The Pantry Butler MCP Server

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answering

The Pantry Butler is answering right now. Last checked 2 min ago.

Answers 'what can I cook tonight?' from your own saved recipes and what's really in your kitchen.

Uptime history 30 hours of history · worst hour 0%

30 hours agonow

94.5%

Uptime 24h

86 of 91 checks

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Tools

hidden behind auth

167 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

The Pantry Butler does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 92.9% 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 2 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add pantry --transport http https://thepantrybutler.com/mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pantry": {
      "url": "https://thepantrybutler.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.pantry]
url = "https://thepantrybutler.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pantry": {
      "url": "https://thepantrybutler.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pantry": {
      "url": "https://thepantrybutler.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://thepantrybutler.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	260 ms	2 min ago

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The Pantry Butler — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Is The Pantry Butler 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 167 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect The Pantry Butler?

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 The Pantry Butler need an API key?

No. The Pantry Butler completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is The Pantry Butler?

It answers our handshake in 167 ms on average, which is faster than 75% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.