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io.github.pratikmehkarkar/vin-recall-mcp

REMOTE · VIN-RECALL-MCP.ZENITHSERVER.DUCKDNS.ORG · SCANNED SEP 21

Decodes US VINs and looks up open NHTSA safety recall campaigns for a vehicle.

0 this week 87 Trust /100
Trust breakdown (7 categories)

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. How we score → Why this is hard to score →

Endpoint Security74
Transport & Reachability100
Schema Quality & AI Usability84
  • AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).Pass
  • Tool/resource definitions use about 278 tokens (~139/item across 2 items; 2 tools + 0 resources), lean.Pass
  • Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management100
  • No destabilizing schema changes in the last 30 days.Pass
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
  • Structured output schemas are declared (100% of tools); any adoption earns full credit.Pass
Tool Safety100
  • No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
  • We read all 2 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
  • An AI judge read all 2 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
Install

How do I install the io.github.pratikmehkarkar/vin-recall-mcp server?

io.github.pratikmehkarkar/vin-recall-mcp is a hosted endpoint at https://vin-recall-mcp.zenithserver.duckdns.org/mcp, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

remote · vin-recall-mcp.zenithserver.duckdns.org

# add to Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http pratikmehkarkar-vin-recall-mcp 'https://vin-recall-mcp.zenithserver.duckdns.org/mcp'
// .cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pratikmehkarkar-vin-recall-mcp": {
      "url": "https://vin-recall-mcp.zenithserver.duckdns.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}
// .vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "pratikmehkarkar-vin-recall-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://vin-recall-mcp.zenithserver.duckdns.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}
# ~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.pratikmehkarkar-vin-recall-mcp]
url = "https://vin-recall-mcp.zenithserver.duckdns.org/mcp"
// opencode.json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "pratikmehkarkar-vin-recall-mcp": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://vin-recall-mcp.zenithserver.duckdns.org/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
# add to OpenClaw
openclaw mcp add pratikmehkarkar-vin-recall-mcp --url 'https://vin-recall-mcp.zenithserver.duckdns.org/mcp' --transport streamable-http
# ~/.hermes/config.yaml
mcp_servers:
  pratikmehkarkar-vin-recall-mcp:
    url: "https://vin-recall-mcp.zenithserver.duckdns.org/mcp"
// ~/.netclaw/config/netclaw.json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "pratikmehkarkar-vin-recall-mcp": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://vin-recall-mcp.zenithserver.duckdns.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}
# add to Vellum
assistant mcp add pratikmehkarkar-vin-recall-mcp -t streamable-http -u 'https://vin-recall-mcp.zenithserver.duckdns.org/mcp'
// mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pratikmehkarkar-vin-recall-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://vin-recall-mcp.zenithserver.duckdns.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

Changelog

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.

  • 1 Sept 26 +1
    • Stability: 0.97 → pass security
  • 30 Aug 26 +1

    No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 90 to 93. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 27 days of observed history at the previous scan, 28 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

  • 28 Aug 26 +1

    No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 83 to 87. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 25 days of observed history at the previous scan, 26 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

  • 26 Aug 26 −2
    • We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server See what changed → functional
  • 25 Aug 26 0
    • Stability: 0.97 → pass security
  • 24 Aug 26 +1

    No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 93 to 97. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 28 days of observed history at the previous scan, 29 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

  • 11 Aug 26 0
    • We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server See what changed → functional
  • 2 Aug 26 0
    • Authorization: unverified → partial security
    • Transport: fail → pass security
    • Endpoint reachability: not serving MCP → reachable functional
    • Tool coverage: unverified → 100 functional
    • Stability: unverified → 0.23 functional
    • MCP protocol: unverified → pass functional
Diagnostics

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 21 Sept 2026 · Probed https://vin-recall-mcp.zenithserver.duckdns.org/mcp

TLS valid

Negotiated TLS 1.3 with TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 .

