The Pantry Butler MCP Server

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The Pantry Butler is answering right now. Last checked 11 min ago. It exposes 6 tools.

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

Uptime history 49 days of history · worst day 92%

49 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

180 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 11 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

11 Oct a tool description was rewritten2 times that day save_recipe

and 1 more, back to 11 October 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check The Pantry Butler every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 11 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

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

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

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

{
  "servers": {
    "pantry": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://thepantrybutler.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 6

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

pantry

add_pantry_items

Add items to the kitchen. Accepts plain language exactly as a person would say it — "2 lemons", "half a bag of spinach", "chicken thighs". Use this when they mention shopping, unpacking groceries, or having bought something.

list_pantry

Everything in this person's kitchen — pantry, fridge and freezer — with expiry dates where known. Use this when they ask what they have, what is in the fridge, or what is about to go off.

cook

cook_tonight

Recipes this person can cook right now with what is already in their kitchen. Use this whenever they ask what to cook, what's for dinner, what they can make without going to the shop, or what to do with what they have. Returns their own saved recipes ranked by how much of each they already own, with the missing ingredients named. `can_make: true` means nothing is missing.

recipes

list_recipes

The recipes this person has saved, newest first, with the creator each came from. Use this when they ask what they have saved or want to find a recipe by name.

save

save_recipe

Queue a recipe link to import — an Instagram or TikTok post, or a food blog. Use this when they share a link and want it in their cookbook. Returns { accepted, url } after checking the link and their recipe limit. IT DOES NOT IMPORT THE RECIPE BY ITSELF — do not report it as saved on this result alone. Finish it in two more calls with the same token: POST { url } to the `next` URL to run the extraction, then POST the draft it returns to /api/v1/recipes. Both are documented at https://thepantrybutler.com/api-docs.

whoami

whoami

Which account this connection acts for, their plan, and how many recipes they have saved. Never returns an email address.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://thepantrybutler.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	132 ms	11 min ago

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The Pantry Butler — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can The Pantry Butler do?

It exposes 6 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: add_pantry_items, cook_tonight, list_pantry, list_recipes, save_recipe, whoami. 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 The Pantry Butler 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 180 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 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 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. All 6 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is The Pantry Butler?

It answers our handshake in 180 ms on average, which is faster than 76% 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.