# Eia (npm · @pipeworx/mcp-eia)

EIA MCP — US Energy Information Administration API v2

- Trust score: 82/100 (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-eia/eia-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-eia/eia-mcp)
- npm · `@pipeworx/mcp-eia`: 82/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-eia/pipeworx-mcp-eia.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-eia/pipeworx-mcp-eia)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `npm`
- Package: `@pipeworx/mcp-eia`
- 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-eia).
  - 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**: 62/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 1419 tokens (~236/item across 6 items; 6 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 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 Eia MCP server?

Eia runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-eia. 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-eia -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-eia
```

### Cursor

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

### VS Code

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

### Codex

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

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

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

### Hermes

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

### Netclaw

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

### Vellum

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

### Other

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

## 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 82, +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.

### 2026-11-04 (score 81, 0)

- [functional regression] Security disclosure: unverified → fail

### 2026-11-03 (score 81, +1)

- [functional regression] Security disclosure: fail → unverified

### 2026-11-01 (score 80, +1)

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

### 2026-10-30 (score 79, 0)

- [functional regression] Security disclosure: unverified → fail

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

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (6)

### `eia_series` (~345 tokens)

Search EIA for any energy data series by route path. Returns historical data points with timestamps and values. Use for specific energy metrics not covered by category tools.(e.g., "petroleum/pri/gnd" for gasoline prices, "natural-gas/pri/sum" for gas prices, "electricity/retail-sales" for electricity, "total-energy/data" for total energy). Returns time series with period, value, and metadata.

Input parameters:

- `_apiKey` (string, required): EIA API key (free from eia.gov)
- `end` (string): End date (optional)
- `frequency` (string): Data frequency: "weekly", "monthly", "quarterly", "annual" (optional)
- `limit` (number): Max records to return (default: 12, max: 5000)
- `route` (string, required): EIA data route path. Common routes: "petroleum/pri/gnd" (gasoline/diesel prices), "petroleum/pri/spt" (crude oil spot prices), "petroleum/stoc/wstk" (petroleum stocks), "petroleum/sum/sndw" (petroleu…
- `start` (string): Start date, e.g., "2023-01" for monthly, "2023" for annual (optional)

### `eia_petroleum` (~282 tokens)

Get EIA petroleum time series data for a specific product (gasoline, diesel, crude, stocks, supply, production, imports). Returns prices or volumes by period with regional breakdowns. Requires free EIA API key.supply, production, and imports. Simplified interface to common EIA petroleum series.

Input parameters:

- `_apiKey` (string, required): EIA API key
- `area` (string): Retail prices only: "US" (default, national average), "all" (every region EIA reports), or an EIA area code such as "R10" (East Coast) or "SCA" (California).
- `end` (string): End date (optional)
- `frequency` (string): Frequency: "weekly", "monthly", "annual" (optional; retail prices default to weekly)
- `grade` (string): Gasoline grade, for product "gasoline" only: "regular" (default — the national headline price), "midgrade", "premium", or "all" (all grades combined).
- `product` (string, required): Product type: "gasoline" (retail pump price), "diesel" (retail pump price), "crude" (WTI spot), "stocks", "supply", "production", "imports"
- `start` (string): Start date (optional)

### `us_fuel_price` (~308 tokens)

US gas station prices: the weekly national average retail pump price per gallon of regular, midgrade or premium gasoline, or diesel, from the U.S. Energy Information Administration's Weekly Retail Gasoline and Diesel Prices survey. Answers "current average US gas price", "national average price of regular unleaded", "how much is a gallon of gas", "diesel price at the pump". Pass fuel "gasoline" with grade (regular is the default, the national headline figure) or fuel "diesel"; area defaults to the US average. Returns the latest week first with the series name, so the grade and area are stated in every answer.

Input parameters:

- `_apiKey` (string, required): EIA API key
- `area` (string): "US" (default, national average), "all" (every region EIA reports), or an EIA area code such as "R10" (East Coast) or "SCA" (California).
- `end` (string): Latest week to include, YYYY-MM-DD (optional).
- `fuel` (string): Fuel: "gasoline" (default) or "diesel".
- `grade` (string): Gasoline grade: "regular" (default — the national headline price), "midgrade", "premium", or "all" (all grades combined). Ignored for diesel.
- `start` (string): Earliest week to include, YYYY-MM-DD (optional; default the most recent 24 weeks).

### `eia_natural_gas` (~149 tokens)

Get EIA natural gas time series for a named series (prices, production, consumption, storage, spot_prices). Returns period, value, and area metadata. Requires free EIA API key.Includes Henry Hub spot prices, underground storage, marketed production, and consumption by sector.

Input parameters:

- `_apiKey` (string, required): EIA API key
- `end` (string): End date (optional)
- `frequency` (string): Frequency: "weekly", "monthly", "annual" (optional)
- `series` (string, required): Data series: "prices", "production", "consumption", "storage", "spot_prices"
- `start` (string): Start date (optional)

### `eia_electricity` (~147 tokens)

Get EIA electricity data for a named series (generation, retail_sales, prices, state_generation). Returns time series with period and value across fuel sources and regions. Requires free EIA API key.Covers coal, natural gas, nuclear, hydro, wind, and solar generation.

Input parameters:

- `_apiKey` (string, required): EIA API key
- `end` (string): End date (optional)
- `frequency` (string): Frequency: "monthly", "quarterly", "annual" (optional)
- `series` (string, required): Data series: "generation", "retail_sales", "prices", "state_generation"
- `start` (string): Start date (optional)

### `eia_ethanol` (~136 tokens)

Get fuel ethanol production volumes, stocks, and imports. Returns time series for ethanol supply chain metrics.Key energy-agriculture intersection: most US ethanol is made from corn. Uses EIA petroleum supply data filtered for ethanol (EPOOXE product code).

Input parameters:

- `_apiKey` (string, required): EIA API key
- `end` (string): End date (optional)
- `frequency` (string): Frequency: "weekly", "monthly" (optional, defaults to weekly)
- `series` (string, required): Ethanol data type: "production", "stocks", "imports"
- `start` (string): Start date (optional)

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

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

## Common questions

### What is the Eia MCP server?

Eia is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.pipeworx-io/eia. EIA MCP, US Energy Information Administration API v2. This page covers its npm package (@pipeworx/mcp-eia).

### Is the Eia MCP server safe to use?

Eia scores 82 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 Eia MCP server expose?

Eia exposes 6 tools: eia_series, eia_petroleum, us_fuel_price, eia_natural_gas, eia_electricity, eia_ethanol. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 1,367 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the Eia MCP server still maintained?

Eia 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 Eia MCP server under?

Eia declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.

### What did VerifyMCP test on the Eia MCP server?

VerifyMCP ran 16 checks on Eia, covering Malware scan, Known CVEs, Install scripts, Dependency health and 12 more. Endpoint Security and Transport & Reachability do not apply to an npm package, so they were not tested. The score does not measure everything, and the scoring documentation lists what it leaves out.

## Links

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