Care Relay

A shared care log for families, for Alexa+. Care Relay is a self-hosted MCP server (MCP spec 2025-11-25, Streamable HTTP) with an MCP Apps card, plus a simulated Alexa+ web console to try it.

When several people look after one person at home, they need to know what was already done. Care Relay answers "Did anyone give Mom her evening pills?", refuses to log the same dose twice, keeps notes for the next shift, and builds a hand-off when someone leaves.

Alexa+ track, simulated-experience path. This repo does not run on an Alexa+ device. The MCP server is real and works with any MCP client; the Alexa+ side is a simulated web console in simulator/ (rule-based planner, no LLM).

Care Relay only records what the family logs. It does not give medical or dosing advice.

Run it

Requires Node.js 20+.

npm install
npm start                     # MCP: http://127.0.0.1:3333/mcp   console: http://127.0.0.1:3333/
node bin/demo-seed.js         # optional: sample plan and a day of entries, sent as real MCP tool calls
npm test                      # 11 tests (unit + end-to-end over Streamable HTTP)

Environment variables:

Demo video setup: CARE_RELAY_CLOCK=2026-10-20T19:44:00 npm start, then node bin/demo-seed.js http://127.0.0.1:3333/mcp 2026-10-20.

Use it from any MCP client

Point a client that supports Streamable HTTP at http://127.0.0.1:3333/mcp. The server is stateless per request (no session id); all state lives in the data file, so it survives restarts and new sessions.

Related MCP server: Handover

What the server exposes

All tools declare outputSchema and return structuredContent.

The simulated Alexa+ console

simulator/ is a small host that shows the experience end to end:

• simulator/agent.js is a real MCP client (@modelcontextprotocol/sdk, StreamableHTTPClientTransport) that advertises the io.modelcontextprotocol/ui extension. A rule-based planner turns one request into a chain of tool calls (for example "I'm heading out, hand off to Jun" -> shift_handoff; "Mom had dinner and her evening pills" -> two log_care calls). It stops the chain and asks the user when log_care returns possible_duplicate. No LLM key is needed, so the demo is reproducible.

• simulator/web/ is the screen: speaker picker, text or browser speech input, reply, MCP traffic log, and an MCP Apps host bridge that renders the card in a sandboxed iframe (ui/initialize, ui/notifications/tool-input, ui/notifications/tool-result, ui/notifications/size-changed, and tools/call from the view).

• In the demo the speaker is chosen in the console. A real Alexa+ deployment would get the person from the device.

Project layout

server/store.js     state, slot matching, duplicate guard, hand-off (pure logic + JSON persistence)
server/mcp.js       MCP tools, resources, prompt
server/http.js      Streamable HTTP endpoint /mcp + console routes
ui/card.html        MCP Apps view (status and hand-off card)
simulator/          simulated Alexa+ agent and web console
bin/start.js        entry point
bin/demo-seed.js    sample plan and entries via MCP
test/               node:test suites

Limits

• Simulated Alexa+ host and rule-based planner; not deployed to an Alexa+ device.

• No authentication yet. Run it on localhost or behind HTTPS with auth before sharing.

• One household per data file. Times use the server's local time zone.

License

MIT. See LICENSE.

How it was built

Built during the hackathon (started 2026-10-18) with the help of an AI coding agent (Claude).