Tabular Recipe MCP Server

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answering

Tabular Recipe is answering right now. Last checked 16 min ago. It exposes 8 tools.

Turn any recipe into a compact process table — every ingredient and step at a glance.

Uptime history 51 days of history · worst day 96%

51 days agonow

94.5%

Uptime 24h

86 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

215 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

What changed 3

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 14 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

14 Aug 3 tools changed the parameters they ask for convert_recipe, parse_recipe, render_recipe

Tabular Recipe does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 98.6% 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 16 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add tabular-recipe --transport http https://api.tabularrecipe.com/mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tabular-recipe": {
      "url": "https://api.tabularrecipe.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.tabular-recipe]
url = "https://api.tabularrecipe.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tabular-recipe": {
      "url": "https://api.tabularrecipe.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tabular-recipe": {
      "url": "https://api.tabularrecipe.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 8

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

checkout

checkout_status

Check whether an agent-created Stripe checkout is pending, paid, claimed, or expired. Requires its sessionId and secret claimToken, but no API key.

create_checkout

Create a Stripe-hosted checkout for a credit bundle without an API key. Returns a checkout URL and a secret one-time claim token. A human approves payment in Stripe; never expose or put the claim token in a URL.

claim

claim_checkout

Exchange a paid agent checkout plus its secret claim token for a new API key. The key is returned once; store it immediately.

convert

convert_recipe

Parse recipe prose and render the validated graph as self-contained HTML in one call. Costs credits; fetch /v1/pricing first.

parse

parse_recipe

Parse recipe prose into a validated rgf/0-draft operation graph. Costs credits; fetch /v1/pricing first.

render

render_recipe

Validate and render an rgf/0-draft document as escaped, self-contained HTML. Free; spends no model credits.

styles

list_styles

List every available visual theme with its name, description, color swatches, and depth ramp. Free; spends no model credits.

usage

get_usage

Read the calling key's current credit balance, today's allowance state, and aggregated usage. Free; use before a paid batch.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://api.tabularrecipe.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	280 ms	16 min ago

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Tabular Recipe — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Tabular Recipe do?

It exposes 8 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: checkout_status, claim_checkout, convert_recipe, create_checkout, get_usage, list_styles and 2 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 Tabular Recipe working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 86 of 91 checks got a reply (94.5%), average response time 215 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Tabular Recipe?

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 Tabular Recipe need an API key?

No. Tabular Recipe completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 8 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Tabular Recipe?

It answers our handshake in 215 ms on average, which is faster than 67% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.