JobJar: find a tradie MCP Server

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JobJar: find a tradie is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 4 tools.

Find local Australian tradies by job and suburb, and ask up to 3 of them for a quote in one go.

Uptime history 17 hours of history · worst hour 50%

17 hours agonow

88.5%

Uptime 24h

54 of 61 checks

Tools

read from the server

917 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

JobJar: find a tradie does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 88.5% 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 trades --transport http https://www.jobjar.com.au/mcp

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

https://www.jobjar.com.au/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.trades]
url = "https://www.jobjar.com.au/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "trades": {
      "url": "https://www.jobjar.com.au/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "trades": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.jobjar.com.au/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.

listing

get_listing

One business's full listing by id (from search_trades).

quote

quote_status

Which businesses have answered a quote request, and what they said. Needs the request_id and status_key from request_quotes.

request

request_quotes

Send one quote request to up to 3 local businesses at once (quotable: true from search_trades), so the customer doesn't have to ring around. Call with step 'check' first and show the customer the read_back; only after they agree, call again with step 'send' and identical details. If the person has connected JobJar (signed in once), it sends straight away with their verified mobile; otherwise they get a code or link on their own mobile or email and nothing reaches the businesses until they confirm. Each business replies to the customer directly with a price, a time to come and look, or 'not for me'.

trades

search_trades

Find local trades businesses in Australia for a job and suburb (plumbers, electricians, air conditioning, locksmiths and more). Returns the best matches with contact details; quotable: true means JobJar can send them a quote request (request_quotes); bookable: true means they also take bookings, with guide prices and next free times.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://www.jobjar.com.au/mcp	streamable-http	answering	20000 ms	10 min ago

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JobJar: find a tradie — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can JobJar: find a tradie do?

It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_listing, quote_status, request_quotes, search_trades. 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 JobJar: find a tradie working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 54 of 61 checks got a reply (88.5%), average response time 917 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

The registry lists JobJar: find a tradie 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 JobJar: find a tradie?

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 JobJar: find a tradie need an API key?

No. JobJar: find a tradie 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 JobJar: find a tradie?

It answers our handshake in 917 ms on average, which is faster than 7% 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.