# Crafting Event Finder (remote · craftingeventfinder.com)

Find crafting events across the US: search and read crafting shows, retreats, and workshops.

- Trust score: 76/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +4
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-04

## Components

- remote · `craftingeventfinder.com`: 76/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-craftingeventfinder-events/api-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-craftingeventfinder-events/api-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://craftingeventfinder.com/api/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.0.0`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-11-04.

- **Endpoint Security**: 80/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - The HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security) header is present.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 56/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 3406 tokens (~189/item across 18 items; 18 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 67/100
  - Stability observed for 20 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 71/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 13% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 18 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 19 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 60/100
  - Spec-recency check failed: implements MCP spec 2025-06-18; the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the Crafting Event Finder MCP server?

Crafting Event Finder is a hosted endpoint at https://craftingeventfinder.com/api/mcp, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http com-craftingeventfinder-events 'https://craftingeventfinder.com/api/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-craftingeventfinder-events": {
      "url": "https://craftingeventfinder.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "com-craftingeventfinder-events": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://craftingeventfinder.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.com-craftingeventfinder-events]
url = "https://craftingeventfinder.com/api/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "com-craftingeventfinder-events": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://craftingeventfinder.com/api/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add com-craftingeventfinder-events --url 'https://craftingeventfinder.com/api/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  com-craftingeventfinder-events:
    url: "https://craftingeventfinder.com/api/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "com-craftingeventfinder-events": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://craftingeventfinder.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add com-craftingeventfinder-events -t streamable-http -u 'https://craftingeventfinder.com/api/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-craftingeventfinder-events": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://craftingeventfinder.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-11-04 (score 76, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 63 to 67. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 19 days of observed history at the previous scan, 20 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-02 (score 75, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 57 to 60. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 17 days of observed history at the previous scan, 18 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-31 (score 74, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 50 to 53. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 15 days of observed history at the previous scan, 16 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-29 (score 73, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 43 to 47. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 13 days of observed history at the previous scan, 14 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-27 (score 72, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 37 to 40. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 11 days of observed history at the previous scan, 12 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-25 (score 71, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 30 to 33. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 9 days of observed history at the previous scan, 10 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-23 (score 70, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 23 to 27. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 7 days of observed history at the previous scan, 8 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-20 (score 69, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 13 to 17. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 4 days of observed history at the previous scan, 5 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

## MCP tools (18)

### `count_events_by_craft` (~408 tokens)

Count matching events per craft

Count matching events per craft. How many events match a search, per top-level craft, for the 'Jump to a craft' chips. Takes the same filters as GET /api/events (q, type, tag, state, when or from+to, near or lat+lng, radius, free, online, inperson, tz) and counts with every one of them except craft, which is accepted and ignored, so each craft keeps its number while one is chosen. Child crafts count toward their top-level parent (needlepoint, cross-stitch and embroidery count as needlework), and an event counts once per top-level craft, so the crafts can add up to more than `total`, the distinct number of matching events. A craft's count equals the total GET /api/events reports for that craft=<slug>, with one known exception: with a text query (q), the typo-tolerant fallback applies only when a search has no exact text match, so it can apply to the all-crafts count but not to one craft's search (or the other way round) and the numbers can then differ. Only crafts with at least one match are listed, most first, then in taxonomy order. Location is never inferred from the caller's IP; a near that matches no US place is a 400. Answers 503 not_configured while the counts aren't available.

Input parameters:

- `craft` (string)
- `free` (string)
- `from` (string)
- `inperson` (string)
- `lat` (string)
- `lng` (string)
- `near` (string)
- `online` (string)
- `q` (string)
- `radius` (string)
- `sort` (string)
- `state` (string)
- `tag` (string)
- `to` (string)
- `type` (string)
- `tz` (string)
- `when` (string)

### `count_events_by_state` (~53 tokens)

Count upcoming events per state

Count upcoming events per state. Upcoming published events in the next 12 months, grouped by US state, with each state's most common craft. `by` must be `state`.

