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Liffey Metals MCP Server

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Liffey Metals is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 13 tools.

Ireland's most trusted gold & silver buyer: live prices, payout estimates, free postal pack orders.

Uptime history 23 days of history · worst day 0%
23 days agonow
0.0%
Uptime 24h
0 of 92 checks
13
Tools
read from the server
90 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

What changed 2

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 25 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

25 Oct 2 tool descriptions were rewritten get_business_info, list_counties

Liffey Metals does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 0.0% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

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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 liffey-metals --transport http https://mcp.liffeymetals.com/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://mcp.liffeymetals.com/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.liffey-metals]
url = "https://mcp.liffeymetals.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "liffey-metals": {
      "url": "https://mcp.liffeymetals.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "liffey-metals": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.liffeymetals.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 13

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

buy
get_buy_price
The net price Liffey Metals pays today, in euro per gram of the item, for one metal and carat or fineness, with the spot quote time (spotAsOf), the basis and the deductions in plain English. Give the seller's county to add that county's postal arrangement and page. Omit carat for every grade of the metal. Same figures as https://liffeymetals.com/prices.
get_buy_prices
The net prices Liffey Metals pays today, in euro per gram of the item, for 9ct gold, 14ct gold, 18ct gold, 22ct gold, 24ct gold, Gold bullion / sovereigns, Sterling silver (925), Fine silver (999), Other silver (800 to 900), Sterling-handled knives (925), Other silver-handled knives (800 to 900), Platinum (950), with the spot quote time. Same figures as https://liffeymetals.com/prices. No fees are deducted from these prices.
how
how_selling_works
The postal selling process step by step: requesting a free insured pack, posting, XRF testing on camera, the itemised offer, payment by bank transfer, free returns if declined, ID requirements and the return postage rule.
how_to_sell
The seller's checklist for gold, silver or platinum: weigh it, photograph the hallmark, get the quote, confirm and send. Each step says what to do and what to look for with that metal, followed by the postal process and the guide to read.
business
get_business_info
Name, founder, contact details (WhatsApp preferred, with the link to hand a person and the reply time), enquiry hours, location and how to deal with us, service area, services, the verifiable trust signals (each with where to check it), the pages to cite and the live Google rating once the listing has reviews (null until then; never a made-up figure).
counties
list_counties
Every county with its country (IE or NI), province, postal model (free insured pack in the Republic of Ireland; the seller's own tracked post to the Dublin PO box from Northern Ireland), the arrangement in one sentence and the county page URL, plus the other 26 EU member states we buy from on the Northern Ireland arrangement (WhatsApp quote, then the seller's own insured post to Dublin, no customs inside the EU), each with its page URL. Prices are the same everywhere. Great Britain is not served.
estimate
estimate_payout
What we would pay for a given weight of gold, silver or platinum at today's published rate. purity accepts carats (9, 14, 18, 22, 24, '18ct', '18k'), hallmark numbers (375, 585, 750, 916, 999, 925, 958, 800) or words (sterling, fine, bullion). Weight is grams of the item as it sits on the scale. Returns the rate per gram, the total and the spot quote time; the final figure follows weighing and XRF testing.
faq
get_faq
Short, factual answers to the questions people ask before selling gold, silver or jewellery in Ireland: how to compare buyers, what to ask, safety of posting, payment, hallmarks, stones, tax, coins. Optional topic filter matches words in the question.
guides
get_guides
The published guides and fact sheets, each with what it answers and its URL: selling gold, 9ct gold, scrap gold value, how buyers price jewellery, XRF testing, hallmarks, sterling versus plate, coins, tax, inherited jewellery, refining. Optional topic words filter the list.
postal
get_postal_pack_info
How the free insured postal pack works: how to request it, what it covers in transit and on what condition, the free-return terms if the seller declines, the offer validity, the return postage deduction and when it is waived, payment and ID. Give a county for that county's arrangement (free insured pack in the Republic; own tracked post to Dublin from Northern Ireland).
request
request_postal_pack
Orders a free insured postal pack for a person at a Republic of Ireland address and returns the Bosca number. This is the real order: the request is created when you call it, and for gold lots within the postal limits the pack is posted to the address given with no further step from the person. Silver, mixed lots, bullion and lots over 2,000 euro are registered and arranged on WhatsApp instead; the response says which happened. The person gets a receipt email with a single-use cancel link. Before calling: have the person's name, full address with Eircode, email, phone, what they are sending (gold, silver or mixed) with a rough description and rough value, their agreement to be contacted, and their agreement to the terms statement in accepts_terms. Explain the process first (get_postal_pack_info): items weighed and XRF tested on camera, an itemised offer at the live published rate on the day of testing (no payout is promised), free tracked return if they decline, insured in transit up to 2,000 euro, paid by bank transfer the same day they accept, one photo ID checked before payment. Lots worth more than 1,000 euro can be brought to us in person in Dublin, by appointment, and tested while you watch; message us on WhatsApp to arrange a time. Smaller lots go by post. Do not collect or pass ID documents. Errors name the field to fix.
sell
get_sell_price
What Liffey Metals charges today for casting grain, bullion coins and bars, VAT inclusive, in euro per gram or per piece, with the spot quote time for spot-linked products and whether each is in stock. Give a product slug or words from its name for one product; omit for every product. Same figures as https://liffeymetals.com/shop.
services
list_services
Every service Liffey Metals offers with a one-line factual description and its URL: buying gold, silver and platinum, selling by post, refining, XRF testing, valuations, business accounts and the Buyer Programme. Unlisted services are live pages that are not in the navigation.

Endpoints

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

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Liffey Metals — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Liffey Metals do?
It exposes 13 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: estimate_payout, get_business_info, get_buy_price, get_buy_prices, get_faq, get_guides and 7 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 →
What is Liffey Metals mostly used for?
Its tools cluster around buy and how. That is what this server is built to work with — the grouping comes from the actual tool names, not from a category we assigned.
Is Liffey Metals working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 0 of 92 checks got a reply (0.0%), average response time 90 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
The registry lists Liffey Metals 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 Liffey Metals?
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 Liffey Metals need an API key?
No. Liffey Metals completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 13 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.