Nhtsa MCP Server

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Nhtsa MCP runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 546 installs a week from npm. Last commit 28 Oct 2026.

NHTSA: VIN decoding, safety recalls, owner complaints, make and model catalogues — keyless.

Installs per day peak 326 · avg 10

a month agotoday

546

Installs / week

npm · nhtsa-mcp

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28 Oct 2026

Last commit

from GitHub

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License

TypeScript

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Nhtsa MCP 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

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add nhtsa-mcp -- npx -y nhtsa-mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nhtsa-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "nhtsa-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.nhtsa-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "nhtsa-mcp"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nhtsa-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "nhtsa-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "nhtsa-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "nhtsa-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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Nhtsa MCP — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Nhtsa MCP?

Nhtsa MCP runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package nhtsa-mcp was installed 546 times last week.

How do I connect Nhtsa MCP?

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 runs locally, so the command pulls nhtsa-mcp straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use Nhtsa MCP?

The npm package nhtsa-mcp was installed 546 times in the last week. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is Nhtsa MCP open source?

We cannot say either way: written in TypeScript and 0 stars on GitHub, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.