Seat Sherpa MCP Server

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Seat Sherpa is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 7 tools.

Find carpool rides in California and Nevada: live seats, times and all-in seat prices. Read-only.

Uptime history 32 days of history · worst day 0%

32 days agonow

1.1%

Uptime 24h

1 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

541 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

What changed 82

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 8 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

7 Nov 5 tools changed the parameters they ask for cabpool_link, post_ride_link, request_ride_link and 2 more

6 Nov 5 tools changed the parameters they ask for10 times that day cabpool_link, post_ride_link, request_ride_link and 2 more

4 Nov 5 tools changed the parameters they ask for cabpool_link, post_ride_link, request_ride_link and 2 more

4 Nov 2 tools appeared cabpool_link, search_cabpools

3 Nov 3 tools changed the parameters they ask for post_ride_link, request_ride_link, search_rides

2 Nov 3 tools changed the parameters they ask for post_ride_link, request_ride_link, search_rides

1 Nov 3 tools changed the parameters they ask for6 times that day post_ride_link, request_ride_link, search_rides

30 Oct 3 tools changed the parameters they ask for post_ride_link, request_ride_link, search_rides

29 Oct 3 tools changed the parameters they ask for post_ride_link, request_ride_link, search_rides

25 Oct 3 tools changed the parameters they ask for6 times that day post_ride_link, request_ride_link, search_rides

and 47 more, back to 8 October 2026

Seat Sherpa does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 12.0% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

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 rides --transport http https://seatsherpa.app/mcp

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

https://seatsherpa.app/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.rides]
url = "https://seatsherpa.app/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "rides": {
      "url": "https://seatsherpa.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "rides": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://seatsherpa.app/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.

cabpool

cabpool_link

Cabpool: a free Seat Sherpa feature for sharing an Uber, Lyft or Waymo with people going the same way and splitting the fare, most often to or from an airport (SFO, OAK, SJC, LAX, BUR, SAN, SMF and others) or across town in California or Nevada. Use it when the person wants to split a rideshare rather than ride in someone's car, including short trips inside one area (for example "split an Uber from Nob Hill to SFO"), which search_rides does not cover. Returns a link that opens the cabpool form with the pickup, drop-off and day filled in; the person signs in, sees a fare estimate and each person's share, and posts it so others going that way can join. Seat Sherpa does not book, run or charge for the ride and is not affiliated with Uber, Lyft or Waymo: one member books it in their own app and the others pay their share directly. This tool only builds the link and posts nothing.

cabpools

search_cabpools

Find open cabpools on Seat Sherpa: people sharing an Uber, Lyft or Waymo going the same way and splitting the fare, often to or from an airport. Takes a pickup and a drop-off (a city, area, neighborhood or airport such as "San Francisco", "UC Davis", "SFO"; both may be in one area) and an optional date. Returns each cabpool's pickup and drop-off place, departure time (Pacific), service, spots left, an estimate of each person's share in USD and a link to join. Seat Sherpa does not book, run or charge for the ride; when nothing fits, the answer includes a link to post a cabpool.

post

post_ride_link

For a driver: a link where the person posts a drive they are already taking on Seat Sherpa, the carpool marketplace. Drivers set their own seat price, riders share costs like gas and tolls, and riders searching that route get notified. Use it when the person is the one driving (for example "I'm driving to LA on Friday, can I take people?"), not to find a ride. Takes the starting place, the destination and an optional date. The driver signs in and posts on the page; this tool only builds the link and posts nothing.

request

request_ride_link

For a rider when no ride fits: a link where the person posts a ride request on Seat Sherpa, the carpool marketplace, so drivers on that route see it and get notified, and the person hears back when a matching ride is posted. Use it after search_rides finds nothing that works (that answer already includes this link), or when the person asks to be told about a trip nobody has posted. Takes the same places and optional date as search_rides. The person signs in and posts the request on the page; this tool only builds the link, posts nothing, and never needs names, phone numbers or emails.

ride

get_ride

Public details of one Seat Sherpa ride by its id (from search_rides or a seatsherpa.app/ride link): route and stops with estimated times, departure (Pacific), seats left, all-in price per seat in USD, the driver's first name, rating and trips, the driver's note to riders, flexibility, the cancellation policy, and the booking link. Read-only.

rides

search_rides

Find upcoming long-distance carpool rides on Seat Sherpa (California and Nevada) where everyday drivers sell the empty seats on a trip they are already taking, and riders split the cost of gas. Give a starting place and a destination as city or place names (for example "San Francisco" and "Los Angeles"), and optionally a travel date. Returns rides with open seats: route, departure date and time (Pacific), seats left, the all-in price per seat in USD (what the rider pays, fees included), the driver's first name, and a link where the person books. Rides that stop in a city count for that city, so a San Jose to San Diego ride with a Los Angeles stop is found for Los Angeles to San Diego. Booking happens on the link; this tool cannot book. Rides on a nearby route (for example a San Francisco ride for a San Jose search) are listed separately as nearby_rides; say they are nearby, not exact. When no ride fits exactly, the answer includes a link to post a ride request for that route (the same link request_ride_link gives).

service

list_service_areas

The California and Nevada areas Seat Sherpa carpools run between. Use it to check whether a trip is covered before searching.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://seatsherpa.app/mcp	streamable-http	answering	153 ms	12 min ago

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Seat Sherpa — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Seat Sherpa do?

It exposes 7 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: cabpool_link, get_ride, list_service_areas, post_ride_link, request_ride_link, search_cabpools 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 Seat Sherpa working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 1 of 91 checks got a reply (1.1%), average response time 541 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

The registry lists Seat Sherpa as active — why does it not respond?

The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.

How do I connect Seat Sherpa?

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 Seat Sherpa need an API key?

No. Seat Sherpa 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 Seat Sherpa?

It answers our handshake in 541 ms on average, which is faster than 21% 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.