tools: ebid_search, ebid_listing, ebid_listing_bids, ebid_categories. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 1,207 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Is the Ebid MCP server still maintained?
Ebid 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 Ebid MCP server under?
Ebid declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.