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Pick My Secret Santa MCP Server

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Pick My Secret Santa is answering right now. Last checked moments ago. It exposes 3 tools. Last commit 8 Nov 2026.

Runs a Secret Santa name draw in chat and gives each person a private reveal link.

Uptime history 63 hours of history
63 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
92 of 92 checks
3
Tools
read from the server
145 ms
Response time
average over 24h
0
Stars
last commit 8 Nov 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Pick My Secret Santa every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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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 pick-my-secret-santa --transport http https://mcp.pickmysecretsanta.com/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://mcp.pickmysecretsanta.com/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.pick-my-secret-santa]
url = "https://mcp.pickmysecretsanta.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pick-my-secret-santa": {
      "url": "https://mcp.pickmysecretsanta.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "pick-my-secret-santa": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.pickmysecretsanta.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 3

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

explain
explain_secret_santa_rules
The rules and fairness answers pickmysecretsanta.com itself publishes, worded the site's way. Topics: basics (the classic rules), fairness_and_secrecy (how the sealed draw works and its honest limits), organizer_view (the organizer sees names and links, never matches), keep_apart_pairs, late_joiner (the two honest ways to add someone after the draw), budget (the four bands), white_elephant (how it differs).
pick
pick_secret_santa_gift
Filters Santa's vetted 212 hand-checked gift ideas - the Secret Santa subset of the shared 255-idea bank it shares with its sister site The Present Picker, sorted here for Secret Santa by the budget band your group agreed for its draw - with strict parameters, and returns up to three picks. Parameters: budget_band (required: under_25, 25_to_50, 50_to_100, over_100); recipient_type (anyone, kid - only ideas from the bank's Kid shelf, or adult - everything except the Kid shelf); one interest hint (books, cooking, cozy, fitness, games, gardening, music, outdoors, science, tech, travel, or surprise) which ranks matches first; and avoid, a list of words - any idea whose name, blurb, or why mentions an avoid word is excluded, and the answer says how many ideas the filters set aside. Each pick names the kind of gift, why it fits, and what to look for and avoid. No brands, no stores, no exact prices: budget bands are guides, not exact prices. This tool never asks who the gift is for by name and knows nothing about any draw.
plan
plan_secret_santa_setup
Configures a Secret Santa group of 3 to 30 right here in chat and hands the organizer one pre-filled link to pickmysecretsanta.com, where the zero-knowledge draw runs in their browser - no server sees the matches, and each match will live inside one private link - hidden from plain sight, not locked. Give it the group's names and, optionally, a group name, a budget band, and keep_apart pairs (two-name lists, like [["Ana", "Ben"]], for people who must not draw each other): it validates the setup (3 to 30 people, no shared names - the site's draw cannot tell two same-named people apart) and checks that a valid draw exists under the keep-apart pairs before it returns the link with the group, names, budget, and pairs already in the form, plus the site's honest warnings; if the pairs leave no fair draw, it names the conflict plainly and returns no link. The link carries setup only - nobody has been assigned anyone. Names are used once to build the link and are never stored. With only a headcount (group_size) and no names, it instead returns the setup checklist the site prescribes: what to agree out loud first (buy-by date, what counts as a gift, the late-joiner rule, the reveal), the budget step, and how the browser draw works.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://mcp.pickmysecretsanta.com/mcp streamable-http answering 129 ms 0 min ago

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Pick My Secret Santa — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Pick My Secret Santa do?
It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: explain_secret_santa_rules, pick_secret_santa_gift, plan_secret_santa_setup. 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 Pick My Secret Santa working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 145 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Pick My Secret Santa?
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 Pick My Secret Santa need an API key?
No. Pick My Secret Santa completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 3 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Pick My Secret Santa?
It answers our handshake in 145 ms on average, which is faster than 83% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
Is Pick My Secret Santa open source?
We cannot say either way: written in HTML and 0 stars on GitHub, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.