Hands for Agents MCP Server

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Hands for Agents is answering right now. Last checked 5 min ago. 55 installs a week from npm. It exposes 3 tools. Last commit 24 Sep 2026.

Human-operated physical world in the EU: make, assemble, measure, verify, ship.

Installs per day peak 159 · avg 21 · -82% w/w

a month agotoday

Uptime history 50 days of history · worst day 86%

50 days agonow

99.5%

Uptime 24h

181 of 182 checks

Tools

read from the server

317 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Installs / week

npm and PyPI

What changed 102

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 23 September 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

8 Nov 3 tool descriptions were rewritten get_status, list_services, request_quote

8 Nov 3 tools changed the parameters they ask for get_status, list_services, request_quote

8 Nov 2 tools disappeared confirm_delivery, create_task

1 Nov 3 tool descriptions were rewritten get_status, list_services, request_quote

1 Nov 3 tools changed the parameters they ask for get_status, list_services, request_quote

1 Nov 2 tools appeared confirm_delivery, create_task

30 Oct 3 tool descriptions were rewritten get_status, list_services, request_quote

30 Oct 3 tools changed the parameters they ask for get_status, list_services, request_quote

30 Oct 2 tools disappeared confirm_delivery, create_task

28 Oct 3 tools changed the parameters they ask for get_status, list_services, request_quote

and 75 more, back to 23 September 2026

Hands for Agents does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 99.5% 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 5 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add hands --transport http https://handsforagents.com/mcp

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

https://handsforagents.com/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.hands]
url = "https://handsforagents.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hands": {
      "url": "https://handsforagents.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "hands": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://handsforagents.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

This server publishes 1 more address. The block above uses the one we reach during checks; the full list is under Endpoints below, and the author may intend a particular one for your client.

Available tools 3

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

request

request_quote

Send a physical-world task to a human in the Czech Republic for screening and a fixed-price quote. Not an order and not binding: nothing is charged and nothing is made until you accept the quote. A human answers by e-mail within 24 hours, counted in real time, weekends and Czech public holidays included. Returns quote_id, access_token, response_due_at and nda_url. Store the access_token — it is the only way to read the quote back. No authentication. Legacy endpoint: a quote requested here is ordered by e-mail. To order and pay by card through tools (create_task, Stripe Checkout), send request_quote to https://mcp.handsforagents.com/mcp instead.

services

list_services

What this company will and will not do in the physical world, the refused categories, example prices, the payment rules and the key contract terms. Identical to https://handsforagents.com/services.json. No authentication.

status

get_status

Status of a quote request made with request_quote. Needs the quote_id and the access_token returned by that call; there is no other way in, and the record is kept for 90 days. The quote itself is sent by e-mail. Only for quotes requested at this legacy endpoint; tasks and payments are at https://mcp.handsforagents.com/mcp.

Tools removed

Tools this server used to expose. Anything built against them stopped working on the day they went.

confirm_delivery

removed 8 Nov 2026

create_task

removed 8 Nov 2026

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://handsforagents.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	235 ms	6 min ago
https://mcp.handsforagents.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	351 ms	5 min ago

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Hands for Agents — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Hands for Agents do?

It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_status, list_services, request_quote. 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 Hands for Agents working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 181 of 182 checks got a reply (99.5%), average response time 317 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

Did Hands for Agents ever remove tools?

Yes. confirm_delivery, create_task are no longer exposed — we recorded the date each one disappeared. A tool vanishing usually means a breaking change for anything that depended on it.

How do I connect Hands for Agents?

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 Hands for Agents need an API key?

No. Hands for Agents completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 3 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Hands for Agents?

It answers our handshake in 317 ms on average, which is faster than 44% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

How many people use Hands for Agents?

The npm package handsforagents-mcp was installed 55 times in the last week. Week over week that is -82%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is Hands for Agents open source?

The code is open source: it is published under the MIT licence, written in JavaScript and 0 stars on GitHub. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at handsforagents.com, which runs on its operator's own terms.