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Excellent Reference (free)

By beexcellent.ai Verified namespace

Free, no-login: how Excellent works for restaurant events and private dining, and its public pages.

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Checks passed
13 / 22

1 failed · 8 not measured

Median response
849 ms

Median of successful probes over 7 days

30-day uptime
Not measured

Share of countable probes over 30 days, including daily rollups. Auth challenges are excluded.

Discovered tools
5

Tool definitions returned by this server

Independent monitoring

Health & checks

Status history

Responded

The server completed its last measured handshake. This is an observation, not a guarantee.

Last checked
Check summary by test group
Test areaPassedFailedUnmeasured
ConnectionCan a client connect and discover tools?
500
Reliability & speedDoes it respond consistently and quickly?
004
Access & authenticationWhat is required to use this server?
102
Tool qualityAre the tool definitions usable by an agent?
400
Publisher identityCan the publisher be traced to its source?
312

Unmeasured means there is not enough evidence to decide. How these checks work

Inspect individual checks 22 recorded

Core

  • Pass
    Reachable

    Latest probe returned HTTP 200 in 849 ms.

  • Pass
    Valid handshake

    protocolVersion 2025-11-25, serverInfo.name excellent-mcp-free.

  • Pass
    Lists tools

    tools/list returned 5 tools.

  • Pass
    Current protocol

    Negotiated 2025-11-25. The bar is 2025-06-18 or newer.

  • Pass
    HTTPS

    The endpoint URL is https.

Performance

  • Not measured
    Fast (p50)

    Median latency 849 ms over 1 samples in 7 days. The bar is 1000 ms. Need at least 5 samples.

  • Not measured
    Consistent (p95)

    95th percentile 849 ms over 1 samples in 7 days. The bar is 3000 ms. Need at least 20 samples.

  • Not measured
    Reliable (uptime)

    1 of 1 attempts returned a tool list in 30 days (100%). The bar is 99%. Need at least 30 samples.

  • Not measured
    Stable tool list

    Fewer than two successful probes in 30 days, so tool-list stability is not measured.

Access

  • Pass
    Open access

    tools/list succeeded with no credential, and the record declares none.

  • Not measured
    Standard auth

    Auth is not required, so the OAuth metadata check does not apply.

  • Not measured
    Free tier cited

    No publisher quote has been checked.

Tools

  • Pass
    Tools described

    Every tool description is at least 20 characters.

  • Pass
    Valid input schemas

    Every inputSchema is a JSON Schema object.

  • Pass
    Parameters documented

    12 of 12 parameters have a description (100%). The bar is 80%.

  • Pass
    Safety hints

    Every tool sets readOnlyHint or destructiveHint.

Publisher

  • Pass
    Verified namespace

    Listed in the Official MCP Registry.

  • Pass
    Website matches publisher

    The website host matches the reverse-domain namespace.

  • Fail
    Source repo linked

    No repository URL is on file.

  • Not measured
    Repo owner matches

    This namespace is not an io.github login, so the owner comparison does not apply.

  • Pass
    Recently updated

    Updated 2026-10-31T10:20:30.720653Z, within 180 days.

  • Not measured
    Open-source licence

    No GitHub repository to ask about a licence.

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Choose your client, copy the configuration, then enable the server in your client’s MCP settings.

Run this command in your terminal, then restart Claude Code.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http excellent-reference-free https://beexcellent.ai/api/mcp/public

Capabilities

Tools 5

excellent_help

Excellent's own help text (the passages its in-app assistant answers from): how to do a task in Excellent — proposals, e-signed contracts, deposits and invoices, banquet event orders, floor plans, menus, staff training (Craft), marketing drafts, connecting an AI assistant. Returns up to 3 passages, best match first, each with the in-app page it starts on. No account needed; it reads no restaurant group's data.

Discovered
find_event_venues

Finds restaurants and venues on Excellent that accept private-event and group-dining inquiries from AI assistants, by the restaurant group's or the venue's name. Returns up to 10, each with the group, the venue, who replies, a handle for send_event_inquiry and the venue's public inquiry page. Only venues that opted in are listed, and only what their public inquiry page shows. No account needed.

Discovered
search_excellent_pages

Search Excellent's published pages: feature pages (what each part of the product does), comparison pages (Excellent vs another events or private-dining platform, with where each one wins and the date the comparison was last reviewed), the blog, and guides (how to connect Claude, with 15 things to ask it). Returns up to 5 pages with their URL and the page's own summary text. No account needed.

Discovered
send_event_inquiry

Sends a private-event or group-dining inquiry, on behalf of the person you are helping, to a venue that accepts inquiries from AI assistants (its handle comes from find_event_venues). Use it only when the person asked you to contact the venue, with the details they gave you. It lands in the venue's inbox as a new lead for the venue's team to review and answer directly; it books, holds and pays for nothing, and Excellent sends the guest no email. Give an email or a phone so the venue can reply. Answers only whether it was filed. At most 5 an hour and 20 a day per address.

Discovered
start_excellent_workspace

Creates a new Excellent workspace filled with sample data (a fictional restaurant group with two venues, bookings, proposals, invoices, staff training and marketing drafts) and returns a one-time link for the person you are helping. Opening the link while signed in to Excellent, or after creating a login there, makes the workspace theirs. Nobody can use it before then, and an unclaimed workspace is deleted when its link expires after 7 days. Takes no arguments and no personal data. At most 3 a day per address.

Discovered

Recent measurements

Probe history

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Latest stored probes. Raw probe rows are kept for 14 days.
CheckedResultResponseTools
Connected849 ms5

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