CarScout MCP Server

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answering

CarScout is answering right now. Last checked 12 min ago. It exposes 3 tools.

Search used car inventory, check NHTSA recalls, decode VINs, and manage automated search scouts.

The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private.

Uptime history 47 days of history

47 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

224 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

This one has been quiet for a while

Quiet is not dead — but it is worth knowing when it wakes up, or when someone else takes it over. We watch the repository and tell you either way.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 12 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add mcp --transport http https://mcp.usecarscout.com/mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://mcp.usecarscout.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

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

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://mcp.usecarscout.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://mcp.usecarscout.com/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.

decode

decode_vin

Decode a Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) to get make, model, year, body style, engine, transmission, and other vehicle details.

market

get_market_data

Get current market pricing, recall, and fuel economy data for a specific vehicle by make, model, and year. Useful for understanding fair prices and vehicle history.

recalls

check_recalls

Look up NHTSA safety recalls and consumer complaints for a specific vehicle by make, model, and year. Returns recall campaign details and complaint severity data.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://mcp.usecarscout.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	358 ms	12 min ago

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CarScout — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can CarScout do?

It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: check_recalls, decode_vin, get_market_data. 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 CarScout 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 224 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

Is CarScout still maintained?

The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private. We show this because it changes what you can expect: an unmaintained server may keep answering for months and then stop without warning.

How do I connect CarScout?

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 CarScout need an API key?

No. CarScout completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 3 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is CarScout?

It answers our handshake in 224 ms on average, which is faster than 62% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.