About Bug Bounty Programs
Bug Bounty Programs is an MCP server for searching public program listings from Bugcrowd, YesWeHack, and HackerOne. Security researchers can compare program scopes, reward details where available, and launch dates on HackerOne; it excludes vulnerability reports and researcher profiles.
Key features
- 01Search programs across three platforms
- 02Filter by bounty, date, and wildcard scope
- 03Retrieve program scope and reward details
- 04Find recently launched HackerOne programs
Use cases
- 01Discover public programs by platform or bounty
- 02Check in-scope assets before choosing a program
- 03Review reward tiers where published
MCP support
Exposes tools to search public bug bounty directories and retrieve program details through MCP. It runs locally over stdio or connects through the Pipeworx gateway.
Configuration
Remote servers need no local install. Pick your client, then copy the config or install in one click.
https://gateway.pipeworx.io/bug-bounty-programs/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http pipeworx-io-bug-bounty-programs https://gateway.pipeworx.io/bug-bounty-programs/mcp{"mcpServers":{"pipeworx-io-bug-bounty-programs":{"type":"http","url":"https://gateway.pipeworx.io/bug-bounty-programs/mcp"}}}Open in Cursor{"servers":{"pipeworx-io-bug-bounty-programs":{"type":"http","url":"https://gateway.pipeworx.io/bug-bounty-programs/mcp"}}}Open in VS Code{"mcpServers":{"pipeworx-io-bug-bounty-programs":{"type":"http","url":"https://gateway.pipeworx.io/bug-bounty-programs/mcp"}}}{"mcpServers":{"pipeworx-io-bug-bounty-programs":{"serverUrl":"https://gateway.pipeworx.io/bug-bounty-programs/mcp"}}}Run commands in a terminal; paste JSON into the client’s MCP config and restart. Servers that need sign-in will prompt on first connect.
Tools
Details
From the project README@pipeworx/bug-bounty-programs
Public bug-bounty PROGRAM DIRECTORY data — program name, bounty range, status and scope assets — from Bugcrowd, YesWeHack and HackerOne's own public directories. No vulnerability content, no researcher profiles or handles.
Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1875+ live data sources. This is an independent, unofficial integration — not affiliated with, endorsed by, or published by the upstream provider.
Tools
bounty_programs_search(platform?, query?, min_bounty?, launched_since?, has_wildcard?, limit?)— search across one or all three platforms by name, minimum bounty (USD), launch date (HackerOne only — see below), and whether scope includes a wildcard asset like*.example.com(checked live on yeswehack/hackerone; bugcrowd returns acount: 0with an explanatorynoteinstead of an error, because its scope is login-walled, not broken).bounty_program(platform, handle)— one program by platform + handle. YesWeHack returns a full severity x asset-value reward table and real scope; HackerOne returns real scope but no numeric reward table (not exposed anywhere on the public schema); Bugcrowd returns neither and says why.bounty_new_programs(days)— programs launched in the last N days, by real launch date. HackerOne only; see "What's not here" below for why Bugcrowd/YesWeHack can't contribute to this one honestly.
Auth
Keyless. Every endpoint below answers with no account, token, or API key.
Data sources
https://bugcrowd.com/engagements.json— paged (?page=N, 24/page,paginationMeta.totalCount) public program list: name, URL, reward summary, industry, access status. No scope/target data — Bugcrowd's scope "reveal" action redirects to/h/engagements/{handle}/reveal.json, its researcher-sign-in area. That is a genuine login wall, not a bug, andbounty_program/has_wildcardsay so rather than returning a silent empty result.https://api.yeswehack.com/programs(list,?page=N) andhttps://api.yeswehack.com/programs/{slug}(detail) — the richest of the three. Detail returnsscopes[](real asset identifiers, some with wildcards),out_of_scope, andreward_grid_default/low/medium/high/critical/very_low— a real severity x asset-value-tier reward table (only the tiers the program actually uses have non-null values; everything else isnull, not zero). No launch-date field anywhere on this endpoint — onlylast_update_at(last change, never surfaced aslaunched_athere to avoid implying a launch).https://hackerone.com/graphql(POST, unauthenticated) —query { teams }/query { team(handle) }. Introspection is disabled, so every field name below was found by probing a guess and reading GraphQL's own "did you meanX?" error back, not from a published schema doc:teams(first/last, after/before):handle name offers_bounties submission_state launched_at—launched_atis a REAL, verified launch date (confirmed againsthackerone.com/security→2013-11-06, the platform's own founding program).last: Nreturns the N most-recently-created teams, which is whatbounty_new_programswalks backward from; there is no workingorder_byvalue we could find (order_by: {field: ..., direction: DESC}is accepted syntactically but every field name we tried forfieldwas rejected), so sorting relies on sequential internal IDs rather than an explicit date sort.team(handle).structured_scopes_search(first): a union (DocumentUnion) — use... on StructuredScopeDocument { identifier asset_type eligible_for_bounty eligible_for_submission instruction }.identifieris the actual scope asset (domain/URL), sometimes a wildcard (*.rubyonrails.org,*.cloudflarepartners.comconfirmed live). No numeric bounty amount anywhere we could find —team.bounty_tableexists as a type but every plausible field name on it (rewards,severities,low_bounty/high_bounty,min/max,field_names, …) came backdoesn't exist. If HackerOne ever documents the real field names,bountyProgram()'shackeronebranch is the one place to add them.
What's not here: Immunefi
Immunefi is not a platform in this pack, on purpose. /explore and every
/bug-bounty/{slug}/ page are public — no login needed — but the actual scope
list and severity-tiered reward table load client-side from an internal API
that is not reachable as a stable, documented JSON endpoint. Checked and ruled
out, 2026-10-08:
- Server-rendered HTML: the full page (200, ~210KB for
/bug-bounty/ens/) carries zero reward-table fields and exactly one0x...contract address — the scope list renders after hydration, client-side. - The Next.js RSC flight payload (
RSC: 1header, the app-router equivalent of Next's old_next/data/*.json): same result, no reward/scope keys in the ~30KB response. robots.txt/sitemap-dynamic.xml: public and unauthenticated, and useful for discovering program slugs (/bug-bounty/{slug}/× ~166), but a sitemap only carrieslastmod(last content change), never a launch date.- The one genuinely public, static fact per program is the "rewards up to $X" line Immunefi bakes into the page's SEO meta description tag — real, but a single top-line number is too thin to ship as a program record next to the other three platforms' structured scope + reward tables.
If Immunefi ever publishes (or we find) a stable JSON endpoint for this, it's a
fourth platform value to add, following the same shape as yeswehack.
Also not here: Intigriti
Not checked — Intigriti's public directory requires a researcher account/token to browse, per the task that specified this pack. Skipped rather than scraped from behind a login.
Quick Start
Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.):
{
"mcpServers": {
"bug-bounty-programs": {
"url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/bug-bounty-programs/mcp"
}
}
}
What this endpoint actually serves
tools/list at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/bug-bounty-programs/mcp returns the tools in the table
above plus the shared Pipeworx meta-tools — ask_pipeworx,
discover_tools, search_within, remember/recall and the rest of the
gateway-wide set. So the tool count you see is larger than this table: a
single-pack endpoint currently lists roughly 30 shared tools alongside the
pack's own. The connection's initialize response states its exact scope, and
is the authoritative answer for a given day.
This is deliberate, not multiplexing by accident. The meta-tools are what let a
scoped connection answer a question this pack does not cover — via
ask_pipeworx, which routes across the whole catalog — without you adding a
second MCP server. There is currently no way to mount a pack endpoint without
them; if the extra schemas cost you more context than the routing is worth,
connect to the full gateway once rather than to several pack endpoints.
Or connect to the full Pipeworx gateway to get every pack's tools listed directly, instead of just this one's:
{
"mcpServers": {
"pipeworx": {
"url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp"
}
}
}
Both URLs reach the same gateway and the same 1875+ data sources. The
only difference is which pack's tools are listed directly; ask_pipeworx
reaches all of them from either one.
No MCP client? Call it over HTTP
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/bounty_programs_search \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"platform":"yeswehack","min_bounty":1000,"limit":10}'
No account needed for the first calls. Inspect any tool: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/bounty_programs_search. Find one: POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/search_packs with {"query":"..."}.
Standalone (no gateway account)
This package also runs as a local stdio MCP server — no Pipeworx account, no gateway round-trip:
{
"mcpServers": {
"bug-bounty-programs": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-bug-bounty-programs"]
}
}
}
Or run it directly to confirm it starts:
npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-bug-bounty-programs
It speaks MCP over stdin/stdout and answers initialize/tools/list/tools/call
for only this pack's tools — none of the shared meta-tools the gateway
connection above adds. Same source, same tools, no ask_pipeworx routing.
Using with ask_pipeworx
Instead of calling tools directly, you can ask questions in plain English — this works on the pack endpoint above as well as on the full gateway:
ask_pipeworx({ question: "your question about Bug Bounty Programs data" })
The gateway picks the right tool and fills the arguments automatically.
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License
MIT
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