# Grantconnect Au (npm · @pipeworx/mcp-grantconnect-au)

GrantConnect (Australia) MCP — Commonwealth grant opportunities and grants awarded, from…

- 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`: 70/100, [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-grantconnect-au/grantconnect-au-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-grantconnect-au/grantconnect-au-mcp)
- npm · `@pipeworx/mcp-grantconnect-au`: 82/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-grantconnect-au/pipeworx-mcp-grantconnect-au.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-grantconnect-au/pipeworx-mcp-grantconnect-au)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `npm`
- Package: `@pipeworx/mcp-grantconnect-au`
- 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-grantconnect-au).
  - Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).
  - Actively maintained (last published 3 days ago).
  - Security-disclosure policy not yet verified: we couldn't inspect the source repository.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 62/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 1676 tokens (~279/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 Grantconnect Au MCP server?

Grantconnect Au runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-grantconnect-au. 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-grantconnect-au -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-grantconnect-au
```

### Cursor

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

### VS Code

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

### Codex

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

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

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

### Hermes

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

### Netclaw

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

### Vellum

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

### Other

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

## 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)

- [functional regression] Security disclosure: fail → unverified

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

- [functional regression] Security disclosure: unverified → fail

### 2026-11-02 (score 80, 0)

- [functional] Package version: 0.2.0 → 0.2.1

### 2026-11-01 (score 80, 0)

- [functional regression] Security disclosure: fail → unverified

### 2026-10-31 (score 80, +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.

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

- [functional regression] Security disclosure: unverified → fail

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

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (6)

### `au_grants_search` (~528 tokens)

Search awarded Australian Commonwealth government grants from GrantConnect (grants.gov.au) — every grant a federal agency has paid out, with recipient organisation, funding agency, grant program and activity, value in AUD, approval and start/end dates, recipient state and suburb, selection process, and the go_id of the opportunity it was awarded under. Free-text query is matched as a case-insensitive substring across recipient_name, purpose, grant_program and grant_activity. Filter by agency (substring, e.g. "Department of Social Services"), category (e.g. "Social Inclusion"), recipient_state (ACT, NSW, VIC, QLD, SA, WA, TAS, NT), selection_process (e.g. "Open Competitive", "Demand Driven"), min_value/max_value in AUD, and an awarded_from/awarded_to date range on the publish date. Answers "who received Australian federal grant money for X, how much, and when". Sort by value or date; newest first by default.

Input parameters:

- `agency` (string): Funding agency, substring match, e.g. "Social Services", "Department of Health".
- `awarded_from` (string): Earliest publish date, ISO YYYY-MM-DD.
- `awarded_to` (string): Latest publish date, ISO YYYY-MM-DD.
- `category` (string): Grant category, substring match, e.g. "Social Inclusion", "Academic Research", "Child Care".
- `limit` (number|string): Max awards to return (1-100, default 25).
- `max_value` (number|string): Only awards worth at most this many AUD.
- `min_value` (number|string): Only awards worth at least this many AUD.
- `offset` (number|string): Rows to skip, for paging (default 0).
- `order` (string): Sort direction: "desc" (default) or "asc".
- `query` (string): Free text, matched case-insensitively as a substring against recipient_name, purpose, grant_program and grant_activity. Multiple words are AND-ed, e.g. "youth homelessness".
- `recipient_state` (string): Australian state/territory of the recipient: ACT, NSW, VIC, QLD, SA, WA, TAS, NT.
- `selection_process` (string): How the grant was selected, substring match: "Open Competitive", "Demand Driven", "Targeted or Restricted Competitive", "Open Non-competitive", "Closed Non-Competitive".
- `sort` (string): Sort key: "date" (default, publish date) or "value" (AUD).

### `au_grant_award` (~165 tokens)

Full record for one awarded Australian Commonwealth grant, looked up by its GrantConnect award id (ga_id, e.g. "GA572409"). Returns recipient organisation with ABN and address, funding agency, PBS program, grant program and activity, the stated purpose, value in AUD, approval/start/end dates, selection process, delivery location, aggregate-grant flags and confidentiality flags — and, when the award records a go_id, the linked grant opportunity is fetched and inlined (title, close date, selection process, category, agency) so the advertised call that produced the payment is visible in the same answer.

Input parameters:

- `ga_id` (string, required): GrantConnect award id, e.g. "GA572409". A bare number is accepted and prefixed with GA.

### `au_grants_by_recipient` (~251 tokens)

Every Australian Commonwealth grant awarded to one organisation, matched by recipient name substring or by exact Australian Business Number (ABN, accepted spaced as "48 008 389 151" or unspaced as "48008389151"). Returns the individual awards plus a funding total: total AUD received, number of awards, first and last award dates, and a per-agency breakdown of which departments funded them. Answers "how much Commonwealth grant money has this charity, university, council or company received, and from whom".

