Local Trades Kit MCP Server

by modernmustardseed Your server? Claim it

answering

Local Trades Kit is answering right now. Last checked 5 min ago. It exposes 5 tools.

US data for home-service trades: service-area ZIPs, seasonal demand, review timing, service pages.

Uptime history 4 hours of history

4 hours agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

12 of 12 checks

Tools

read from the server

313 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Local Trades Kit 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 5 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add trades-kit --transport http https://mcp.modernmustardseed.com/trades-kit

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "trades-kit": {
      "url": "https://mcp.modernmustardseed.com/trades-kit"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.trades-kit]
url = "https://mcp.modernmustardseed.com/trades-kit"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "trades-kit": {
      "url": "https://mcp.modernmustardseed.com/trades-kit"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "trades-kit": {
      "url": "https://mcp.modernmustardseed.com/trades-kit"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 5

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

review

review_request_timing

Plan when and how a home-service business asks customers for reviews, by trade and job type: what to say at completion, the window for the one written request (with dates when a completion date is given), the moment the customer can first judge the work, and the rules that apply, from Google Maps policy, Yelp, the FTC consumer review rule (16 CFR 465) and the TCPA for texts, each cited with an as-of date. Includes the field-experiment and survey findings the timing rests on. Informational, not legal advice.

seasonal

seasonal_demand

Show the busy and slow months for a home-service trade in a US state, a NOAA climate region (Northeast, Upper Midwest, Ohio Valley, Southeast, Northern Rockies and Plains, South, Southwest, Northwest, West) or the whole country. The month-by-month index is measured from BLS QCEW private-sector employment for the trade's NAICS industry, 2022 to 2024. Beside it: NOAA 1991-2020 monthly temperature, degree day and precipitation normals for the same area, and seasonal drivers for the trade (tune-up seasons, freeze months, hurricane season, lawn fertilization windows, termite swarms and others) where a public source supports them. Every claim carries its source.

service

service_area

Work out what a local service business covers. Give a base (a 5-digit ZIP or "City, ST") and a radius in miles, or a list of ZIPs. Returns every ZIP Code Tabulation Area inside it with distance, population, housing units and owner-occupied homes; the cities, towns and Census places inside it; the counties it touches with the population inside the area; totals; and up to 20 candidate areas for a Google Business Profile service area with Google's written rules. Uses Census Gazetteer, relationship-file and ACS 2020-2024 data stored on the server. Distances are straight-line miles, not driving distance.

trade

trade_service_pages

List the standard website page set for a home-service trade: home, services hub, one page per core service with what it must cover, projects, service area, reviews, about, questions and contact, plus location pages for up to 20 cities. Comes with Google's written rules on doorway pages, people-first content, LocalBusiness structured data and business names, each cited. The service taxonomy is curated per trade and mapped to the trade's 2022 NAICS industry.

trades

list_trades

List every trade the kit covers with its id, common names it matches, its 2022 NAICS industry code and its job type ids. Static reference.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://mcp.modernmustardseed.com/trades-kit	streamable-http	answering	209 ms	5 min ago

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Local Trades Kit — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Local Trades Kit do?

It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: list_trades, review_request_timing, seasonal_demand, service_area, trade_service_pages. 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 Local Trades Kit working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 12 of 12 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 313 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Local Trades Kit?

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 Local Trades Kit need an API key?

No. Local Trades Kit completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Local Trades Kit?

It answers our handshake in 313 ms on average, which is faster than 46% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.