io.github.smeet666/mcp-bbc-goodfood
MCPB · MCP-BBC-GOODFOOD-1.2.0.MCPB · 2 COMPONENTS
Search BBC Good Food recipes, read one, and scale its ingredients. No API key.
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Last scanned (20 hours ago)
Scores higher than 86% of MCPB servers
Category Entertainment and Games
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 Security0
- No malware scan is available for this kind of package: the supply-chain vendors we use do not cover it. This is a permanent gap in our coverage, not a finding about the package.Unverified
- Known CVEs could not be checked: we found no dependency list to check in this bundle: either it runs a compiled binary, whose bundled manifests we do not read, or none of the package.json, requirements.txt, pyproject.toml or uv.lock files it ships for its runtime declares a dependency we can read (a requirements.txt that only points at a setup.py project, a local path, or a nested requirements file we cannot follow counts as none).Unverified
- Install-script risk not yet assessed.Unverified
- Dependency health could not be checked: we found no dependency list to check in this bundle: either it runs a compiled binary, whose bundled manifests we do not read, or none of the package.json, requirements.txt, pyproject.toml or uv.lock files it ships for its runtime declares a dependency we can read (a requirements.txt that only points at a setup.py project, a local path, or a nested requirements file we cannot follow counts as none).Unverified
Provenance & Transparency48
- Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL. View diagnostics → Pass
- Provenance check failed: no build-provenance attestation is published. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Fail
- Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).Pass
- Actively maintained (last published 5 days ago).Pass
- Publishes a security disclosure policy (SECURITY.md).Pass
Schema Quality & AI Usability62
- AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).Pass
- Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 1529 tokens (~382/item across 4 items; 4 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 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 4 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
- An AI judge read all 5 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
Unverified: 1 category
A category scored 0 because we could not verify it: a data source with nothing on this package, evidence we could not reach, or a check we could not run. We only credit what we can confirm.
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.
- 31 Oct 26 +1
- Stability: 0.97 → pass security
- 30 Oct 26 −1
- Stability: pass → 0.97 functional
- 29 Oct 26 0
- Stability: pass → unverified ▼ security
- Tool safety: pass → unverified ▼ security
- Capabilities: pass → unverified ▼ functional
- Tool coverage: 100 → unverified ▼ functional
- First check of Schema quality: unverified functional
- Package version: 1.1.0 → 1.2.0 functional
- 24 Oct 26 +1
- Stability: 0.97 → pass security
- 23 Oct 26 −1
- Stability: pass → 0.97 functional
- 17 Oct 26 +1
- Stability: 0.97 → pass security
- 15 Oct 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.
- 13 Oct 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.
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 4 Nov 2026 · Analysed mcpb/https://github.com/smeet666/mcp-bbc-goodfood/releases/download/v1.2.0/mcp-bbc-goodfood-1.2.0.mcpb@1.2.0
Provenance No attestation
The registry publishes no build provenance for this version, so there is nothing to verify.
| Result | No attestation |
|---|---|
| Ecosystem | mcpb |
| Reason | No attestation published |
Background: How many MCP packages publish verified provenance →
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get_recipe Read a recipe ~255
Read one recipe on BBC Good Food: its ingredients, its steps, its times, its rating and its nutrition. Pass the 'id' a search_recipes row carries, which is the page's own path. A recipe behind the site's subscription comes back with everything except its ingredients and steps, and says so: its page on the site is where a subscriber reads it. The site writes many of its recipes twice, once for its own readers and once restated for readers in the United States, and 'unit_system' chooses which of the two to read.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| id | string | yes | The page's own path, as a search_recipes row carries it. |
| servings | integer | – | Put the ingredients to this many people. Quantities are then recomputed by this server, not published by the site, and each line says so under 'scaling'. |
| unit_system | string | – | Which of the site's own two renditions to read: 'metric' as it writes for its own readers, 'us' as it restates for readers in the United States. Both are the site's words. A recipe it restated nowher… |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| author | string|null | yes | – |
| cook_minutes | – | yes | – |
| description | string|null | yes | – |
| diets | array | yes | – |
| difficulty | string|null | yes | – |
| id | string | yes | – |
| ingredients | array | yes | Empty when the recipe sits behind the site's subscription. |
| notes | array | yes | – |
| nutrition | array | yes | – |
| nutrition_per | string|null | yes | The site's own wording for the serving. |
| premium | boolean | yes | True when the recipe sits behind the site's subscription. |
| prep_minutes | – | yes | – |
| rating | number|null | yes | 1 to 5. Null when nobody has rated it. |
| rating_count | – | yes | – |
| source | string | yes | – |
| steps | array | yes | Empty when the recipe sits behind the site's subscription. |
| title | string | yes | – |
| total_minutes | – | yes | – |
| unit_system | string | yes | Which of the site's two renditions this answer carries. |
| url | string | yes | The page. Show this when citing the recipe. |
| yield | object | yes | What the ingredients were put to, and what they were put from. |
| yield_count | – | yes | The first whole number of that wording. |
| yield_text | string|null | yes | The site's own wording, such as 'Serves 4 - 6'. |
No examples provided.
