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Nhtsa Vehicle Safety MCP Server

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Nhtsa Vehicle Safety MCP Server is answering right now. Last checked 2 min ago. 256 installs a week from npm. It exposes 7 tools. Last commit 19 Oct 2026.

Decode VINs, search recalls, complaints, crash ratings, and investigations.

Installs per day peak 351 · avg 41 · -40% w/w
a month agotoday
Uptime history 91 days of history · worst day 0%
91 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
92 of 92 checks
7
Tools
read from the server
581 ms
Response time
average over 24h
256
Installs / week
npm and PyPI

What changed 16

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 22 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

19 Oct 5 tools changed the parameters they ask for nhtsa_get_safety_ratings, nhtsa_get_vehicle_safety, nhtsa_search_complaints and 2 more
19 Oct a tool changed version
8 Oct a tool changed version
20 Sep a tool changed version
22 Aug 7 tools changed the parameters they ask for nhtsa_decode_vin, nhtsa_get_safety_ratings, nhtsa_get_vehicle_safety and 4 more
22 Aug a tool changed version

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Nhtsa Vehicle Safety MCP Server 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 2 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add nhtsa-vehicle-safety-mcp-server --transport http https://nhtsa.caseyjhand.com/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://nhtsa.caseyjhand.com/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.nhtsa-vehicle-safety-mcp-server]
url = "https://nhtsa.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nhtsa-vehicle-safety-mcp-server": {
      "url": "https://nhtsa.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "nhtsa-vehicle-safety-mcp-server": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://nhtsa.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 7

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

nhtsa
nhtsa_decode_vin
Decode a Vehicle Identification Number to extract make, model, year, body type, engine, safety equipment, and manufacturing details. Pass a single 17-character VIN string, or an array of up to 50 VINs for batch decode. Partial VINs accepted — use * for unknown positions.
nhtsa_get_safety_ratings
Get NCAP crash test ratings and ADAS feature availability for a vehicle. Use when the user specifically wants crash test stars, rollover risk, or wants to compare safety features across vehicles. NCAP data available from 1990+, best coverage for 2011+.
nhtsa_get_vehicle_safety
Get a comprehensive safety profile for a vehicle. Combines NCAP crash test ratings, recalls, and complaint summary into a single response. Use as the default when asked about vehicle safety, reliability, or purchase decisions.
nhtsa_lookup_vehicles
Look up valid makes, models, and vehicle types in NHTSA's database. Use to resolve ambiguous vehicle names, find correct make/model spelling, or discover what models a manufacturer produces.
nhtsa_search_complaints
Search consumer safety complaints filed with NHTSA for a specific vehicle. Returns a component breakdown over all matching complaints plus a paginated slice of the most recent complaints. Use for common problems, failure patterns, or owner-reported issues.
nhtsa_search_investigations
Search NHTSA defect investigations from the ODI flat file — covering Preliminary Evaluations (PE), Engineering Analyses (EA), Defect Petitions (DP), Recall Queries (RQ), Audit Queries (AQ), and additional ODI types. make, model, and component are structured filters against the investigation record's vehicle associations. All filters are ANDed. Use nhtsaId to fetch one investigation by its exact ID — including the investigationId nhtsa_search_recalls returns for a campaign. Investigations may link to a resulting recall campaign via recallCampaign.
nhtsa_search_recalls
Search recall campaigns by vehicle or campaign number. Use for specific recall lookups, recall history for a vehicle, or looking up a known campaign number.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://nhtsa.caseyjhand.com/mcp streamable-http answering 560 ms 2 min ago

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Nhtsa Vehicle Safety MCP Server — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Nhtsa Vehicle Safety MCP Server do?
It exposes 7 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: nhtsa_decode_vin, nhtsa_get_safety_ratings, nhtsa_get_vehicle_safety, nhtsa_lookup_vehicles, nhtsa_search_complaints, nhtsa_search_investigations and 1 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 Nhtsa Vehicle Safety MCP Server 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 581 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Nhtsa Vehicle Safety MCP Server?
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 Nhtsa Vehicle Safety MCP Server need an API key?
No. Nhtsa Vehicle Safety MCP Server completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 7 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Nhtsa Vehicle Safety MCP Server?
It answers our handshake in 581 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.
How many people use Nhtsa Vehicle Safety MCP Server?
The npm package @cyanheads/nhtsa-vehicle-safety-mcp-server was installed 256 times in the last week. Week over week that is -40%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Nhtsa Vehicle Safety MCP Server open source?
The code is open source: it is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, written in TypeScript, 3 stars on GitHub and 1 open issue. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at nhtsa.caseyjhand.com, which runs on its operator's own terms.