Input parameters:

- `abn` (string): Australian Business Number, spaced or unspaced. Matched exactly and preferred over recipient_name.
- `awarded_from` (string): Earliest publish date, ISO YYYY-MM-DD.
- `awarded_to` (string): Latest publish date, ISO YYYY-MM-DD.
- `limit` (number|string): Max individual awards listed (1-100, default 25). The totals cover more rows than are listed.
- `offset` (number|string): Rows to skip in the listed awards (default 0).
- `recipient_name` (string): Organisation name, case-insensitive substring, e.g. "YWCA Canberra", "Monash University".

### `au_grant_opportunities_open` (~244 tokens)

Australian Commonwealth grant opportunities that are still open for application — GrantConnect opportunities whose close date is in the future, soonest-closing first, with days remaining computed at request time. Each row carries go_id, title, funding agency, selection process, publish and close dates, primary and secondary category, contact email, addenda count and co-sponsor. Filter by category (e.g. "Regional Development"), agency substring, or free-text title match. Answers "what Australian federal grants can I still apply for, and when do they close".

Input parameters:

- `agency` (string): Funding agency, substring match, e.g. "Infrastructure", "Department of Health".
- `category` (string): Category title, substring match against the primary or secondary category, e.g. "Regional Development".
- `closing_within_days` (number|string): Only opportunities closing within this many days from now.
- `limit` (number|string): Max opportunities (1-100, default 25).
- `offset` (number|string): Rows to skip, for paging (default 0).
- `query` (string): Free text matched case-insensitively against the opportunity title.

### `au_grants_top_recipients` (~346 tokens)

Rank the organisations that received the most Australian Commonwealth grant money, by total AUD awarded, with award counts and the agencies that funded them. Filter by agency, category, recipient_state, and an awarded_from/awarded_to date range. The response states how many award rows were scanned and whether that covered every matching row, so a ranking drawn from the largest awards can be told apart from a ranking over the complete set. Answers "who are the biggest recipients of federal grant funding in this portfolio, state or year".

Input parameters:

- `agency` (string): Funding agency, substring match, e.g. "Department of Social Services".
- `awarded_from` (string): Earliest publish date, ISO YYYY-MM-DD.
- `awarded_to` (string): Latest publish date, ISO YYYY-MM-DD.
- `category` (string): Grant category, substring match, e.g. "Social Inclusion".
- `include_aggregate` (boolean): Default false. GrantConnect files bundled disclosures under the literal recipient name "Aggregate" when the individual recipients are withheld; those rows are excluded from the ranking because they a…
- `limit` (number|string): How many recipients to rank (1-100, default 20).
- `recipient_state` (string): Recipient state/territory: ACT, NSW, VIC, QLD, SA, WA, TAS, NT.
- `scan_limit` (number|string): How many award rows to read before ranking, largest-value first (1000-20000, default 5000). Raise it for a ranking that covers more of the matching set.

### `grantconnect_coverage` (~87 tokens)

Which GrantConnect data is available right now: per-report ingest windows with their status and row counts, the earliest and latest dates present in the awarded-grants and grant-opportunities tables, total row counts, and any ingest windows that ended in error. Use this before trusting a date-bounded answer about Australian grants — it shows which years are loaded and which are still backfilling.

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-grantconnect-au/pipeworx-mcp-grantconnect-au#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: 80
- 2026-10-30: 79
- 2026-10-29: 79

## Common questions

### What is the Grantconnect Au MCP server?

Grantconnect Au is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.pipeworx-io/grantconnect-au. GrantConnect (Australia) MCP, Commonwealth grant opportunities and grants awarded, from… This page covers its npm package (@pipeworx/mcp-grantconnect-au).

### Is the Grantconnect Au MCP server safe to use?

Grantconnect Au 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 Grantconnect Au MCP server expose?

Grantconnect Au exposes 6 tools: au_grants_search, au_grant_award, au_grants_by_recipient, au_grant_opportunities_open, au_grants_top_recipients, grantconnect_coverage. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 1,621 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the Grantconnect Au MCP server still maintained?

Grantconnect Au 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 Grantconnect Au MCP server under?

Grantconnect Au 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 Grantconnect Au MCP server?

VerifyMCP ran 15 checks on Grantconnect Au, covering Malware scan, Known CVEs, Install scripts, Dependency health and 11 more. One item could not be completed, a gap on our side rather than a finding about Grantconnect Au: Security disclosure. 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-grantconnect-au
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/npm/package/@pipeworx/mcp-grantconnect-au
- Repository: https://github.com/pipeworx-io/mcp-grantconnect-au
- Website: https://pipeworx.io/packs/grantconnect-au
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-grantconnect-au/pipeworx-mcp-grantconnect-au.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-grantconnect-au/pipeworx-mcp-grantconnect-au/changelog.json
- Trust report (JSON): https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-grantconnect-au/pipeworx-mcp-grantconnect-au.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-grantconnect-au/pipeworx-mcp-grantconnect-au