Dorm Kit – hand-picked gift ideas MCP Server

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Dorm Kit – hand-picked gift ideas is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 8 tools.

Hand-picked gift ideas for moving into a dorm, turned into shareable wishlists fast.

Uptime history 14 days of history · worst day 2%

14 days agonow

4.3%

Uptime 24h

4 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

1431 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

What changed 10

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 29 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

29 Oct 5 tool descriptions were rewritten create_and_fill_kit, create_kit, list_marketplaces and 2 more

29 Oct 4 tools changed the parameters they ask for create_and_fill_kit, create_kit, resolve_product and 1 more

29 Oct a tool appeared list_catalog_items

Dorm Kit – hand-picked gift ideas does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 4.4% 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 2 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add dorm-gifts --transport http https://dorm-kit.vercel.app/mcp

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

https://dorm-kit.vercel.app/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.dorm-gifts]
url = "https://dorm-kit.vercel.app/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dorm-gifts": {
      "url": "https://dorm-kit.vercel.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "dorm-gifts": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://dorm-kit.vercel.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 8

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

kit

add_kit_item

Add an item to an existing dorm kit. Requires kit id and editToken from create_kit / create_and_fill_kit.

create_kit

Create an empty or pre-filled dorm kit wishlist. Returns id, editToken, ownerUrl, roommateUrl. marketplace=amazon.com + locale=en-US for US shoppers; amazon.se for Sweden. Missing store falls back (en-US → amazon.com, else amazon.se).

search_kit_items

Search dorm / back-to-school essentials. Returns Amazon search deep-links (and optional catalog matches). Pass marketplace=amazon.com + locale=en-US for US shoppers (amazon.com links, English queries) or marketplace=amazon.se for Sweden. Missing store falls back (en-US → amazon.com, else amazon.se).

and

create_and_fill_kit

One-shot: create a dorm kit and fill from itemQueries, itemKeywords, and/or itemAsins. marketplace=amazon.com + locale=en-US for US shoppers; amazon.se for Sweden. Missing store falls back (en-US → amazon.com, else amazon.se).

catalog

list_catalog_items

Browse the hand-picked dorm essentials catalog for a storefront. marketplace=amazon.com (US) returns verified amazon.com /dp/ product links; marketplace=amazon.se returns the Swedish catalog with amazon.se /dp/ links. Optional q/category filters.

health

health

Service health, storage mode, trackingTag status, and catalog count.

marketplaces

list_marketplaces

List supported Amazon storefronts (id, domain, defaultLocale). Match marketplace + locale to the end user: amazon.com (tag sw-dormkit-20) for the US, amazon.se (tag sw-dormkit-21) for Sweden.

resolve

resolve_product

Resolve ASIN, Amazon URL, or keywords to a buy deep-link on the selected marketplace. amazon.se links carry ?tag=sw-dormkit-21; amazon.com links carry ?tag=sw-dormkit-20. Missing store falls back (en-US → amazon.com, else amazon.se).

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://dorm-kit.vercel.app/mcp	streamable-http	answering	68 ms	2 min ago

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Dorm Kit – hand-picked gift ideas — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Dorm Kit – hand-picked gift ideas do?

It exposes 8 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: add_kit_item, create_and_fill_kit, create_kit, health, list_catalog_items, list_marketplaces and 2 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 Dorm Kit – hand-picked gift ideas working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 4 of 92 checks got a reply (4.3%), average response time 1431 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

The registry lists Dorm Kit – hand-picked gift ideas 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 Dorm Kit – hand-picked gift ideas?

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 Dorm Kit – hand-picked gift ideas need an API key?

No. Dorm Kit – hand-picked gift ideas completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 8 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Dorm Kit – hand-picked gift ideas?

It answers our handshake in 1431 ms on average, which is faster than 1% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.