# Uk Contracts (npm · @pipeworx/mcp-uk-contracts) UK Contracts Finder 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`: 77/100, [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-uk-contracts/uk-contracts-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-uk-contracts/uk-contracts-mcp) - npm · `@pipeworx/mcp-uk-contracts`: 82/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-uk-contracts/pipeworx-mcp-uk-contracts.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-uk-contracts/pipeworx-mcp-uk-contracts) ## Channel facts - Registry: `npm` - Package: `@pipeworx/mcp-uk-contracts` - Version: `0.2.0` - 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-uk-contracts). - Clear OSI-approved license (MIT). - Actively maintained (last published 6 days ago). - Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository. - **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 63/100 - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent). - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 1381 tokens (~276/item across 5 items; 5 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 5 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation. - An AI judge read all 6 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 Uk Contracts MCP server? Uk Contracts runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-uk-contracts. 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-uk-contracts -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-uk-contracts ``` ### Cursor ```json { "mcpServers": { "pipeworx-io-uk-contracts": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-uk-contracts" ] } } } ``` ### VS Code ```json { "servers": { "pipeworx-io-uk-contracts": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-uk-contracts" ] } } } ``` ### Codex ```bash codex mcp add pipeworx-io-uk-contracts -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-uk-contracts ``` ### opencode ```json { "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json", "mcp": { "pipeworx-io-uk-contracts": { "type": "local", "command": [ "npx", "-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-uk-contracts" ], "enabled": true } } } ``` ### OpenClaw ```bash openclaw mcp add pipeworx-io-uk-contracts --command npx --arg -y --arg @pipeworx/mcp-uk-contracts ``` ### Hermes ```yaml mcp_servers: pipeworx-io-uk-contracts: command: "npx" args: ["-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-uk-contracts"] ``` ### Netclaw ```json { "McpServers": { "pipeworx-io-uk-contracts": { "Transport": "stdio", "Command": "npx", "Arguments": [ "-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-uk-contracts" ] } } } ``` ### Vellum ```bash assistant mcp add pipeworx-io-uk-contracts -t stdio -c npx -a -y @pipeworx/mcp-uk-contracts ``` ### Other ```json { "mcpServers": { "pipeworx-io-uk-contracts": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-uk-contracts" ] } } } ``` ## 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. ### 2026-11-02 (score 81, +1) No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 10 to 13. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 3 days of observed history at the previous scan, 4 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes. ### 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. ### 2026-10-29 (score 79) First indexed and scored. ## MCP tools (5) ### `search_notices` (~444 tokens) Full-text search of UK government procurement from Contracts Finder (Cabinet Office) — what the public sector bought, who supplied it, and for how much, plus open opportunities still out to tender. Covers NHS trusts, councils, police forces, universities and central government departments. Search by keyword ("MRI scanner", "agency nursing", "school catering", "cloud hosting") across notice title, description and awarded supplier, and narrow by publication date. Returns awarded contracts with supplier name and contract value by default, because a question about "contracts" usually means what was actually awarded. Keyless. The UK complement to EU tenders. Input parameters: - `keyword` (string): Free-text search over notice title, description and awarded supplier name, e.g. "MRI", "magnetic resonance imaging", "agency nursing". Server-side and properly indexed. Omit to browse the newest noti… - `limit` (number): Max notices to return, 1–100 (default 20). `total_matches` reports the full hit count regardless. - `notice_type` (string): Optional notice type. "Contract" is a real procurement; "PreProcurement" is market engagement; "Pipeline"/"Planning"/"Future" are intentions to buy later. - `published_from` (string): Optional ISO date (YYYY-MM-DD) lower bound on publication date, e.g. "2025-01-01". - `published_to` (string): Optional ISO date (YYYY-MM-DD) upper bound on publication date, e.g. "2026-08-01". - `status` (string): Which notices: "awarded" (contracts actually awarded, with supplier and value — the DEFAULT, and what a question about "contracts" nearly always means), "open" (opportunities still accepting bids), "… ### `get_notice` (~209 tokens) Get the full detail for a single UK Contracts Finder notice by the `id` returned by