# Compensation Professional — compensation library, answers, and wage-compliance data

> Read-only access to Compensation Professional's compensation-focused book library, query-shaped...

- name: com.compensationprofessional/discovery
- version: 1.0.0
- connection class: R0 (autonomous)
- trust: 80/100 flags: no-repository
- quality: 80/100 (good)
- owner: not claimed
- descriptor: https://api.protogrid.dev/v1/servers/com.compensationprofessional%2Fdiscovery
- tools: https://api.protogrid.dev/v1/servers/com.compensationprofessional%2Fdiscovery/tools

**An agent can connect right now, no human step.** Remote endpoint, no authentication, reachable on the last probe.

## Connection (mcpServers)

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "discovery": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://compensationprofessional.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```


## Trust

- hygiene: 80
- liveness: 100
- freshness: 85
- provenance: 55
- drivers: +dns-namespace +website +reachable +uptime-100% ~updated-42d-ago -no-repository
- Derived from observable signals (official registry feed and our own credential-free probes); no code audit performed.

## Quality 80/100 (good)

### protocol: 75 (weight 25)

- warn `protocol.modern`: newest supported version is 2025-11-25; 2026-07-28 not supported, older versions are deprecated until 2027-07-28
- n/a `protocol.stateless`: only applies to 2026-07-28 servers
- pass `protocol.transport`: streamable HTTP
- n/a `protocol.list_ttl`: only applies to 2026-07-28 servers

### authorization: n/a (weight 15)

- n/a `auth.prm`, `auth.as_metadata`, `auth.cimd`: no remote uses OAuth
- n/a `auth.secret_in_url`: no templated URL

### tool hygiene: 86 (weight 30)

- pass `tools.descriptions`: every tool has a description
- pass `tools.description_length`: descriptions are concise
- pass `tools.schemas`: every tool has an object input schema
- pass `tools.annotations`: 6 of 6 tools declare readOnlyHint or destructiveHint
- fail `tools.directory_hints`: no tool declares all four of readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint and openWorldHint; missing: list_compensationprofessional_feeds (idempotentHint); search_library (idempotentHint); get_library_work (idempotentHint); …
- pass `tools.token_cost`: about 874 tokens to load every tool
- pass `tools.api_dump`: tools are not a one-to-one API dump

### stability: 75 (weight 15)

- warn `stability.changes`: 8 tool changes in 30 days
- pass `stability.rug_pull`: no tool changed its meaning under the same name

### dependencies: n/a (weight 15)

- n/a `deps.known_vulns`, `deps.mcp_sdk_version`, `deps.resolvable`: no npm or PyPI package

- tools: 6, about 874 tokens to load them all
- tool set hash: e84c51e536fa03e60f668ee237fdbd64
- tools last changed: 2026-10-18T19:23:32.644Z
- badge: [![protogrid quality](https://protogrid.dev/badge/com.compensationprofessional/discovery.svg)](https://protogrid.dev/servers/com.compensationprofessional/discovery)
- Checks run on what our credential-free, read-only probes observe; tools are never called and no code audit is performed.

