Commutescout

What you can do with it

We have not written a plain-language summary for this one yet. Below are the facts we read from the registry.

• Connection: Runs in the cloud
• Transport: Streamable HTTP
• Category: Travel, maps & weather
• You need to fill in: Authorization

Install

Pick the AI app you use, then copy the settings.

You need

• Runs in the cloudNothing to install; it connects over the internet

Which app do you use?

claude mcp add --transport http commutescout https://mcp.commutescout.com/mcp --header 'Authorization: your-value'

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "commutescout": {
      "url": "https://mcp.commutescout.com/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

{
  "servers": {
    "commutescout": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.commutescout.com/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Your choice stays on this device in a cookie; no account needed.

Values you fill in

• Authorization secret HTTP header
  Optional CommuteScout API key as 'Bearer cs_live_...', from Settings on commutescout.com/map. Enables saved places (home, work) and per-key limits.

These settings are generated from the maker’s registry entry. If the README says otherwise, follow the README.

What it can do

Tool names and descriptions exactly as the server reported them on Nov 7, 2026. The maker wrote them, not us; we show them as plain text.

• check_route

  Check current conditions along a major California highway corridor. The flagship trip-check tool: give it a start and end place and it returns everything active along that stretch right now - CHP incidents, lane closures physically in place, chain controls, and wildfires within ~

• check_region

  Full current-conditions report for a California region. Use this for area-scale questions ("how is the Bay Area?", "what's happening in SoCal?") instead of stitching together point queries. It sweeps every source over the whole region at once: CHP incidents (severity-sorted, wors

• get_incidents

  Live CHP traffic incidents statewide, optionally filtered. Data: the California Highway Patrol statewide computer-aided dispatch feed - collisions, traffic hazards, disabled vehicles, closures as CHP logs them. Refreshes about once a minute; incidents disappear when CHP closes th

• get_lane_closures

  Caltrans lane and road closures physically in place RIGHT NOW. Data: the Caltrans Lane Closure System (LCS). Only closures that crews have actually established (CHP code 1097) and not yet picked up are returned - scheduled-but-not-started closures are excluded, so this is "what i

• get_chain_controls

  Current chain-control requirements on California mountain highways. Data: Caltrans chain-control status for fixed checkpoints on mountain routes (I-80 Donner, US-50 Echo Summit, SR-88, SR-89, and others). Levels: R-1 = chains OR snow tires required; R-2 = chains required except 4

• get_wildfires

  Active California wildfires, flagged when close to a major highway. Data: the interagency WFIGS current-wildfire feed (NIFC) - name, size in acres, percent contained, discovery date. Points are each fire's ORIGIN, not its perimeter: a large fire can affect roads far from this poi

• rank_routes

  Which major corridors have the most going on right now. Answers broad questions like "what are the busiest routes", "where is traffic worst", or "which highways should I avoid today" across all 17 tracked corridors. by="activity" ranks on live events (full closures weigh most, th

• get_cameras

  Live Caltrans roadside camera snapshots near a point or on a route. Data: ~3,000 in-service Caltrans cameras statewide. Every returned image_url was verified live moments ago (offline cameras that serve a placeholder frame are filtered out), so images can be shown directly. Snaps

• get_road_signs

  What Caltrans changeable message signs are displaying right now. Data: statewide CMS sign text, blank and out-of-service signs already filtered - every record is a message a driver is physically seeing. Signs carry the road's operational truth ("CHAINS REQUIRED 10 MI AHEAD", "FUL

• get_nearby_events

  Live road events near a point anywhere CommuteScout covers, not just California: 37 states today (get_coverage lists them). Data: the same multi-state feeds the live map shows, normalized - state DOT incidents, roadwork and closures, chain and traction advisories, and nationwide

• get_my_places

  The user's saved places: Home, Work, favorites and recent destinations, synced from the CommuteScout site and apps. Available when this server is connected with the user's CommuteScout API key; otherwise `connected` is false and `message` says how to connect. The trip tools alrea

• find_place

  Look up a US address or place and get its coordinates. Use it to confirm which place the user means before planning, or when a trip tool answers needs_clarification. Returns up to `limit` matches with a ready-to-pass `coords` string for the *_coords arguments of the trip tools.

• plan_trip

  Everything about one drive between any two US places, in one call. Use this for "how's the drive to X", "how long to get to Y at 5", "anything on the way to Z". It returns: - the route (miles, main roads, alternatives) from the closure-aware planner the CommuteScout map uses: ful

• best_time_to_go

  When to leave (or visit) to beat traffic and weather, for any US trip. Answers "what's a good time to visit X", "when should I leave for the airport", "is 5 PM bad". It checks up to 16 departures across the window and returns, for each: drive minutes for that weekday and hour (To

• get_weather

  Hourly NWS forecast, active alerts and nearby road-weather stations for any US place, with driving hazards flagged by hour. Road-weather stations are state DOT sensors: pavement and air temperature, wind gusts and visibility, where a state publishes them.

• get_traffic

  Live traffic speed against free-flow speed on the road nearest each point, anywhere in the US (TomTom). Use it for "is the bridge backed up right now"; for a whole drive, plan_trip is better.

• get_area_history

  What usually happens around a place: incidents and closures that started within the radius, by local hour and weekday, the common incident types and how long they typically last. Use it for "is this intersection bad at rush hour" or "when is it quietest around the stadium". These

• get_coverage

  Which states and sources CommuteScout covers right now, with each feed's freshness. Check it when an answer is unexpectedly empty.

Basic checksi

We check information anyone can see; we have not read the code. Checks that do not apply are left out of the count. · Checked Nov 7, 2026

• ✓ Pass

  Maker matches the repo

  The registry name was verified with the GitHub account nicglazkov, which owns the repo

• … Not checked yet

  Still maintained

  We have not read this repo from GitHub yet

• … Not checked yet

  Has a licence

  We have not read this repo from GitHub yet

• ✓ Pass

  Endpoint responds

  Responded in 199 ms (HTTP 200)

• – Not applicable

  Sign-in with OAuth

  No sign-in needed

• ✓ Pass

  No hidden instructions in tool descriptions

  Read 18 tool descriptions and found no hidden instructions to the AI

Compared with others in Travel, maps & weatheri

• More stars than 0% of the other 1706 servers in this category
• Published to the registry more recently than 95% of the other 1706 servers in this category
• Basic checks equal to or better than 100% of the other 1706 servers in this category

Compared with every active server in this category in the registry. Stars count only when the publisher owns the repo.

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README from the maker

https://mcp.commutescout.com/mcp

claude mcp add --transport http --scope user commutescout https://mcp.commutescout.com/mcp

curl "https://mcp.commutescout.com/v1/tools/best_time_to_go?origin=Union%20Station%20Denver&destination=Red%20Rocks%20Amphitheatre&day=tomorrow"