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Tarotap MCP Server

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Tarotap is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 2 tools.

Tarot spreads and card draws from a shuffled 78-card Rider-Waite-Smith deck, 23 languages, no key.

Uptime history 26 days of history · worst day 0%
26 days agonow
6.5%
Uptime 24h
6 of 92 checks
2
Tools
read from the server
352 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Tarotap does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 1.2% 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 1 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add tarot --transport http https://tarotap.com/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://tarotap.com/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.tarot]
url = "https://tarotap.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tarot": {
      "url": "https://tarotap.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "tarot": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://tarotap.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 2

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

draw
draw_cards
Shuffle a full 78-card Rider-Waite-Smith deck with server-side randomness and show it face-down in an interactive widget, where the user picks their cards by hand. Where the widget renders, the tool result does not contain the drawn cards: the widget sends the cards the user picked to the conversation once the last one is revealed. In a text-only host the cards are drawn server-side and returned in the result. Takes a spread_id from list_spreads to draw into that spread's positions, or a card_count (1-10) for a free-form draw such as a single card of the day. Card names, position names and the widget text follow locale.
spreads
list_spreads
List the tarot spreads available for a reading, with each spread's id, name, tagline, number of cards, and position names, in the requested language. The ids are the values draw_cards accepts as spread_id and are the same in every language.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://tarotap.com/mcp streamable-http answering 90 ms 1 min ago

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Tarotap — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Tarotap do?
It exposes 2 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: draw_cards, list_spreads. 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 Tarotap working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 6 of 92 checks got a reply (6.5%), average response time 352 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
The registry lists Tarotap 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 Tarotap?
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 Tarotap need an API key?
No. Tarotap completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 2 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Tarotap?
It answers our handshake in 352 ms on average, which is faster than 38% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.