Sous Chef MCP Server

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Sous Chef is answering right now. Last checked 13 min ago. It exposes 11 tools. Last commit 30 Aug 2026.

Save, import and edit recipes as interactive cards in ChatGPT and Claude, synced to your iPhone.

Uptime history 6 days of history

6 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

346 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 30 Aug 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Sous Chef 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 13 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add sous-chef --transport http https://mcp.mysouschef.app/mcp

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

https://mcp.mysouschef.app/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.sous-chef]
url = "https://mcp.mysouschef.app/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sous-chef": {
      "url": "https://mcp.mysouschef.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "sous-chef": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.mysouschef.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 11

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

recipe

add_recipe

Creates a NEW recipe in your library only when the user explicitly asks to save/add it or taps Save in the recipe card. For a newly generated recipe the user has not chosen to keep, use display_recipe instead. Does not update existing recipes — to change a saved recipe use update_recipe. To make cooking-time tweaks use apply_recipe_patches. The server mints the stored import-* or ai-* recipe id; any caller-supplied recipe.id is treated only as source payload and is not used for upsert.

delete_recipe

Permanently delete a recipe owned by the authenticated user from their Sous Chef library. This cannot delete public catalog recipes.

get_recipe

Returns the saved canonical recipe from your library or the public catalog. In-progress cooking edits live in sessions and are not returned here.

update_recipe

Deliberately updates allowed fields on a saved recipe in your library. Supports title, subtitle, summary, description, images, meta, and notes only; images and notes replace the whole array. Does not change ingredients or steps — use apply_recipe_patches for cooking-time edits in a session snapshot.

apply

apply_recipe_patches

Validate and apply explicit edits. Pass recipeId for a persisted cooking session, or pass the full recipe payload from display_recipe to edit an unsaved card without persistence. Does NOT modify the saved recipe in your library.

display

display_recipe

Presents a complete recipe in Sous Chef's interactive recipe card (servings, ingredients, steps, cooking mode, validated edits, Undo). Prefer this over plain chat formatting whenever you generate, retrieve, or substantially revise a full recipe — including ordinary requests like 'give me a vegan mushroom carbonara' or 'make a quick dinner for two'. Displaying is temporary: it renders the card without saving it or creating a cooking session; saving only happens through add_recipe when the user asks.

health

health_check

Confirm the Sous Chef MCP server is reachable.

measurement

set_measurement_system

Set measurements without ingredient patches. Pass recipeId for saved session state, or pass the full recipe payload from display_recipe to update an unsaved card without persistence.

recipes

list_my_recipes

List the authenticated user's saved Sous Chef recipes. Use this before editing when the user refers to a recipe by name instead of id.

revert

revert_recipe_edit

Drop a patch group by requestId. Pass recipeId/sessionId for persisted edits, or pass the displayed card's baseRecipe and remaining patch history for a pure unsaved-card Undo. Unknown requestIds are idempotent no-ops.

share_recipe

Creates (or refreshes) a public Sous Chef link for a recipe and returns the URL. Only call when the user explicitly asks to share a recipe. The page is public, anyone with the link can view it, and it is indexed by search engines; the link shows the recipe as it currently looks, including Sous Chef edits, and sharing again updates the same link. Requires a signed-in Sous Chef account.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://mcp.mysouschef.app/mcp	streamable-http	answering	311 ms	13 min ago

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Sous Chef — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Sous Chef do?

It exposes 11 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: add_recipe, apply_recipe_patches, delete_recipe, display_recipe, get_recipe, health_check and 5 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 Sous Chef working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 346 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Sous Chef?

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 Sous Chef need an API key?

No. Sous Chef completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 11 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Sous Chef?

It answers our handshake in 346 ms on average, which is faster than 40% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is Sous Chef open source?

The code is open source: it is published under the MIT licence, written in JavaScript and 0 stars on GitHub. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at mcp.mysouschef.app, which runs on its operator's own terms.