mcpbeat

NOSTOS MCP Server

market.nostos/nostos
answering

NOSTOS is answering right now. Last checked 6 min ago. It exposes 14 tools.

Retro games and vintage apparel in Duluth, GA. Live catalog, prices, trade-in offers, policies.

Uptime history 43 hours of history · worst hour 43%
43 hours agonow
50.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 182 checks
14
Tools
read from the server
978 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 6 min ago.

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

Available tools 14

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

availability
check_availability
Real-time status (available, reserved, sold, or invalid) for up to 50 SKUs at once. The live source of truth; the catalog can lag a recent sale.
buying
get_buying_policy
What NOSTOS buys and declines, how cash and store-credit offers are calculated, bounty premiums, basket caps, the free shipping label threshold, and the trade-in process.
condition
get_condition_grading_rubric
The NOSTOS condition grading vocabulary and the criteria for each grade, with region-code meanings. Optionally filter to one department.
credit
get_credit_policy
How NOSTOS store credit works: the 15% uplift over cash, the in-store drop-off bonus, the return bonus, and redemption.
departments
list_departments
List the store departments currently in stock (e.g. 'VG - Software', 'CLTH - Vintage Apparel'), each with a count of available items.
inventory
search_inventory
Search the live NOSTOS catalog of retro games, consoles, and vintage apparel. Free-text query plus platform, department, region, condition, and price filters. Returns online-buyable items by default. Every item is unique and individually graded.
item
get_item
Full details for one SKU: description, condition notes, price, region, image, and a direct product URL, plus real-time availability.
lookup
lookup_market_price
Estimated market value (loose, CIB, and new) for a game or console from current PriceCharting guide data, plus the NOSTOS cash and store-credit buy offers.
platforms
list_platforms
List the console platforms currently in stock, each with a count of available items.
recent
list_recent_drops
List the most recently added in-stock items, newest first. The answer to what is new at NOSTOS.
return
get_return_policy
The NOSTOS return policy: 14-day window, eligible reasons, free return shipping on valid claims, refund timing, and the 110% store-credit option.
shipping
get_shipping_estimate
The NOSTOS shipping policy for a destination country (US, Canada, or not-yet-active international), including the free prepaid trade-in label threshold. Policy, not a live carrier rate.
store
get_store_info
NOSTOS store information: address, hours, contact, mission, tagline, categories, area served, social links, and current online and storefront status.
trade
get_trade_in_offer_estimate
Cash and store-credit totals for a basket of items to sell, with free-shipping eligibility and whether the basket routes to a personal review. Persists nothing. Provide each item's buyPrice from lookup_market_price.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://mcp.nostos.market/mcp streamable-http answering 916 ms 6 min ago
https://mcp.nostos.market/sse sse answering 375 ms 7 min ago

NOSTOS — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can NOSTOS do?
It exposes 14 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: check_availability, get_buying_policy, get_condition_grading_rubric, get_credit_policy, get_item, get_return_policy and 8 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 NOSTOS working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 182 checks got a reply (50.0%), average response time 978 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect NOSTOS?
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 NOSTOS need an API key?
No. NOSTOS completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 14 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is NOSTOS?
It answers our handshake in 978 ms on average, which is faster than 5% 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.