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Trailweights MCP Server

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Trailweights MCP is answering right now. Last checked 14 min ago. It exposes 8 tools.

Read-only MCP access to TrailWeights' ultralight gear corpus: verified weights, reviews, pack lists

Uptime history 40 hours of history
40 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
8
Tools
read from the server
485 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 14 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add trailweights-mcp --transport http https://trailweights.com/api/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "trailweights-mcp": {
      "url": "https://trailweights.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.trailweights-mcp]
url = "https://trailweights.com/api/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "trailweights-mcp": {
      "url": "https://trailweights.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "trailweights-mcp": {
      "url": "https://trailweights.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 8

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

compare
compare_gear
Side-by-side spec comparison for 2–6 products. Returns aligned rows of name, weight, price, category, and buy URL, each with a trust envelope (verified weight provenance, manufacturer-vs-field conflict flag, top citations).
corpus
search_corpus
Semantic search over the TrailWeights knowledge corpus (transcripts, product descriptions, in-house pack templates, surveys, ultralight Bible). Returns the top matching chunks with source attribution. Supports hard predicates — filter by verified max weight (grams), max price (USD), minimum independent creator count (trust floor), and gear category — so hybrid semantic+spec queries resolve in one call.
field
get_field_consensus
Pre-computed field consensus for a product: what independent creators and the field say, scored on a deterministic 100-point rubric with a source-diversity gate. Returns the consensus label, score, evidence count, distinct authors, known conflicts, and a sample of the underlying evidence claims with source URLs. This is conflict-resolution an agent would otherwise have to reconstruct from raw reviews.
gear
get_gear_reviews
Fetch creator video reviews for a product. Returns up to 10 verified mentions with creator name, YouTube ID, timestamp, and quoted snippet.
lighter
find_lighter_alternative
Given a product, return up to 5 lighter alternatives in the same category, ordered by verified weight ascending. Each alternative carries a trust envelope (verified weight provenance, conflict flag, top citations).
pack
get_pack_template
Return one of the 21 in-house TrailWeights pack templates by ID or slug, including the full item list and total weight.
product
get_product_specs
Canonical product spec sheet — name, brand, category, verified weight, MSRP, image, and a cottage-first affiliate buy URL. Includes a trust envelope: verified weight with provenance (measured vs manufacturer claim), confidence, last-verified date, a manufacturer-vs-field weight conflict flag, and top creator citations with source URLs. Pass either the product UUID or the slug.
recommend
recommend_gear
Structured gear recommendations from a freeform natural-language query (e.g. 'best quilt for a PCT thru hike'). Runs the TrailWeights query planner: intent classification, brand-alias expansion, and compiled weight/price/category constraints. Returns the top catalog products with verified weights (with provenance and conflict flags), citations, and cottage-first buy URLs, plus the interpreted intent and applied filters. Optional weight cap (oz) and category filter.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://trailweights.com/api/mcp streamable-http answering 493 ms 14 min ago

Trailweights MCP — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Trailweights MCP do?
It exposes 8 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: compare_gear, find_lighter_alternative, get_field_consensus, get_gear_reviews, get_pack_template, get_product_specs and 2 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 →
Is Trailweights MCP 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 485 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Trailweights MCP?
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 Trailweights MCP need an API key?
No. Trailweights MCP completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 8 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Trailweights MCP?
It answers our handshake in 485 ms on average, which is faster than 23% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.