Input parameters:

- `by` (string, required)

### `get_appearance` (~21 tokens)

This site's look: its theme and the season showing today

This site's look: its theme and the season showing today

### `get_event` (~150 tokens)

Get one event by slug

Get one event by slug. One published event with its upcoming dates and its organizer's pictures (`images`, the first is the cover). `owned` says whether an organizer manages it, and `managedBy` names that organizer (their public page's slug, name and picture) when their profile is public. A former slug (the event was renamed when its year or town changed) answers the same event, under its current `slug`. A cancelled event whose dates aren't over yet also answers, with `cancelled` true and no upcoming dates; `scheduleChange` says when a published event is postponed, rescheduled (with `previousStartDate`) or moved online.

Input parameters:

- `slug` (string, required)

### `get_event_contact` (~91 tokens)

Get an event's organizer contact

Get an event's organizer contact. The contact name, email and phone the organizer published for this event, exactly as they wrote them. 404s when the event has neither a name nor an email/phone. Rate-limited more strictly than other reads (the detail limit), and answers with Cache-Control: no-store and X-Robots-Tag: noindex.

Input parameters:

- `slug` (string, required)

### `get_event_demand` (~201 tokens)

Upcoming event counts by network craft

Upcoming event counts by network craft. A daily snapshot (crafting-network/event-demand@1) of how many published events Crafting Event Finder lists in the next 60 days (today to today plus 60, Pacific), per network craft tag from the network manifest, most first then by tag. Each craft gives its label, count (distinct events with a day in the window; a repeating or running event counts once), online (online or hybrid events), earliest (the first day in the window with one) and regions (a count per US state code, with online events as `online`; a hybrid event counts in its state). A child craft rolls up to its parent's tag; an Other crafts event counts under the tags its own words name; craft-fair is never a tag, and an event with no tag is left out. Counts and dates only. The answer never depends on the caller and is recomputed at most once a day.

### `get_event_join_details` (~139 tokens)

Get an online event's join details

Get an online event's join details. The link, meeting ID, passcode and phone the organizer published for joining online, exactly as they wrote them. Shown only from 30 minutes before the start of the event's next occurrence until it ends: outside that window it answers 403 forbidden with a message saying when the details appear (details.opensAt, an ISO time, when known). 404s when the event has none of these. Rate-limited more strictly than other reads (the detail limit), and answers with Cache-Control: no-store and X-Robots-Tag: noindex.

Input parameters:

- `slug` (string, required)

### `get_not_listed_event` (~117 tokens)

A withdrawn event's title and status, with events like it

A withdrawn event's title and status, with events like it. For the address of an event this site no longer lists (hidden, or cancelled and past): its title, whether it was cancelled, and up to 4 upcoming events like it (the same search as /similar). Never its contact, join or owner details. Any other slug (unknown, published, another site's) is a 404. The event page's 404 shows this (WI-094, WI-097).

Input parameters:

- `slug` (string, required)

### `get_organizer` (~86 tokens)

Get an organizer's public page

Get an organizer's public page. An organizer's public profile (name, About, website, town and state, crafts and picture) with their published events on this site: upcoming soonest first (at most 50), then the newest 12 past. Only organizers with a display name have a public page; anyone else is 404.

Input parameters:

- `slug` (string, required)

