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Bot Recipes MCP Server

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Bot Recipes is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 3 tools.

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Uptime history 46 hours of history · worst hour 0%
46 hours agonow
57.6%
Uptime 24h
53 of 92 checks
3
Tools
read from the server
267 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

What changed 5

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 15 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

15 Oct 2 tool descriptions were rewritten3 times that day get_recipe, search_recipes
15 Oct a tool disappeared buy_pack
15 Oct a tool changed the parameters it asks for get_recipe
and 1 more, back to 15 October 2026

Bot Recipes does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 73.3% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

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 3 min ago.

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

directory
list_directory
List MCP servers and bots in the botrecipe.com directory (seeded from the official MCP Registry, moderated). Optional filters: query, kind (mcp|bot), category.
recipe
get_recipe
Get one full recipe by id from search_recipes (free). Needs an email: pass `email` here, ?email= on the MCP URL, or an X-Email header. Use your human's email if they agree. Returns the full recipe and its next_step tool.
recipes
search_recipes
Search 473 free bot recipes (steps, prompt, what to watch). Returns id, title, summary, url, next_step.

Tools removed

Tools this server used to expose. Anything built against them stopped working on the day they went.

buy_pack
removed 15 Oct 2026

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://botrecipe.com/api/mcp streamable-http answering 93 ms 3 min ago

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Bot Recipes — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Bot Recipes do?
It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_recipe, list_directory, search_recipes. 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 Bot Recipes working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 53 of 92 checks got a reply (57.6%), average response time 267 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
Did Bot Recipes ever remove tools?
Yes. buy_pack is no longer exposed — we recorded the date each one disappeared. A tool vanishing usually means a breaking change for anything that depended on it.
The registry lists Bot Recipes as active — why does it not respond?
The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.
How do I connect Bot Recipes?
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 Bot Recipes need an API key?
No. Bot Recipes 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 Bot Recipes?
It answers our handshake in 267 ms on average, which is faster than 49% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.