I asked claude to adjust a check in time for an airbnb guest and it said the “update-reservation” tool is only for direct and wouldn’t work for this airbnb guest. i was hoping by doing in claude the smart lock would then automatically get adjusted
Check-in time for Hospitable MCP
+2I look at working with MCP as dabbling in the backend databases. Maybe I am overcautious, but I would not directly update something in a reservation that programmatically causes other things to happen. For example, changing the check-in time in the web interface does automatically change the locks, but that is because they have programmed it to do that. I could be wrong, but if you change something in the backend databases that MCP has access to, you would then need to replicate any functionality like updating the lock yourself. Maybe I’m wrong and happy to be so!
thanks for your input. with the ability for it to send messages and block dates etc, i figured the MCP should be easily able to change a reservations check-in time. I’m sure it will evolve but you are right to caution me on having the MCP do too many changes directly
+2That's a good point about it being able to do some pretty powerful things, like blocking out ranges of dates. It will be interesting to learn why it couldn't make the change you were going for.
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