# transparent.ruhr (remote · mcp.transparent.ruhr)

Read-only council records from Germany's Ruhr area plus German parliamentary papers.

- Trust score: 68/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `mcp.transparent.ruhr`: 68/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/ruhr-transparent-ratsinformationen/mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/ruhr-transparent-ratsinformationen/mcp)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://mcp.transparent.ruhr/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.0.0`

## Trust breakdown

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. 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.

- **Endpoint Security**: 74/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 60/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 1313 tokens (~164/item across 8 items; 8 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 13/100
  - Stability observed for 4 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 67/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 0% 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 8 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 9 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a current MCP spec version (2026-07-28).

## Install

### How do I install the transparent.ruhr MCP server?

transparent.ruhr is a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.transparent.ruhr/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.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http ruhr-transparent-ratsinformationen 'https://mcp.transparent.ruhr/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ruhr-transparent-ratsinformationen": {
      "url": "https://mcp.transparent.ruhr/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "ruhr-transparent-ratsinformationen": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.transparent.ruhr/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.ruhr-transparent-ratsinformationen]
url = "https://mcp.transparent.ruhr/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "ruhr-transparent-ratsinformationen": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://mcp.transparent.ruhr/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add ruhr-transparent-ratsinformationen --url 'https://mcp.transparent.ruhr/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  ruhr-transparent-ratsinformationen:
    url: "https://mcp.transparent.ruhr/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "ruhr-transparent-ratsinformationen": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://mcp.transparent.ruhr/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add ruhr-transparent-ratsinformationen -t streamable-http -u 'https://mcp.transparent.ruhr/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ruhr-transparent-ratsinformationen": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.transparent.ruhr/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

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

## 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 68, +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.

### 2026-11-03 (score 67, +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.

### 2026-11-02 (score 66, 0)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-11-01 (score 66)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (8)

### `kommunen` (~70 tokens)

Listet die Körperschaften auf transparent.ruhr (Städte, Kreis, Regionalverband)
    mit Kürzel, Website und Zahl der Vorlagen. Das Kürzel (`kommune`) brauchen die
    übrigen Werkzeuge. Für Landes- und Bundesparlamente siehe `drucksachen_suchen`.

### `vorlagen_suchen` (~211 tokens)

Volltextsuche in Vorlagen, Anträgen, Anfragen und Mitteilungen der Räte im
    Ruhrgebiet (Titel und Dokumenttext).

    kommune: Kürzel aus `kommunen`, z. B. "bochum"; leer = alle Körperschaften.
    art: Vorlagenart wie die Quelle sie nennt, z. B. "Anfrage", "Antrag",
         "Beschlussvorlage der Verwaltung", "Mitteilung der Verwaltung".
    jahr: nur Vorlagen dieses Jahres. neueste_zuerst: nach Datum statt Relevanz.
    anzahl: 1 bis 30.
    Das Datum ist bei vielen Kommunen das der ersten Sitzung, nicht der Einreichung.
    Einzelheiten und Beratungsergebnisse liefert `vorlage`.

Input parameters:

- `anzahl` (integer)
- `art`
- `jahr`
- `kommune`
- `neueste_zuerst` (boolean)
- `suchbegriff` (string, required)

### `vorlage` (~102 tokens)

Einzelheiten zu einer Vorlage: Titel, Art, Datum, federführendes Gremium,
    maschinelle Zusammenfassung, amtliches Dokument, Beratungsfolge mit Ergebnissen
    und, bei Anfragen, die Antwort der Verwaltung (bzw. umgekehrt).

    kommune: Kürzel, id: die Nummer aus der Vorlagen-URL bzw. aus `vorlagen_suchen`.

Input parameters:

- `id` (string, required)
- `kommune` (string, required)

### `sitzungen` (~140 tokens)

Sitzungen von Rat, Ausschüssen und Bezirksvertretungen in einem Zeitraum.

    von/bis: Datum JJJJ-MM-TT; ohne Angabe die nächsten 30 Tage ab heute.
    gremium: Wortanfang im Gremiennamen, z. B. "Rat", "Mobilität" oder "Bezirksvertretung Mitte"
    ("Rat" findet den Rat, nicht "Integration" oder "Beirat").
    Die Tagesordnung liefert `sitzung`.

Input parameters:

- `anzahl` (integer)
- `bis`
- `gremium`
- `kommune` (string, required)
- `von`

### `sitzung` (~60 tokens)

Eine Sitzung mit ihrer öffentlichen Tagesordnung: Tagesordnungspunkte,
    zugehörige Vorlagen und, soweit die Quelle sie liefert, Ergebnisse.
    Nichtöffentliche Punkte sind nicht enthalten.

Input parameters:

- `id` (string, required)
- `kommune` (string, required)

### `gremien` (~41 tokens)

Die aktuellen Gremien einer Körperschaft (Rat, Ausschüsse, Bezirksvertretungen,
    Fraktionen), ohne Mitglieder.

Input parameters:

- `kommune` (string, required)

### `drucksachen_suchen` (~255 tokens)

Drucksachen von Bundestag und Landtagen (parlamente.org), parlamentsübergreifend,
    neueste zuerst. Beispiel: alle Kleinen Anfragen einer Fraktion.

    suchbegriff: Wörter oder Wortanfänge im Titel, alle müssen vorkommen
    ("Windkraft" findet auch "Windkraftanlagen"). parlament: bundestag, berlin, brandenburg, sachsen;
    leer = alle. fraktion: einheitliches Kürzel (AfD, BSW, CDU, CDU/CSU, CSU,
    Die Linke, FDP, Freie Wähler, fraktionslos, Grüne, SPD, SSW); gezählt wird die
    einbringende Fraktion, nicht die antwortende Regierung.
    art: z. B. "Kleine Anfrage", "Große Anfrage", "Antrag", "Gesetzentwurf",
    "Beschlussempfehlung". seit: JJJJ-MM-TT. anzahl: 1 bis 50.

Input parameters:

- `anzahl` (integer)
- `art`
- `fraktion`
- `parlament`
- `seit`
- `suchbegriff`

### `drucksache` (~95 tokens)

Eine Drucksache von parlamente.org mit allen Dokumenten (bei Anfragen auch die
    Antwort), Urhebern und verwandten Drucksachen desselben Vorgangs.

    parlament: bundestag, berlin, brandenburg, sachsen. nummer: "Wahlperiode/Nummer",
    z. B. "21/8318".

Input parameters:

- `nummer` (string, required)
- `parlament` (string, required)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ruhr-transparent-ratsinformationen/mcp#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 68
- 2026-11-04: 67
- 2026-11-03: 67
- 2026-11-02: 66
- 2026-11-01: 66

## Common questions

### What is the transparent.ruhr MCP server?

transparent.ruhr is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as ruhr.transparent/ratsinformationen. Read-only council records from Germany's Ruhr area plus German parliamentary papers. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://mcp.transparent.ruhr/mcp).

### Is the transparent.ruhr MCP server safe to use?

transparent.ruhr scores 68 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 transparent.ruhr MCP server expose?

transparent.ruhr exposes 8 tools: kommunen, vorlagen_suchen, vorlage, sitzungen, sitzung, and 3 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 974 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the transparent.ruhr MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to transparent.ruhr without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the transparent.ruhr MCP server still maintained?

transparent.ruhr 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.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://mcp.transparent.ruhr/mcp
- Website: https://transparent.ruhr/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ruhr-transparent-ratsinformationen/mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ruhr-transparent-ratsinformationen/mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ruhr-transparent-ratsinformationen/mcp