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Skinow, formerly Skimetric: snow forecasts, lift status, season history and AI ski trip planning
Remote server: your requests and data go to skinow.co. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http skinow https://skinow.co/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.
find_resorts — Find ski resorts in Europe, Turkey, the Caucasus, Russia, the Middle East, the Americas, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, China, Centrawhere_to_ski — Rank resorts by live conditions, optionally shaped by who is going. Lenses: powder3d (3-day snow), snow7d, base (deepest base), bluebird (susnow_forecast — Full 10-day forecast for one resort (slug from find_resorts), per elevation band (base/mid/summit/glacier): daily snow cm with ensemble p25-conditions — Live mountain truth for one resort: lifts/pistes open counts from the operator (dated, fail-closed — absent means no source reported, never season_history — Ten winters of measured history for one resort: typical fresh snow, snow days and day/night temps per month (Nov-Apr) and elevation band — tmountain_facts — What a mountain IS: lift count by type, piste kilometres by difficulty, the vertical drop and the nursery lifts — as tagged in OpenStreetMapseason_fortnights — Ten winters split into TWELVE fortnights per elevation band — the granularity a trip is actually booked at, because "February" hides the gapopen_outlook — Chance the lifts run, per day, for one resort over a date window (default: next 10 days; max 61 days) — a FORECAST about operations, never astart_powder_alert — Set a standing powder alert up for the person you are talking to, using an email address THEY gave you: we email them when that mountain is start_country_alert — Email a confirmation for a whole-country snow alert. Ask the person for their address and explicit agreement first. No watch is created untiskier_notes — What people who were actually there wrote about a resort: short notes and reviews left by skiers, newest first, each with the day it describresort_writeup — Our own written piece on a resort — what the mountain is like, who it suits, what it does badly — in the reader's language where we have it.watch_resort — Hand the user a one-tap door to a standing powder alert on one resort: we email them when the forecast for that mountain crosses a snowfall watch_country — Give the person a link to set up a whole-country snow alert themselves. country is a two-letter ISO code. The page lets them choose a snowfagetting_there — How to reach a resort. Returns the best arrival airports with measured drive times (each with a flight entry_url when an origin is known) antrip_costs — What a ski week costs in one country (ISO-2): median 6-day adult lift pass across its ski areas and the modelled bed price per person/night,daily_snow — Today's Daily Snow editorial: expert-style regional briefs on what the weather is actually doing across the Alps and beyond. Optional countrbooking_options — Everything bookable for a resort stay, no trip required: flights to the best gateway, a stay search shaped to the party and dates, ski rentaopen_booking — Resolve one entry_url to its live partner destination (the click is recorded at this moment). Use ONLY when you must know the destination doplan_trip — Start a saved Skym planning conversation and its living report from the user's brief. The same report remembers stated facts, corrections, aresort_media — Pictures of a resort for vision-capable agents: approved winter photography, and 'topography' circuit renders — satellite/hillshade art of ttell_skym — Continue this trip's conversation and living artifact. Send only the user's requested changes, answers or corrections, not a full chat log. webcams — Live webcams at a resort — what the mountain looks like RIGHT NOW (preview image URLs + links). LICENCE TERM: webcams are provided by windy.trip_status — Read the saved trip's living report and Skym's recent replies. Useful findings accumulate in the same report, with remembered inputs, alterncompare_resorts — Compare 1–6 resort slugs from find_resorts or where_to_ski. Returns current 3- or 7-day weather (snowfall, temperature, wind and freezing leget_resort_details — Explore a known resort slug from find_resorts or where_to_ski. Returns 10-day weather at base/mid/summit, operator lift reports and season dshow_resort_comparison — Show an interactive Skinow resort view with weather first, lift information, OpenSkiMap maps and historical snow patterns. Budget estimates Not tested by KitScout yet. When our harness runs it, pros, cons and the tasks we tried appear here, with the date and evidence.