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io.github.smeet666/mcp-bbc-goodfood

MCPB · MCP-BBC-GOODFOOD-1.1.0.MCPB · 2 COMPONENTS · SCANNED SEP 20

Search BBC Good Food recipes, read one, and scale its ingredients. No API key.

+4 this week 47 Trust /100
Trust breakdown (7 categories)

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 Security13
  • Malware scan not yet available for this package.Unverified
  • Known CVEs could not be checked: this artifact ships no SBOM, so there is no dependency list to read. Publishing one would let us assess it.Unverified
  • No install/post-install scripts declared.Pass
  • Dependency health could not be checked: this artifact ships no SBOM, so there is no dependency list to read. Publishing one would let us assess it.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 9 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 Management33
  • Stability observed for 10 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
  • 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
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Changelog

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  • 19 Sept 26 +1

    No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 27 to 30. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 8 days of observed history at the previous scan, 9 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

  • 18 Sept 26 +3
    • Stability: unverified → 0.27 functional
  • 10 Sept 26 43

    First indexed and scored.

Diagnostics

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Captured 20 Sept 2026 · Analysed mcpb/https://github.com/smeet666/mcp-bbc-goodfood/releases/download/v1.1.0/mcp-bbc-goodfood-1.1.0.mcpb@1.1.0

Provenance No attestation

The registry publishes no build provenance for this version, so there is nothing to verify.

Result No attestation
Ecosystem mcpb

Background: How many MCP packages publish verified provenance →

MCP tools · 4 exposed · ~927 tokens

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Tool Tokens
get_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.

NameTypeReqDescription
idstringyesThe page's own path, as a search_recipes row carries it.
servingsintegerPut 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_systemstringWhich 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…
NameTypeReqDescription
authorstring|nullyes
cook_minutesyes
descriptionstring|nullyes
dietsarrayyes
difficultystring|nullyes
idstringyes
ingredientsarrayyesEmpty when the recipe sits behind the site's subscription.
notesarrayyes
nutritionarrayyes
nutrition_perstring|nullyesThe site's own wording for the serving.
premiumbooleanyesTrue when the recipe sits behind the site's subscription.
prep_minutesyes
ratingnumber|nullyes1 to 5. Null when nobody has rated it.
rating_countyes
sourcestringyes
stepsarrayyesEmpty when the recipe sits behind the site's subscription.
titlestringyes
total_minutesyes
unit_systemstringyesWhich of the site's two renditions this answer carries.
urlstringyesThe page. Show this when citing the recipe.
yieldobjectyesWhat the ingredients were put to, and what they were put from.
yield_countyesThe first whole number of that wording.
yield_textstring|nullyesThe site's own wording, such as 'Serves 4 - 6'.

No examples provided.

list_filters ~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.

NameTypeReqDescription
querystringA 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.
NameTypeReqDescription
filter_countintegeryes
filtersarrayyes
notesarrayyes
querystring|nullyesThe search the counts were measured in, trimmed.
sourcestringyes
total_availableyesRecipes the site says this scope holds. Null when it published no figure.
total_is_ceilingbooleanyesTrue 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 ~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.

NameTypeReqDescription
factornumberWhat to multiply every quantity by. Pass this or the servings pair, never both.
from_servingsintegerHow many people the list feeds as written.
ingredientsarrayyesThe lines to scale, as a recipe writes them, such as '200g plain flour'.
to_servingsintegerHow many people it should feed.
NameTypeReqDescription
factornumberyesWhat every quantity was multiplied by.
ingredientsarrayyes
notesarrayyes
rounded_countintegeryesLines whose figure was moved.
scaled_countintegeryesLines whose arithmetic landed exactly.
sourcestringyes
unscaled_countintegeryesLines that carried no quantity to multiply.

No examples provided.

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.

NameTypeReqDescription
cuisinestringA value list_filters publishes.
dietstringA value list_filters publishes.
difficultystringA value list_filters publishes.
exclude_premiumbooleanDrop 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,…
limitintegerRows to return. Default 30.
max_caloriesintegerPer serving.
max_total_minutesintegerWhole recipe, minutes.
meal_typestringA value list_filters publishes.
min_ratingnumberAt least this many stars, 1 to 5.
min_servingsintegerAt least this many servings.
pageintegerWhich page of rows. Default 1.
querystringyesA dish, an ingredient, a technique.
sortstringHow the site orders the rows. Default 'relevant'.
NameTypeReqDescription
notesarrayyes
premium_droppedintegeryesRows removed from this page for sitting behind the site's subscription.
querystringyes
restrictions_liftedarrayyesRestrictions let go of so the search could run again after the restricted one returned nothing.
result_countintegeryesRows rendered, after anything unreadable was set aside.
resultsarrayyes
rows_seenintegeryesRows the site served, before anything was set aside.
sourcestringyes
total_availableyesRecipes the site says the search holds.
total_is_ceilingbooleanyesTrue when the total sits on the most rows one search will serve, so it states a floor.

No examples provided.

Common questions

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/v1.1.0/mcp-bbc-goodfood-1.1.0.mcpb).

Is the io.github.smeet666/mcp-bbc-goodfood server safe to use?

io.github.smeet666/mcp-bbc-goodfood scores 47 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. It declares no install or post-install scripts. 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.