# Gao Protests (npm · @pipeworx/mcp-gao-protests)

GAO Bid-Protest Decisions MCP — reads the gao_bid_protests table (ingested daily by…

- Trust score: 83/100 (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-gao-protests/gao-protests-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-gao-protests/gao-protests-mcp)
- npm · `@pipeworx/mcp-gao-protests`: 83/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-gao-protests/pipeworx-mcp-gao-protests.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-gao-protests/pipeworx-mcp-gao-protests)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `npm`
- Package: `@pipeworx/mcp-gao-protests`
- 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-gao-protests).
  - Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).
  - Actively maintained (last published 2 days ago).
  - Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 71/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 646 tokens (~161/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 Gao Protests MCP server?

Gao Protests runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-gao-protests. 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-gao-protests -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-gao-protests
```

### Cursor

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

### VS Code

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

### Codex

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

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

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

### Hermes

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

### Netclaw

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

### Vellum

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

### Other

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

## 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 83, +27)

- [security improvement] Malware scan: unverified → pass
- [security improvement] Known CVEs: unverified → pass
- [functional improvement] Dependency health: unverified → pass

### 2026-11-02 (score 56, −24)

- [security regression] Malware scan: pass → unverified
- [security regression] Known CVEs: pass → unverified
- [functional regression] Dependency health: pass → unverified
- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.13
- [functional] Package version: 0.2.0 → 0.2.1

### 2026-10-30 (score 80, 0)

- [functional regression] Security disclosure: unverified → fail

### 2026-10-29 (score 80)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (4)

### `gao_protests_recent` (~203 tokens)

Recently decided GAO bid-protest decisions — government-contract award disputes ruled on by the Government Accountability Office. Filter by a lookback window (days) and optionally outcome (denied|dismissed|sustained). Returns each decision's B-number(s), protester, decided_on date, and the normalized + raw outcome sentence. Answers "recent GAO bid protest decisions" and "how often does GAO sustain protests". Coverage is a rolling accumulation from GAO's recent-decisions feed (~5 newest decisions land per daily crawl), not GAO's full historical archive — use gao_protests_coverage to see how far back this goes.

Input parameters:

- `days` (number|string): Lookback window in days from today (default 30, max 3650).
- `limit` (number|string): Max rows (1-200, default 50).
- `outcome` (string): Filter to one outcome: denied | dismissed | sustained | other.

### `gao_protest` (~161 tokens)

Fetch a single GAO bid-protest decision by its B-number (e.g. "B-424695" or "B-424484.2" for a reconsideration). Returns protester, decided_on, outcome (normalized + the raw prose sentence, e.g. "We deny the protest."), and a link to the decision PDF. Only returns a decision already present in gao_protests_recent's rolling window — a B-number GAO decided before this pack started tracking, or one never surfaced on the recent-decisions feed, will not be found here.

Input parameters:

- `b_number` (string, required): A GAO B-number, e.g. "B-424695" or "B-424484.2". Case-insensitive.

### `gao_protests_search` (~142 tokens)

Search accumulated GAO bid-protest decisions by protester (company) name, e.g. "has <company> been cited in a bid protest" or "which GAO protests did Boeing file". Case-insensitive partial match. Only searches decisions already in this pack's rolling accumulation (see gao_protests_coverage) — not a full-text search of GAO's archive, which is not reachable from here.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (number|string): Max rows (1-100, default 25).
- `protester` (string, required): Protester/company name or partial name, e.g. "Guernsey" or "FCN".

### `gao_protests_coverage` (~84 tokens)

How much GAO bid-protest data this pack currently holds: total decisions, the earliest and most recent decided_on dates, and when the daily crawl last ran. Use this before relying on gao_protests_recent/search to know how far back coverage actually goes — it grows by ~5 decisions per daily crawl rather than starting with GAO's full archive.

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 83
- 2026-11-04: 83
- 2026-11-03: 83
- 2026-11-02: 56
- 2026-11-01: 80
- 2026-10-31: 80
- 2026-10-30: 80
- 2026-10-29: 80

## Common questions

### What is the Gao Protests MCP server?

Gao Protests is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.pipeworx-io/gao-protests. GAO Bid-Protest Decisions MCP, reads the gao_bid_protests table (ingested daily by… This page covers its npm package (@pipeworx/mcp-gao-protests).

### Is the Gao Protests MCP server safe to use?

Gao Protests 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 Gao Protests MCP server expose?

Gao Protests exposes 4 tools: gao_protests_recent, gao_protest, gao_protests_search, gao_protests_coverage. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 590 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the Gao Protests MCP server still maintained?

Gao Protests 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 Gao Protests MCP server under?

Gao Protests 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 Gao Protests MCP server?

VerifyMCP ran 16 checks on Gao Protests, 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-gao-protests
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/npm/package/@pipeworx/mcp-gao-protests
- Repository: https://github.com/pipeworx-io/mcp-gao-protests
- Website: https://pipeworx.io/packs/gao-protests
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-gao-protests/pipeworx-mcp-gao-protests.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-gao-protests/pipeworx-mcp-gao-protests/changelog.json
- Trust report (JSON): https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-gao-protests/pipeworx-mcp-gao-protests.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-gao-protests/pipeworx-mcp-gao-protests