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Car Handshake MCP Server

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Car Handshake is answering right now. Last checked 9 min ago. It exposes 10 tools.

Search and compare live vehicles from participating US and Canadian dealers outside Quebec.

Uptime history 91 days of history
91 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
10
Tools
read from the server
345 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

What changed 19

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

7 Nov a tool changed version
30 Oct 5 tool descriptions were rewritten compare_vehicles, fetch, find_dealerships and 2 more
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.

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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 inventory --transport http https://mcp.carhandshake.com/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
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
{
  "servers": {
    "inventory": {
      "type": "http",
      "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
Compare two to four distinct returned listing IDs using current inventory facts. Missing data is not an assessment of the vehicle.
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
Find participating dealerships by name or place with IDs, addresses and listing counts. Returned dealer_id values select named-dealer stock; get_dealership provides contacts and sales/service hours.
fetch
fetch
Return citation text and metadata for one exact listing ID returned by search.
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
search
Search participating inventory for compact citation IDs, titles and source URLs.
shop
shop_vehicles
Search and rank participating US/Canadian dealer cars, SUVs, trucks, EVs, motorcycles, RVs and trailers by place (including near me), budget, mileage, make/model, condition, body, fuel and features. Quebec excluded. Accepts the shopper’s wording and optional structured filters. Named-dealer stock uses a dealer_id from find_dealerships. Returns a ranked page, total and geographic fallback details. Coverage and equipment evidence are partial; zero matches do not establish market-wide absence.
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

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://mcp.carhandshake.com/mcp streamable-http answering 339 ms 9 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 in the form 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 40% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.