pls-touch-grass MCP Server

An MCP server that knows how long it's been since you touched grass

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Status

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Connect

Published as pls-touch-grass-mcp on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

12 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 9.

Most discussed

Keep the MCP Registry entry in sync on release

The server is listed in the MCP Registry as io.github.Rinava/pls-touch-grass, powered by a hand-maintained server.json. Hand-maintained version fields drift; it's what they do.

Shape

• Fold registry publishing into the release workflow from #5: after npm publish succeeds, update/validate server.json and push it to the registry with mcp-publisher (GitHub OIDC works in Actions — no long-lived secret)
• The version in server.json should come from package.json at build time, same ph

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Plan B: when the weather is hostile, offer indoor grass-adjacent absolution

When it rains, grass_conditions says "you're forgiven until it stops" — and that's it. A dead end. The user came for absolution and got a rain check.

Shape

• The hostile-weather verdicts (rain, 35°C+, and night/bad-air once #8/#9 land) should come with a plan B: stand near a window, water a houseplant, step onto a balcony, stretch — small, doable, indoors
• A short curated list in src/lib/ (rotating through them beats repeating one), appended to the existing verdict text in `src/tools/g

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grass_stats: the weekly reckoning

The state file already remembers every time you touched grass. A grass_stats tool would turn that history into a weekly reckoning: days outside, longest indoor stretch, current streak (#3), rage incidents absolved.

Shape

• New read-only tool in src/tools/, registered in src/index.ts like the other five
• Derives everything from existing state in ~/.pls-touch-grass.json — if a stat needs new state, coordinate with #3 rather than inventing a second history
• The description should mak

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It is 3am. Do not send the user to the park.

The server currently has no concept of night. Rage at your AI at 3:47am and frustration_detector will cheerfully route you toward a dark, closed park. This is legally distinct from wellness.

Shape

• Open-Meteo's forecast API returns sunrise/sunset in the daily fields — one more parameter on the fetch that grass_conditions already makes
• After dark, the verdict changes tone: acknowledge the hour, suggest the balcony/a window/going to bed, and forgive the grass debt until sunrise

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Air quality in grass_conditions — sometimes the outside is the hazard

grass_conditions checks temperature and rain, then shoves you out the door. But on a bad-air day the responsible thing is to keep you in. Open-Meteo has an air quality API — same provider, no key, same shape as what we already call:

https://air-quality-api.open-meteo.com/v1/air-quality?latitude=…&longitude=…&current=us_aqi

Shape

• Second fetch in src/tools/grass-conditions.ts, same 3s timeout discipline; if it fails, weather alone still answers — air quality is a bonus, never a

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Most recent

Demo spots for your own city

--demo mode ships curated Buenos Aires spots. Your city has parks too, and they deserve representation.

How

• One object per park in src/lib/demo.ts, following the existing shape
• The opinion is mandatory. "A park" is data; "the park where the parakeets have formed a government" is a demo spot. Look at the existing entries for calibration
• npm test must stay green (test/demo.test.mjs checks the shapes)

This is a standing invitation, not a one-shot: PRs from any city, any time

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Streak tracking for consecutive grass days

You touched grass yesterday. And the day before. That's a streak, and streaks are how gyms and language apps have been manipulating humans for years — time to use that power for going outside.

Shape

• touched_grass (src/tools/touched-grass.ts) already logs each event; derive or store the streak in src/lib/state.ts
• Report it in the tool's reply so the model can celebrate ("day 7 — a full week of being a person")
• Decide the edge honestly: does a day count by calendar date in local t

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Per-project thresholds instead of one global tolerance

Indoor tolerance is a single merciless global default (2 minutes). But some repos are greenhouses and some are basements: the threshold should be able to vary by project.

Shape

• gotta_go already accepts threshold_minutes per call; this is about remembering a preference per project (working directory is a reasonable key)
• State lives in ~/.pls-touch-grass.json (src/lib/state.ts) — extend it, don't multiply files
• The model should be able to set it conversationally ("this repo ge

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HTTP transport: serve the same factory over fetch

Right now this server is stdio on your own machine, which is why claude.ai gets a flat "No" in the README. SDK v2's createMcpHandler can serve the same server factory over fetch, which is the road to remote use (and onto claude.ai as a custom connector).

Shape

• Keep src/index.ts as the stdio entry; add an HTTP entry that reuses the exact same tool registration — one factory, two transports
• State is currently one JSON file in ~; decide what state means when the server isn't on your

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