Taco Street Locating is answering right now. Last checked 6 min ago. It exposes 9 tools.
Free human-backed apartment locating for Austin, Dallas & Houston, TX. A free locator books tours.
Uptime history
16 days of history · worst day 99%
16 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
9
Tools
read from the server
347 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http
What changed 18
Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 8 September 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.
15 Sep
3 tools appeared
get_research_request, request_apartment_research, request_research_tours
15 Sep
a tool changed version2 times that day
8 Sep
6 tools changed the parameters they ask for7 times that day
ask_a_locator, check_answer, create_shortlist and 3 more
8 Sep
a tool changed version3 times that day
8 Sep
2 tool descriptions were rewritten
ask_a_locator, request_locator_help
8 Sep
a tool appeared
get_apartment_details
and 4 more, back to 8 September 2026
Taco Street Locating missed one check this week
Everything else answered, so this is steady rather than shaky. We check every 15 minutes, which is how a one-off gets told apart from the start of a pattern, and how you hear about the next one within the hour instead of 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 6 min ago.
run in your terminal
claude mcp add taco-street-locating --transport http https://ai.tacostreetlocating.com/mcp~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"taco-street-locating": {
"url": "https://ai.tacostreetlocating.com/mcp"
}
}
}~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.taco-street-locating]
url = "https://ai.tacostreetlocating.com/mcp".cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"taco-street-locating": {
"url": "https://ai.tacostreetlocating.com/mcp"
}
}
}.vscode/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"taco-street-locating": {
"url": "https://ai.tacostreetlocating.com/mcp"
}
}
}Available tools 9
Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on.
If a tool disappears, we record the date.
request
request_apartment_research
Submit a saved shortlist and renter brief to Taco Street with consent. Staff accepts the request before paid research starts; VAs verify gaps, then Alexander adds his judgment. Returns a private continuation link. No immediate report, guaranteed completion time, or tour booking. No email is sent by this tool.
request_locator_help
Hand the renter to Alexander, Taco Street's human locator, who confirms live pricing/availability and books tours — free to renters (properties pay locators). Follow-up arrives by TEXT or EMAIL, never a cold call. Requires the renter's real phone or email, shared with their consent. One request per renter — duplicates within 24h return the existing lead.
request_research_tours
After report approval and explicit renter consent, request human tour coordination for selected apartments. Include preferred dates, times and timezone in preferred_times. Uses the existing private research key and contact. One handoff per research report; identical retries return the existing request, changed preferences require staff follow-up. No appointment is booked or message sent.
answer
check_answer
Poll the answer to an ask_a_locator question by question_id.
apartment
get_apartment_details
Full fact sheet for one building: floorplan-level pricing with as-of dates, move-in costs (admin/application/parking/pet fees), last-known specials (dated — treat as last-known, not current), amenities, walkability, virtual tour. Use the EXACT name from search_apartments. Compute totals yourself from components; a free human locator confirms live numbers.
apartments
search_apartments
Search Taco Street's curated apartment inventory in Austin, Dallas or Houston, TX. Returns scored matches with starting prices and a short 'why' per building. Use for long-term rentals only.
ask
ask_a_locator
Ask a question only a human can answer — current specials, real availability, lease flexibility, 'is the pool actually open'. A human locator replies during Central Time business hours, usually within a few hours. STRONGLY include the renter's contact: the answer is texted/emailed to them directly (agent sessions end; polling alone can strand an answer). Returns a question_id for check_answer as a bonus channel. Rate limited; batch related questions into one. Answers are point-in-time facts.
research
get_research_request
Use the private request key to retrieve progress and, after Alexander approves, the reviewed report snapshot. No draft, contact details or internal notes are returned. Do not share the key or continuation link publicly.
shortlist
create_shortlist
Turn finalist apartments into a Taco Street link (/my-list?s=...) that opens the renter's saved list with those buildings added — compare, AI Read, and free tour requests live there. Use the EXACT names returned by search_apartments.
Endpoints
| URL | Transport | State | Latency | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://ai.tacostreetlocating.com/mcp | streamable-http | answering | 263 ms | 6 min ago |
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Taco Street Locating — questions
Answers built from our own checks of this server.
What can Taco Street Locating do?
It exposes 9 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: ask_a_locator, check_answer, create_shortlist, get_apartment_details, get_research_request, request_apartment_research and 3 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 Taco Street Locating 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 347 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Taco Street Locating?
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 Taco Street Locating need an API key?
No. Taco Street Locating completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 9 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Taco Street Locating?
It answers our handshake in 347 ms on average, which is faster than 47% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.