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KnowKensington MCP Server

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KnowKensington is answering right now. Last checked 11 min ago. It exposes 7 tools.

Curated places in Kensington, London: restaurants, coffee, pubs, parks and shops.

Uptime history 18 days of history · worst day 99%
18 days agonow
98.9%
Uptime 24h
90 of 91 checks
7
Tools
read from the server
240 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

What changed 9

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 31 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

3 Nov 5 tool descriptions were rewritten get_guide, get_place, list_guides and 2 more
3 Nov a tool changed the parameters it asks for search_places
3 Nov a tool changed version
31 Oct 2 tools changed the parameters they ask for compare_places, get_place

KnowKensington missed one check this week

Everything else answered, so this is steady rather than shaky. We check every 15 minutes, which is how a one-off gets told apart from the start of a pattern, and how you hear about the next one within the hour instead of 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 11 min ago.

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

places
list_places
Curated places in Kensington, optionally filtered by category, use-case tag or featured picks. Each result links to its https://knowkensington.com/place/{slug} page; ranked pages live at https://knowkensington.com/best/{category}.
search_places
Filter curated Kensington places by category, sub-zone, tags, featured picks or text, ranked like https://knowkensington.com/best/{category}. Every field carries its source; addresses, coordinates, hours, websites and photos are not included, so follow each place url for them. open_now only matches owner-supplied or official-site hours, and none are recorded yet.
compare
compare_places
Side-by-side sourced records for 2 to 4 Kensington places by slug, with the tags they share.
guide
get_guide
One published Kensington guide by slug: its introduction and its ranked places, every field sourced.
guides
list_guides
Published Kensington themed guides (https://knowkensington.com/guides/{slug}), with sourced titles, summaries and place counts.
nearby
nearby_places
Nearest curated Kensington places to a WGS84 coordinate supplied in the request, with distance in metres.
place
get_place
Full editorial record for one Kensington place by slug, including the guide's description and the public /place URL.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://knowkensington.com/mcp streamable-http answering 228 ms 11 min ago

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KnowKensington — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can KnowKensington do?
It exposes 7 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: compare_places, get_guide, get_place, list_guides, list_places, nearby_places 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 KnowKensington working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 90 of 91 checks got a reply (98.9%), average response time 240 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect KnowKensington?
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 KnowKensington need an API key?
No. KnowKensington 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 KnowKensington?
It answers our handshake in 240 ms on average, which is faster than 56% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.