# Ebid (npm · @pipeworx/mcp-ebid)

eBid MCP.

- Trust score: 81/100 (high trust)
- Change this week: +3
- 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-ebid/ebid-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-ebid/ebid-mcp)
- npm · `@pipeworx/mcp-ebid`: 81/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-ebid/pipeworx-mcp-ebid.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-ebid/pipeworx-mcp-ebid)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `npm`
- Package: `@pipeworx/mcp-ebid`
- 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-ebid).
  - Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).
  - Actively maintained (last published 4 days ago).
  - Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 60/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - 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.
  - 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 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.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add pipeworx-io-ebid -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-ebid
```

### Cursor

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

### VS Code

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

### Codex

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

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

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

### Hermes

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

### Netclaw

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

### Vellum

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

### Other

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

## 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.

### 2026-11-03 (score 81, +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 80, +2)

- [security regression] 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.
- [functional regression] Capabilities: pass → unverified
- [functional regression] Tool coverage: 100 → unverified
- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.10
- [functional] First check of Schema quality: unverified
- [functional] Package version: 0.2.0 → 0.2.1

### 2026-10-29 (score 78)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (4)

### `ebid_search` (~496 tokens)

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.

Input parameters:

- `_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.

### `ebid_listing` (~285 tokens)

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.

Input parameters:

- `_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, required): 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.

### `ebid_listing_bids` (~223 tokens)

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.

Input parameters:

- `_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, required): 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.

### `ebid_categories` (~203 tokens)

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.

Input parameters:

- `_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.

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 81
- 2026-11-04: 81
- 2026-11-03: 81
- 2026-11-02: 80
- 2026-11-01: 80
- 2026-10-31: 78
- 2026-10-30: 78
- 2026-10-29: 78

## Common questions

### 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.

## Links

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