Rent-a-Skip UK skip hire MCP Server

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Rent-a-Skip UK skip hire is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 4 tools.

Indicative UK skip hire prices by town, council skip permit rules and skip size recommendations.

Uptime history 24 days of history · worst day 0%

24 days agonow

22.8%

Uptime 24h

21 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

286 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Rent-a-Skip UK skip hire does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 30.0% 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 1 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add rent-a-skip --transport http https://www.rent-a-skip.co.uk/api/mcp

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

https://www.rent-a-skip.co.uk/api/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.rent-a-skip]
url = "https://www.rent-a-skip.co.uk/api/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "rent-a-skip": {
      "url": "https://www.rent-a-skip.co.uk/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "rent-a-skip": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.rent-a-skip.co.uk/api/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.

coverage

check_coverage

Checks whether Rent-a-Skip covers a UK town (by name or slug) and returns the town page URL, county and county hub URL. Booking is by phone to a vetted local operator.

permit

get_permit_info

Council skip permit rules for placing a skip on a public road: fee, permit period, notice needed, renewal, application link, last-verified date and data confidence. Provide exactly one of council_name or town_slug. A skip on a private driveway needs no permit.

recommend

recommend_skip_size

Recommends a skip size for a job from its type, waste type and scale, using the same rules as the Rent-a-Skip skip size calculator. Returns capacity, weight guidance, the national indicative price range and the calculator link.

skip

get_skip_prices

Indicative 2026 UK skip hire price ranges (low, median, high in GBP) per skip size for a Rent-a-Skip town or a postcode area. Provide exactly one of town_slug or postcode_area. Prices are confirmed on the booking call with a vetted local operator.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://www.rent-a-skip.co.uk/api/mcp	streamable-http	answering	67 ms	1 min ago

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Rent-a-Skip UK skip hire — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Rent-a-Skip UK skip hire do?

It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: check_coverage, get_permit_info, get_skip_prices, recommend_skip_size. 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 Rent-a-Skip UK skip hire working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 21 of 92 checks got a reply (22.8%), average response time 286 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

The registry lists Rent-a-Skip UK skip hire as active — why does it not respond?

The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.

How do I connect Rent-a-Skip UK skip hire?

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 Rent-a-Skip UK skip hire need an API key?

No. Rent-a-Skip UK skip hire 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.

How fast is Rent-a-Skip UK skip hire?

It answers our handshake in 286 ms on average, which is faster than 48% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.