onthecheap-mcp MCP Server

On the Cheap MCP — free and cheap events, deals and local guides across 14 US cities

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Published as onthecheap-mcp on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

6 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 5.

Most discussed

Auto-review follow-ups for PR #33: refactor(connector): retire the standalone Cloudflare Worker connector

Tracking auto-review follow-ups for #33 (verdict: warn).

🟡 Nits

vitest.config.ts:1 — configDefaults is now an unused import; trim to import { defineConfig } from 'vitest/config';
package.json:5 — revert the — escape in description back to a literal em dash, matching manifest.json:7 and server.json:4
src/client.ts:115 — stale "the hosted connector's every request would fail" comment; reword to "a deployed server" to match the

Read the thread · 2026-08-07 · closed · external user · 0 comments

Auto-review follow-ups for PR #27: fix(posts): reject a full URL belonging to a different site

Tracking auto-review follow-ups for #27 (verdict: fail).

🔴 Important

src/client.ts assertSameSite compares refHost/ownHost without stripping a leading www., unlike siteForBaseUrl used two lines later — causes false-positive site-mismatch rejection for charlotte/denver when the URL's www-form differs from the canonical baseUrl's

When addressing the review on #27, resolve each item and add Closes #<this issue> to the PR once everything is

Read the thread · 2026-07-27 · closed · external user · 0 comments

Auto-review follow-ups for PR #17: ci: deploy the connector Worker on release

Tracking auto-review follow-ups for #17 (verdict: warn).

🟡 Nits

docs/DEPLOY-CONNECTOR.md and README.md still describe the connector deploy as manual-only / "no CI deploy for connectors," which this PR's new release-triggered deploy-connector job makes inaccurate

When addressing the review on #17, resolve each item and add Closes #<this issue> to the PR once everything is genuinely fixed; deferred items stay open here. See the auto-review

Read the thread · 2026-07-20 · closed · external user · 0 comments

Auto-review follow-ups for PR #12: fix(ci): typecheck the Worker entry and run its test suite

Tracking auto-review follow-ups for #12 (verdict: warn).

🟡 Nits

README.md:110 Development section still says npm test # node suite, stale now that npm test runs both node and Workers pools
vitest.workers.config.ts:7 comment claims npm test never touches this file, no longer true after package.json's test script change

When addressing the review on #12, resolve each item and add Closes #<this issue> to the PR once everything i

Read the thread · 2026-07-20 · closed · external user · 1 comment

Auto-review follow-ups for PR #9: feat!: serve the whole On the Cheap network, resolving term ids per site

Tracking auto-review follow-ups for #9 (verdict: fail).

🔴 Important

Event tools (otc_list_events / otc_events_month_overview) registered unconditionally for the national hub in src/index.ts:17 and src/worker.ts:33 — national has no events calendar, so calls silently return empty and misinform the model; gate on client.site.national

🟡 Nits

getPost not-found hint at src/client.ts:237 hardcodes 'charlotteonthecheap.com', wrong for the ot

Read the thread · 2026-07-20 · closed · external user · 0 comments

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