Recall Check in ChatGPT

Questions it answers

Check whether a car, a baby product, a food or a medicine has been recalled in the United States, using the official recall databases.

Ask "does my 2018 Honda Accord have any recalls?", "decode this VIN", "is this car seat recalled?", "was there a recall on this infant formula?" or "any dog food recalls this week?".

Recall Check reads three public U.S. government sources: NHTSA for vehicle recalls and VIN decoding, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) for consumer products, and the FDA enforcement reports on openFDA for food, supplements and drugs, plus the FDA's recall announcements for pet food.

Each answer shows what was recalled, why it is dangerous, what the maker will do about it, and the recall number so you can check it at the source.

It covers United States recalls only and is not a safety guarantee: no match does not prove an item is safe, and a match may not cover your exact item. Vehicle recalls are listed by year, make and model, so confirm a specific car at nhtsa.gov/recalls with its VIN.

It never asks for an owner name or a license plate. It stores nothing about you: recall answers are cached for up to 24 hours, and the only lasting record is a daily count of calls per tool.

Short questions this server answers, each with a direct answer: Check US vehicle, product, food and pet food recalls.

What it can do

• Lists the NHTSA recalls for a vehicle by model year, make and model
• Decodes a 17-character VIN into year, make, model, trim and engine
• Searches CPSC recalls of consumer products such as cribs, strollers, sleepers and heaters
• Searches FDA food, supplement and drug recalls, optionally limited to recent days
• Lists recent FDA pet food recalls, such as dog or cat food from the last week
• Shows the hazard, the maker's remedy and a link or recall number to confirm at the source

Tools

• check_vehicle_recalls, Check vehicle recalls. Use this when the user asks whether a car, truck or motorcycle has recalls, such as "does my 2018 Honda Accord have any recalls?". Pass the model year, make and model. Returns the NHTSA safety recalls for that year, make and model, newest first, with the component, summary, consequence, the manufacturer's remedy and whether NHTSA says to stop driving or park outside. Recalls are by model, not by VIN, so it cannot say whether one car's repair is still open; send the user to nhtsa.gov/recalls with their VIN for that. US vehicles only.
• decode_vin, Decode a VIN. Use this when the user gives a 17-character vehicle identification number or asks to "decode this VIN". Returns the model year, make, model, trim, body class, manufacturer, plant country, engine and fuel from NHTSA vPIC, and warns when the VIN's check digit does not match. Follow it with check_vehicle_recalls using the year, make and model to list the vehicle's recalls.
• search_product_recalls, Search product recalls. Use this when the user asks whether a consumer product is recalled, such as a crib, stroller, toy, appliance, heater or tool, or "is this car seat recalled?" (for car seat accessories). Pass the brand and product as on the label. Returns matching U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission recalls, newest first, with the hazard, the remedy, the company contact and the CPSC link. Set withinDays for recent recalls only. Car seats and tires themselves are NHTSA recalls this tool cannot see, and the answer says so. It does not cover vehicles, food or drugs.
• search_food_drug_recalls, Search food and drug recalls. Use this when the user asks about a recall of food, infant formula, a dietary supplement or a medicine, such as "was there a recall on this baby formula?" or "any supplement recalls this week?". Set category to "food" (human food, infant formula and supplements) or "drug", or leave it out and both are searched. For pet food use search_pet_food_recalls. Pass the product words as labels use them ("infant formula", "peanut butter"). Set withinDays for recent recalls, such as 7 for this week. Returns FDA enforcement reports, product-title hits before ingredient-text hits, each with matchKind ("product" or "text"), the class, product, reason, firm, lot codes and distribution. The matches count is text matches across reports, not a product total. It does not cover pet food, or meat, poultry and egg products regulated by USDA.
• search_pet_food_recalls, Search pet food recalls. Use this when the user asks about a recall of dog food, cat food, pet treats or other pet food, such as "dog food recall this week". Optionally pass a brand or hazard as query, and set withinDays for recent recalls, such as 7 for this week. Returns matching FDA recall announcements, newest first, with the title, date, summary and FDA link. It only sees the FDA's 20 most recent recall announcements (about three weeks) and says so, so for an older recall point the user to the FDA recalls page.

Add Recall Check in ChatGPT

ChatGPT does not read a local config file. A custom MCP server is added in the product, and only after developer mode is on. These steps were checked against OpenAI's plugin connect guide and the ChatGPT MCP guide on 2026-10-01. Developer mode can be hidden by a workspace policy, so a Team or Enterprise admin may have to allow it first.

1. Open ChatGPT settings, then Security and login, and turn on Developer mode.
2. Open ChatGPT plugins and select the plus button.
3. Enter a name such as "Recall Check" and a one-line description of what you want it to answer.
4. Under Connection, choose the public endpoint and paste this URL. Include the /mcp path. Do not add a tunnel id: this server is already public.

   https://recalls.openkrill.app/mcp

5. Create the connection and review the tools ChatGPT lists. You should see check_vehicle_recalls, decode_vin, search_product_recalls, search_food_drug_recalls, search_pet_food_recalls. The feedback tools on the same server are optional and not required for the lookup.
6. Start a new conversation, add the connection from the tools menu, and ask: Does my 2018 Honda Accord have any recalls?

No API key and no OAuth client id are required. The server answers without a login. Calls are limited per network and per day, and a limit comes back as a tool error rather than a partial answer. If the tool list is stale after a server change, open the connection and select Refresh, then start a new conversation.

The ChatGPT desktop app, Codex CLI and IDE extension share a different config. In the desktop app, open Settings, then MCP servers, choose Add server, select Streamable HTTP, and paste the same URL. In ~/.codex/config.toml the equivalent is a table named mcp_servers.recalls with url = "https://recalls.openkrill.app/mcp". ChatGPT on the web does not read that file. A published directory listing is also a different path: this page is the developer-mode connection, not a claim that Recall Check is already in the ChatGPT directory.

Treat the server as untrusted until you have read a few answers. A remote MCP server sees the arguments the model sends. Recall Check is read-only and documents what it sends onward on the privacy page.

If it does not work

A call checked on 2026-10-17

A year, make and model is the lookup NHTSA publishes. It is not a VIN-specific safety certificate. The request below was posted to https://recalls.openkrill.app/mcp as tools/call. HTTP 200. Source: the Recall Check server, read 2026-10-17.

{
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "check_vehicle_recalls",
    "arguments": {
      "year": 2018,
      "make": "Honda",
      "model": "Accord",
      "limit": 2
    }
  }
}

• status. ok
• notice. US recall data only. This is not a safety guarantee: an item with no match here may still be affected, and a match may not cover your exact item. Confirm with the official source before relying on it. NHTSA lists recalls
• recalls. 2 returned

Repeat the call yourself if you need a newer reading. Cached answers expire. A rate limit is not a result: wait and try again. Nothing in the call is a ranking, a filing, or advice.

Using it in production

Nothing to install and nothing to run: no package, no Python or Node.js version and no environment variable. Recall Check runs on our servers, and your client only needs the URL https://recalls.openkrill.app/mcp.

Use it in other apps

• Recall Check in Claude
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• Recall Check in Pi

Frequently asked questions

Words on this page

• MCP (Model Context Protocol) definition
• Streamable HTTP transport definition
• Tool primitive definition
• Rate limit policy definition

Source: plugin listing for recalls in this repository, and a live tools/call on 2026-10-17. As of 2026-10-17.