Yelp
NPM · @PIPEWORX/MCP-YELP · 2 COMPONENTS
Yelp MCP — wraps the Yelp Fusion API (api.yelp.com/v3)
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Last scanned (7 hours ago)
Scores higher than 69% of npm servers
Category Maps and Location
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. How we score → Why this is hard to score →
Supply Chain Security100
- No malware found by supply-chain analysis.Pass
- No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.Pass
- No install/post-install scripts declared.Pass
- No production dependencies, so there is no dependency health to assess. View diagnostics → Pass
Provenance & Transparency97
- Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL. View diagnostics → Pass
- Cryptographically verified build provenance (signed, bound to pipeworx-io/mcp-yelp). View diagnostics → Pass
- Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).Pass
- Actively maintained (last published 7 days ago).Pass
- Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository. See how to fix → Fail
Schema Quality & AI Usability60
- AI-judged instruction clarity (good).Pass
- Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 744 tokens (~248/item across 3 items; 3 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params. See how to fix → Fail
- Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management23
- Stability observed for 7 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.Partial
Tool Coverage100
- 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
- 100% of tool parameters carry a description.Pass
Tool Safety100
- No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
- We read all 3 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
- An AI judge read all 4 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.Pass
Capabilities100
- Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.Pass
Checks we ran (16)
- Malware scan
- Known CVEs
- Install scripts
- Dependency health
- Source repository
- Provenance
- License
- Maintenance
- Security disclosure
- Schema quality
- Stability
- Tool coverage
- Injection markers
- Destructive annotations
- Judged manipulation
- MCP protocol
Does not apply to this package (2)
- Endpoint SecurityScored on hosted endpoints only. A package has no live endpoint of its own for us to probe.
- Transport & ReachabilityScored on hosted endpoints only. A package has no live endpoint of its own for us to probe.
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Every change we have recorded for this component, newest first. Security-relevant changes are always shown. ▲ marks a change for the better, ▼ a change for the worse; unmarked changes are neutral.
- 3 Nov 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 13 to 17. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 4 days of observed history at the previous scan, 5 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 1 Nov 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 7 to 10. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 2 days of observed history at the previous scan, 3 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 30 Oct 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 0 to 3. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 0 days of observed history at the previous scan, 1 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 29 Oct 26 78
First indexed and scored.
Diagnostic detail from the automated scan of this channel: what the scanner observed at each step, so you can see exactly where a check passed or failed. It is informational only and never changes the trust score.
Captured 5 Nov 2026 · Analysed npm/@pipeworx/mcp-yelp@0.2.0
Provenance Verified
A signed build attestation was found and verified, binding this exact artifact to the source repository it claims to come from.
| Result | Verified |
|---|---|
| Ecosystem | npm |
| Reason | Verified |
| Discovered via | Registry attestation endpoint |
| Source repo | pipeworx-io/mcp-yelp |
| Certificate issuer | https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com |
| Certificate SAN | https://github.com/pipeworx-io/mcp-yelp/.github/workflows/publish.yml@refs/heads/main |
| Rekor log index | 3561218989 |
| Predicate type | SLSA build provenance https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1 |
| Subject digest | sha512:b9715ef88cafa9e37399ff310fe3059a112316538f13202b562f117a99ded8ae19d9066b3809eafbb7e7d1908b6208cf3dbde431cb97c5a8c3b406afe |
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Dependencies 0 packages
| Packages resolved | 0 |
|---|---|
| Tree resolution | Complete |
Background: SBOMs and build attestations, explained →
The tools this component advertises to a client, with an estimated token cost for each. Expand a tool to see its parameters and schema. The per-tool counts are indicative and are not scored directly; the schema's total context footprint is one signal in Schema Quality & AI Usability. A tool's description is untrusted text the model reads on every call, which is what makes this list a security surface and not just an inventory: how tool poisoning works →
get_business ~123
Get full details for a single Yelp business by its id or alias. Returns rating, review count, price, categories, address, phone, hours, photos, and coordinates. Example: get_business({ id: "garaje-san-francisco" }).
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| _apiKey | string | – | Required — your own Yelp Fusion key. Pipeworx fronts no platform key for Yelp (Fusion plan is $229/mo, #2275 open); every call is refused with none. |
| id | string | yes | Yelp business id or alias (from search_businesses results). |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
get_reviews ~273
⚠️ UPSTREAM-UNRELIABLE — Yelp Fusion's /reviews endpoint has been 404-ing on most ids since mid-2026 even for valid businesses. PREFER `get_business` (which sometimes inlines a snippet) or `search_businesses` for review-context queries. If you must call get_reviews: pass the ENCRYPTED business id (long alphanumeric, e.g. "WavvLdfdP6g8aZTtbBQHTw") returned in search_businesses results — aliases / slugs (e.g. "garaje-san-francisco") reliably 404. Returns up to 3 review snippets per business (rating, text, author, timestamp); "limit" is capped by Yelp upstream regardless of what you pass.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| _apiKey | string | – | Required — your own Yelp Fusion key. Pipeworx fronts no platform key for Yelp (Fusion plan is $229/mo, #2275 open); every call is refused with none. |
| id | string | yes | Yelp business id or alias (from search_businesses results). |
| limit | number | – | Number of reviews to return (default 3, max 50). |
| sort_by | string | – | Sort order: "yelp_sort" (default) or "newest". |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
search_businesses ~296
Search for local businesses and restaurants on Yelp by term and location. Returns matching businesses with star ratings, review counts, price, categories, address, and phone. Example: search_businesses({ term: "pizza", location: "San Francisco, CA" }).
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| _apiKey | string | – | Required — your own Yelp Fusion key. Pipeworx fronts no platform key for Yelp (Fusion plan is $229/mo, #2275 open); every call is refused with none. |
| latitude | number | – | Latitude of the search center. Use with longitude instead of location. |
| limit | number | – | Number of results to return (default 20, max 50). |
| location | string | – | Location to search, e.g. "San Francisco, CA" or "New York". Provide this OR latitude+longitude. |
| longitude | number | – | Longitude of the search center. Use with latitude instead of location. |
| open_now | boolean | – | If true, only return businesses currently open. |
| price | string | – | Price filter as comma-separated levels 1-4, e.g. "1,2,3" for $ to $$$. |
| sort_by | string | – | Sort order: "best_match" (default), "rating", "review_count", or "distance". |
| term | string | – | Search term, e.g. "coffee", "pizza", "plumber". Optional. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
How do I install the Yelp MCP server?
Yelp runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-yelp. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.
npm · @pipeworx/mcp-yelp
claude mcp add pipeworx-io-yelp -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-yelp
What is the Yelp MCP server?
Yelp is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.pipeworx-io/yelp. Yelp MCP, wraps the Yelp Fusion API (api.yelp.com/v3). This page covers its npm package (@pipeworx/mcp-yelp).
Is the Yelp MCP server safe to use?
Yelp 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 Yelp MCP server expose?
Yelp exposes 3 tools: search_businesses, get_business, get_reviews. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 692 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Is the Yelp MCP server still maintained?
Yelp 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 Yelp MCP server under?
Yelp 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 Yelp MCP server?
VerifyMCP ran 16 checks on Yelp, 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.