What's Up In: local events

by whatsupin.ai · https://whatsupin.ai/mcp

Read-only search of upcoming local events in US cities: music, comedy, AI/tech, arts, food, sports.

5 tools✓ all read-only✓ no account neededPricing: not listed

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PASS · WITH NOTES

10 of 10 checks · 18 Oct 2026

What it can do

5 tools, in the server's own words.

search_eventsread-only

Search every upcoming event in one What's Up In city (Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Orange County, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Albuquerque, …

list_upcomingread-only

The next N days of events in one What's Up In city, optionally one category, topic or place.

get_eventread-only

Look up one upcoming event by the `id` search_events or list_upcoming returned, with its source link and first_seen / last_seen / last_fetched dates.

search_across_citiesread-only

Search upcoming travel-worthy events across every What's Up In city at once (Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Orange County, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco,…

list_citiesread-only

The cities What's Up In covers, each with its site, its own MCP endpoint, and how many travel-worthy events it currently indexes.

Test results

Safe mode: only tools labeled read-only were run. How the test works

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Ready for the newest MCP version
1 warning
- !Uses an older MCP version (2025-03-26). It works today, but it isn't on the July 2026 version (2026-07-28) yet.
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Every tool is described
1 warning
- !list_upcoming: Inputs with no description: category, topic
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Bad inputs give a clean error
1 warning
- !search_across_cities: Accepted wrong type for "query" without complaining
- and 6 more
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Fast enough
1 warning
- !search_across_cities: Slowest tool: search_across_cities (2.1 s): users will notice the wait
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ConnectsConnected in 940 ms
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Lists its toolsFound 5 tools
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Tools are labeled safe or dangerousEvery tool has a safety label
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No hidden instructionsNo hidden instructions found in tool descriptions
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Tools work with good inputs
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- ✓search_events: Answered with an error, probably because of our sample input: Unknown city "test". Cities: Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Orange County, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Albuquerque, Almat…
- ✓list_upcoming: Answered with an error, probably because of our sample input: Unknown city "test". Cities: Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Orange County, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Albuquerque, Almat…
- ✓get_event: Answered with an error, probably because of our sample input: Unknown city "test". Cities: Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Orange County, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Albuquerque, Almat…
- ✓search_across_cities: Answered with an error, probably because of our sample input: Give a query (an artist, band, team, festival or conference), at least one kind, or a neighborhood/near.
- ✓list_cities: Worked (193 ms)
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No secrets leakedChecked 10 error messages: no secrets or internal details
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Tools work togetherNo tool's answer could be fed into another tool, so there were no chains to test (not counted either way)
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Score over time

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