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Tradehand MCP Server

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Tradehand is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 7 tools. Last commit 2 Oct 2026.

Browse and book local tradespeople in the UK.

Uptime history 13 days of history · worst day 0%
13 days agonow
8.7%
Uptime 24h
8 of 92 checks
7
Tools
read from the server
235 ms
Response time
average over 24h
0
Stars
last commit 2 Oct 2026

What changed 2

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 2 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

2 Oct a tool appeared read_open_knowledge_concept
2 Oct a tool disappeared read_okf_concept

Tradehand does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 30.9% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Three servers free · no card

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 8 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add tradehand --transport http https://tradehand.com/api/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tradehand": {
      "url": "https://tradehand.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.tradehand]
url = "https://tradehand.com/api/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tradehand": {
      "url": "https://tradehand.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tradehand": {
      "url": "https://tradehand.com/api/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.

agent
get_agent_discovery
Return the public agent discovery endpoints, content policy, and canonical URLs for Tradehand.
browse
browse_trades
List Tradehand's canonical UK trades. Instant quote is available before a trader is assigned.
open
read_open_knowledge_concept
Read one file of the Tradehand Open Knowledge Format bundle under /okf as raw markdown, YAML frontmatter intact. Start at /okf/index.md for the list of concepts.
page
get_page_markdown
Fetch a public Tradehand website page as clean markdown for agent reading and summarisation.
service
get_service_options
Return the listing's actual catalogue services when one exists. Does not reserve a slot or claim bookability.
trader
get_trader
Return a public directory profile by listing slug. Instant quote remains available even when the listing has no purchasable catalogue. Does not expose phone, street address or coordinates.
traders
search_traders
Find current public Tradehand directory listings by trade and optional UK postcode or place. Returns claim state, listing-source freshness, accreditation names, and canonical profile URLs; it does not claim availability, expose mixed-source ratings, or contact anyone.

Tools removed

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

read_okf_concept
removed 2 Oct 2026

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://tradehand.com/api/mcp streamable-http answering 158 ms 8 min ago

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Tradehand — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Tradehand do?
It exposes 7 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: browse_trades, get_agent_discovery, get_page_markdown, get_service_options, get_trader, read_open_knowledge_concept 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 Tradehand working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 8 of 92 checks got a reply (8.7%), average response time 235 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
Did Tradehand ever remove tools?
Yes. read_okf_concept is no longer exposed — we recorded the date each one disappeared. A tool vanishing usually means a breaking change for anything that depended on it.
The registry lists Tradehand 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 Tradehand?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Tradehand need an API key?
No. Tradehand 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 Tradehand?
It answers our handshake in 235 ms on average, which is faster than 57% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
Is Tradehand 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.