# Sothebys (npm · @pipeworx/mcp-sothebys)

Sotheby's MCP — realized auction prices from sothebys.com.

- 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`: 85/100, [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-sothebys/sothebys-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-sothebys/sothebys-mcp)
- npm · `@pipeworx/mcp-sothebys`: 82/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-sothebys/pipeworx-mcp-sothebys.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-sothebys/pipeworx-mcp-sothebys)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `npm`
- Package: `@pipeworx/mcp-sothebys`
- 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-sothebys).
  - Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).
  - Actively maintained (last published 0 days ago).
  - Security-disclosure policy not yet verified: we couldn't inspect the source repository.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 65/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 475 tokens (~237/item across 2 items; 2 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 2 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 3 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 Sothebys MCP server?

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

### Cursor

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

### VS Code

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

### Codex

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

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

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

### Hermes

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

### Netclaw

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

### Vellum

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

### Other

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

## 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, +3)

- [functional regression] Security disclosure: fail → unverified
- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.23
- [functional] Package version: 0.2.0 → 0.2.1

### 2026-11-03 (score 79, 0)

- [functional regression] Security disclosure: unverified → fail

### 2026-11-02 (score 79, 0)

- [functional regression] Security disclosure: fail → unverified

### 2026-10-31 (score 79, 0)

- [functional regression] Security disclosure: unverified → fail

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

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (2)

### `sothebys_results_search` (~307 tokens)

Search Sotheby's past-lot archive by artist/maker (or any keyword) and return realized prices: price including buyer's premium, winning (hammer) bid, estimate range, sale name/date/location and department. Covers every Sotheby's sale in the index, not one auction. Defaults to `sale_type: "timed"` (online sales) because those are the ones Sotheby's publishes results for — live-saleroom sales are searchable but their prices are withheld, so a famous evening-sale lot will come back with a null price whatever you do.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string): Optional free-text filter matched against the lot's department names, e.g. "prints", "photographs", "jewelry".
- `include_unpriced` (boolean): Also return lots whose result Sotheby's withholds, with null prices. Default false.
- `limit` (number): Max lots to return (1-50, default 20).
- `page` (number): Search page, 1-based (each page scans up to 100 matching lots). Default 1.
- `query` (string, required): Artist, maker, or keyword, e.g. "Pablo Picasso", "Patek Philippe".
- `sale_type` (string): Which sales to search. "timed" (default) = online sales, the only ones whose realized prices Sotheby's publishes. "live" = saleroom sales, searchable but with prices withheld. "any" = both.

### `sothebys_lot_details` (~114 tokens)

Full detail for one Sotheby's lot: catalogue description, provenance, literature, exhibition history, catalogue note, images, estimate range, and the realized price (including buyer's premium) where Sotheby's publishes it. Needs the `lot_id` from sothebys_results_search.

Input parameters:

- `lot_id` (string, required): Lot UUID from sothebys_results_search's `lot_id` field, e.g. "bca81c91-e36d-482c-a705-064e06671fb0".

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

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

## Common questions

### What is the Sothebys MCP server?

Sothebys is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.pipeworx-io/sothebys. Sotheby's MCP, realized auction prices from sothebys.com. This page covers its npm package (@pipeworx/mcp-sothebys).

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

Sothebys 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 Sothebys MCP server expose?

Sothebys exposes 2 tools: sothebys_results_search, sothebys_lot_details. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 421 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the Sothebys MCP server still maintained?

Sothebys 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 Sothebys MCP server under?

Sothebys 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 Sothebys MCP server?

VerifyMCP ran 15 checks on Sothebys, 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 Sothebys: 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-sothebys
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/npm/package/@pipeworx/mcp-sothebys
- Repository: https://github.com/pipeworx-io/mcp-sothebys
- Website: https://pipeworx.io/packs/sothebys
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-sothebys/pipeworx-mcp-sothebys.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-sothebys/pipeworx-mcp-sothebys/changelog.json
- Trust report (JSON): https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-sothebys/pipeworx-mcp-sothebys.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-sothebys/pipeworx-mcp-sothebys