Purpose: API Status Check MCP Server is an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server used to check the real-time operational status of 285 cloud services and APIs within an AI programming assistant.
Main capabilities: Supported services include AWS, GitHub, Stripe, OpenAI, Vercel, Cloudflare, Datadog, PagerDuty, Twilio, Shopify, Slack, Zoom, and more than 270 other services; the complete list can be found at apistatuscheck.com.
Usage: The officially recommended hosted remote Streamable HTTP endpoint requires nothing to be installed. This endpoint is the same entry as io.github.shibley/apistatuscheck included in the official MCP Registry.
For clients that only support stdio: According to the information, the 0.1.0 version published on npm is defective—the tarball's dist/index.js is missing the #!/usr/bin/env node shebang, causing the shim to be executed by sh instead of Node, and the command fails with command not found. It has been fixed in the repository (adding the shebang and adding a bin alias for apistatuscheck-mcp-server to match the package name), but the fix has not yet been published to npm and requires publishing 0.1.1. Until then, it can be built from source.
Configuration notes: When adding it to claude_desktop_config.json, it should point to the hosted endpoint, and do not use "args": ["-y", "apistatuscheck-mcp-server"], because the only version on npm (0.1.0) is the defective version described above and will fail silently.
Cursor or other MCP clients: The same hosted endpoint can be used via mcp-remote.
Other information: The information mentions environment variables and local development-related content, but does not provide specific details.
Limitations: The version currently on npm is unavailable, and it is necessary to wait for the 0.1.1 release or build from source; only MCP-compatible AI programming assistants are supported.
