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CarGene MCP Server

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CarGene is answering right now. Last checked 9 min ago. It exposes 4 tools.

Japanese car genealogy with sources: generations, developers, and sales figures. Read-only.

Uptime history 19 hours of history · worst hour 0%
19 hours agonow
65.2%
Uptime 24h
45 of 69 checks
4
Tools
read from the server
3058 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

What changed 7

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 24 September 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

24 Sep 4 tool descriptions were rewritten get_sales_figures, get_vehicle, get_vehicle_relationships and 1 more
24 Sep 3 tools changed the parameters they ask for get_sales_figures, get_vehicle_relationships, search_vehicles

CarGene does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 65.2% 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 9 min ago.

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

vehicle
get_vehicle
Get one series with the list of its generations (models) and the cited sources, and with a model_id also that generation in detail. Returns {series, maker, models, sources}, plus model when a model_id is given. Each entry in models has id, name, chassis_code, start_year, end_year (null = still on sale), description, source_url and its public page url; the list is always the whole series. model is the named generation with drivetrains, displacements (engine displacement in cc, one row per engine), and engineers (each with role_name, source_url citing the person's own career, and link_source_url citing that person's work on this very generation; a null link_source_url means not researched yet, so do not read source_url as evidence for this generation). sources are the cited references for the descriptions (url, title, publisher, accessed_on, and model_id: null for the series overview, otherwise the generation whose description it supports); a generation's own sources come only with its model_id. For the engineers or specs of several generations, call once per model_id. An empty drivetrains, displacements, engineers, or sources list means not researched yet, never none. Unknown ids are an error, not an empty result.
get_vehicle_relationships
Get the relationships between generations (succession, sibling, derivation, spiritual successor). A series_id returns the relations of the whole series; a model_id returns only the relations that have that generation at either end. Returns {series_id, url, total, relations, next_offset}, plus model_id when given: each relation has kind and kind_name, kind_directed, from_model and to_model (each with id, name, chassis_code, start_year, end_year, series_name and public page url), and where the source requires one, source_url with the verbatim source_excerpt; rationale is filled for spiritual successors. When kind_directed is false the two ends are interchangeable, so treat the relation as belonging to both generations. Relations are cut to fit the response size; when next_offset is not null, call again with offset set to it. An empty relations list means not researched yet, never that the car has no relatives.
sales
get_sales_figures
Get the sales figures of a series. Without region_code it returns the overview {series_id, url, region_totals, lifetime, coverage, regions}; with region_code it returns that region year by year {series_id, url, region_code, region_totals, coverage, cells, figures, next_year_from}. region_totals sum years within one country only, so never add across countries or add a parent region to its children. lifetime rows are cumulative or per-generation totals that must not be added to the grid. With a model_id, region_totals and lifetime are those of that generation; otherwise region_totals are the series totals and lifetime is the whole series. coverage rows are the blanks that were checked and found empty, with the reason; a region with coverage rows and no figures was researched, not skipped. regions lists the region codes that have figures or checked blanks, with the first and last year; pass one of them as region_code, since any other code is an error. cells are the grid a figure may be summed into, one per series, country, calendar year and metric; a null units on a cell means the sources disagree, never zero sold. figures are the rows as published, each with units, the source's own wording, the period, source_url and a verbatim source_excerpt; match them to cells by region_code, year and metric. A model_id narrows figures to that generation, while cells stay series-wide because allocating a year to a generation needs the whole series. Years are cut to fit the response size, never splitting a year; when next_year_from is not null, call again with year_from set to it. An empty list means not researched yet, never zero.
vehicles
search_vehicles
Find series by name, maker name, or a generation's chassis code. Series names match by normalized substring (width, case, kana), maker names by prefix, chassis codes by substring of the code as written (a slash-joined code is one string, not split). Returns {query, total, hits: [{series, maker, matched_models}], next_offset} where each series and model carries its public page url; pass the ids in the hits to the other skills. Hits are ranked and cut to fit the response size; when next_offset is not null, call again with offset set to it for the rest. Empty hits means nothing matched the query.

Endpoints

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https://api.car-gene.com/mcp streamable-http answering 16981 ms 9 min ago

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CarGene — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can CarGene do?
It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_sales_figures, get_vehicle, get_vehicle_relationships, search_vehicles. 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 CarGene working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 45 of 69 checks got a reply (65.2%), average response time 3058 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect CarGene?
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 CarGene need an API key?
No. CarGene 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.