generated: '2026-07-28'
method: searched
status: none
status_raw: none-published
source: Live JSON-RPC probes of mcp.ihg.com and apis.ihg.com, plus npm registry and MCP registry search.
  Probed 2026-07-28.
summary: 'IHG publishes no Model Context Protocol server. No first-party MCP endpoint, no manifest, no
  tool list and no OAuth protected-resource metadata exists at any IHG hostname. No `MCPServer` pointer
  is wired into apis.yml, because wiring one would credit IHG with an agent surface it does not operate.
  No candidate tool list can be derived either: the derivation input is an OpenAPI document, and IHG publishes
  none (see well-known/ihg-hotels-well-known.yml).'
server: null
tools: []
probes:
- url: https://mcp.ihg.com/
  method: POST {"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}
  accept: application/json, text/event-stream
  status: 403
- url: https://mcp.ihg.com/mcp
  status: 403
- url: https://mcp.ihg.com/sse
  status: 403
- url: https://apis.ihg.com/mcp
  status: 403
- url: https://mcp.ihg.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource
  status: 403
- url: https://mcp.ihg.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server
  status: 403
hostname_note: mcp.ihg.com resolves to mcp.ihg.edgekey.net and is real, but its purpose is undocumented
  and is NOT assumed to be Model Context Protocol. In IHG's estate the initials plausibly stand for something
  else entirely (a marketing or content platform). Every JSON-RPC and well-known probe returns Akamai
  "Access Denied", so nothing can be asserted about it. Recording it as an MCP server on the strength
  of the hostname alone would be fabrication.
third_party_servers:
- name: '@striderlabs/mcp-ihg'
  url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@striderlabs/mcp-ihg
  version: 1.0.1
  published: '2026-06-17'
  transport: stdio
  official: false
  technique: playwright-browser-automation
  note: A third-party MCP server that gives an agent IHG hotel search and booking by driving ihg.com in
    a headless browser. It exists because there is no IHG API to call. It is not an IHG interface, carries
    no IHG endorsement, and is listed here as market evidence only — the agent-era demand for IHG inventory
    is real and is currently being served by scraping.
agent_readiness_note: For an agent, IHG is closed. There is no MCP server, no OpenAPI to forge tools from,
  no llms.txt on www.ihg.com (403), no /.well-known/ discovery of any kind, and no documented authentication.
  The only programmatic routes to IHG inventory an agent can actually take are through third parties —
  Amadeus, Sabre, Travelport, Expedia Rapid, the Booking.com Demand API and the bedbanks — or through
  browser automation of ihg.com.
deployment:
  mode: none
  verified: derived
  checked: '2026-08-12'
  source: catalog MCP census