# Idb (npm · @pipeworx/mcp-idb)

IDB (Inter-American Development Bank) Procurement MCP.

- 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`: 63/100, [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-idb/idb-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-idb/idb-mcp)
- npm · `@pipeworx/mcp-idb`: 82/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-idb/pipeworx-mcp-idb.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-idb/pipeworx-mcp-idb)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `npm`
- Package: `@pipeworx/mcp-idb`
- 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-idb).
  - 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**: 65/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 1063 tokens (~265/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 Idb MCP server?

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

### Cursor

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

### VS Code

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

### Codex

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

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

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

### Hermes

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

### Netclaw

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

### Vellum

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

### Other

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

## 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.

### 2026-11-04 (score 82, +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.

### 2026-11-03 (score 81, +26)

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

### 2026-11-02 (score 55, −26)

- [security regression] Known CVEs: pass → unverified
- [security regression] Malware scan: pass → unverified
- [functional regression] Security disclosure: unverified → fail
- [functional regression] Dependency health: pass → unverified
- [functional] Package version: 0.2.0 → 0.2.1

### 2026-11-01 (score 81, +1)

- [functional regression] Security disclosure: fail → unverified

### 2026-10-30 (score 80, +1)

- [functional regression] Security disclosure: unverified → fail

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

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (4)

### `idb_search_notices` (~339 tokens)

Search Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) project procurement notices — live bidding notices, expressions of interest, general/specific procurement notices, and contract-award notifications for IDB-financed projects across 26 Latin American and Caribbean countries. Filter by country, sector, and keyword; defaults to open notices only (deadline not yet passed) sorted soonest-first. Each result carries the notice id, project, deadline, and a document URL. Keyless, ~37,000 notices, queried live.

Input parameters:

- `country` (string): Country name, e.g. "Peru", "Ecuador", "Jamaica". Partial/case-insensitive match. Omit for all LAC countries.
- `keyword` (string): Full-text keyword against the notice title and project name, e.g. "road rehabilitation", "software licenses".
- `limit` (number|string): Max notices to return (1-50). Default 15.
- `open_only` (boolean): Restrict to notices whose deadline has not passed (default true). Set false to include closed/expired notices too, or when type is "award" (awards have no future deadline).
- `sector` (string): Sector keyword, e.g. "Energy", "Health", "Transport", "Water". Partial/case-insensitive match against the English sector name.
- `type` (string): Notice type filter: "specific" (specific procurement notice), "general" (general procurement notice), "eoi" (expression of interest), "award" (contract award notification), or "rfi" (request for info…

### `idb_get_notice` (~110 tokens)

Fetch one IDB procurement notice by its notice id (from idb_search_notices results). Returns the full record: project, loan number, sector, procurement method, publication date, deadline, and the document URL on idbdocs.iadb.org. If the id has multiple entries (amendments/re-publications), all are returned newest-first.

Input parameters:

- `notice_id` (string, required): IDB notice id, e.g. "38846" — find ids via idb_search_notices.

### `idb_search_awards` (~258 tokens)

Search Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) contract award data — which firms and individual consultants were awarded contracts under IDB-financed projects, with contract amount, sector, borrower country, and dates. ~159,000 awards. Filter by country, awarded firm name, sector, and contract year. Note: many individual-consultant contracts record the firm as "Not Available" by design (the consultant is not a named firm). Keyless, queried live against the same data as IDB's 70MB awards CSV — no download needed.

Input parameters:

- `country` (string): Borrowing country, e.g. "Colombia", "Bolivia", "Ecuador". Partial/case-insensitive match.
- `firm` (string): Awarded firm name (partial/case-insensitive), e.g. "Deloitte", "Odebrecht".
- `keyword` (string): Keyword against the project name.
- `limit` (number|string): Max awards to return (1-50). Default 15.
- `sector` (string): Sector keyword, e.g. "Rural Electrification", "Health Services", "Water Supply".
- `year` (number|string): Contract signature year, e.g. 2025.

### `idb_check_mdb_debarment` (~304 tokens)

Check whether a person or firm name appears on the multilateral development bank cross-debarment list — IDB's own debarment/sanctions list PLUS the cross-debarred lists of the World Bank Group, Asian Development Bank, African Development Bank, and EBRD, which the five banks mutually enforce. Answers "is this vendor debarred" for procurement due-diligence. Matching is accent- and case-insensitive (handles Spanish/Portuguese diacritics like "González" vs "Gonzalez") and requires every word of the query name to appear in a record — so a full name narrows results, a bare surname broadens them. Returns each match's entity type, nationality, sanction dates, prohibited practice, and which bank's list it came from. Keyless, ~1,300 records, queried live.

Input parameters:

- `entity_type` (string): Optional filter: "Individual" or "Firm".
- `limit` (number|string): Max matches to return (1-50). Default 10.
- `name` (string, required): Person or firm name to check, e.g. "Ricardo Reynoso Gonzalez" or "Consultora Tecnodinamica". Accents optional.
- `source` (string): Optional filter to one issuing bank, e.g. "IDB", "WBG", "ADB", "AfDB", "EBRD" (partial match against the source label).

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 82
- 2026-11-04: 82
- 2026-11-03: 81
- 2026-11-02: 55
- 2026-11-01: 81
- 2026-10-31: 80
- 2026-10-30: 80
- 2026-10-29: 79

## Common questions

### What is the Idb MCP server?

Idb is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.pipeworx-io/idb. IDB (Inter-American Development Bank) Procurement MCP. This page covers its npm package (@pipeworx/mcp-idb).

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

Idb 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 Idb MCP server expose?

Idb exposes 4 tools: idb_search_notices, idb_get_notice, idb_search_awards, idb_check_mdb_debarment. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 1,011 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the Idb MCP server still maintained?

Idb 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 Idb MCP server under?

Idb 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 Idb MCP server?

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