### `get_site_info` (~18 tokens)

This site's name and which crafts it covers

This site's name and which crafts it covers

### `get_taxonomy` (~21 tokens)

Craft types, event types and tags used across the site

Craft types, event types and tags used across the site

### `list_events` (~601 tokens)

Search upcoming crafting events on this site

Search upcoming crafting events on this site. Published, upcoming events with their next date in the window. Filters: q (full text with typo tolerance), craft/type/tag (comma lists of taxonomy slugs; a top-level craft also matches its child crafts, so needlework includes cross-stitch), state, when (weekend|next7|next30|next90|month:YYYY-MM) or from+to, near (a US place as 'City, ST', e.g. 'Columbus, OH', or 'all') or lat+lng, radius (25|50|100|250|any, default 100 with a location), free=1, online=1 (only online events; other values are ignored), inperson=1 (only in-person events, including multi-location; other values are ignored; online=1 and inperson=1 together cancel out to no format filter, rather than matching nothing), sort (date|distance|relevance; default best match for q, else soonest first; distance needs a location, and without one falls back to that default), tz (IANA, for date presets). Invalid filter values are ignored, except a near that matches no US place, which is a 400 validation_failed. With no state, near or lat+lng, a trailing US place in q, like 'quilt show Arizona' or 'Phoenix, AZ', sets the location: a state name or capitalized code becomes state and 'City, ST' becomes near (radius 50 unless given; a city that matches no place is retried on its last 2 words, then its last word, then falls back to its state), and the place is removed from the text query. Location is never inferred from the caller's IP. `featured` holds up to 3 featured events matching the same search; they are excluded from `items` on every page. featured=0 turns that off: no featured lookup, `featured` is empty and `items` leaves nothing out (for a client that shows its own results without a featured row).

Input parameters:

- `craft` (string)
- `cursor` (string)
- `featured` (string): 0 skips the featured row: `featured` comes back empty and nothing is left out of `items`. Any other value is ignored.
- `free` (string)
- `from` (string)
- `inperson` (string)
- `lat` (string)
- `limit` (integer)
- `lng` (string)
- `near` (string)
- `online` (string)
- `q` (string)
- `radius` (string)
- `sort` (string)
- `state` (string)
- `tag` (string)
- `to` (string)
- `type` (string)
- `tz` (string)
- `when` (string)

### `list_online_event_picks` (~335 tokens)

Online event picks to show beside a local search

Online event picks to show beside a local search. The Online events band for a local search (a place with a distance, or a state): at most 3 online events anywhere that match the search's words, crafts, types, tags, price and dates, filled from other crafts only when short, each part ranked with a start in the viewer's small hours (10 pm to 7 am in tz) after the rest, then soonest, and the caller's Accept-Language first. Takes the same filters as GET /api/events. `total` and `href` are 'See all online events (N)': /online with the search's top-level crafts and Free only, counted over its next 30 days (the crafts dropped when none has an online event); `matched` is how many picks matched the search's own crafts; `crafts` the search's top-level crafts. Location is never inferred from the caller's IP; a near that matches no US place is a 400.

Input parameters:

- `craft` (string)
- `free` (string)
- `from` (string)
- `inperson` (string)
- `lat` (string)
- `lng` (string)
- `near` (string)
- `online` (string)
- `q` (string)
- `radius` (string)
- `sort` (string)
- `state` (string)
- `tag` (string)
- `to` (string)
- `type` (string)
- `tz` (string)
- `when` (string)

### `list_online_events` (~337 tokens)

Online events, by day in the viewer's time zone

Online events, by day in the viewer's time zone. The /online page: every published online or hybrid event whose next date falls in the next 30 days (from today in tz), filtered by craft, time of day (tod), day, free and language (lang), all judged in the viewer's zone (tz), and grouped by the viewer's own start date. At most 200 events are read; `truncated` says more exist. Time of day and day are worked out per event from its own start time and zone, which is why they live here and not on GET /api/events (online=1 there lists online events by their own dates, paged).

Input parameters:

- `craft` (string): Comma list of top-level craft slugs (any of); unknown slugs are ignored.
- `day` (string): today, week (the next 7 days) or weekend (this or the coming Fri to Sun), in tz.
- `free` (string): 1 for free events only.
- `lang` (string): One language code (en, es): only events known to be held in it. Without it every language shows, the caller's Accept-Language ranked first within each day.
- `tod` (string): Comma list of morning (5 am to noon), afternoon (noon to 5 pm), evening (5 pm to 5 am), judged in tz; an event with no start time never matches one.
- `tz` (string): The viewer's IANA time zone; days and times of day are judged in it. Default America/New_York.

### `lookup_place` (~53 tokens)

Look up US places by name (for location search)

Look up US places by name (for location search). Prefix match on US Census places. Accepts 'City' or 'City, ST'. Returns up to 8, largest first.

Input parameters:

- `q` (string, required)

### `request_event_correction` (~166 tokens)

Report an issue with an event listing

Report an issue with an event listing. Anyone can flag an event as wrong, gone, cancelled, postponed or moved to a new date (rescheduled, with `newStartDate`); an admin reviews every request, none is applied on its own. Browser forms pass Turnstile; programmatic callers send an API key instead.

