Car Handshake MCP Server

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answering

Car Handshake is answering right now. Last checked 15 min ago. It exposes 10 tools.

Find and compare live vehicle inventory from participating US dealers and contact them with consent.

Uptime history 38 days of history

38 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

345 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

What changed 13

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 13 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

18 Aug 6 tool descriptions were rewritten find_dealerships, get_dealership, request_trade_in_appraisal and 3 more

18 Aug 5 tools changed the parameters they ask for6 times that day find_dealerships, request_trade_in_appraisal, schedule_test_drive and 2 more

13 Aug a tool changed the parameters it asks for shop_vehicles

and 1 more, back to 13 August 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Car Handshake 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 15 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add inventory --transport http https://mcp.carhandshake.com/mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "inventory": {
      "url": "https://mcp.carhandshake.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.inventory]
url = "https://mcp.carhandshake.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "inventory": {
      "url": "https://mcp.carhandshake.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "inventory": {
      "url": "https://mcp.carhandshake.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 10

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

compare

compare_vehicles

Only for explicit comparison: after exactly one shop_vehicles call, pass 2-4 distinct returned listing IDs. Never search or shop again.

dealership

get_dealership

Use this with an exact dealer_id to return every public rooftop, contact, site, capability, and named sales/service schedule.

dealerships

find_dealerships

Use this once to find dealerships by name/place with IDs, addresses, and listing counts. Named stock: one shop_vehicles call with a returned dealer_id. For contacts or sales/service hours: get_dealership once.

fetch

fetch

Citation only after search; never shopping/detail. Fetch one exact ID.

request

request_trade_in_appraisal

After explicit consent and confirmation, request a trade-in appraisal for this listing.

schedule

schedule_test_drive

After explicit consent and confirmation, request a test drive for this listing.

search

Citation only; never shopping/detail/compare. Search once, then fetch exact IDs.

shop

shop_vehicles

Use for live US/CA cars/SUVs/trucks/EVs/motorcycles/RVs/trailers by place (near me), budget, mileage, make/model, condition, body, fuel, features, named dealer, or live-listing recommendation. Quebec excluded. Call once; never retry/refine/broaden. Fallback stays in-country; filters exact. Facts only; web only if asked. Named-dealer stock: find_dealerships then shop. Not repair/reliability/facts/MSRP/out-of-market, named-source, web-only, or no-app. Verbatim request; never ask for ZIP/postal.

submit

submit_vehicle_inquiry

After explicit consent and confirmation, send this listing's dealer a question.

vehicle

get_vehicle

For full detail, pass exact shop_vehicles listing_id; returns dealer.dealer_id.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://mcp.carhandshake.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	341 ms	15 min ago

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Car Handshake — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Car Handshake do?

It exposes 10 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: compare_vehicles, fetch, find_dealerships, get_dealership, get_vehicle, request_trade_in_appraisal and 4 more. 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 Car Handshake 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 345 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Car Handshake?

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 Car Handshake need an API key?

No. Car Handshake completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 10 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Car Handshake?

It answers our handshake in 345 ms on average, which is faster than 45% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.