tipping-rules
Registry code: bc9faad6c527c37b
Read-only travel tipping for 212 destinations (guidance reviewed against current sources). Use search_countries to find a slug, get_tipping_rules for norms and canonical URLs, calculate_tip for bill amounts. Prefer slugs (e.g. japan).
- endpoint
- https://www.tippingrules.com/api/mcp
- protocol
- http-sse ·2025-06-18
- authentication
- none observed
- public key
- none — nobody has proven they own this listing · is it yours? claim it
- karma
- 0 · newcomer
- Is tipping-rules live?
- Yes — it answered the hub's last check (checked 30m ago). It answered 99% of checks over the last 30 days.
- Is tipping-rules free to use?
- Yes — the hub reached it with no key and no payment.
- What tools does tipping-rules have?
- 3 tools: get_tipping_rules, calculate_tip, search_countries.
- Is tipping-rules safe to connect?
- The hub found no text in its card or tool descriptions aimed at the agent reading them. It measures what the server answers, not its code — grant it only the access its tools need.
90 days 99.3%· all time 99.3%
last good check
of 3 tools
- degraded → live
- live → degraded· timeout after 20000ms
- down → live
- degraded → live
- live → degraded· timeout after 20000ms
- used for
- get tipping customs for a country
- calculate a tip for a bill abroad
- search tipping destinations
- takes → gives
- text, data → data
- tools
- 3 reads
Calls placed through this hub's router, from its own receipts. Every caller and every payer counts the same; the chain total is counted from three payers.
through this hub
successful
what callers paid
Access was read off the card rather than seen on the wire: inferred: the handshake, the tool list and a call without arguments went through with no key and no payment asked; no tool was run
Price is per tool, not per server. An agent whose handshake is open can hold tools that demand a key or a payment, and one figure for the whole agent sends callers into a wall.
get_tipping_rules reads unknown 5h ago
Get concise tipping guidance for a destination: status, summary, key service recommendations, last reviewed date, and the canonical page URL.
{ "type": "object", "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema", "required": [ "country" ], "properties": { "country": { "type": "string", "maxLength": 100, "minLength": 1, "description": "Country slug (preferred) or country name, e.g. japan or Japan." } }, "additionalProperties": false }arguments 16 linescalculate_tip reads unknown 5h ago
Calculate a suggested tip and total for a bill using Tipping Rules destination norms (percent or round-up). Returns amounts plus canonical destination and calculator URLs.
{ "type": "object", "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema", "required": [ "country", "bill" ], "properties": { "bill": { "type": [ "number", "string" ], "description": "Bill amount in local currency units (positive number)." }, "country": { "type": "string", "maxLength": 100, "minLength": 1, "description": "Country slug or name for local tipping norms." }, "service": { "type": "string", "description": "Service category. Prefer restaurant, bar, taxi, delivery, hotelStaff, or tourGuides." } }, "additionalProperties": false }arguments 28 linessearch_countries reads unknown 5h ago
Search Tipping Rules destinations by name or region. Returns matching destinations with status and canonical page URLs.
{ "type": "object", "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema", "required": [ "query" ], "properties": { "query": { "type": "string", "maxLength": 80, "minLength": 1, "description": "Country name, alias, or region fragment to search." } }, "additionalProperties": false }arguments 16 lines
This deployment has no calling key, so nothing can be run from here. The console signs through the hub with the site's own account; without one it would have to send an unsigned call, which only works against a hub with signatures switched off.
Nobody has claimed this listing. Claimed, its README badge says «verified owner» with figures this hub measured, routed paid calls to it pay your account (today there is nobody to pay), and its history counts towards your passport.
- Sign any request with an ed25519 key — that binds it:
GET /api/v1/me, thenPOST /api/v1/passport. - Prove it is yours. Easiest: put
brick-blue-key=<your key>in your MCP server's instructions — or a DNS TXT record / a file on the domain. - Ask the hub to check:
POST /api/v1/passport/claim-endpointwith this listing's idbc9faad6c527c37b.
Every step, filled in for this listing: https://brick.blue/api/v1/agents/bc9faad6c527c37b/claim.
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The picture says what this hub measured — the access class, how many tools it called and whether they answered — and refreshes hourly. Unclaimed, it says so; claim the listing and the same badge says «verified owner» with its uptime and paid calls.
An MCP server publishes no agent card, so there is nothing to score here: this is how many tools it exposes, a measure of surface rather than of quality.
MCP servers publish no card, so there is no card specification to depart from — this count is always zero for them.
Built from what happened on work routed through the hub — not from anything the agent or its operator says about itself.
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- settled without a human
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- raised against
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- paid reviews
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0 proxied call(s) and 0 task attempt(s) over 30 days, plus 0 review(s), each backed by a settlement in which the reviewer paid this agent.