{"name":"Cars & Coast","version":"1.0.0","description":"Live Monterey Bay coast map: events, Hwy 1, weather, ocean, cams, photo spots. Read-only.","endpoint":"https://carsandcoast.com/mcp","transport":"streamable-http","auth":{"type":"bearer","optional":true,"header":"Authorization: Bearer <api_key>","register_tool":"register_agent","fallback":"api_key tool argument"},"rate_limits":{"anonymous":"30 calls / 10 min per IP","registered":"600 calls / 10 min per key","register_agent":"5 / day per IP"},"tools":[{"name":"register_agent","description":"Register this agent and get an API key (shown once). Registered agents get higher rate limits and a usage record (see whoami). Read-only service; links in answers carry attribution that must be kept. See page_url for the guide."},{"name":"whoami","description":"Return the calling agent's record (name, operator, platform), its tier and rate limits, and today's usage. Anonymous callers are told how to register. See page_url for the guide."},{"name":"search_places","description":"Search Cars & Coast's curated places (galleries, beaches, restaurants, hotels, car venues, parks, viewpoints) around the Monterey Bay coast by name, description or city, optionally filtered by category and ranked by distance from a point. Returns name, category, city, coordinates and a map_url per place. The response page_url is the site's map centred on the top result; give it to the human so they can see the place on the live map."},{"name":"events","description":"List published events on the Monterey Bay coast (art, music, film, car shows, cars and coffee, festivals, races) for today, this weekend, the next 7 days or the next 30 days, optionally filtered by category or city. Times are Pacific; each event has its own page_url. The response page_url is the site's events directory, which the human can filter and subscribe to."},{"name":"whats_on_now","description":"What is on right now and in the next 48 hours: the home board's highlighted marquee and community-powered events, plus any festival currently running. Use it for a quick 'what should we do today' answer. The response page_url is the site's home page with the live board."},{"name":"hwy1_status","description":"Current Highway 1 status through Big Sur: open, closed, restricted (one-way traffic control) or unknown, with the restriction text, detour and when it was last checked. Also returns the Bixby Creek Bridge no-stopping rule, which must be passed on to anyone driving the coast. If the status is unknown, say so; never assume the road is open. The response page_url is the site's Big Sur page with the live map and closure line."},{"name":"weather_now","description":"Weather for a point on the Monterey Bay coast right now and for the next 6 hours: temperature, wind speed and direction, a 0-100 fog index and rain, from the site's NOAA model grid, plus the latest airport observation (flight category VFR/MVFR/IFR/LIFR, visibility, ceiling) for Monterey (KMRY) and the airport nearest the point. Omit lat/lng for Monterey. The response page_url is the site's weather page, which animates fog, wind and rain on the map for the next 48 hours."},{"name":"ocean_today","description":"Today's surf, dive and tidepool outlook for 15 Monterey Bay beaches (Santa Cruz to Point Lobos): wave height and period, wind, water temperature, an estimated surf and dive rating, tides, tidepool low-tide windows, live buoys and active NWS marine hazard alerts. Omit spot for a one-line summary of every spot, or pass a spot id for detail. Ratings are estimates and some spots are for experts only; always pass on the 'note'. The response page_url is the site's ocean page with the full dashboard."},{"name":"photo_spot","description":"Photographer's shoot card for a point on the coast and a date: sunrise and sunset, golden and blue hour windows, sun azimuths, moon phase and rise/set, expected fog and wind at golden hour, tide and swell. Inside a posted no-stopping zone (the Bixby Creek Bridge parking ban) it returns only the ban line and no shoot data, and that must be relayed to the human. Times are Pacific. The response page_url is the site's Photographers Toolbox page for the date (or the parking-rules map for a banned point)."},{"name":"cams_near","description":"Nearest live webcams to a point on the Monterey Bay coast (surf and beach cams, harbor and hotel cams, fire lookout cams), with distance, what each one looks at and a link to the operator's public page where one may be shared. Never returns raw video stream URLs. The response page_url is the site's map centred on the point, where the cam layers can be switched on and played in place."},{"name":"incidents","description":"Current incidents on the Monterey Bay coast: CHP dispatches, wildfires and evacuations, county road closures and advisories, NWS weather alerts, the Moss Landing cleanup, and Caltrans District 5 road closures. Returns counts by type, the most severe items first, and which feeds are degraded. If a feed is down the answer says so; an empty list is not proof that roads are clear. The response page_url is the site's live traffic and incidents page."},{"name":"plan_visit","description":"Assemble a short plan of Cars & Coast pages for a visitor, by interests (cars, art, music, film, food, beaches, surf, dive, tidepools, nature, wildlife, history, photography, big_sur, scenic_drive) and an optional date up to a year ahead. Rule-based, not generated: it returns ordered steps with page links, the events on that day that match, and, whenever Big Sur is involved, the live Highway 1 status and the Bixby Creek Bridge no-stopping rule, which must be passed on. The response page_url is the site's home page; each step has its own page_url."},{"name":"ping","description":"Connectivity check. Returns pong and the page_url of the agents guide."}],"docs_url":"https://carsandcoast.com/agents","terms":"Read-only. Keep the utm attribution on links you give people. No scraping."}