Spoonacular
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Spoonacular food API: recipes, nutrition, ingredients, meal plans. Free 150/day.
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- Unhealthy
- Uptime
- 51.8% over 37 days
- Last Tested
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- Streamable HTTP
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- pipeworx-io/mcp-spoonacular
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- mcp-spoonacular
TDQS
Scored across 49 tools
Descriptions are exceptionally detailed and actively steer callers (e.g. ask_pipeworx vs grounded vs deep_research), which mitigates a lot. However, ask_pipeworx_beta is explicitly stated to be identical to ask_pipeworx right now, and the five polymarket_* tools (edges, arbitrage, fill_risk, kalshi_spread, edge_tracker) overlap heavily on the same domain, so boundaries are soft in places.
Names are uniformly snake_case with readable verb_noun or domain_prefix_noun patterns (recipe_*, ingredient_*, polymarket_*, ask_pipeworx_*). A few single-word meta tools (remember, recall, forget, subscribe) deviate from the verb_noun convention but remain clear, so it is mostly consistent with minor deviations.
49 tools is well above the 25+ heavy threshold, and worse, the surface straddles two unrelated domains — a Spoonacular recipe/cooking API plus a sprawling Pipeworx multi-source data gateway. This is far more than the server's apparent purpose warrants and dilutes the set.
The Spoonacular recipe side is fairly complete (search, info, ingredients, nutrition, price, taste, similar, random, meal plans, conversion, wine). But the overall surface mixes in a large unrelated Pipeworx toolset with unclear domain boundaries, making coherent coverage for a single stated purpose hard to assess.
Tool Schema Changelog
Recent tool additions, removals, and schema changes observed during successful MCP inspections.
1 tool update
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bet_research2 fields changed- changed
Input schema / examplesPrevious value: -[ - { - "market": "when-will-bitcoin-hit-150k" - }, - { - "market": "https://polymarket.com/event/when-will-bitcoin-hit-150k" - } -]New value: +[ + { + "market": "will-kristi-noem-win-the-2028-republican-presidential-nomination" + }, + { + "market": "https://polymarket.com/event/will-kristi-noem-win-the-2028-republican-presidential-nomination" + } +] - changed
Input schema / properties / market / descriptionPrevious value: -"Polymarket slug (\"when-will-bitcoin-hit-150k\"), full URL (\"https://polymarket.com/event/...\"), or question text (\"Will Bitcoin hit $150k?\"). Dated slugs stop resolving once they settle — Polymarket de-indexes resolved markets — so prefer an undated one."New value: +"Polymarket slug (\"will-kristi-noem-win-the-2028-republican-presidential-nomination\"), full URL (\"https://polymarket.com/event/...\"), or question text (\"Will Bitcoin hit $150k?\"). Dated slugs stop resolving once they settle — Polymarket de-indexes resolved markets — so prefer an undated one."
2 tool updates
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bet_research2 fields changed- changed
Input schema / examplesPrevious value: -[ - { - "market": "will-bitcoin-reach-100k-in-july-2026" - }, - { - "market": "https://polymarket.com/event/will-bitcoin-hit-150k-by-june-30-2026" - } -]New value: +[ + { + "market": "when-will-bitcoin-hit-150k" + }, + { + "market": "https://polymarket.com/event/when-will-bitcoin-hit-150k" + } +] - changed
Input schema / properties / market / descriptionPrevious value: -"Polymarket slug (\"will-bitcoin-hit-150k-by-june-30-2026\"), full URL (\"https://polymarket.com/event/...\"), or question text (\"Will Bitcoin hit $150k by June 30?\")"New value: +"Polymarket slug (\"when-will-bitcoin-hit-150k\"), full URL (\"https://polymarket.com/event/...\"), or question text (\"Will Bitcoin hit $150k?\"). Dated slugs stop resolving once they settle — Polymarket de-indexes resolved markets — so prefer an undated one."
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polymarket_kalshi_spread2 fields changed- changed
Input schema / examplesPrevious value: -[ - { - "topic": "fed" - }, - { - "topic": "btc" - } -]New value: +[ + { + "topic": "fed" + }, + { + "topic": "btc" + }, + { + "topic": "bitcoin" + }, + { + "topic": "fed rate decision" + } +] - changed
Input schema / properties / topic / descriptionPrevious value: -"Pre-mapped: fed | btc | cpi | gdp | sp500 | recession | next_pope | next_uk_pm | next_israel_pm | 2028_president"New value: +"Subject to compare. Canonical keys: fed | btc | eth | cpi | gdp | sp500 | recession | next_pope | next_uk_pm | next_israel_pm | 2028_president — but aliases and keywords resolve too (\"bitcoin\", \"fed rate decision\", \"ethereum\", \"inflation\", \"s&p 500\", \"us recession\", \"next pope\", \"2028 election\"). Check resolution.topic_matched_by in the response: \"exact\"/\"alias\" is a curated pairing, \"phrase\"/\"token\" is a keyword guess."
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