The Fine Print MCP Server

by howtocancel Your server? Claim it

answering

The Fine Print is answering right now. Last checked 3 min ago. It exposes 4 tools.

Cancellation steps and return policies for 53 US companies, from official sources, checked daily.

Uptime history 45 hours of history

45 hours agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

196 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check The Fine Print 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 3 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add the-fine-print --transport http https://api.howtocancel.ai/mcp

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

https://api.howtocancel.ai/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.the-fine-print]
url = "https://api.howtocancel.ai/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "the-fine-print": {
      "url": "https://api.howtocancel.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "the-fine-print": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.howtocancel.ai/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.

policy

get_policy

How to cancel a subscription, or a store's return policy: the steps, deadlines, fees, exceptions and catches, with the company's own help page as the source and the date it was checked.

list_policy_changes

Dated log of changes we have recorded to these companies' cancellation and return policies.

companies

list_companies

Every company The Fine Print covers, with its slug, kind (subscription or retailer) and the date its policy was last checked.

compare

compare_return_windows

Every retailer's return window side by side, longest first, with holiday extensions and fees. Answers questions no single shop's help page can.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://api.howtocancel.ai/mcp	streamable-http	answering	133 ms	3 min ago

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The Fine Print — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can The Fine Print do?

It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: compare_return_windows, get_policy, list_companies, list_policy_changes. 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 The Fine Print working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 196 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect The Fine Print?

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 The Fine Print need an API key?

No. The Fine Print 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 The Fine Print?

It answers our handshake in 196 ms on average, which is faster than 72% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.