Arclight Events MCP Server

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Arclight Events is answering right now. Last checked 4 min ago. It exposes 4 tools.

Live events in 50 cities: AI/tech meetups, hackathons, conferences, concerts. Free, read-only.

Uptime history 25 hours of history

25 hours agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

699 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

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

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 4 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add mcp --transport http https://arclight.events/api/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://arclight.events/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.mcp]
url = "https://arclight.events/api/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://arclight.events/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://arclight.events/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 4

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

arclight

arclight_city_picks

A small curated set of events worth going to in a city over the next few days, chosen for variety rather than raw recency. Use when someone asks what is worth doing rather than for an exhaustive list. Read-only.

arclight_get_event

Fetch the full detail of one event by its Arclight slug (or its arclight.events URL): title, start time in the venue's own timezone, price, tags, description and the source link. Read-only.

arclight_list_cities

List every metro Arclight covers, with the slug to pass to the other tools, plus the available topic filters. Call this first when unsure whether a city is covered. Read-only, no arguments required.

arclight_search_events

Search real, upcoming events in a city, optionally narrowed to a topic and timeframe. Every event is aggregated from a live source (Luma, Ticketmaster, SeatGeek, Skiddle, confs.tech and others) and links back to it — Arclight never invents listings and holds no tickets. Read-only. Returns paginated results with has_more/next_offset.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://arclight.events/api/mcp	streamable-http	answering	780 ms	4 min ago

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Arclight Events — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Arclight Events do?

It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: arclight_city_picks, arclight_get_event, arclight_list_cities, arclight_search_events. 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 Arclight Events working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 699 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Arclight Events?

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 Arclight Events need an API key?

No. Arclight Events completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 4 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Arclight Events?

It answers our handshake in 699 ms on average, which is faster than 17% 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.