generated: '2026-09-02'
method: searched
source: https://github.com/foss42/mcp
status: published
ownership_note: >-
  The server is branded "foss42 MCP Server", not "API Dash MCP". It is recorded here because
  foss42 is the organization that builds API Dash and publishes the API Dash APIs
  (foss42/api, whose repository homepage IS https://api.apidash.dev/docs), and this server
  exposes the SAME foss42-core capability set — country data, text/case conversion, number and
  date humanization — that the REST surface at api.apidash.dev exposes. It is a sibling
  projection of one data core, not a third-party wrapper.
server:
  name: foss42
  repository: https://github.com/foss42/mcp
  framework: FastMCP
  license: Apache-2.0
  transport: [stdio, streamable-http]
  language: python
  requires: Python 3.10+
deployment:
  mode: local-stdio
  endpoint: null
  install: 'claude mcp add foss42 -- /path/to/mcp/.venv/bin/python /path/to/mcp/server.py'
  package: https://github.com/foss42/mcp
  auth: none
  verified: searched
  note: >-
    NO HOSTED ENDPOINT. The provider publishes no remote MCP URL an agent can POST to today.
    server.py defaults to stdio; `--transport http --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000` lets a USER
    self-host it, and the endpoint is then http://<their-host>:<port>/mcp — an address the
    operator creates, not one the provider serves. Recorded local-stdio for exactly that reason:
    a human must install and run it on a machine before any agent can reach it. The server also
    ships no PyPI/npm package; installation is a git clone plus a venv.
tools:
- name: get_country_info
  description: Look up one or more countries by name, alias or ISO alpha-2/alpha-3 code and return only the requested fields (names, codes, flag, phone, stats, region, subdivisions).
  source: https://github.com/foss42/mcp#get_country_info
- name: search_countries
  description: Find countries by partial name or by region/UN subregion when the exact name is unknown.
  source: https://github.com/foss42/mcp#search_countries
- name: transform_text
  description: Convert text between naming conventions and other styles (lower, upper, capital, title, sentence, constant, camel_snake, pascal_snake, dot, kebab, and related identifier styles).
  source: https://github.com/foss42/mcp#transform_text
- name: humanize_number
  description: Format a number as bytes, social-media shorthand, or an ordinal rank.
  source: https://github.com/foss42/mcp#humanize_number
- name: humanize_time
  description: Render a timestamp as a human-relative phrase against a reference time.
  source: https://github.com/foss42/mcp#humanize_time
probe:
  tools_list_attempted: false
  reason: >-
    No hosted endpoint exists to POST tools/list to. The tool set above is read verbatim from
    the provider's own README rather than from a live tools/list, so the inputSchema of each
    tool is recorded only as far as the README's Python signatures state it. Running the server
    locally would return real schemas; that is a local execution, not a provider surface.