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Which MCP servers are What's Cooking's own, from the official registry and from asking its own domain, whether they answer, and what they offer. A program checked each of these, nobody copied them from a product page.

read 2026-10-24

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Whose server it is
  • Registry nameguide.whatscooking/whats-cookingverified in the MCP registry

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

When we asked itchecked 2026-10-24
  • Stateanswerschecked 2026-10-24
  • Tools3
  • Server calls itselfwhats-cooking
  • Server version1.0.0
  • Protocol version2025-06-18

On 2026-10-24 the server answered initialize and tools/list without a sign-in. First answer in 439 ms.

Should an agent connect itNot proven either way yet
  • Whether its tools do the product's job has not been judged yet.
  • Checked on 3 of the 7 days it takes to judge reliability.

Once connected

  • For "Pick one recipe from whatever ingredients are on hand", the likely first call is whats_for_dinner.

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: 3, the first on 2026-10-24
  • INITE MCP scoreafter a weeka score needs 7 daily checks: 3 so far
  • Answeredmeasuring3 of the 7 daily checks it takes to print a share
  • Median first answer571 ms
  • Space in an agent's context≈ 637 tokensthe definitions of all its tools (3), which an agent carries on every turn
  • Tool definitionsA · 100 of 100
  • Typed results0 of 3 toolsdeclared outputSchema: results come typed, read once
  • Every tool passes all six checks.

What an agent can do with it

  • can do · Pick one recipe from whatever ingredients are on hand
  • not sure · Build a dinner party menu with co-hosts
  • not sure · Plan a rolling weekly meal plan with a shared grocery list

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 (25%), doing the product's job (25%), definitions (20%), context (10%), use (10%) and how readily a client connects (10%). 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 offers3 tools · read 2026-10-24
  • whats_for_dinner

    What should I cook tonight with what I have? Gusto, What's Cooking's chef, decides one complete dinner and returns the full recipe, steps, and a list of what to buy. Inputs (all optional): have (what is already in the kitchen, a list or a…

  • browse_explore

    What recipes have people and Gusto shared on What's Cooking? Inputs (all optional): query (matched against titles, tags and ingredients), author (e.g. "Gusto"), limit (default 5, max 20). Returns short picks; call get_explore_recipe with…

  • get_explore_recipe

    What's the full recipe for this Explore pick? Inputs: id (from browse_explore, required), servings (optional; quantities are scaled when it differs from the original). Example: {"id":"<id from browse_explore>","servings":4}

How to connect

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "whats-cooking": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://whatscooking.guide/mcp-server"
    }
  }
}

Add it

Claude Code, in a terminal

claude mcp add --transport http whatscooking https://whatscooking.guide/mcp-server

Add to CursorAdd to VS Code

claude.ai, ChatGPT and other clients: add https://whatscooking.guide/mcp-server as a custom connector in the settings.

OpenAPI spec

2 paths, read 2026-10-24. Open the spec ↗

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.