Tipping Rules is answering right now. Last checked 15 min ago. It exposes 3 tools.
Read-only travel tipping for 140 destinations: search, country rules, and tip calculator.
What changed 3
Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 14 September 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.
Tipping Rules does not always answer
Over the last week it answered 82.0% 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 15 min ago.
claude mcp add tipping-rules --transport http https://www.tippingrules.com/api/mcp{
"mcpServers": {
"tipping-rules": {
"url": "https://www.tippingrules.com/api/mcp"
}
}
}[mcp_servers.tipping-rules]
url = "https://www.tippingrules.com/api/mcp"{
"mcpServers": {
"tipping-rules": {
"url": "https://www.tippingrules.com/api/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"tipping-rules": {
"url": "https://www.tippingrules.com/api/mcp"
}
}
}Available tools 3
Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on.
If a tool disappears, we record the date.
calculate_tip
search_countries
get_tipping_rules
Endpoints
| URL | Transport | State | Latency | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://www.tippingrules.com/api/mcp | streamable-http | answering | 314 ms | 15 min ago |
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Tipping Rules — questions
Answers built from our own checks of this server.