About juggle-mcp
juggle-mcp connects family accounts to Juggle, a babysitting and petsitting marketplace. It provides booking, sitter, and conversation data, with confirmation-gated actions for managing jobs and communicating with sitters.
Key features
- 01View bookings and sitter applications
- 02Search sitter profiles and reviews
- 03Read conversations and messages
- 04Post, accept, decline, or cancel jobs
- 05Confirmation-gated writes and privacy filters
Use cases
- 01Review applicants for a family’s sit
- 02Find sitters by availability or service
- 03Read or send messages to a sitter
- 04Manage a booking after reviewing a preview
MCP support
The MCP server exposes authenticated reads for family profiles, bookings, sitters, reviews, and conversations, plus confirmation-gated booking and messaging actions. Credentials are supplied per family account.
Configuration
Local server config is the same for every client. Copy it into your client’s MCP config file.
npx -y @chrischall/juggle-mcpJUGGLE_EMAILThe email address you sign in to whyjuggle.com with (a family account). Needed by every tool except juggle_list_locations; the server starts without it.JUGGLE_PASSWORDSecretYour whyjuggle.com password. Google/Facebook-only sign-ins are not supported. Needed by every tool except juggle_list_locations; the server starts without it.JUGGLE_BASE_URLSite origin override, for tests or a local stub only. Defaults to https://whyjuggle.com; must be https (loopback http allowed).MCP_CONFIRM_MODEConfirm-gated writes on clients without prompts: ask-user (default), auto, or refuse.MCP_CONFIRM_ELICITATIONSet to off to skip the confirmation prompt even on clients that declare elicitation support.MCP_CONFIRM_TTL_SECONDSHow long a write's confirmToken stays valid, in seconds (default 600).Local servers need a runtime on your machine (e.g. Node.js 18+). Config file locations differ by client; see your client’s docs.
Tools
20Saved tool list · updated 1w ago
This tool takes no parameters.
Details
From the project READMEjuggle-mcp
MCP server for Juggle — the babysitting and petsitting marketplace — for a family account: your sits and the sitters who applied, sitter profiles and reviews, and your messages, plus confirmation-gated booking changes.
Developed and maintained by AI (Claude Code). Not affiliated with Juggle. The site has no public API; this server signs in with your email and password and uses the same routes the website does. Those routes were mapped from the site's JavaScript. Every read tool and the favorite / unfavorite writes have been verified against a signed-in family account (2026-11-03); the other writes (post a sit, accept / decline a sitter, cancel, message, review) reach other people and are not yet verified live — see
docs/JUGGLE-API.md.
Setup
npx -y @chrischall/juggle-mcp
| Variable | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
JUGGLE_EMAIL | yes | The email you sign in to whyjuggle.com with (a family account). |
JUGGLE_PASSWORD | yes | Your whyjuggle.com password. Google/Facebook-only sign-ins are not supported — set a password on the site first. |
JUGGLE_BASE_URL | no | Site origin override, for tests / a local stub only. Default https://whyjuggle.com; must be https (loopback http allowed). |
MCP_CONFIRM_MODE | no | Confirm-gated writes on clients without prompts (claude.ai, Claude Desktop): ask-user (default) — the first call sends nothing and returns a preview + confirmToken, and the model must get your approval before repeating it with the token; auto — the model may use the token after reviewing the preview; refuse — writes are refused. |
MCP_CONFIRM_ELICITATION | no | off skips the confirmation prompt even on clients that declare elicitation support. |
MCP_CONFIRM_TTL_SECONDS | no | How long a confirmToken stays valid (default 600). |
The server starts without credentials (so hosts can list its tools); the first tool call reports what is missing. A rejected password is never retried automatically.
