Essentially Amsterdam is answering right now. Last checked 1 min ago. It exposes 13 tools.
Amsterdam events, jobs, businesses, markets, conferences, guides and news from Essentially Amsterdam
Uptime history
22 hours of history
22 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
81 of 81 checks
13
Tools
read from the server
502 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http
What changed 7
Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 2 November 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.
2 Nov
6 tools appeared
bike_theft, meet_in_the_middle, museumkaart and 3 more
2 Nov
a tool changed version
Nothing serious here today
Today is the operative word: we check Essentially Amsterdam 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 1 min ago.
run in your terminal
claude mcp add amsterdam --transport http https://essentiallyamsterdam.com/mcpSettings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://essentiallyamsterdam.com/mcp~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.amsterdam]
url = "https://essentiallyamsterdam.com/mcp".cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"amsterdam": {
"url": "https://essentiallyamsterdam.com/mcp"
}
}
}.vscode/mcp.json
{
"servers": {
"amsterdam": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://essentiallyamsterdam.com/mcp"
}
}
}Available tools 13
Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on.
If a tool disappears, we record the date.
bike
bike_theft
Registered thefts of bicycles and mopeds per Amsterdam neighbourhood (police open data), the latest full year against the year before, with the rate per 1,000 residents and the rank among all neighbourhoods: the figures of our bike theft page. Give a neighbourhood or district name, or nothing for the 10 neighbourhoods with the most thefts.
conferences
conferences
Upcoming conferences in Amsterdam from the Essentially Amsterdam conference calendar, each date checked against the conference's own page. Filter by month and field. Returns up to 10, soonest first, with dates, venue, field, a link to our conferences page and the conference's own website.
directory
directory_search
Search owner-verified local businesses in the Essentially Amsterdam directory by name, type or area. Returns up to 10 listings with name, category, area and a link to the listing page.
guide
guide_search
Find the right Essentially Amsterdam guide, free tool or best-of list for a question about living in or visiting Amsterdam, e.g. "how do I get a BSN", "best pizza", "net salary calculator", "public toilets". English or Dutch words. Returns up to 10 pages, best match first, with title, a one-line description and the link.
jobs
jobs
Search current English-language job openings in the Amsterdam area from the Essentially Amsterdam job board. Returns up to 10 of the newest matching roles with title, company, area and salary when the employer publishes one, each linking to the job on our job board.
markets
markets_today
Street and food markets in Amsterdam open on a given day (default today), with opening hours where known and a link to our market guide.
meet
meet_in_the_middle
The point halfway between two or three Amsterdam locations and the nearest cafes, restaurants and bars from our directory: exactly the answer of our meet-in-the-middle page (same PDOK address lookup, same places). Give a postcode (1017 or 1017AB) or a street and house number with the city, e.g. "Dam 1, Amsterdam". Returns up to 10 places nearest the middle, each linking to its listing.
museumkaart
museumkaart
Whether a Museumkaart (Dutch museum card) pays off for the Amsterdam museums you plan to visit: exactly the answer of our Museumkaart calculator, with its own ticket prices for 32 Amsterdam museums. Returns ticket total, card price, supplements and how much you save or lose, with a link to the calculator.
nearest
nearest
The nearest public toilets and urinals, or playgrounds and outdoor sports areas, to a neighbourhood, postcode or address in Amsterdam, from the city open data on our public toilets map and playgrounds map. Returns up to 10, nearest first, with the distance as the crow flies, opening times and price (toilets) or equipment (playgrounds).
net
net_salary
Gross to net pay in the Netherlands for 2026 (Belastingdienst tables), with or without the 30% ruling: exactly the answer of our net salary calculator page. Returns net per month (holiday allowance spread over 12 months), net per year and the tax breakdown, with a link to the calculator.
recent
recent_news
The newest Amsterdam news articles published on essentiallyamsterdam.com, newest first, optionally only those matching a keyword. Returns up to 10 with headline, date, a one-line summary and the link. The reply also gives the date of the newest post on the site.
rent
rent_points
Points for a Dutch rental home under the housing points system (woningwaarderingsstelsel, WWS) for independent homes, and the maximum legal basic rent: exactly the answer of our rent points calculator page, with the same inputs. Returns the total, the sector (social, middle-rent or free), the maximum rent and the points per category. Every input is optional and defaults to the page's own example.
whats
whats_on
Events in Amsterdam on one day, from the Essentially Amsterdam What's On calendar (today and the next six days). Returns up to 10 events, best first, each with title, time, venue and a link to its row on our calendar page.
Endpoints
| URL | Transport | State | Latency | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://essentiallyamsterdam.com/mcp | streamable-http | answering | 505 ms | 1 min ago |
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Essentially Amsterdam — questions
Answers built from our own checks of this server.
What can Essentially Amsterdam do?
It exposes 13 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: bike_theft, conferences, directory_search, guide_search, jobs, markets_today and 7 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README.
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Is Essentially Amsterdam working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 81 of 81 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 502 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Essentially Amsterdam?
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 Essentially Amsterdam need an API key?
No. Essentially Amsterdam completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 13 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Essentially Amsterdam?
It answers our handshake in 502 ms on average, which is faster than 24% 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.