Foursquare
NPM · @PIPEWORX/MCP-FOURSQUARE · 2 COMPONENTS
Foursquare Places MCP — migrated to the 2025 Places API
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Last scanned (12 hours ago)
Scores higher than 72% of npm servers
Category Maps and Location
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-foursquare). View diagnostics → Pass
- Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).Pass
- Actively maintained (last published 2 days ago).Pass
- Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository. See how to fix → Fail
Schema Quality & AI Usability64
- AI-judged instruction clarity (good).Pass
- Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 626 tokens (~208/item across 3 items; 3 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 3 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
- An AI judge read all 4 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.
- 4 Nov 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 17 to 20. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 5 days of observed history at the previous scan, 6 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 3 Nov 26 +26
- Known CVEs: unverified → pass ▲ security
- Malware scan: unverified → pass ▲ security
- Dependency health: unverified → pass ▲ functional
- 2 Nov 26 −25
- Known CVEs: pass → unverified ▼ security
- Malware scan: pass → unverified ▼ security
- Dependency health: pass → unverified ▼ functional
- Package version: 0.2.0 → 0.2.1 functional
- 31 Oct 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 3 to 7. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 1 days of observed history at the previous scan, 2 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 29 Oct 26 79
First indexed and scored.
Diagnostic detail from the automated scan of this channel: what the scanner observed at each step, so you can see exactly where a check passed or failed. It is informational only and never changes the trust score.
Captured 5 Nov 2026 · Analysed npm/@pipeworx/mcp-foursquare@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-foursquare |
| Certificate issuer | https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com |
| Certificate SAN | https://github.com/pipeworx-io/mcp-foursquare/.github/workflows/publish.yml@refs/heads/main |
| Rekor log index | 3637318232 |
| Predicate type | SLSA build provenance https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1 |
| Subject digest | sha512:a6ae2d993244868c0a64342c35bc6d947a5ad027c1642dc9a55ab3b1fc8aa53c32a3f7568382c6fb8a05003e7e7a90df46e7c547fb5f41b63b3711ae0 |
Background: How many MCP packages publish verified provenance →
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 →
get_place ~87
Full place details by fsq_place_id. Returns name, categories, address, lat/lon, social media, website, tel. hours/rating/price/popularity are Foursquare Premium fields — present only where enabled (see `rating_included` / `rating_note` in the response).
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| fsq_place_id | string | yes | Foursquare place ID (returned by search_places) |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
nearby_places ~167
Return POIs sorted by distance from a lat/lon without a text query. Requires latitude+longitude; optional radius_m (default 500m) and numeric fsq_category_ids filter. Returns name, categories, address, distance, tel, website. rating/hours/popularity are Foursquare Premium fields — present only where enabled (see `rating_included` / `rating_note`).
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| categories | string | – | OPTIONAL numeric fsq_category_id values only (from a prior result). Do NOT invent IDs; unknown IDs are ignored. |
| latitude | number | yes | Latitude |
| limit | number | – | Results (1-50, default 20) |
| longitude | number | yes | Longitude |
| radius_m | number | – | 1-100000 metres (default 500) |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
search_places ~320
Search Foursquare places (keyless — Pipeworx supplies the key). Combine `query` (e.g., "coffee", "hardware store") with a location anchor — either `near` ("Brooklyn, NY", "San Francisco, CA") or `latitude`+`longitude`. sort:"RATING" orders results by Foursquare rating (best first); the rating NUMBER itself is a Foursquare Premium field and is returned only where enabled — check `rating_included` / `rating_reason` in the response, and read `rating_note` before telling a caller a place is unrated. Returns name, fsq_place_id, categories, address, distance, lat/lon, tel, website.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| categories | string | – | OPTIONAL. Comma-separated numeric fsq_category_id values ONLY (e.g. from a prior search_places result). Do NOT invent IDs or pass category names — use the `query` text for that (e.g. query:"coffee").… |
| latitude | number | – | Center latitude (pair with longitude) |
| limit | number | – | Results (1-50, default 10) |
| longitude | number | – | Center longitude |
| near | string | – | Place name anchor ("Brooklyn, NY", "Tokyo") |
| query | string | – | Free-text query |
| radius_m | number | – | 1-100000 metres (only with lat/lon) |
| sort | string | – | RELEVANCE (default) | DISTANCE | RATING | POPULARITY |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
How do I install the Foursquare MCP server?
Foursquare runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-foursquare. 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-foursquare
claude mcp add pipeworx-io-foursquare -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-foursquare
What is the Foursquare MCP server?
Foursquare is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.pipeworx-io/foursquare. Foursquare Places MCP, migrated to the 2025 Places API. This page covers its npm package (@pipeworx/mcp-foursquare).
Is the Foursquare MCP server safe to use?
Foursquare 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 Foursquare MCP server expose?
Foursquare exposes 3 tools: search_places, get_place, nearby_places. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 574 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Is the Foursquare MCP server still maintained?
Foursquare 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 Foursquare MCP server under?
Foursquare declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.