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Proper Job Building Cost Calculator MCP Server

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Proper Job Building Cost Calculator is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 4 tools. Last commit 30 Sep 2026.

Free UK building-cost estimates, US beta estimates and scenario comparisons. No account needed.

Uptime history 62 days of history · worst day 0%
62 days agonow
0.0%
Uptime 24h
0 of 92 checks
4
Tools
read from the server
107 ms
Response time
average over 24h
0
Stars
last commit 30 Sep 2026

What changed 35

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 9 September 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

25 Oct a tool changed the parameters it asks for calculate_building_work
18 Oct 4 tools changed the parameters they ask for calculate_building_work, calculate_guide_price, compare_guide_scenarios and 1 more
18 Oct a tool description was rewritten calculate_building_work
8 Oct 3 tool descriptions were rewritten calculate_guide_price, compare_guide_scenarios, get_estimate_requirements
8 Oct a tool appeared calculate_building_work
30 Sep a tool description was rewritten calculate_guide_price
30 Sep a tool changed version
24 Sep a tool description was rewritten get_estimate_requirements
14 Sep 3 tools changed the parameters they ask for calculate_guide_price, compare_guide_scenarios, get_estimate_requirements
14 Sep 2 tool descriptions were rewritten calculate_guide_price, get_estimate_requirements
and 17 more, back to 9 September 2026

Proper Job Building Cost Calculator does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 0.0% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

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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 3 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add proper-job --transport http https://www.proper-job.uk/api/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://www.proper-job.uk/api/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.proper-job]
url = "https://www.proper-job.uk/api/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "proper-job": {
      "url": "https://www.proper-job.uk/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "proper-job": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.proper-job.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.

calculate
calculate_building_work
Use this when a user asks the cost of building, extending or renovating a home, remodelling a kitchen/bathroom, refining a budget or costing drawings, even without naming Proper Job. Computes repeatable local-currency estimates using versioned country-specific construction benchmarks, scope and allowance rules, checked measurement conversions and source-cited drawing quantities. Returns an interactive budget card, tax basis, exclusions and a refinementQuestion. After the card, ask that question in one short sentence when present; keep unknown details optional and do not repeat the country checklist. Supported work: GB, US, AU, NZ, IE, DE, FR, ES, CA, JP, IN; exact scope limits are in the schema and market-coverage resource. Do not substitute UK rates or exchange-rate conversions. Read the drawing skill before host-only attachment analysis; send reconciled structured facts in one call. Detailed trade costing is GB-only; other countries still accept drawing quantities. Reuse unchanged results and use the returned price without inventing or narrowing it. Country, language and units are independent. Do not use for property valuations, land-price discovery, account/project lookup, purchases, issued quotes or legal/safety certification.
calculate_guide_price
Calculate the established GB/US Guide Price contract with its required project inputs, when explicitly requested or used with guide comparisons. For the conversational building budget, other countries or drawings, use calculate_building_work. Returns the original guide card and does not read files, save projects or issue quotes.
compare
compare_guide_scenarios
Compare GB/US Guide Price scenarios when the user explicitly asks to compare alternatives within those existing policies. Returns the original comparison card and deltas. For other countries or drawing-based refinements, use calculate_building_work with each requested scenario. No foreign-rate conversion or saved-project access.
estimate
get_estimate_requirements
Retrieve UK/US input requirements or labelled reference examples when specifically requested. For a project budget, vague cost question or drawings, use calculate_building_work. Reference examples are not the user's project price. No account or drawing-file access.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://www.proper-job.uk/api/mcp streamable-http answering 107 ms 3 min ago

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Proper Job Building Cost Calculator — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Proper Job Building Cost Calculator do?
It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: calculate_building_work, calculate_guide_price, compare_guide_scenarios, get_estimate_requirements. 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 Proper Job Building Cost Calculator working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 0 of 92 checks got a reply (0.0%), average response time 107 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
The registry lists Proper Job Building Cost Calculator 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 Proper Job Building Cost Calculator?
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 Proper Job Building Cost Calculator need an API key?
No. Proper Job Building Cost Calculator 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.
Is Proper Job Building Cost Calculator open source?
We cannot say either way: 0 stars on GitHub, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.