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readAvailability

Read Availability

Explain one date for one of your booking links: the open times, the hours that day, and when there are none, why ("No hours set for Friday", "Every slot conflicts with your calendar: Lunch, Dinner.

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Ask Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any AI connected to The Cloud "why is the 16th grey", and it calls readAvailability.

Example call

The MCP tools/call params, with the required arguments only.

{
  "arguments": {
    "bookingTypeId": "<bookingTypeId>",
    "date": "<date>"
  },
  "name": "readAvailability"
}

Arguments

• bookingTypeIdstringrequiredYour booking type id.
• datestringrequiredThe calendar date, YYYY-MM-DD, in the schedule's time zone.

Returns

The registry does not declare a return shape.

Ask for it

The Cloud routes these requests to this verb.

• why is the 16th grey
• why can't anyone book Friday
• what is blocking my booking page
• is October 16 open

Pair it with

The verbs that finish the job.

• updateBookingType
• setAvailabilitySchedule

Questions

• What does readAvailability do?

  Explain one date for one of your booking links: the open times, the hours that day, and when there are none, why ("No hours set for Friday", "Every slot conflicts with your calendar: Lunch, Dinner. It is one of the tools The Cloud MCP server gives every connected AI.

• How do I use readAvailability from Claude or ChatGPT?

  Connect your AI to The Cloud at https://mcp.thecloud.so/mcp and sign in once. Then ask Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any AI connected to The Cloud "why is the 16th grey", and it calls readAvailability.

• Is readAvailability safe to let an AI call?

  readAvailability is read-only: it changes nothing.

Connect

One endpoint gives your AI this tool and every other one: connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Gemini, read what The Cloud is, or see pricing.