Subject Issuer Valid from Valid until Key Signature Serial
CN=vin-recall-mcp.zenithserver.duckdns.org CN=YE2,O=Let's Encrypt,C=US 20 Sept 2026 19 Dec 2026 ECDSA 256 ECDSA-SHA384 6f06a3201cc4fd68e7374a7f171e9916d5f
SANs: vin-recall-mcp.zenithserver.duckdns.org
CN=YE2,O=Let's Encrypt,C=US (CA) CN=Root YE,O=ISRG,C=US 3 Sept 2025 2 Sept 2028 ECDSA 384 ECDSA-SHA384 4df3b15dd6c0784c507cd37b58e6f115
CN=Root YE,O=ISRG,C=US (CA) CN=ISRG Root X2,O=Internet Security Research Group,C=US 13 May 2026 2 Sept 2032 ECDSA 384 ECDSA-SHA384 872165fc34b6e5fba8add5b3705fb53a
CN=ISRG Root X2,O=Internet Security Research Group,C=US (CA) CN=ISRG Root X1,O=Internet Security Research Group,C=US 13 May 2026 2 Sept 2032 ECDSA 384 SHA256-RSA 6c8f1dc727c7117f7baf853ac980f9cd

Background: What to check on a remote MCP endpoint →

DNSSEC insecure

Validation of vin-recall-mcp.zenithserver.duckdns.org. Not signed

Zone DS Keys Algorithms Outcome
. trust_anchor 20326, 38696 8, 8 Verified
org. present 26974 8 Verified
duckdns.org. absent Unsigned (proven) parent-signed NSEC/NSEC3 proves an unsigned delegation
Authentication No authorisation required

The endpoint answered without asking for a token. Anyone who knows the URL can reach it.

Result No authorisation required
HTTP status 200

Background: How OAuth 2.1 works in the 2026 MCP spec →

Transports 2 probes
Transport URL Outcome Status Location
streamable-http https://vin-recall-mcp.zenithserver.duckdns.org/mcp Verified 200
http (plaintext) http://vin-recall-mcp.zenithserver.duckdns.org/mcp HTTPS enforced 308 https://vin-recall-mcp.zenithserver.duckdns.org/mcp
MCP tools · 2 exposed · ~278 tokens

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 →

Tool Tokens
check_recalls ~148

List open safety recall campaigns for a vehicle by VIN, using the NHTSA Recalls database. Decodes the VIN internally to get make/model/year, then looks up campaigns for that vehicle configuration. Important: results are recall campaigns issued for the make/model/year configuration — this does NOT confirm whether this specific VIN's vehicle was actually repaired at a dealer. Always describe results as 'open recall campaigns for this vehicle,' never as whether the car 'is' or 'isn't' fixed.

NameTypeReqDescription
vinstringyesA 17-character US vehicle VIN (letters and digits, excluding I, O, and Q). The VIN is decoded internally to determine make/model/year for the recall lookup.
NameTypeReqDescription
checkedbooleanyes
makestring
modelstring
notestring
recallCountnumber
recallsarray
summarystringyes
vinstringyes
yearstring

No examples provided.

decode_vin ~130

Decode a 17-character US vehicle VIN into make, model, year, body class, engine cylinders, fuel type, drive type, and assembly plant country, using the NHTSA vPIC database. Covers US-market vehicles built from 1981 onward (the 17-character VIN standard); pre-1981 and some foreign-market vehicles may return partial or no data. Decoded fields are manufacturer-submitted and individual fields may be missing even for a successfully decoded VIN.

NameTypeReqDescription
vinstringyesA 17-character US vehicle VIN (letters and digits, excluding I, O, and Q).
NameTypeReqDescription
bodyClassstring
driveTypestring
engineCylindersstring
foundbooleanyes
fuelTypestring
makestring
modelstring
notestring
plantCountrystring
summarystringyes
vinstringyes
yearstring

No examples provided.

Common questions

What is the io.github.pratikmehkarkar/vin-recall-mcp server?

io.github.pratikmehkarkar/vin-recall-mcp is listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.pratikmehkarkar/vin-recall-mcp. Decodes US VINs and looks up open NHTSA safety recall campaigns for a vehicle. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://vin-recall-mcp.zenithserver.duckdns.org/mcp).

Is the io.github.pratikmehkarkar/vin-recall-mcp server safe to use?

io.github.pratikmehkarkar/vin-recall-mcp scores 87 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. 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 io.github.pratikmehkarkar/vin-recall-mcp server expose?

io.github.pratikmehkarkar/vin-recall-mcp exposes 2 tools: decode_vin, check_recalls. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 278 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

Does the io.github.pratikmehkarkar/vin-recall-mcp server require authentication?

No. We connected to io.github.pratikmehkarkar/vin-recall-mcp without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

Is the io.github.pratikmehkarkar/vin-recall-mcp server still maintained?

io.github.pratikmehkarkar/vin-recall-mcp is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 21 September 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.