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Shortlist Pass Local Businesses MCP Server

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Shortlist Pass Local Businesses is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 5 tools.

Myrtle Beach food trucks, restaurants, shops and HOAs: live menus, stops, pickup times, order links.

Uptime history 13 days of history · worst day 1%
13 days agonow
12.1%
Uptime 24h
11 of 91 checks
5
Tools
read from the server
465 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

What changed 10

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 30 September 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

2 Oct 5 tool descriptions were rewritten get_business, get_menu, get_upcoming_events and 2 more
2 Oct 2 tools changed the parameters they ask for search_businesses, start_order
30 Sep 2 tool descriptions were rewritten get_menu, get_upcoming_events
30 Sep a tool appeared start_order

Shortlist Pass Local Businesses does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 17.9% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Three servers free · no card

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.

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

Available tools 5

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

business
get_business
Returns the public profile of one Shortlist business: name, type, description, town, phone, website, page URL, hours (fixed locations only), whether online ordering is open, and the order page URL when it is. Mobile businesses (food trucks) have no fixed address; their locations are the upcoming stops in the upcoming-events data.
businesses
search_businesses
Searches real local businesses on Shortlist Pass (food trucks, restaurants, shops, HOAs and more). Optional filters: a town slug (e.g. "myrtle-beach"), a business category key (e.g. "food_truck", "restaurant", "bakery"), and a free-text query. The query matches every word, in any order, against the business name, headline and type, and also against its active menu items (name, description, tags, category); a business found through its menu carries matched_items (id, name, price, up to 5). For food trucks, matched items come from the full catalog and menu_note says so; what is sold on a given day is per stop. Businesses with a menu match rank first. Returns up to 25 matches, each with its subdomain, which is the identifier the other tools take. Demo and test pages are not included.
menu
get_menu
Returns the current public menu of one business: every active item with name, description, price, category, tags, a sold-out flag and an image URL. Prices are in US dollars. For a business with menu_source "event" (food trucks), this is the full catalog of everything it sells; what is sold on a given day is listed per stop in the upcoming-events data, and the note field states this. The response includes the business summary with the order page URL when ordering is open.
start
start_order
Creates a short-lived cart for a customer at one Shortlist business and returns a cart_url on the business's own page, where the customer reviews the order and pays through the business's checkout. Input is offering ids and quantities; prices are not accepted. The server prices every line from the menu, applies the business's deals and tax, and returns the resulting quote. For businesses with menu_source "event" (food trucks), event_id is required and identifies one upcoming stop; the offering ids accepted are those listed in that stop's menu in the upcoming-events data, and pickup_time is one of that stop's open pickup_slots. A stop whose menu_status is "not_live" is refused. The cart expires in 30 minutes. This tool does not accept payment details or addresses; payment happens on the business's page at the returned cart_url. In the quote, total_before_tip excludes the optional tip, which the customer chooses on the checkout page; quote.tip.note states the business's suggested percentage. agent.name is recorded on the cart and the order so the business can see which assistant helped.
upcoming
get_upcoming_events
Returns the upcoming published events and stops for one business; for a food truck these are its locations. Each has a name, ISO start and end with the local offset, location name and address, whether pre-orders are open for that stop, the pickup time slots still available with remaining capacity (null means no cap), and a menu with menu_status: "set" means the items listed are what is sold at that stop and their offering ids are accepted by start_order for that stop; "not_live" means the business has not put a menu on that stop yet, the menu is empty, menu_note carries the explanation, and start_order does not accept the stop; "catalog" means a fixed business whose standing menu applies. Recurring events carry a recurrence description and the next date. Cancelled and test events are not included.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://app.shortlistpass.com/mcp streamable-http answering 51 ms 12 min ago

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Shortlist Pass Local Businesses — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Shortlist Pass Local Businesses do?
It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_business, get_menu, get_upcoming_events, search_businesses, start_order. 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 Shortlist Pass Local Businesses working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 11 of 91 checks got a reply (12.1%), average response time 465 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
The registry lists Shortlist Pass Local Businesses 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 Shortlist Pass Local Businesses?
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 Shortlist Pass Local Businesses need an API key?
No. Shortlist Pass Local Businesses completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Shortlist Pass Local Businesses?
It answers our handshake in 465 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.