Open State: Camping - Parks Canada MCP server

Open State: Camping — Parks Canada

Part of The Open State, a reference implementation of the Civic Access Protocol. This lets a citizen reach Parks Canada reservations through their own AI assistant, in plain language, while keeping their credentials and their control.

Your services. Your assistant. Your access.

It is a local MCP bundle (.mcpb) you add to your assistant on your own machine. It runs over stdio, searches Parks Canada's public availability, and prepares a booking right up to the payment screen in your own session. It never sees your password or payment details. Session cookies are encrypted on your device; you directly approve consequential actions and pay yourself.

For the binding rules and design, see The Open State: CONSTITUTION.md, AGENTS.md, docs/00-overview.md, docs/01-architecture.md. The verified Parks Canada API contract is in docs/parks-canada-api-findings.md.

What it does

All four Parks Canada booking families — search and book, end-to-end:

Plain-language tools, grouped:

searchsites (with a category of campsite / group / accommodation), searchdayuse, searchbackcountry, getsitedetails, listequipmenttypes, resolve_dates.

• Search / discovery: searchparks, searchpark_availability,

yourself; the session is stored encrypted in a local vault. disconnectaccount, connectionstatus.

• Account (your session): connectaccount opens your own* browser to sign in

then assembles the cart and drives it to the payment screen only after your approval. You review and pay (Constitution Art. 2).

• Booking: prepare_booking shows the exact action in a trusted host form,

and get pinged when a cancellation opens a site.

• Alerts: createalert / listalerts / delete_alert — watch a campground

plain language (fees, change/cancel deadlines and refunds, check-in times, no-shows, and that park entry isn't included). The assistant also surfaces the key deadline and fee right in the booking preview, so you confirm with the terms in front of you.

• Policies: getreservationpolicies — Parks Canada's reservation rules in

Accessibility is the point. Where Parks Canada exposes an accessibility attribute, sites are flagged per-site and filterable (accessible_only); output is written to read cleanly with a screen reader (Constitution Art. 3).

Build

Part of the repo-root pnpm workspace: packages/core (provider, booking cart, availability) and packages/bundle (the MCP server + the .mcpb), on @open-state/kit for the session vault and citizen-driven sign-in.

# at the repository root
pnpm install
pnpm -r build

Run (local, stdio)

node packages/bundle/standalone/server.js

The server speaks MCP over stdio and waits for an assistant to connect.

Install from npm

Node.js 20 or newer is required. Configure any stdio MCP client to run:

npx --yes @open-state/camping@1.0.7

For upgrades, change the pinned version and restart the client. To uninstall, remove the MCP client configuration. Local state is intentionally retained; after disconnecting, delete ~/.open-state-camping to remove alerts and all remaining data. See PRIVACY.md.

Install in Claude Desktop (the .mcpb)

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.