# Gov Uk Content (npm · @pipeworx/mcp-gov-uk-content)

GOV.UK Content + Search APIs.

- 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`: 71/100, [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-gov-uk-content/gov-uk-content-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-gov-uk-content/gov-uk-content-mcp)
- npm · `@pipeworx/mcp-gov-uk-content`: 81/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-gov-uk-content/pipeworx-mcp-gov-uk-content.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-gov-uk-content/pipeworx-mcp-gov-uk-content)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `npm`
- Package: `@pipeworx/mcp-gov-uk-content`
- 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-gov-uk-content).
  - Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).
  - Actively maintained (last published 3 days ago).
  - Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 65/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 1276 tokens (~141/item across 9 items; 9 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**: 88/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 65% 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 9 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 10 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 Gov Uk Content MCP server?

Gov Uk Content runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-gov-uk-content. 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-gov-uk-content -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-gov-uk-content
```

### Cursor

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

### VS Code

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

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add pipeworx-io-gov-uk-content -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-gov-uk-content
```

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add pipeworx-io-gov-uk-content --command npx --arg -y --arg @pipeworx/mcp-gov-uk-content
```

### Hermes

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

### Netclaw

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

### Vellum

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

### Other

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

## 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, +16)

- [security improvement] Malware scan: unverified → pass

### 2026-11-02 (score 65, −13)

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

### 2026-10-30 (score 78, 0)

- [functional regression] Security disclosure: unverified → fail

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

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (9)

### `content` (~94 tokens)

Fetch the full rendered content and metadata of any single GOV.UK page from its base_path — guidance, a policy paper, an organisation page, a departmental manual or one section of one. Returns title, description, body, publication and last-updated timestamps, and the page's links. Use gov_uk_search or hmrc_manual_search first when you do not already know the base_path.

Input parameters:

- `base_path` (string, required)

### `search` (~80 tokens)

Search everything published on GOV.UK — guidance, forms, statistics, consultations, news, policy papers and departmental manuals — by free text, optionally narrowed to one document format. Returns titles, URL paths and publication timestamps.

Input parameters:

- `count` (number)
- `filter_format` (string)
- `query` (string, required)
- `start` (number)

### `hmrc_manuals` (~203 tokens)

List HM Revenue & Customs internal manuals and other UK departmental manuals — the guidance HMRC caseworkers and other officials actually apply, published in full. Covers income tax, PAYE, employment income, capital gains, corporation tax, VAT, inheritance tax, pensions, stamp duty, national insurance, trusts, residence and domicile, double taxation, compliance and penalties, plus non-HMRC manuals from other departments. Use this to see what manuals exist and their base_paths, then hmrc_manual_search to find the section that answers a question.

Input parameters:

- `count` (number): Manuals per page, 1-100 (default 50).
- `include_other_departments` (boolean): Also return non-HMRC departmental manuals (Home Office, DWP, and others). Default false.
- `query` (string): Optional free text to narrow the manual list, e.g. "capital gains" or "pensions".
- `start` (number): Offset for paging.

### `hmrc_manual_search` (~308 tokens)

Find the section of an HMRC internal manual that answers a UK tax question asked in plain words — salary sacrifice, benefits in kind, travel and subsistence expenses, termination payments, share schemes, residence and domicile, capital gains reliefs, VAT liability, IR35 and off-payroll working, pension annual allowance, inheritance tax reliefs, penalties and compliance. This is HMRC's own working interpretation of the UK tax code, section by section, and it is the level at which UK tax questions are actually answered. Returns each matching section with its manual, its section id (EIM42750, CG12345 and the like), its URL, its published_at date and age_days. Narrow to one manual with the manual argument. Retrieve the full text of a hit with hmrc_manual_section.

Input parameters:

- `count` (number): Sections to return, 1-100 (default 20).
- `include_other_departments` (boolean): Also search non-HMRC departmental manual sections. Default false.
- `manual` (string): Restrict to one manual, as a base_path or slug, e.g. "/hmrc-internal-manuals/employment-income-manual" or "employment-income-manual". Get these from hmrc_manuals.
- `query` (string, required): The tax question or topic in plain words, e.g. "salary sacrifice pension contributions" or "when is travel to a temporary workplace deductible".
- `start` (number): Offset for paging.

### `hmrc_manual_section` (~185 tokens)

Retrieve the full text of one section of an HMRC internal manual (or another UK departmental manual), by its base_path or by manual plus section id such as EIM42750. Returns the section title, its text, its place in the manual's structure, whether it has been withdrawn, and its published_at / source_last_modified with age_days so you can tell how current HMRC's stated position is.

Input parameters:

- `base_path` (string): Full section path, e.g. "/hmrc-internal-manuals/employment-income-manual/eim42750".
- `manual` (string): Manual base_path or slug, used together with section_id.
- `max_chars` (number): Cap on returned body text (default 20000).
- `section_id` (string): Section id, e.g. "EIM42750" (case-insensitive).

### `hmrc_manual_changes` (~211 tokens)

Read what HMRC most recently changed in one of its internal manuals — the per-section revision log the department publishes with each manual, newest first. Each entry carries the section id and title, HMRC's own note of what changed ("Updated for change in legislation for intermediaries", "Page withdrawn"), its published_at and age_days. Use it to tell whether HMRC's stated position on a topic has moved, to audit a manual's freshness, or to watch a specific area of UK tax guidance for revisions.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (number): Change entries to return, 1-200 (default 25).
- `manual` (string, required): Manual base_path or slug, e.g. "employment-income-manual" or "/hmrc-internal-manuals/capital-gains-manual".
- `section_id` (string): Only changes to this section, e.g. "EIM42750".
- `since` (string): Only changes published on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD).

### `organisations` (~64 tokens)

List GOV.UK government organisations (departments, agencies, etc.) with title, URL path, acronym, and operational state, paginated via start and count (default 20, max 100 per page).

Input parameters:

- `count` (number)
- `start` (number)

### `taxons` (~54 tokens)

Fetch a GOV.UK taxonomy tree node by base_path (defaults to root "/"), returning the taxon's title, description, phase, links to child taxons, and associated content items.

Input parameters:

- `base_path` (string)

### `search_autocomplete` (~20 tokens)

Autocomplete suggestions.

Input parameters:

- `query` (string, required)

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 81
- 2026-11-04: 81
- 2026-11-03: 81
- 2026-11-02: 65
- 2026-11-01: 78
- 2026-10-31: 78
- 2026-10-30: 78
- 2026-10-29: 78

## Common questions

### What is the Gov Uk Content MCP server?

Gov Uk Content is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.pipeworx-io/gov-uk-content. GOV.UK Content + Search APIs. This page covers its npm package (@pipeworx/mcp-gov-uk-content).

### Is the Gov Uk Content MCP server safe to use?

Gov Uk Content 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 Gov Uk Content MCP server expose?

Gov Uk Content exposes 9 tools: content, search, hmrc_manuals, hmrc_manual_search, hmrc_manual_section, and 4 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 1,219 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the Gov Uk Content MCP server still maintained?

Gov Uk Content 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 Gov Uk Content MCP server under?

Gov Uk Content 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 Gov Uk Content MCP server?

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