# Powder to the People Snow Reports (remote · powdertothepeople.org)

Free snow reports, forecasts and season history for ~400 US and Canada ski resorts, with citations.

- Trust score: 72/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-10-18

## Components

- remote · `powdertothepeople.org`: 72/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/serknight-powder-to-the-people-snow-mcp/api-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/serknight-powder-to-the-people-snow-mcp/api-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://powdertothepeople.org/api/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.1.0`

## 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 2026-10-18.

- **Endpoint Security**: 80/100
  - 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.
  - The HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security) header is present.
  - 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**: 68/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 717 tokens (~65/item across 11 items; 11 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 3/100
  - Stability observed for 1 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 94/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 82% 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 11 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 12 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 Powder to the People Snow Reports MCP server?

Powder to the People Snow Reports is a hosted endpoint at https://powdertothepeople.org/api/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 serknight-powder-to-the-people-snow-mcp 'https://powdertothepeople.org/api/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "serknight-powder-to-the-people-snow-mcp": {
      "url": "https://powdertothepeople.org/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "serknight-powder-to-the-people-snow-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://powdertothepeople.org/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.serknight-powder-to-the-people-snow-mcp]
url = "https://powdertothepeople.org/api/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "serknight-powder-to-the-people-snow-mcp": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://powdertothepeople.org/api/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add serknight-powder-to-the-people-snow-mcp --url 'https://powdertothepeople.org/api/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  serknight-powder-to-the-people-snow-mcp:
    url: "https://powdertothepeople.org/api/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "serknight-powder-to-the-people-snow-mcp": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://powdertothepeople.org/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add serknight-powder-to-the-people-snow-mcp -t streamable-http -u 'https://powdertothepeople.org/api/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "serknight-powder-to-the-people-snow-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://powdertothepeople.org/api/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.

### 2026-10-18 (score 72, 0)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-10-17 (score 72)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (11)

### `search_resorts` (~87 tokens)

Search ski resorts

Search resorts by name, slug, region, or US/CA state code. Returns compact snow metrics and a citation URL to the public site.

Input parameters:

- `query` (string, required): Resort name or slug fragment
- `region` (string): Optional region slug (e.g. colorado, utah)
- `state` (string): Optional state/province code (e.g. CO, UT)

### `get_resort_snow` (~64 tokens)

Resort snow report

Snowfall and season comparison for one resort by slug (24h/7d/10d modeled, season total, % normal, vs last year). Uses precomputed Convex snapshots.

Input parameters:

- `resort` (string, required): Resort slug, e.g. vail

### `list_regions` (~18 tokens)

List snow regions

List tracked ski regions with slug and display name.

### `get_region_snow` (~43 tokens)

Regional snow overview

Regional snowfall overview and season comparison for a region slug (same market dashboard as the public site).

Input parameters:

- `region` (string, required): Region slug, e.g. colorado

### `get_top_snowfall` (~61 tokens)

Top snowfall leaderboard

Rank resorts by 24h, 7d observed, or season-to-date inches from the resort board snapshot.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer)
- `region` (string): Optional region slug filter
- `window` (string, required): Ranking window

### `get_weekly_summary` (~30 tokens)

Weekly snow summary

Latest weekly report snapshot, bulletin headline, and highlight stats (leaders, regions above/below normal).

### `get_state_snow` (~74 tokens)

State or province snow report

Every tracked resort in a US state or Canadian province (two-letter code) with last-24h, last-7-day, next-7-day forecast and season totals, plus the canonical state page URL to cite.

Input parameters:

- `state` (string, required): State/province code, e.g. CO, NY, BC

### `get_snow_image` (~164 tokens)

Snow report image (PNG)

A branded PNG snow card you can look at or show the user: one resort's last 5 days + next 10 days with the best day to go (view=card), the resort's next 7 days as a calendar (view=week), or a leaderboard for a region, state or all resorts. Returns the image plus its stable public URL (cacheable, embeddable).

Input parameters:

- `id` (string): Resort slug, region slug, or state code; omit for kind=top
- `kind` (string, required): What to draw
- `metric` (string): Leaderboards only: ranking window (default 10d forecast)
- `theme` (string)
- `view` (string): Resort only: card (default) or week

### `get_resort_snow_history` (~65 tokens)

Resort snow history (season totals by year)

Average annual snowfall, season totals by year, monthly averages and the snowiest season for a resort slug (modeled Open-Meteo archive, completed seasons only). Cite the history page URL.

Input parameters:

- `resort` (string, required): Resort slug, e.g. alta

### `search` (~38 tokens)

Search (OpenAI connector)

OpenAI-compatible search over resorts and regions. Returns id, title, url, and text snippets with citations.

Input parameters:

- `query` (string, required): Search query

### `fetch` (~48 tokens)

Fetch document (OpenAI connector)

Fetch a full document by id from search results (resort:slug, history:slug, state:xx, region:id, page:this-week, site:home).

Input parameters:

- `id` (string, required)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/serknight-powder-to-the-people-snow-mcp/api-mcp#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-10-18: 72
- 2026-10-17: 72

## Common questions

### What is the Powder to the People Snow Reports MCP server?

Powder to the People Snow Reports is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.SerKnight/powder-to-the-people-snow-mcp. Free snow reports, forecasts and season history for ~400 US and Canada ski resorts, with citations. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://powdertothepeople.org/api/mcp).

### Is the Powder to the People Snow Reports MCP server safe to use?

Powder to the People Snow Reports scores 72 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 Powder to the People Snow Reports MCP server expose?

Powder to the People Snow Reports exposes 11 tools: search_resorts, get_resort_snow, list_regions, get_region_snow, get_top_snowfall, and 6 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 692 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Powder to the People Snow Reports MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to Powder to the People Snow Reports without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the Powder to the People Snow Reports MCP server still maintained?

Powder to the People Snow Reports is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 18 October 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://powdertothepeople.org/api/mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/serknight/boa-snow-planner
- Website: https://powdertothepeople.org/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/serknight-powder-to-the-people-snow-mcp/api-mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/serknight-powder-to-the-people-snow-mcp/api-mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/serknight-powder-to-the-people-snow-mcp/api-mcp