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Automotive inventory search for AI assistants: vehicles, dealers, deals, and market data.
Remote server: your requests and data go to mcp.opendealer.app. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http opendealer-mcp-server https://mcp.opendealer.app/rpc · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.
check_recalls — Open safety recalls for a listing. Cars use NHTSA at year, make, and model grain; a campaign may not apply to every VIN. Off-road uses CPSC compare_market — Pricing comparison across market segments. Input is cohortKeys (at most ten) or a make, with an optional model.compare_models — Side-by-side comparison of two to four vehicle models. Input is composite make-model slugs such as honda-civic. The payload includes dimensicompare_vehicles — Side-by-side comparison of two to five listings, with specs, price context, and per-vehicle cite fields. Each vehicle row includes cite.vin dealer_inventory — Inventory for one dealer slug. Supports the same vehicle filters as the listings route. Listings with zero photos are omitted. The page sizedealers_near — Dealerships near a search area the shopper states: zip and radius, city and state, or county and state. Each row includes name, address, phofilter_vehicles — Structured inventory lookup. Exact filters on the same live index as search_vehicles, with totals for those filters. Listings with zero photget_deal_score — Deal score and market context for one listing: a 1 to 100 score with a rating, price versus the market average, days on lot, price history, get_dealer — Dealership record for one slug, or a display name that matches one rooftop. A shared display name returns candidate slugs. Fields include naget_market_overview — Market statistics for one vertical. inventory.totalVehicles is searchable priced listings on the live index. inventory.activeDealers is actiget_market_segment — Pricing statistics for one market segment: average, median, minimum, and maximum price, percentiles, average mileage, average days on lot, aget_market_trends — Price timeline for one market segment: median and average prices and days on lot.get_market_velocity — Days-on-lot velocity by segment, fastest and slowest. The API paginates this list. Optional make and condition filters.get_safety_rating — NHTSA 5-Star Safety Ratings for a year, make, and model. Includes overall and crash-test stars when published, rollover rating, and NHTSA-evget_similar_vehicles — On-lot vehicles similar to one VIN, using the same make and model keyword comparison as the shop listing rail. The API caps the list. Each vget_suggested_rates — National average suggested auto loan APRs for cars. This is not a credit offer. Other verticals return a not-available result until that verget_vehicle — Listing details for one listingId or VIN. A VIN listed at more than one rooftop returns a vehicle_listings envelope of every listing, with nget_vehicle_history — OpenDealer listing history for a VIN or listing id: price changes, days on lot, and status, including vehicles that left a dealer feed. Fielget_vehicle_rankings — Data-driven vehicle rankings. With no category, the response lists ranking categories. A category slug returns that scored ranking. Scores ulist_facets — Canonical filter tokens and counts from the live search index: make, bodyType, fuelType, transmission, drivetrain, and price and year rangeslist_market_segments — One page of market segments with cohortKey, median price, and sample size. The API paginates this list at a maximum of 100.list_research_makes — Research catalog of vehicle makes, with model counts and live inventory counts. The API returns one page, capped by limit.list_research_models — Models for one make from the research catalog, with MSRP and body summaries.list_verticals — Live shopper verticals: key, label, host, identifier kind, example classes, tool families, and whether the vertical is public. Reserved hostresearch_model — Research record for one vehicle model: trims, MSRPs, engine and body specs, EPA fuel economy, NHTSA ratings, open recall count, and the livesearch_vehicles — Forgiving vehicle search over the live index. Accepts a natural-language query, a 17-character VIN, or structured filters. Listings with zerNot tested by KitScout yet. When our harness runs it, pros, cons and the tasks we tried appear here, with the date and evidence.