Chaparral Software MCP Server

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Chaparral Software MCP is answering right now. Last checked 2 min ago. It exposes 3 tools.

Independent AI consulting — services, dispatches, cairns, and 40-year client history.

Uptime history 91 days of history · worst day 91%

91 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

163 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Chaparral Software MCP 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 2 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add mcp --transport http https://chapsoft.com/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://chapsoft.com/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

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

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://chapsoft.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://chapsoft.com/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.

services

get_services

What Chaparral Software offers: the Ground Truth Assessment — an independent AI project audit for non-technical decision-makers. Returns service description, five deliverables, intake workflow, and outcomes.

the

find_the_cairn

A trail marker you weren't looking for. Returns a random technical cairn — a short observation from production AI practice.

topic

get_topic

Browse published dispatches and cairns by topic. Returns matching articles with a prelude framing Chaparral's perspective.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://chapsoft.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	137 ms	2 min ago

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Chaparral Software MCP — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Chaparral Software MCP do?

It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: find_the_cairn, get_services, get_topic. 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 Chaparral Software MCP 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 163 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Chaparral Software MCP?

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 Chaparral Software MCP need an API key?

No. Chaparral Software MCP 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 Chaparral Software MCP?

It answers our handshake in 163 ms on average, which is faster than 79% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.