DayPlay MCP — SF Bay Area Events, Places & Itineraries for AI Agents

@dayplayai/mcp-server · v2.0.0 · MIT

A zero-configuration MCP server that gives any AI agent a locally grounded concierge for the San Francisco Bay Area only — curated places, verified real-time events, and neighborhood binding that eliminates cross-bay drift.

🔒 Scope: SF Bay Area only. This server serves strictly San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley — 35 neighborhood centroids. It does not serve New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin, Seattle, Miami, London, Tokyo, or any other city, region, or country. Out-of-market locations are not served. If a user asks about any location outside the SF Bay Area, the agent must state "Dayplay is strictly San Francisco Bay Area only (San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley); it does not cover <location>" and must not call a tool or fabricate venues, events, dates, hours, or neighborhoods for that location. Zero results for a valid SF Bay Area query are reported honestly, never filled with invented places.

Remote endpoint: https://api.dayplay.io/mcp (Streamable HTTP / MCP)

Quickstart

Cursor

Option A — direct remote server (recommended, no install). Add to ~/.cursor/mcp.json or this repo's .cursor/mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dayplay": {
      "url": "https://api.dayplay.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Option B — zero-config stdio proxy (works with any client):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dayplay": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@dayplayai/mcp-server"]
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Edit claude_desktop_config.json:

• macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
• Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dayplay": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@dayplayai/mcp-server"]
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop, then ask: "What's happening in the Mission tonight?"

Grok Bot

Add the Dayplay remote connector:

https://api.dayplay.io/mcp

Or bridge it over stdio in Grok's MCP config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dayplay": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@dayplayai/mcp-server"]
    }
  }
}

Pair it with the vibe-scout skill for prompt-level scope enforcement.

Terminal smoke test

npx -y @dayplayai/mcp-server --smoke

Prints the live endpoint and available tool names. Exits non-zero on failure.

Tools

The catalog covers the SF Bay Area (San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley — 35 centroids). Out-of-market locations are declined, never fabricated.

Open tools run immediately — no account needed. Gated tools 🔒 return 401 on first call; your host opens Google sign-in and a free DayPlay account unlocks them. Through the npm stdio bridge, gated calls fail instead of opening sign-in — prefer the direct remote URL for gated tools.

Discovery (open)

• get_happening_today — events + places happening today, by location and radius
• get_live_now — what is happening right now
• get_weekend — Saturday/Sunday feed (weekend_day: "sat" | "sun")
• get_decision_feed — ranked decision feed (send user_lat / user_lng)
• browse_places — places inside a radius, sorted by distance
• get_listing — full detail for one place or venue by id
• get_top_restaurants / get_top_venues — ranked lists, optional city
• get_local_gems — curated local gems
• get_locals_favorites — locals' favorites
• get_venue_events — upcoming events at one venue (id)
• get_subcategories / get_genres / get_event_bridge — taxonomy feeds

Marketing feeds (open, X-API-Key)

• get_marketing_events / get_marketing_places / get_marketing_neighborhoods — catalog feeds; forward an X-API-Key header. get_marketing_neighborhoods returns the 35 SF Bay Area neighborhood centroids with coordinates and radii.

Search 🔒 free account

• search_smart, search_query_router, search_embed, search_parse_intent, search_rerank, search_web — model-backed semantic search. Requires the user token via Google connect.

Saves & Outings 🔒 free account

• save_outing — save a dated, neighborhood-bound outing plan to the signed-in user's Saved tab
• get_my_itinerary — retrieve the signed-in user's saved itineraries
• list_saves, save_listing, unsave_listing, list_going, mark_going, unmark_going — saved places and event RSVPs
• upvote_listing, share_local_favorite, share_gem — community signals

Requires the free-account connect. A host connected to the remote URL opens Google sign-in on the first gated call; the npm stdio package opens a browser for the same connect step. Saved plans appear on the DayPlay Saved tab across web and app.

Requires the free-account connect (https://www.dayplay.io/link). Saved plans appear on the DayPlay Saved tab across web and app.