### Tool changes

- 2026-10-18 `check_wage_locations` changed (description)
  - before: Checks the binding minimum-wage rate for up to 50 US locations in one call (city/county rate when it applies, else state, else federal). Each location may be a place name ("Spokane, WA", "Texas", "TX") or a jurisdiction slug. A city with no rule of its own on file returns its state's rate with noLocalRule:true. An unmatched location returns found:false with a reason instead of being omitted. 113 known jurisdictions, e.g.: federal, alameda-ca, alaska, albuquerque-nm.
  - after: Checks the binding minimum-wage rate for up to 50 US locations in one call (city/county rate when it applies, else state, else federal). Each location may be a place name ("Spokane, WA", "Texas", "TX") or a jurisdiction slug. A city with no rule of its own on file returns its state's rate with noLocalRule:true. An unmatched location returns found:false with a reason instead of being omitted. 113 known jurisdictions, e.g.: federal, alaska, alabama, arkansas.
- 2026-10-18 `get_wage_jurisdiction` changed (description)
  - before: Returns one tracked jurisdiction's current minimum-wage rate, effective date, validation status, and next scheduled step. 113 known jurisdictions, e.g.: federal, alameda-ca, alaska, albuquerque-nm.
  - after: Returns one tracked jurisdiction's current minimum-wage rate, effective date, validation status, and next scheduled step. 113 known jurisdictions, e.g.: federal, alaska, alabama, arkansas.
- 2026-10-18 `check_wage_locations` changed (description)
  - before: Checks the binding minimum-wage rate for up to 50 US locations in one call (city/county rate when it applies, else state, else federal). Each location may be a place name ("Spokane, WA", "Texas", "TX") or a jurisdiction slug. A city with no rule of its own on file returns its state's rate with noLocalRule:true. An unmatched location returns found:false with a reason instead of being omitted. 113 known jurisdictions, e.g.: federal, alaska, alabama, arkansas.
  - after: Checks the binding minimum-wage rate for up to 50 US locations in one call (city/county rate when it applies, else state, else federal). Each location may be a place name ("Spokane, WA", "Texas", "TX") or a jurisdiction slug. A city with no rule of its own on file returns its state's rate with noLocalRule:true. An unmatched location returns found:false with a reason instead of being omitted. 113 known jurisdictions, e.g.: federal, alameda-ca, alaska, albuquerque-nm.
- 2026-10-18 `get_wage_jurisdiction` changed (description)
  - before: Returns one tracked jurisdiction's current minimum-wage rate, effective date, validation status, and next scheduled step. 113 known jurisdictions, e.g.: federal, alaska, alabama, arkansas.
  - after: Returns one tracked jurisdiction's current minimum-wage rate, effective date, validation status, and next scheduled step. 113 known jurisdictions, e.g.: federal, alameda-ca, alaska, albuquerque-nm.
- 2026-09-29 `check_wage_locations` changed (description, inputSchema, outputSchema)
  - before: Checks the binding minimum-wage rate for up to 50 jurisdiction slugs in one call (city/county rate when it applies, else state, else federal). Each result reports found:false for an unknown slug instead of omitting it. 113 known jurisdictions, e.g.: federal, alaska, alabama, arkansas.
  - after: Checks the binding minimum-wage rate for up to 50 US locations in one call (city/county rate when it applies, else state, else federal). Each location may be a place name ("Spokane, WA", "Texas", "TX") or a jurisdiction slug. A city with no rule of its own on file returns its state's rate with noLocalRule:true. An unmatched location returns found:false with a reason instead of being omitted. 113 known jurisdictions, e.g.: federal, alaska, alabama, arkansas.
- 2026-09-29 `get_answer` changed (description)
  - before: Returns one authored /answers page as structured content: question, short answer, problem frame, and citations. Known slugs (13): how-to-set-pay-ranges, what-should-we-pay-for-a-role, is-our-pay-competitive, how-to-tie-executive-pay-to-performance, executive-compensation-components, how-much-executive-pay-at-risk, business-case-for-changing-rewards, make-financial-case-for-compensation, ….
  - after: Returns one authored /answers page as structured content: question, short answer, problem frame, and citations. Known slugs (14): how-to-set-pay-ranges, what-should-we-pay-for-a-role, is-our-pay-competitive, how-to-tie-executive-pay-to-performance, executive-compensation-components, how-much-executive-pay-at-risk, business-case-for-changing-rewards, make-financial-case-for-compensation, ….
- 2026-09-26 `check_wage_locations` added
  - Checks the binding minimum-wage rate for up to 50 jurisdiction slugs in one call (city/county rate when it applies, else state, else federal). Each result reports found:false for an unknown slug instead of omitting it. 113 known jurisdictions, e.g.: federal, alaska, alabama, arkansas.
- 2026-09-25 `get_membership_offer` removed
  - Returns the Compensation chapter of the Bicycle Cooperative membership offer: five options (enterprise member, practitioner member, worker, practitioner rent, enterprise rent) with chapter substitution applied and this front's join URL.

Full history: https://api.protogrid.dev/v1/servers/com.compensationprofessional%2Fdiscovery/changes

## Remotes

- https://compensationprofessional.com/api/mcp (streamable-http, auth none, reachable true, uptime30d 1)

## Packages

_none_

## Tools (6)

- `check_wage_locations`: Checks the binding minimum-wage rate for up to 50 US locations in one call (city/county rate when it applies, else state, else federal). Each location may be a place name ("Spokane, WA", "Texas", "TX") or a jurisdiction slug. A city with no rule of its own on file returns its state's rate with noLocalRule:true. An unmatched location returns found:false with a reason instead of being omitted. 113 known jurisdictions, e.g.: federal, alaska, alabama, arkansas.
- `get_answer`: Returns one authored /answers page as structured content: question, short answer, problem frame, and citations. Known slugs (14): how-to-set-pay-ranges, what-should-we-pay-for-a-role, is-our-pay-competitive, how-to-tie-executive-pay-to-performance, executive-compensation-components, how-much-executive-pay-at-risk, business-case-for-changing-rewards, make-financial-case-for-compensation, ….
- `get_library_work`: Returns one compensation library work's bibliographic record and (when profiled) its thesis.
- `get_wage_jurisdiction`: Returns one tracked jurisdiction's current minimum-wage rate, effective date, validation status, and next scheduled step. 113 known jurisdictions, e.g.: federal, alaska, alabama, arkansas.
- `list_compensationprofessional_feeds`: List Compensation Professional's free machine-readable feeds and their MCP/REST availability. OpenAPI is also published at https://compensationprofessional.com/openapi.json.
- `search_library`: Search or list the compensation-focused book library by title/author substring and/or classifier tag. No filters returns the first page.