MCP Recipes runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 80 installs a week from npm. Last commit 17 Sep 2026.
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Today is the operative word: we check MCP Recipes every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.
This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.
claude mcp add mcp-recipes -- npx -y mcp-recipes
{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp-recipes": {
"args": [
"-y",
"mcp-recipes"
],
"command": "npx"
}
}
}
[mcp_servers.mcp-recipes]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "mcp-recipes"]
{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp-recipes": {
"args": [
"-y",
"mcp-recipes"
],
"command": "npx"
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp-recipes": {
"args": [
"-y",
"mcp-recipes"
],
"command": "npx"
}
}
}
This one needs environment variables set before it will start:
RECIPES_USER_AGENT (Identify your own client. The project's own identifier is appended, so a site can always reach a human.), RECIPES_MIN_INTERVAL_MS (Minimum milliseconds between two requests to the same site. Default 1000, floor 500.), RECIPES_TIMEOUT_MS (Deadline for one request to a site, in milliseconds. Default 20000.), RECIPES_MAX_RETRIES (Retries on rate limiting and transient failures. Default 3.), RECIPES_CACHE_TTL_MS (In-memory cache lifetime, in milliseconds. Default 900000. Set 0 to turn it off.), RECIPES_CACHE_MAX_ENTRIES (In-memory cache size. Default 200.), RECIPES_LOG_LEVEL (silent, error, info or debug. Default error. Logs go to stderr.).
The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.
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