Tools
Reads
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
juggle_healthcheck | Check the Juggle sign-in is configured and accepted, and that an authenticated page read works |
juggle_get_profile | Your family profile: account, city, membership, job stats, saved addresses (ids for posting a sit), pets; kids only on request |
juggle_get_payments_summary | Your city rates, saved cards (brand/last 4), membership, promo credits and recent transactions, in dollars |
juggle_list_bookings | List your sits/jobs: status, service, start time, booked sitter, pending applications; active, past or by status |
juggle_get_booking | One booking in detail: times, kids/pets, notes, applicants and booked sitters, payment total, what you can do |
juggle_list_sitters | Search sitters in your city by availability window, services, keywords or name |
juggle_list_favorites | List the sitters you have marked as favorites. Reports returned (the favorites count) and, if Juggle's 200-sitter cap may have cut the list short, a note; since 0.1.1 it no longer reports totalNumSitters, which was the city-wide sitter count, not your favorites |
juggle_get_sitter | A sitter public profile: rating, experience, school, certifications, bio — never private details |
juggle_get_reviews | Reviews other families left for a sitter, with total count and average rating |
juggle_list_conversations | Your message conversations with sitters: last message, time, unread count |
juggle_get_conversation | Read the messages in one conversation, newest page first |
juggle_list_locations | Cities Juggle serves and their published babysitting/petsitting rates (no sign-in needed) |
Reads take view: compact (default) is a small projection, while full and
raw return more upstream fields. juggle_list_bookings and
juggle_list_conversations also take brief (one line per item, for
mcp-host's context groups; see the skill's "In context groups"). On the profile, sitter and payments tools,
even raw stays inside the privacy allowlists. The private fields on a
sitter's profile row (phone, birthdate, emergency contacts, background-check
answers, social handles), the family's phone numbers and house instructions,
and the Stripe secrets on the payments page are never returned. The one
exception is a booking, which shows the phone number of the sitter booked for
that sit, the same as the site does. Kids' details come back only with
include_kids. Tools that return other people's text (messages,
reviews, sitter bios, booking notes) frame it as untrusted.
Writes (confirm-gated)
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
juggle_post_job | Post a one-time babysitting/petsitting/homeschool-help job (sit), optionally inviting a sitter |
juggle_accept_sitter | Accept (book) a sitter who applied to one of your jobs |
juggle_decline_sitter | Decline a sitter's application to one of your jobs |
juggle_cancel_booking | Cancel a booking; late cancels only via the one-star-review penalty, never the fee |
juggle_send_message | Send a text message in one of your sitter conversations |
juggle_favorite_sitter | Add a sitter to your favorites |
juggle_unfavorite_sitter | Remove a sitter from your favorites |
juggle_leave_review | Leave a 0-5 star (half-star) review of a sitter for a finished booking |
Each write's first call sends nothing. It does a fresh read and returns a
preview plus a confirmToken. Repeating the call with that token sends the
request exactly once (see MCP_CONFIRM_MODE above). A 5xx or a dropped
connection after the send is reported as status: "unknown" and is never
retried. Nothing that moves money (tips, payments, cancellation fees,
subscriptions, gift cards) is in scope, and a late cancel never pays the fee.
Skill (no server needed)
skills/juggle is a curl + jq helper
(skills/juggle/scripts/juggle) for the same reads from a shell. It runs
under bash or zsh, keeps its own 0600 session file at
~/.config/juggle/session, and applies the same privacy allowlists. It is
read-only; writes stay in the MCP. Claude Code discovers it automatically
when this repo is installed as a plugin.
Hosting
Hostable on mcp-host (claude.ai remote MCP) as a per-user connector, with no
browser bridge, because sign-in is a plain server-side email and password
POST. mint.yaml declares identity.perUserChild and asks each person for
their own JUGGLE_EMAIL / JUGGLE_PASSWORD on the authorize page, so no
shared secret is involved. Egress is whyjuggle.com only. The skill is
local-only: it runs wherever curl and jq are installed.
Development
npm install
npm run build
npm test # both typechecks + vitest (no network)
License
MIT
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