list_filters List the ways a search can be narrowed ~157
List the axes a recipe search can be narrowed along on BBC Good Food, with the values each one takes and how many recipes carry them. Pass 'query' to measure the counts inside one search, or leave it out for the site's whole listing. Read this before narrowing a search: the site accepts any value on a facet and answers one it does not know with a total of zero, so a guessed spelling comes back as a confident absence. The values listed are an excerpt of the most frequent ones, and the site accepts others that are not shown.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| query | string | – | A search to measure the counts inside. The site counts its facets over the rows a search returns, so a count without a query describes the whole listing instead. |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| filter_count | integer | yes | – |
| filters | array | yes | – |
| notes | array | yes | – |
| query | string|null | yes | The search the counts were measured in, trimmed. |
| source | string | yes | – |
| total_available | – | yes | Recipes the site says this scope holds. Null when it published no figure. |
| total_is_ceiling | boolean | yes | True when the total sits on the largest number of rows one search will serve, so it states a floor rather than a count. |
No examples provided.
scale_ingredients Scale a list of ingredients ~171
Put a list of ingredient lines to a different number of people. Pass 'factor', or else the pair 'from_servings' and 'to_servings'. Quantities are recomputed by this server and not by the site, and every line says under 'scaling' whether the arithmetic landed exactly, whether the figure was moved to stay usable in a kitchen, or whether the line carried nothing to multiply.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| factor | number | – | What to multiply every quantity by. Pass this or the servings pair, never both. |
| from_servings | integer | – | How many people the list feeds as written. |
| ingredients | array | yes | The lines to scale, as a recipe writes them, such as '200g plain flour'. |
| to_servings | integer | – | How many people it should feed. |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| factor | number | yes | What every quantity was multiplied by. |
| ingredients | array | yes | – |
| notes | array | yes | – |
| rounded_count | integer | yes | Lines whose figure was moved. |
| scaled_count | integer | yes | Lines whose arithmetic landed exactly. |
| source | string | yes | – |
| unscaled_count | integer | yes | Lines that carried no quantity to multiply. |
No examples provided.
search_recipes Search recipes ~344
Search recipes on BBC Good Food and return a listing. Narrow it with 'diet', 'cuisine', 'meal_type', 'difficulty' or a bound such as 'max_total_minutes'; call list_filters first for the values each one takes, since the site answers a value it does not know with a count of zero. The site ranks rather than filters: it answers a term it holds nothing for with rows all the same, so read the titles rather than trusting the count. Each row carries the page to read the recipe on.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| cuisine | string | – | A value list_filters publishes. |
| diet | string | – | A value list_filters publishes. |
| difficulty | string | – | A value list_filters publishes. |
| exclude_premium | boolean | – | Drop the rows that sit behind the site's subscription. The site offers no such restriction, so the rows are removed from the page after it arrives: a page comes back shorter than the limit asked for,… |
| limit | integer | – | Rows to return. Default 30. |
| max_calories | integer | – | Per serving. |
| max_total_minutes | integer | – | Whole recipe, minutes. |
| meal_type | string | – | A value list_filters publishes. |
| min_rating | number | – | At least this many stars, 1 to 5. |
| min_servings | integer | – | At least this many servings. |
| page | integer | – | Which page of rows. Default 1. |
| query | string | yes | A dish, an ingredient, a technique. |
| sort | string | – | How the site orders the rows. Default 'relevant'. |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| notes | array | yes | – |
| premium_dropped | integer | yes | Rows removed from this page for sitting behind the site's subscription. |
| query | string | yes | – |
| restrictions_lifted | array | yes | Restrictions let go of so the search could run again after the restricted one returned nothing. |
| result_count | integer | yes | Rows rendered, after anything unreadable was set aside. |
| results | array | yes | – |
| rows_seen | integer | yes | Rows the site served, before anything was set aside. |
| source | string | yes | – |
| total_available | – | yes | Recipes the site says the search holds. |
| total_is_ceiling | boolean | yes | True when the total sits on the most rows one search will serve, so it states a floor. |
No examples provided.
How do I install the io.github.smeet666/mcp-bbc-goodfood server?
io.github.smeet666/mcp-bbc-goodfood ships as an MCPB bundle, a single file you download and open in an MCP host that supports MCPB bundles, such as Claude Desktop. The host reads the launch command from the bundle's own manifest, so there is no command to copy. Before opening it, check the file's SHA-256 matches the one the MCP registry declares for it, 83078a2f41509683d71e588e905ff36a17a8eaddd994fe26614599e30322d0e0; the commands to do that are on this page. If it does not match, do not open it.
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What is the io.github.smeet666/mcp-bbc-goodfood server?
io.github.smeet666/mcp-bbc-goodfood is listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.smeet666/mcp-bbc-goodfood. Search BBC Good Food recipes, read one, and scale its ingredients. No API key. This page covers its MCPB bundle (https://github.com/smeet666/mcp-bbc-goodfood/releases/download/v1.2.0/mcp-bbc-goodfood-1.2.0.mcpb).
Is the io.github.smeet666/mcp-bbc-goodfood server safe to use?
io.github.smeet666/mcp-bbc-goodfood scores 53 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.smeet666/mcp-bbc-goodfood server expose?
io.github.smeet666/mcp-bbc-goodfood exposes 4 tools: list_filters, search_recipes, get_recipe, scale_ingredients. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 927 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
What licence is the io.github.smeet666/mcp-bbc-goodfood server under?
io.github.smeet666/mcp-bbc-goodfood declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.