Ambient Weather MCP (Vercel)

Same three tools as your local index.js server — list_devices, get_current_conditions, get_history — reimplemented as a Vercel serverless function instead of a local stdio process. This is the same pattern as your existing bambu_mcp and linktap_mcp deployments.

Deploy

1. Create a GitHub repo and push this folder to it (git init, git add ., git commit -m "init", create the repo on github.com, git push).

2. Import into Vercel: vercel.com -> Add New -> Project -> select the repo. Framework preset should auto-detect as Next.js.

3. Set environment variables in the Vercel project (Settings -> Environment Variables), same names as .env.example:

   • AMBIENT_API_KEY

   • AMBIENT_APP_KEY

   • MCP_AUTH_TOKEN (optional but recommended — see note below)

4. Deploy. Your endpoint will be: https://<your-project-name>.vercel.app/api/mcp

Related MCP server: ambient-mcp

Connect it to Claude

• claude.ai: Settings -> Connectors -> Add custom connector -> paste the /api/mcp URL. If you set MCP_AUTH_TOKEN, add an Authorization header of Bearer <your token> in the connector's auth settings.

• Claude Desktop: add it as a remote server in claude_desktop_config.json:

  {
    "mcpServers": {
      "ambient-weather": {
        "url": "https://<your-project-name>.vercel.app/api/mcp",
        "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer <your token>" }
      }
    }
  }

  (Omit the headers block if you didn't set MCP_AUTH_TOKEN.)

Why add MCP_AUTH_TOKEN

Unlike the local version, this endpoint is a public URL. Without a token, anyone who discovers it could call your tools and burn through your Ambient Weather API rate limit (1 req/sec, 3,600/hr). Set a long random string as MCP_AUTH_TOKEN and only clients sending that bearer token can use it.

Notes vs. the local version

• The request queue (1.1s min interval) and 60s response cache are preserved, but only help within a single warm Lambda instance — cold starts or concurrent calls won't share state the way a long-running local process did. In practice this should still absorb the 429s you were seeing before, since Claude's tool calls within one session tend to land on the same warm instance.

• No more "MCP server disconnected mid-session" issue — that was a local stdio process quirk; an HTTP endpoint doesn't have that failure mode.

• get_history's limit cap is set to 5000 (rather than the API's documented default of 288) since you've successfully pulled 2016 in the past for two-week windows.