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Open Call Portal is answering right now. Last checked moments ago. It exposes 7 tools.

Search PII-free opportunities, availability, and live events; prepare safe no-write form handoffs.

Uptime history 21 days of history · worst day 93%
21 days agonow
95.7%
Uptime 24h
88 of 92 checks
7
Tools
read from the server
510 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

What changed 3

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 5 September 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

12 Sep a tool description was rewritten search_live_events
5 Sep a tool changed the parameters it asks for2 times that day prepare_listing_form
and 1 more, back to 5 September 2026

Open Call Portal does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 98.4% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 0 min ago.

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

Available tools 7

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

prepare
prepare_listing_form
Validate a versioned, allowlisted listing-form prefill and return the canonical create-form URL. It supports every mounted form advertised by get_platform_schema (39 portal forms plus live events); the exact portal-specific fields, posting roles, and value shapes are declared in this tool's schema. This is a no-write handoff: it never creates a draft, sends email, verifies a code, or publishes. Do not include email addresses, verification codes, tokens, session IDs, credentials, contact data, or unrecognized fields.
prepare_response_form
For an exact active DJ opportunity only, validate a small response prefill and return the normal editable DJ form URL. This is a no-write handoff: AI may prepare it, but the human supplies identity/contact, consent and verification, then clicks send. It never creates drafts, sends email, verifies, publishes, creates alerts, or uses webhooks. Do not include names, email, phone, credentials, tokens, consent, verification codes, or submission fields.
availability
search_availability
Use this first for buyer-side requests to find, hire, or book talent, crew, suppliers, or services: 'I need a live band in St Kilda', 'find a DJ near Amsterdam', or 'event crew for hire'. For 'I need a live band in St Kilda', use portalId='lb-availability' and location='St Kilda'. Location hierarchy allows broader Melbourne availability to match St Kilda and labels it as a parent-area match. Do NOT use this when the speaker is the talent seeking work, e.g. 'I am a DJ looking for gigs/work'; use search_open_calls for that perspective. Do NOT use this when the user explicitly says 'open call' or asks to post/find/search open calls; that explicit wording takes priority. If availability returns zero, offer to post an open call; never claim a match exists. Search availability listings posted by performers, crew, and service providers who are actively seeking bookings. These are the supply side of the platform — DJs, bands, comedians, artists, event crew, and more advertising their availability for a date range or location. Complement to search_open_calls (demand side).
live
search_live_events
Use when the user asks to find, show, attend, watch, visit, or buy tickets for an event or session—not when they need to hire talent. For example, 'find an analogue listening session in Melbourne' uses this tool; 'analogue listening sessions looking for organisers' uses search_open_calls. Search first-party upcoming live events submitted directly to the Open Call Portals Live Events Map. Includes DJ sets, live bands, comedy nights, and more with geo coordinates (lat/lng), ticketing info, source links, and event start/end times. All events are future or currently in progress.
open
search_open_calls
Use this when talent, crew, suppliers, or service providers are looking for posted work: gigs, jobs, opportunities, vacancies, slots, bookings, wanted/needed listings, or open calls. Treat those words as search intent—not as genre/type filters. For example, 'DJ gig Amsterdam', 'DJ opportunity in Amsterdam', 'DJ needed listings Amsterdam', and 'I am a DJ looking for work in Amsterdam' all use search_open_calls with portalId='dj' and location='Amsterdam'. Explicit wording such as 'post/find/search open calls' always uses this tool, even when the speaker is a venue manager or private event host. Impersonal posted requirements such as 'analog listening sessions looking for organisers' also use this tool. Do NOT use this as the first choice when a buyer says 'I need/find/want to hire/book a DJ or live band'; call search_availability for that buyer-side intent instead. Venues and event hosts post open calls to find DJs, live bands, comedians, artists, content creators, event crew, solopreneurs, game hosts, casting talent, and more. Returns structured listings with location, genre, type, close date, and a canonical URL. Each result includes allowedResponderRoles so callers can explain who may apply through the listing's canonical web page. All results are PII-free.
opportunity
get_opportunity
Look up one opportunity by its exact public UI reference (for example DJ-3128) before making any claim about it. Returns only an active, non-deleted, non-membership, non-partner public listing and its allowedResponderRoles. State only fields in the live result; missing means not provided. Never invent volume, frequency, or competition.
platform
get_platform_schema
Returns the Open Call Portals discovery contract: portal IDs, field value options, MCP server details, and read-only search metadata. Call this first for autodiscovery before filtering searches.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://opencallportal.com/mcp streamable-http answering 282 ms 0 min ago

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Open Call Portal — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Open Call Portal do?
It exposes 7 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_opportunity, get_platform_schema, prepare_listing_form, prepare_response_form, search_availability, search_live_events and 1 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 Open Call Portal working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 88 of 92 checks got a reply (95.7%), average response time 510 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Open Call Portal?
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 Open Call Portal need an API key?
No. Open Call Portal completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 7 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Open Call Portal?
It answers our handshake in 510 ms on average, which is faster than 28% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.