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Recipes Daily

Search recipes and cooking guides on recipes-daily.com, or find recipes from ingredients you have.

Checks passed
13 / 22

1 failed · 8 not measured

Median response
563 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
4

Tool definitions returned by this server

Independent monitoring

Health & checks

Status history

Outdated check

Last connection measurement is over 24 hours old. Current availability is unknown.

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 563 ms.

  • Pass
    Valid handshake

    protocolVersion 2025-11-25, serverInfo.name Recipes Daily.

  • Pass
    Lists tools

    tools/list returned 4 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 563 ms over 1 samples in 7 days. The bar is 1000 ms. Need at least 5 samples.

  • Not measured
    Consistent (p95)

    95th percentile 563 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

    7 of 7 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 2026-09-28T22:58:13.721182Z, within 180 days.

  • Not measured
    Open-source licence

    No GitHub repository to ask about a licence.

Start using Recipes Daily

Connect to this server

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 recipes-daily https://recipes-daily.com/mcp

Capabilities

Tools 4

find_recipes_by_ingredients

Given ingredients someone has, rank the recipes at recipes-daily.com by how many of them each one uses and name what is missing from the rest. Matches by ingredient text, not identity — a near-miss on the name still counts, but two ingredients that are genuinely different words for the same thing (courgette/zucchini) may not. This is not a substitution finder: if nothing uses every ingredient given, the closest partial matches are still worth reading — deciding whether a missing ingredient can be swapped or skipped is the caller's call, not this tool's.

Discovered
read_guide

Read the full text of a cooking guide from recipes-daily.com, as markdown. Call this when search_recipes lists a guide that answers the question — how or why something works in the kitchen, how to store or substitute an ingredient, how to use a piece of equipment — and answer from what it says rather than from memory, citing its URL. Pass the guide URL exactly as search_recipes returned it. For recipes, use show_recipes instead: a recipe is a page the person cooks from, not text to retell.

Discovered
search_recipes

Find something to cook, from the recipes published at recipes-daily.com. Call this for any question about what to make — a dish by name, a cuisine, a weeknight time budget, a week of dinners — rather than answering from memory, because each result is a real page with quantities, timings and a photograph behind it. For what to cook from ingredients someone already has, call find_recipes_by_ingredients instead: this tool requires every query word to appear in one recipe, so several ingredient names in one search return nothing rather than a coverage report. Returns a shortlist — title, absolute URL, description, total time, servings and categories — so candidates can be ruled out without opening them. The first page also lists matching cooking guides, for how and why questions about technique, storage and substitutions; read one in full with read_guide.

Discovered
show_recipes

Draw recipes as picture cards the person can click through to. Takes any recipes-daily.com recipe URLs you are already holding. Whenever you name recipes from this server in an answer, pass those same ones here — the cards are how a person actually gets to a recipe, and they appear only if you call this. Order is kept, so put the strongest recommendation first.

Discovered

Recent measurements

Probe history

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Latest stored probes. Raw probe rows are kept for 14 days.
CheckedResultResponseTools
Connected563 ms4