search_notices or recent_notices. Returns the complete (untruncated) description, buyer, contract value, awarded supplier, CPV classification, region, tender period and contact where published. Accepts either id form — search_notices returns a bare GUID and recent_notices an OCDS release id ("{guid}-{seq}"); they are separate id spaces on separate endpoints, and this tool routes to the right one for you. Keyless. Input parameters: - `id` (string, required): The `id` from a search_notices result (a bare GUID, e.g. "5295555c-7556-4726-bd59-7895f51a3c3a") or from recent_notices (an OCDS release id, e.g. "a42239ac-faef-4245-ad0f-16b3a787675b-901561"). Eithe… ### `recent_notices` (~88 tokens) List the most recent UK procurement notices from Contracts Finder, newest-first, optionally filtered by stage (tender/award). Same compact shape as search_notices. Keyless. Input parameters: - `limit` (number): Number of recent notices to return, 1–100 (default 20). - `stage` (string): Notice stage: "tender" or "award". Default "tender". ### `find_a_tender_recent` (~471 tokens) Recent OR HISTORICAL high-value UK government tenders and contract awards from the Find a Tender Service (find-tender.service.gov.uk) — the UK's above-threshold procurement portal (the post-Brexit replacement for EU TED, for larger public contracts). Use for "high value UK tenders", "above threshold UK government contracts", "Find a Tender notices", "large UK public sector contract opportunities", or a historical window like "FTS notices from 2023". Returns notices newest-first within the window `days` reaches back. An optional keyword is matched over title, description, award title and AWARDED SUPPLIER — client-side, because the FTS API has no text search (it rejects a keyword parameter outright, allowing only stages/limit/cursor/updatedFrom/updatedTo). ALWAYS READ `window_complete`: false means the walk stopped at the page cap (8 pages/call) with more feed left, so a zero means "absent from the notices examined", not "not published" — narrow `days` or `stage` until it is true, or repeat the call from where it stopped. For a proper full-corpus keyword SEARCH of UK procurement with real historical date filtering (not just a bounded walk), and for lower-value notices, use search_notices (Contracts Finder), which does have a real server-side index. Keyless. Input parameters: - `days` (number): How many days back to scan, 1–3660 (~10 years; FTS itself accepts any historical date, verified live). Default 7 when listing, 30 when a keyword is given (the 7-day feed is only ~30 notices, too few… - `keyword` (string): Optional keyword to filter recent notices by title/description, e.g. "cloud", "construction". Omit to list all recent. - `limit` (number): Max notices to return, 1–100 (default 20). - `stage` (string): Notice stage: "tender" (open opportunities, default), "award" (results), or "planning". ### `find_a_tender_notice` (~114 tokens) Full detail for one Find a Tender Service (high-value UK) notice by its OCID (e.g. "ocds-h6vhtk-06d27d", from find_a_tender_recent results). Returns title, buyer, description, CPV classification, value, deadlines, and documents. Keyless. Input parameters: - `ocid` (string, required): The notice OCID, e.g. "ocds-h6vhtk-06d27d". Get these from find_a_tender_recent. ## Diagnostics Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-uk-contracts/pipeworx-mcp-uk-contracts#diagnostics ## Score history - 2026-11-05: 82 - 2026-11-04: 82 - 2026-11-03: 81 - 2026-11-02: 81 - 2026-11-01: 80 - 2026-10-31: 80 - 2026-10-30: 79 - 2026-10-29: 79 ## Common questions ### What is the Uk Contracts MCP server? Uk Contracts is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.pipeworx-io/uk-contracts. UK Contracts Finder MCP. This page covers its npm package (@pipeworx/mcp-uk-contracts). ### Is the Uk Contracts MCP server safe to use? Uk Contracts 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 Uk Contracts MCP server expose? Uk Contracts exposes 5 tools: search_notices, get_notice, recent_notices, find_a_tender_recent, find_a_tender_notice. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 1,326 tokens of context every time the server is loaded. ### Is the Uk Contracts MCP server still maintained? Uk Contracts 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 Uk Contracts MCP server under? Uk Contracts 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 Uk Contracts MCP server? VerifyMCP ran 16 checks on Uk Contracts, 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-uk-contracts - Socket report: https://socket.dev/npm/package/@pipeworx/mcp-uk-contracts - Repository: https://github.com/pipeworx-io/mcp-uk-contracts - Website: https://pipeworx.io/packs/uk-contracts - Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-uk-contracts/pipeworx-mcp-uk-contracts.xml - Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-uk-contracts/pipeworx-mcp-uk-contracts/changelog.json - Trust report (JSON): https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-uk-contracts/pipeworx-mcp-uk-contracts.json - HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-uk-contracts/pipeworx-mcp-uk-contracts