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Watch Engine MCP Server

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Watch Engine is answering right now. Last checked 14 min ago. It exposes 3 tools. Last commit 14 Oct 2026.

Currency rates, VAT rates, and tariff rates via Watch Engine. 203 monitors.

Uptime history 47 hours of history
47 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
3
Tools
read from the server
1405 ms
Response time
average over 24h
0
Stars
last commit 14 Oct 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Watch Engine every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Three servers free · no card

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 14 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add watch-engine-mcp --transport http https://watch-engine-mcp.mcpize.run/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "watch-engine-mcp": {
      "url": "https://watch-engine-mcp.mcpize.run/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.watch-engine-mcp]
url = "https://watch-engine-mcp.mcpize.run/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "watch-engine-mcp": {
      "url": "https://watch-engine-mcp.mcpize.run/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "watch-engine-mcp": {
      "url": "https://watch-engine-mcp.mcpize.run/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 3

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

currency
get_currency_rate
Get current exchange rate between two currencies
tariff
get_tariff
Get tariff rate for an HS code
vat
get_vat_rate
Get VAT rate for a country

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://watch-engine-mcp.mcpize.run/mcp streamable-http answering 1212 ms 14 min ago

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Watch Engine — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Watch Engine do?
It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_currency_rate, get_tariff, get_vat_rate. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Watch Engine working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 1405 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Watch Engine?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Watch Engine need an API key?
No. Watch Engine completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 3 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Watch Engine?
It answers our handshake in 1405 ms on average, which is faster than 4% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
Is Watch Engine open source?
We cannot say either way: written in TypeScript and 0 stars on GitHub, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.