Example prompts: "What's happening in the Mission tonight?" · "Build me a Saturday itinerary that never leaves Bernal Heights." · "Save this outing to my DayPlay account."

Legacy compatibility

The five 1.x tool names (get_neighborhoods, get_events, get_places, plan_outing, manage_saved_plans) remain temporarily served for transition. They are deprecated — migrate to the catalog above; a future release removes them.

The Anti-Drift Guarantee

Most local AI answers fail the same way: a "Mission" recommendation lands in Oakland, a "Berkeley" event is actually in San Jose, and a walking itinerary silently requires a bridge crossing.

Scope: SF Bay Area only (San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley). No national or global coverage.

Dayplay receipts:

• Spatially verified. Every place and event result is validated against neighborhood centroid coordinates and radii pulled live from get_neighborhoods (35 Bay Area neighborhoods).
• Neighborhood-bound queries. neighborhood is an exact-match binding parameter, not a fuzzy keyword hint — results outside the bound radius are dropped, not ranked down.
• Zero cross-bay drift. No Oakland result in a San Francisco query. No Marin result in an East Bay query. No bridge-crossing itinerary that claims to be walkable.
• Real-time, not stale. get_events queries verified occurrences by date, so "tonight" means tonight — not an SEO page from last season.
• Out-of-market refusal. Non-Bay-Area market names are refused before any upstream call, and the surfaced copy states the SF-Bay-Area-only boundary rather than returning plausible-but-wrong geography.
• Honest emptiness. If a bounded query has no verified matches, it returns nothing rather than padding with invented places.

That is the product: the answer stays where you are.

Configuration

No API key is required for the public endpoint. Optional auth tokens, if your deployment needs them, are passed through as standard Authorization headers by the MCP client — never commit them to config files.

How the proxy works

MCP client (stdio)  ⇄  bin/dayplay-mcp.js  ⇄  https://api.dayplay.io/mcp (Streamable HTTP)

The shim lists tools and forwards tools/call verbatim to the remote endpoint, so new Dayplay tools appear automatically without an npm update. It is a transport bridge, not a reimplementation — every schema, filter, and verification rule is served by Dayplay itself.

Prefer direct HTTP if your client supports it; use the shim for stdio-only clients.

Repository layout

dayplay-mcp/
├── .cursor/
│   └── mcp.json              # Direct Cursor MCP connection
├── .cursor-plugin/
│   └── plugin.json           # Cursor Marketplace catalog plugin manifest
├── skills/
│   └── vibe-scout/
│       └── SKILL.md          # Grok Bot & Cursor Agent prompt instructions
├── bin/
│   └── dayplay-mcp.js        # Executable proxy for `npx -y @dayplayai/mcp-server`
├── assets/
│   └── logo.svg
├── test/
│   └── e2e.mjs
├── smithery.yaml             # Smithery.ai registry manifest
├── plugin.json               # Agent Plugins standard manifest
├── package.json              # npm metadata (@dayplayai/mcp-server v1.3.4, MIT)
├── README.md                 # This file
└── LICENSE                   # MIT (Dayplay Team)

Development

node bin/dayplay-mcp.js --smoke   # verify remote endpoint + tool discovery
node bin/dayplay-mcp.js           # run the stdio proxy
node test/e2e.mjs                 # end-to-end stdio smoke (tools + 3 tool calls)

Releasing (maintainers)

Publishing is fully automated via npm Trusted Publishing (OIDC) — no NPM_TOKEN, no 2FA prompts. The .github/workflows/publish.yml workflow is bound in the package's npm settings to this exact repo + workflow.

npm version patch        # or minor / major — bumps package.json, creates the vX.Y.Z tag
git push --follow-tags

CI then: verifies package.json version matches the tag → npm ci → smoke test → npm publish --provenance (sigstore-signed, OIDC-attested).

Gotcha: --follow-tags doesn't always push the tag. If no workflow run appears under Actions within a minute, finish with:

git push origin v1.X.Y

Notes: