bounty-mcp

Name: bounty-mcp
Author: weiseer

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github.com/weiseerBusiness & Marketing0Updated 21w ago

Repository

About bounty-mcp

bounty-mcp is a stdio MCP server that gives AI agents access to active GitHub coding bounties with verified escrow signals. It supports filtering, skill-based candidate ranking, individual bounty lookup, and aggregate statistics.

Key features

01Lists bounties by language and dollar floor
02Ranks candidates against a skill set
03Returns full bounty records
04Reports aggregate bounty statistics
05Filters known scam-farm sources

Use cases

01Find paid coding tasks by language
02Match an agent’s skills to bounties
03Review a bounty’s details and status
04Track bounty counts and funding

MCP support

The stdio MCP server exposes tools to list and match bounties, retrieve a bounty record, and view aggregate statistics. Its data is sourced from GitHub bounty signals, with an optional remote snapshot URL.

Configuration

Local server config is the same for every client. Copy it into your client’s MCP config file.

mcp.json · Universal config

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "weiseer-bounty": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@weiseer/bounty-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "BOUNTY_MCP_URL": "<BOUNTY_MCP_URL>",
        "BOUNTY_MCP_LOCAL_ONLY": "<BOUNTY_MCP_LOCAL_ONLY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Run commandnpx -y @weiseer/bounty-mcp

Environment variables to set

BOUNTY_MCP_URLOverride remote snapshot URL

BOUNTY_MCP_LOCAL_ONLYSkip remote fetch

Local servers need a runtime on your machine (e.g. Node.js 18+). Config file locations differ by client; see your client’s docs.

Packages

npm@weiseer/bounty-mcp0.1.1stdio

Tools

Saved tool list · updated 2w ago

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
limit	number	No
language	string	No	e.g. python, typescript, rust, go
min_dollars	number	No	minimum bounty $ amount
bug_fix_only	boolean	No
exclude_open_pr	boolean	No
exclude_assigned	boolean	No

Details

From the project README

@weiseer/bounty-mcp

Live coding-bounty deal-flow as a stdio MCP server. For AI agents finding paid coding work.

Built by weiseer. Probe P-002.

What it does

Gives AI agents real-time access to verified-escrow GitHub coding bounties — currently sourced from Algora's algora-pbc[bot] escrow signals, filtered for scam-farm noise (SecureBananaLabs / ClankerNation / UnsafeLabs excluded at scan level).

Your agent can:

list_bounties — query the active pool by language, $ floor, bug-fix-only
find_matching — given a skill set + $ floor, return ranked candidates
get_bounty — full record for one bounty
get_stats — aggregate stats (total, by language, unclaimed, $)

Install

npm install -g @weiseer/bounty-mcp

Use with Claude Desktop / Cursor / Cline / Continue / Windsurf

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bounty-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@weiseer/bounty-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Why use this instead of your agent scraping Algora itself

	Agent DIY	bounty-mcp
Token cost per call	$0.02–0.06 (scrape + parse + filter)	$0 free / $0.00005 paid
Latency	2–5 seconds	<100ms
Scam filter	Agent must dedupe known scam-farms	Built-in (SecureBananaLabs / ClankerNation / UnsafeLabs excluded at source)
Cross-PR / cross-claim check	Agent must run timeline queries	Pre-computed
Rate limit risk	10,000 agents scraping → all blocked	Single coordinated upstream client

What's NOT covered (yet)

Opire / Polar.sh / IssueHunt — coming as upstream signal sources mature
Cannabis / regulated industry bounties — out of scope
Per-skill matcher beyond language tags — coming in v0.2

Schema

See bounties.json in the package. Each bounty record has key, repo, issue_number, title, html_url, dollars, language, attempts, has_open_pr, is_bug_fix, is_assigned, trust, funder_org, issue_created_at, issue_updated_at, seen_at.

Environment

BOUNTY_MCP_URL — override the remote bounty snapshot URL (default: https://oracle.weiseer.com/bounties.json)
BOUNTY_MCP_LOCAL_ONLY=1 — skip remote fetch, use bundled snapshot only

Related weiseer services

@weiseer/llm-oracle-mcp — LLM provider pricing + availability oracle (P-001)
github.com/weiseer — all weiseer services + status

License

Apache-2.0. Catalog format: MIT.

Roadmap

Probe-pulled. What gets added is what users request via issues.

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