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Plan trips by chat in the Meridian Dispatch iPhone app, from cited guides to places and events.
Remote server: your requests and data go to www.meridiandispatch.com. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http meridian-dispatch https://www.meridiandispatch.com/api/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.
search_guides — Search every Meridian Dispatch travel guide by keyword: long-form dispatches, multi-day itineraries, country and town guides, venues (sightsget_destination — Read the Meridian Dispatch guide to one country or one town, for planning a stay there. Returns: why go, how long to stay, the best months, get_place — Read the Meridian Dispatch field record for one place: a sight, museum, beach or park, a trail or scenic drive, an event, a ski resort, or aget_dispatch — Read one Meridian Dispatch long-form dispatch or multi-day itinerary. A dispatch is a reported piece on one place: returns its headline, stalist_events — List the festivals and events worth planning a trip around, from the Meridian Dispatch events guide. Returns each event's name, kind, where list_best_places — List Meridian Dispatch's ranked World's Best places: the 20 best in the world or the 10 best in one country, overall or within one category.get_best_time — Get the best time to visit from the Meridian Dispatch guides, in one of two modes. Give destination (a country, town, trail or ski resort) flist_nearby — List the places Meridian Dispatch covers near a place or a coordinate, nearest first, for day trips from a base or what else to see near a screate_itinerary_link — Generate an itinerary import link: turn a day-by-day travel itinerary into a shareable "Add Itinerary to Meridian Dispatch" link. Use it onlsuggest_edit — Send the Meridian Dispatch desk a correction to one of its pages. Use it when the traveller tells you something on a meridiandispatch.com paconfirm_fact — Tell the Meridian Dispatch desk that a fact on one of its pages still holds, with the current, independent source that shows it (the place'ssuggest_place — Suggest a town, sight, walk, museum, event, ski resort, food area or hotel that Meridian Dispatch has no page for, so the desk can research list_my_plans — The signed-in traveller's trip plans in the Meridian Dispatch app: id, title, dates, countries, number of days planned (the app makes days aget_plan — One of the signed-in traveller's plans, day by day: each day's date, town and stops (with each stop's id, time, minutes, category, visitNotesuggest_for_my_day — What to do on one day of the signed-in traveller's plan: places near that day's hotel (or its town, when the hotel cannot be placed), rankedcreate_plan — Make a new plan in the traveller's Meridian Dispatch app: a title, a first day and a number of days, optionally with ops to fill it (the samedit_plan — Change a plan with a list of ops (see the ops schema), applied in order, all or nothing; days are named by date (YYYY-MM-DD), set_start_dateget_travel_preferences — The signed-in traveller's travel preferences, as set in the Meridian Dispatch app (How you like to travel): how much they like each kind of get_my_account — The Meridian Dispatch account this connection is signed in to: the name (and email, unless the traveller hid it from Apple), when it was maddelete_plan — Delete a plan from the traveller's account; the app removes it on its next sync. Only when the traveller has asked for it. Needs sign-in.Not tested by KitScout yet. When our harness runs it, pros, cons and the tasks we tried appear here, with the date and evidence.