aloha.fyi MCP Server 🌺

The first dedicated Hawaii tourism MCP server. Hawaii tours, events, and deals for AI assistants — now with AAAK structured-response support so consumer agents can parse results without re-parsing prose.

When someone asks Claude, ChatGPT, or any AI "what should I do in Hawaii?" — this MCP server returns real, bookable data:

• 2,500+ bookable experiences from partner booking platforms (live counts: /health)
• Live events across Oahu, Maui, Big Island, and Kauai, refreshed weekly
• 600+ curated restaurants across the islands
• Live weather for all four islands (OpenMeteo)
• Day-plan itineraries with morning / lunch / afternoon / dinner picks
• Affiliate tracking on every booking link
• Real MCP protocol — Streamable HTTP, stateless, spec version 2025-03-26
• AAAK v0.1 — typed structuredContent envelope alongside human-readable text. See docs/aaak-spec.md.

Powered by aloha.fyi — Hawaii's AI concierge.

Note on canonical source. This repository is the public-facing mirror of the production mcp-server directory inside baphometnxg/Nani-V3. Production deploys are driven from there; this repo is kept in sync as a standalone reference for community use and for anyone who wants to self-host. File issues here or upstream — both work.

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Hosted endpoint

Production MCP server (no install, no setup):

https://mcp.aloha.fyi/mcp

• Transport: Streamable HTTP (stateless)
• Protocol version: 2025-03-26
• Auth: none (public, read-only)
• Health: GET /health — returns aaak: { protocol, enabled, allowlist_size } so deploy state is observable
• Discovery: GET /.well-known/mcp/server.json

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AAAK — structured response contract

By default, MCP tool results come back as a prose blob — agents that want to consume the data programmatically have to re-parse markdown to recover prices, booking URLs, islands, etc. AAAK fixes that.

When AAAK is enabled (and the calling client is on the allowlist), every tool result includes a typed structuredContent field carrying the data in machine-parseable form, and the marketing trailer is dropped from text to save tokens. When AAAK is off, the wire format is byte-equivalent to v1.0.0 — no surprises for clients that don't opt in.

Lossless invariants — preserved on every revenue-bearing row:

• booking_url (affiliate revenue)
• source (compliance + attribution)
• price_cents (the only numeric field user decisions hinge on)
• island (every recommendation is island-scoped)

Example (search_hawaii_tours):

{
  "ok": true,
  "kind": "result",
  "tool": "search_hawaii_tours",
  "protocol": "aaak/0.1",
  "query": { "query": "snorkeling", "island": "oahu", "limit": 1 },
  "results": [
    {
      "title": "Hanauma Bay Snorkel",
      "source": "viator",
      "island": "oahu",
      "area": "east_oahu",
      "category": "tour",
      "price_cents": 8900,
      "rating": 4.7,
      "review_count": 2341,
      "description": "Guided snorkeling at Oahu's most famous reef...",
      "booking_url": "https://aloha.fyi/r/aB3kT9pQz1",
      "is_deal": false
    }
  ],
  "meta": { "count": 1, "cached": false, "source_diversity": 1 }
}

Full spec: docs/aaak-spec.md. Generated JSON Schema: docs/aaak.schema.json.

Verification scripts for self-hosters and contributors:

npm run aaak:test    # 12 hand-written conformance fixtures
npm run aaak:smoke   # 9 adapter-output validations
npm run aaak:gate    # ~70 env-gate / trailer / allowlist invariants
npm run aaak:verify -- --expect=aaak --ua=claude-code/1.0   # live probe

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Connect to Claude Desktop

Add to your Claude Desktop config (~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json on macOS):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "aloha-fyi-hawaii": {
      "url": "https://mcp.aloha.fyi/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop. You should see the six Hawaii tools appear in the tool picker. Try:

Find me snorkeling tours in Oahu under $100

What events are happening in Honolulu this weekend?

Plan a family adventure day on the Big Island — cheapest options

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Connect to any MCP-compatible client

Any client that supports Streamable HTTP MCP can point directly at:

https://mcp.aloha.fyi/mcp

No API key, no OAuth, no signup.

Manual protocol test

curl -X POST https://mcp.aloha.fyi/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"initialize","params":{"protocolVersion":"2025-03-26","capabilities":{},"clientInfo":{"name":"curl","version":"1.0"}}}'

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Tools

search_hawaii_tours

Search 2,500+ bookable Hawaii tours and activities by keyword, island, price range. Returns tours with booking links; filter by platform via source.

Param	Type	Description
query	string (required)	e.g. "snorkeling", "helicopter tour", "family luau"
island	oahu | maui | big_island | kauai | any	Defaults to any
max_price_dollars	number	Maximum price per person in USD
source	viator | gyg | klook | groupon | any	Filter by booking platform
limit	number	Results (max 20, default 5)

get_hawaii_deals

Find budget deals and discounts. Returns discounted and low-price options sorted cheapest first.

Param	Type	Description
activity	string (required)	e.g. "snorkeling", "helicopter", "luau"
max_price_dollars	number	Default 100
limit	number	Results (max 20, default 5)

search_hawaii_events

Find upcoming events, concerts, festivals, and nightlife across all Hawaiian islands. Updated weekly from venue and promoter sources.

Param	Type	Description
query	string	e.g. "live music", "luau", "concert"
island	oahu | maui | big_island | kauai | any	Defaults to any
days_ahead	number	How many days ahead to search (default 7)

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Run it yourself

git clone https://github.com/baphometnxg/aloha-fyi-mcp.git
cd aloha-fyi-mcp
npm install
npx tsc
DATABASE_URL="postgresql://..." PORT=9624 node dist/http.js

Requires:

• Node.js 20+
• DATABASE_URL env var (PostgreSQL with an experiences table — schema in schema.sql)

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Privacy

No PII is collected by the MCP server. Stateless mode — no sessions, no cross-request profiles. Standard request metadata is logged for abuse prevention only.

Full privacy policy: aloha.fyi/privacy

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About

Built by Michael Crain — Hawaii resident, cinematographer, and founder of aloha.fyi.

aloha.fyi is an AI-powered multilingual tourism concierge for Hawaii's visitor industry. The concierge agent "Nani" speaks 5 languages (English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Spanish) and has access to 2,500+ bookable experiences across multiple partner platforms.

This MCP server exposes a subset of that capability to any AI assistant that speaks the Model Context Protocol.

• Website: https://aloha.fyi
• Contact: alohatours@proton.me
• License: MIT

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