ChowDeck MCP by Nova (CIVAI) MCP Server

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ChowDeck MCP by Nova (CIVAI) is answering right now. Last checked 10 min ago. It exposes 24 tools.

Order food on ChowDeck: browse restaurants, set your delivery address, build a cart, and check out…

Uptime history 6 days of history · worst day 96%

6 days agonow

97.8%

Uptime 24h

89 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

556 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

What changed 175

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 3 November 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

7 Nov 25 tools appeared add_item_to_cart, bgpt_chowdeck, clear_vendor_cart and 22 more

7 Nov 25 tools disappeared add_item_to_cart, bgpt_chowdeck, clear_vendor_cart and 22 more

6 Nov 24 tools disappeared add_item_to_cart, clear_vendor_cart, duplicate_cart_pack and 21 more

6 Nov a tool appeared bgpt_chowdeck

5 Nov 25 tools appeared add_item_to_cart, bgpt_chowdeck, clear_vendor_cart and 22 more

5 Nov 25 tools disappeared add_item_to_cart, bgpt_chowdeck, clear_vendor_cart and 22 more

3 Nov 25 tools appeared add_item_to_cart, bgpt_chowdeck, clear_vendor_cart and 22 more

3 Nov 25 tools disappeared add_item_to_cart, bgpt_chowdeck, clear_vendor_cart and 22 more

ChowDeck MCP by Nova (CIVAI) does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 98.2% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 10 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add mcp-bgpt-chowdeck --transport http https://nova.civai.co/mcp/agents/mcp-bgpt-chowdeck

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

https://nova.civai.co/mcp/agents/mcp-bgpt-chowdeck

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.mcp-bgpt-chowdeck]
url = "https://nova.civai.co/mcp/agents/mcp-bgpt-chowdeck"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-bgpt-chowdeck": {
      "url": "https://nova.civai.co/mcp/agents/mcp-bgpt-chowdeck"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "mcp-bgpt-chowdeck": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://nova.civai.co/mcp/agents/mcp-bgpt-chowdeck"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 24

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

view

view_cart

View current cart contents.

view_vendor_cart

View cart for one vendor (vendor-specific checkout view).

view_vendor_items

Load a vendor menu. Pass vendor id from search_product data[].id as step_58_url_path_2 before add_item_to_cart when search products[] is empty.

view_wallet_balance

Retrieve the user's wallet balance.

customer

fetch_customer_settings

Public customer app config (no auth). Good session probe.

get_customer_survey

Run the get_customer_survey pipeline.

active

set_active_address_and_fetch_menu

Set active delivery address and fetch chowsmart menu for that address.

addresses

get_addresses

Run the get_addresses pipeline.

cart

remove_cart_item

Remove one line item (pack) from a vendor cart. POST /customer/cart/vendor/{vendor_id} with quantity 0. Run view_vendor_cart first — pass menu line ids from data.cart_items[] (type menu). Side-effect.

chowpass

get_chowpass_status

Run the get_chowpass_status pipeline.

clear

clear_vendor_cart

Delete/clear the entire cart for one vendor (all items). Requires cart id from view_vendor_cart response data.id — not vendor id. Side-effect: use when user wants to empty cart or before re-adding after 'Active cart already exists'.

country

get_country_list

Run the get_country_list pipeline.

delivery

get_delivery_amount_for_order

Fetch delivery fee details for an order.

duplicate

duplicate_cart_pack

Increase quantity by duplicating one pack (configured line item). POST /customer/cart/{cart_id}/pack/{pack_reference}/duplicate. Run view_vendor_cart first. Side-effect.

featured

get_featured_vendors

Featured and tagged vendors near a delivery address.

item

add_item_to_cart

Add an item to cart. Requires vendor id + menu item id from search_product (products[]) or view_vendor_items. Always pass item type menu.

search_menu_by_address

Run the search_menu_by_address pipeline.

order

get_order_details

Run the get_order_details pipeline.

orders

list_orders_success

Run the list_orders_success pipeline.

payment

get_payment_methods

Run the get_payment_methods pipeline.

place

place_order

Place order with Pay for me — returns pay_for_me_url for the user to complete payment in browser.

product

search_product

Search vendors/products by name near a delivery address. Each data[] entry: id = vendor id; products[].id = menu item id when present. If products[] empty, call view_vendor_items next.

request

request_login_otp

Send ChowDeck login SMS (validate phone → auth/login). Does not accept OTP. Ask the user for their phone first, then for the SMS code, then call verify_login_otp.

verify

verify_login_otp

Complete ChowDeck login with SMS code (validate phone → validate OTP → refresh token). Does not send a new SMS.

Tools removed

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

bgpt_chowdeck

removed 7 Nov 2026

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://nova.civai.co/mcp/agents/mcp-bgpt-chowdeck	streamable-http	answering	552 ms	10 min ago

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ChowDeck MCP by Nova (CIVAI) — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can ChowDeck MCP by Nova (CIVAI) do?

It exposes 24 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: add_item_to_cart, clear_vendor_cart, duplicate_cart_pack, fetch_customer_settings, get_addresses, get_chowpass_status and 18 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 →

What is ChowDeck MCP by Nova (CIVAI) mostly used for?

Its tools cluster around view and customer. That is what this server is built to work with — the grouping comes from the actual tool names, not from a category we assigned.

Is ChowDeck MCP by Nova (CIVAI) working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 89 of 91 checks got a reply (97.8%), average response time 556 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

Did ChowDeck MCP by Nova (CIVAI) ever remove tools?

Yes. bgpt_chowdeck 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.

How do I connect ChowDeck MCP by Nova (CIVAI)?

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 ChowDeck MCP by Nova (CIVAI) need an API key?

No. ChowDeck MCP by Nova (CIVAI) completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 24 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is ChowDeck MCP by Nova (CIVAI)?

It answers our handshake in 556 ms on average, which is faster than 20% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.