sh.alchemylab.artistally/conventions — Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server

This hosted, remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) server provides free fan-convention data for AI agents, covering furry, anime, and gaming. It searches across 51 US and Canadian metros and returns convention details such as dates, registration windows, table costs, and attendance history from the approved ArtistAlly catalog.

🛠️ Key Features

Free convention data for MCP-capable agents
Covers US and Canada (51 metros)
Returns dates, registration windows, table costs, and attendance history
Focus on artist-alley, vendor/table information

🚀 Use Cases

Find conventions where an artist-alley table may still be available
Identify anime conventions in a region (e.g., the Southeast) for a given season
Compare registration timing and costs across conventions

⚡ Developer Benefits

Single, no-key call for convention queries
Uses Model Context Protocol via an approved ArtistAlly catalog

⚠️ Limitations

Data scope is limited to the approved ArtistAlly catalog and the stated US/Canada metro coverage

ArtistAlly — Convention Data MCP Server

Free fan-convention data for agents: search furry, anime & gaming conventions across 51 US & Canadian metros — dates, registration windows, table costs, and attendance history.

ArtistAlly is a hosted, remote Model Context Protocol server that gives any MCP-capable agent a single, no-key call for questions like "which conventions can I still get an artist-alley table at?" or "what anime cons are in the Southeast this fall?" It serves the approved ArtistAlly catalog — dates, venues, artist-alley and vendor registration windows, table costs, badge prices, hotel blocks, transit access, and multi-year attendance history — refreshed daily, with organizer-verified fields flagged.

Endpoint: https://artistally.alchemylab.sh/api/mcp (streamable-HTTP)
Auth: none — every tool is free and read-only
Docs & connect guide: https://artistally.alchemylab.sh/mcp
In the official MCP registry as: sh.alchemylab.artistally/conventions

This repository is documentation only — ArtistAlly is a hosted service that's always on. There's nothing to install, build, or run locally.

Quick start

Point any MCP client at the remote endpoint via the mcp-remote shim:

json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "artistally": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://artistally.alchemylab.sh/api/mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Drop that into your client config (claude_desktop_config.json, Cursor, Cline, etc.) and the ArtistAlly tools appear. Clients that speak streamable-HTTP directly (Claude Code, claude.ai connectors) can use the endpoint URL as-is — see https://artistally.alchemylab.sh/mcp for per-client instructions.

Tools

All tools are free and need no auth. See https://artistally.alchemylab.sh/mcp for the always-current list and full schemas.

Tool	What it does
`artistally_search_conventions`	Search conventions by text, community (furry/anime/gaming), region, state, metro, or date range
`artistally_get_convention`	Full profile of one convention: registration windows, costs, hotel block, transit, and up to 6 years of attendance/pricing history
`artistally_list_open_registrations`	Artist-alley and vendor registration windows open now or opening soon, sorted by closing date
`artistally_get_coverage`	The regions, states/provinces, and metros tracked, with convention counts (and the valid filter values for the other tools)

Every response includes a canonical url for each convention and a source attribution block — please link the convention's page when you present the data.

Browse it yourself

No MCP client needed — the same catalog is public on the web:

Events directory: https://artistally.alchemylab.sh/events (filter by region, state, metro, community)
Registration board: https://artistally.alchemylab.sh/registrations (open now / opening soon)
Machine-readable index: https://artistally.alchemylab.sh/llms.txt
Sitemap: https://artistally.alchemylab.sh/sitemap.xml

For registry tooling

The Dockerfile here is not the server — it's a thin mcp-remote bridge so directories that build and introspect a container (e.g. Glama's checks) can start the server and list its tools against the live endpoint. There's still nothing to run locally; just point your client at the URL above.

License

MIT — covers this documentation repository. The ArtistAlly service itself is a hosted product operated by Alchemy Lab LLC.

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