Input parameters:

- `contactEmail` (string)
- `kind` (string, required): postponed: new date to come; rescheduled: it has a new date (give it as newStartDate)
- `message` (string, required)
- `newStartDate` (string): For a rescheduled request: the event's new start date
- `slug` (string, required)
- `turnstileToken` (string)
- `website` (string)

### `similar_events` (~157 tokens)

Events like this one

Events like this one. Up to 4 upcoming events like this one ("More like this" on the event page), never including the event itself: the same top-level crafts (a craft's child crafts included), or the same event type when the event has no craft; within 100 miles of the event, nearest first (250 miles when that finds fewer than 2); other online events anywhere, soonest first, for an online event; the event's state, soonest first, for an in-person event without a map point; over the next 90 days. An event with neither a craft nor a type gets an empty list. A hidden, cancelled or unknown slug is a 404.

Input parameters:

- `slug` (string, required)

### `submit_event` (~410 tokens)

Submit an event for review

Submit an event for review. Goes to the moderation queue. Browser forms pass Turnstile; programmatic callers send an API key instead. A signed-in caller (session or user-scope key) skips Turnstile, is recorded as the submitter, may omit organizer_email (the account email is used), and a trusted submitter's event can publish straight away when auto-approval is on. Anonymous callers must send organizer_email.

Input parameters:

- `city` (string): The town; required unless location_kind is online
- `contact_email` (string)
- `contact_name` (string)
- `craft_types` (array)
- `description` (string)
- `end_date`
- `end_time` (string)
- `event_type` (string)
- `hosted_by` (string): The group or shop hosting an online or hybrid event
- `is_free` (boolean)
- `join_meeting_id` (string)
- `join_passcode` (string)
- `join_phone` (string)
- `join_url` (string)
- `languages` (array): The languages the event is held in, as BCP 47 codes (en, es); leave out when unknown
- `location_kind` (string)
- `organizer_email` (string)
- `postal_code`
- `price_note` (string)
- `start_date` (string, required)
- `start_time` (string)
- `state` (string): A US state name or two-letter code; required unless location_kind is online (then taken from the time zone)
- `street_address` (string)
- `tags` (array)
- `timezone` (string): The event's own clock (IANA, like America/Chicago); required for an online or hybrid event
- `title` (string, required)
- `turnstileToken` (string)
- `url`
- `venue` (string)
- `website` (string)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-craftingeventfinder-events/api-mcp#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-04: 76
- 2026-11-03: 75
- 2026-11-02: 75
- 2026-11-01: 74
- 2026-10-31: 74
- 2026-10-30: 73
- 2026-10-29: 73
- 2026-10-28: 72
- 2026-10-27: 72
- 2026-10-26: 71
- 2026-10-25: 71
- 2026-10-24: 70
- 2026-10-23: 70
- 2026-10-22: 69
- 2026-10-21: 69
- 2026-10-20: 69
- 2026-10-19: 68
- 2026-10-18: 68
- 2026-10-17: 67
- 2026-10-16: 67
- 2026-10-15: 66

## Common questions

### What is the Crafting Event Finder MCP server?

Crafting Event Finder is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as com.craftingeventfinder/events. Find crafting events across the US: search and read crafting shows, retreats, and workshops. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://craftingeventfinder.com/api/mcp).

### Is the Crafting Event Finder MCP server safe to use?

Crafting Event Finder scores 76 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the Crafting Event Finder MCP server expose?

Crafting Event Finder exposes 18 tools: count_events_by_craft, count_events_by_state, get_appearance, get_event, get_event_contact, and 13 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 3,364 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Crafting Event Finder MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to Crafting Event Finder without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the Crafting Event Finder MCP server still maintained?

Crafting Event Finder is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 4 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://craftingeventfinder.com/api/mcp
- Website: https://craftingeventfinder.com/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-craftingeventfinder-events/api-mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-craftingeventfinder-events/api-mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-craftingeventfinder-events/api-mcp