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Which servers in the official MCP registry are Shortlist Pass's own, whether they answer, and what they offer. A program checked each of these, nobody copied them from a product page.

read 2026-10-19

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Whose server it is
  • Registry namecom.shortlistpass/local-businessesverified in the MCP registry

The registry name sits under shortlistpass.com. The registry only lets a publisher use that namespace after proving control of the domain through DNS or HTTP.

When we asked itchecked 2026-10-19
  • Stateanswerschecked 2026-10-19
  • Tools6
  • Server calls itselfshortlist-pass
  • Server version1.0.0
  • Protocol version2025-06-18

On 2026-10-19 the server answered initialize and tools/list without a sign-in. First answer in 152 ms.

Should an agent connect itSkip it
  • Its tools do none of the product's use cases we checked: answer customer texts and confirm appointments; post food truck stops and take orders; answer HOA residents' questions and collect RSVPs.

Said by rules from the measurements above. The likely first call is a model's pick from the tool list; read its description before relying on it.

Measured dailydaily checks: 8, the first on 2026-10-19
  • INITE MCP score70 of 100answers 100 · does the job 0 · definitions 97 · context 100
  • What an agent can do with it0 of 3 use cases
  • Answered100% of days8 of 8 daily checks
  • Median first answer178 ms
  • Space in an agent's context≈ 2,250 tokensthe definitions of all its tools (6), which an agent carries on every turn
  • Tool definitionsA · 97 of 100
  • Typed results0 of 6 toolsdeclared outputSchema: results come typed, read once
  • Parameters without a description: in 1 of 6

What an agent can do with it

  • cannot · answer customer texts and confirm appointments
  • cannot · post food truck stops and take orders
  • cannot · answer HOA residents' questions and collect RSVPs

Each of the product's use cases, put to Jev against this server's tool list: can an agent do it with these tools?

Worth a look

None of the five warning signs in these definitions.

A program checks the server once a day: initialize and tools/list, no model. Tokens are the definitions' length at about four characters a token. The grade averages six checks of every tool's name, description, schema and annotations; it says how well the tools are described, not whether they work. The score weighs what was measured and nothing else: answering (30%), doing the product's job (25%), definitions (20%), context (10%) and use (15%). A part that was not measured is left out, and a hidden instruction caps the score at 40. The state of vendors' MCP servers: method and numbers →

Tools it offers6 tools · read 2026-10-19
  • search_businesses

    Searches real local businesses on Shortlist Pass (food trucks, restaurants, shops, HOAs and more). Optional filters: a town slug (e.g. "myrtle-beach"), a business category key (e.g. "food_truck", "restaurant", "bakery"), and a free-text…

  • get_business

    Returns the public profile of one Shortlist business: name, type, description, town, phone, website, page URL, hours (fixed locations only), whether online ordering is open, and the order page URL when it is. Mobile businesses (food…

  • get_menu

    Returns the current public menu of one business: every active item with its id (use it in start_order), name, description, price, category, tags, available and sold_out flags, an image URL, and options: its sizes and add-ons (group key…

  • get_trucks_tonight

    Food trucks in one city today (local time), in two lists. "tonight" (status "out_tonight"): trucks with a stop confirmed for today — truck name, park if it is at one, address, start and end time, open_now, the truck page link, and…

  • get_upcoming_events

    Returns the upcoming published events and stops for one business; for a food truck these are its locations. Each has a name, ISO start and end with the local offset, location name and address, whether pre-orders are open for that stop…

  • start_order

    Creates a short-lived cart for a customer at one Shortlist business and returns a cart_url on the business's own page, where the customer reviews the order and pays through the business's checkout. Input is offering ids (preferred) or…

How to connect

Add the server to your MCP client config. Claude Desktop, Cursor and most other clients read this shape:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "local-businesses": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://app.shortlistpass.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Add it

Claude Code, in a terminal

claude mcp add --transport http shortlistpass https://app.shortlistpass.com/mcp

Add to CursorAdd to VS Code

claude.ai, ChatGPT and other clients: add https://app.shortlistpass.com/mcp as a custom connector in the settings.

Each line is something a program found when it went looking: the registry entry, the server's own answer, a spec that parses. A missing line means we did not find it, not that it does not exist.