PlainRecords: U.S. recalls in plain English MCP Server

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PlainRecords: U.S. recalls in plain English is answering right now. Last checked 12 min ago. It exposes 3 tools.

U.S. FDA, CPSC and NHTSA recalls by product, brand, lot code or car, plus owner complaints. Daily.

Uptime history 45 hours of history

45 hours agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

683 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check PlainRecords: U.S. recalls in plain English 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 12 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add us-recalls-food-products-vehicles --transport http https://plainrecords.com/mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "us-recalls-food-products-vehicles": {
      "url": "https://plainrecords.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.us-recalls-food-products-vehicles]
url = "https://plainrecords.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "us-recalls-food-products-vehicles": {
      "url": "https://plainrecords.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "us-recalls-food-products-vehicles": {
      "url": "https://plainrecords.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.

brand

brand_recalls

The newest recalls (up to 25) of a brand or company across FDA, CPSC and NHTSA, with the total count.

recalls

search_recalls

Find FDA (food, medicine, medical device), CPSC (consumer product) and NHTSA (vehicle) recalls by product, brand, hazard, lot code or UPC. Newest and best matches first.

vehicle

vehicle_recalls

NHTSA recalls for a make, model and model year, plus owner complaint counts since 1995 by part. A recall applies only to the vehicles it lists: the owner should check the VIN at nhtsa.gov/recalls.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://plainrecords.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	649 ms	12 min ago

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PlainRecords: U.S. recalls in plain English — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can PlainRecords: U.S. recalls in plain English do?

It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: brand_recalls, search_recalls, vehicle_recalls. 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 PlainRecords: U.S. recalls in plain English 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 683 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect PlainRecords: U.S. recalls in plain English?

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 PlainRecords: U.S. recalls in plain English need an API key?

No. PlainRecords: U.S. recalls in plain English 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 PlainRecords: U.S. recalls in plain English?

It answers our handshake in 683 ms on average, which is faster than 15% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.