# CommuteScout Muse connector

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## CommuteScout

Live road conditions: traffic incidents, closures, chain controls, cameras, and wildfires across 37 US states.

- Record: https://musedirectory.ai/connector/commutescout
- Category: Travel
- Developer: nicglazkov
- Muse status: Extra setup. Not in Muse's Connectors list yet. Muse can still use it: its page gives you a request to paste into Muse.
- Health: Working, 1141ms, checked 2026-09-28T08:16:08Z
- Endpoint: https://mcp.commutescout.com/mcp
- Auth: No account needed; Pricing: unknown
- Screening: Screened, no issues found (2026-09-25T22:46:24Z)
- Source: Found in the official MCP Registry (io.github.nicglazkov/commutescout) https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0/servers?search=io.github.nicglazkov%2Fcommutescout

Connects to California Highway Patrol dispatch logs, Caltrans lane closures and chain controls, roadside cameras, and multi-state DOT feeds. Muse can check conditions on specific routes, get regional summaries, see live camera feeds, and rank highways by current activity or congestion.

Example request: "What are the current conditions on I-80 between Sacramento and the Bay Area?"

How to connect: Not in Muse's Connectors list yet, but Muse can still use it. Paste this into Muse: "Use CommuteScout to help me. It is a free service with an MCP server at https://mcp.commutescout.com/mcp. It does not need an API key. Ask me before you share anything with it." Muse asks before it shares anything with the app's site. Meta does not review apps used this way, so only use ones you trust. We tested this in the Muse app on September 24, 2026: Muse used an app's link directly this way and returned a live answer.

Tools:
- check_route: Check current conditions along a major California highway corridor. The flagship trip-check tool: give it a start and end place and it returns everything active along that stretch right now - CHP incidents, lane closures physically in place, chain controls, and wildfires within ~
- check_region: Full current-conditions report for a California region. Use this for area-scale questions ("how is the Bay Area?", "what's happening in SoCal?") instead of stitching together point queries. It sweeps every source over the whole region at once: CHP incidents (severity-sorted, wors
- get_incidents: Live CHP traffic incidents statewide, optionally filtered. Data: the California Highway Patrol statewide computer-aided dispatch feed - collisions, traffic hazards, disabled vehicles, closures as CHP logs them. Refreshes about once a minute; incidents disappear when CHP closes th
- get_lane_closures: Caltrans lane and road closures physically in place RIGHT NOW. Data: the Caltrans Lane Closure System (LCS). Only closures that crews have actually established (CHP code 1097) and not yet picked up are returned - scheduled-but-not-started closures are excluded, so this is "what i
- get_chain_controls: Current chain-control requirements on California mountain highways. Data: Caltrans chain-control status for fixed checkpoints on mountain routes (I-80 Donner, US-50 Echo Summit, SR-88, SR-89, and others). Levels: R-1 = chains OR snow tires required; R-2 = chains required except 4
- get_wildfires: Active California wildfires, flagged when close to a major highway. Data: the interagency WFIGS current-wildfire feed (NIFC) - name, size in acres, percent contained, discovery date. Points are each fire's ORIGIN, not its perimeter: a large fire can affect roads far from this poi
- rank_routes: Which major corridors have the most going on right now. Answers broad questions like "what are the busiest routes", "where is traffic worst", or "which highways should I avoid today" across all 17 tracked corridors. by="activity" ranks on live events (full closures weigh most, th
- get_cameras: Live Caltrans roadside camera snapshots near a point or on a route. Data: ~3,000 in-service Caltrans cameras statewide. Every returned image_url was verified live moments ago (offline cameras that serve a placeholder frame are filtered out), so images can be shown directly. Snaps
- get_road_signs: What Caltrans changeable message signs are displaying right now. Data: statewide CMS sign text, blank and out-of-service signs already filtered - every record is a message a driver is physically seeing. Signs carry the road's operational truth ("CHAINS REQUIRED 10 MI AHEAD", "FUL
- get_nearby_events: Live road events near a point anywhere CommuteScout covers, not just California: 37 states today, growing. Data: the same multi-state feeds the live map shows, normalized - state DOT incidents, roadwork and closures, chain and traction advisories, and nationwide wildfires. Every 

Screening checks:
- MCP handshake: pass (Answered in 225ms)
- Domain against threat feeds (Cloudflare security DNS): pass (mcp.commutescout.com not flagged)
- Published packages against the OSV malicious-package database: n/a (No npm or PyPI package published)
- Hidden instructions or invisible characters in tool text: pass (10 tools read, nothing found)
- Inputs asking for passwords, card numbers or seed phrases: pass (None found)
- Domain and redirects: pass (Domain registered 71 days ago)
- AI review of purpose and tool behavior: pass (No concerns)