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MCP server · Payments & trading

Kitbench

Exact Japanese text & date tools: char count, business days with JP holidays, era, tax, units.

Checks passed
13 / 22

1 failed · 8 not measured

Median response
852 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
7

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 852 ms.

  • Pass
    Valid handshake

    protocolVersion 2025-11-25, serverInfo.name kitbench.

  • Pass
    Lists tools

    tools/list returned 7 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 852 ms over 1 samples in 7 days. The bar is 1000 ms. Need at least 5 samples.

  • Not measured
    Consistent (p95)

    95th percentile 852 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

    28 of 30 parameters have a description (93%). 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 2026-10-08T11:26:05.154892Z, 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 kitbench https://kitbench.net/mcp

Capabilities

Tools 7

add_days

Find the date N days (or N business days) after or before a date, with its weekday and Japanese era date (wareki). unit "business" skips Saturdays, Sundays and Japanese national holidays; "weekdays" skips only weekends. Good for deadlines in Japan. N from 0 to 100,000.

Discovered
calculate_age

Calculate exact age from a birth date: age in years, years/months/days, Japanese kazoedoshi (traditional age), days since birth, next birthday and days until it, weekday of birth, Japanese era (wareki) of the birth date and the zodiac animal (eto). February 29 birthdays move to March 1 in non-leap years. Reference date defaults to today in Japan.

Discovered
consumption_tax

Calculate Japanese consumption tax with exact integer arithmetic: tax-excluded to tax-included or tax-included to tax-excluded, at 10% (standard), 8% (reduced) or any rate from 0 to 100 with up to 2 decimals, rounding down (floor, default), half up (round) or up (ceil). Returns the tax amount, both prices and the formula. Amounts are whole yen up to 13 digits.

Discovered
convert_japanese_era

Convert between Western (Gregorian) dates and Japanese era dates (wareki: Meiji, Taisho, Showa, Heisei, Reiwa), using exact era start dates and "gannen" (元年) for year 1. Give either date (YYYY-MM-DD), or wareki such as "令和元年5月1日" / "R1.5.1", or era + year + month + day. Rejects dates that do not exist in that era (e.g. Heisei 31-05-01). Range 1873-01-01 to 2200-12-31.

Discovered
convert_units

Convert units with official exact factors (NIST etc.), including Japanese units (tsubo, jo/tatami, shaku, sun, go, Japanese cups and spoons), temperature and fuel economy. Returns the exact result, a rounded display value, the factor, and extras such as feet-and-inches, inch fractions (1/16) and pounds-and-ounces. Unit ids by category - length: mm, cm, m, km, in, ft, yd, mi, nmi, shaku, sun; mass: mg, g, kg, t, oz, lb, st, ons, kwintal; temp: c, f, k; volume: ml, l, m3, tsp, tbsp, floz, cup, pt, qt, gal, flozuk, galuk, cupjp, tbspjp, tspjp, go; area: cm2, m2, ha, km2, sqin, sqft, sqyd, ac, sqmi, tsubo, jo, donum; speed: mps, kmh, mph, kn, fps; fuel: kml, l100, mpg, mpguk; pressure: pa, kpa, mpa, bar, psi, atm, mmhg; energy: j, kj, cal, kcal, wh, kwh, btu; power: w, kw, hp, ps; data: b, kb, mb, gb, tb, kib, mib, gib, tib.

Discovered
count_characters

Count characters in a text exactly as KitBench's character counter does. Counts user-perceived characters (grapheme clusters: emoji sequences, combining marks and flags count as 1), plus counts excluding newlines and whitespace, half-width characters counted as 0.5, lines, paragraphs, Japanese manuscript paper (genkō yōshi, 20x20) sheets, UTF-8 bytes, English words, and a breakdown into hiragana, katakana, kanji, Latin letters, digits and other. Strong for Japanese text and character limits. Text up to 200,000 characters.

Discovered
days_between

Count the days between two dates: total days (optionally including the start day), weeks and days, years/months/days, Japanese business days (excluding weekends and Japanese national holidays from the Cabinet Office list) and weekdays (Mon-Fri). Exact calendar arithmetic, no time zones. Dates 1873-01-01 to 2200-12-31.

Discovered

Recent measurements

Probe history

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Latest stored probes. Raw probe rows are kept for 14 days.
CheckedResultResponseTools
Connected852 ms7