TransparentCars

TransparentCars MCP server

An MCP server that lets AI assistants work with TransparentCars — honest, budget used cars for the local Portuguese market. Search live stock, check whether a car's asking price is actually fair, estimate the yearly cost of keeping a car on the road, and get in touch.

It's a thin, open-source wrapper over the public transparent.pt API — no keys, no setup beyond adding the server.

Tools

Tool	What it does
`search_inventory`	Search current budget stock by make, model, fuel, gearbox, price, year
`get_car`	Full details + specs for one car
`check_fair_price`	The market range a car sells for — plus a fair / above-market / below-market verdict on an asking price
`cost_to_own`	The annual IUC road tax + a plain running-cost framing for budgeting
`list_makes_models`	Canonical brand/model names the other tools expect
`contact_me`	Ask a human to get in touch (needs the user's consent + contact)

The fair-price check is the point: paste any listing's price and get a straight answer on whether it's a good deal — no sales spin.

Use it

Remote (add a URL)

https://transparent.pt/mcp

Add it in any client that supports remote/Streamable HTTP MCP servers.

Local (stdio, via npx)

Claude Desktop / Cline / Continue config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "transparentcars": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "transparentcars-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Examples

"Find a manual petrol car under €10,000 in TransparentCars stock."
"A dealer wants €9,500 for a 2014 Renault Clio with 120,000 km — is that fair?"
"What's the yearly road tax on a 2016 petrol, 1200 cc, 120 g/km CO₂?"
"Ask TransparentCars to call me — my name is … and my number is …"

Configuration

Env var	Default	Purpose
`TC_API_BASE`	`https://transparent.pt/api/public`	Public API base
`TC_SITE`	`transparentcars`	Site key the API is scoped to
`TC_LANG`	`en`	Response language (pt/en)
`PORT` / `MCP_PATH`	`8099` / `/mcp`	HTTP server (remote mode)

Develop

npm install
npm run build
node dist/index.js        # stdio
npm run start:http        # remote HTTP on :8099/mcp

Notes

Estimates, not guarantees. The fair-price range and running-cost figures are estimates built from real comparable listings and the official road-tax table; treat them as guidance, not a formal valuation.
Privacy. contact_me sends the details the user provides to TransparentCars (privacy policy); it requires explicit user intent and consent.
No business logic or data lives in this repo — it only calls the public API.