Open State: Camping - Parks Canada

Use this whenever the citizen wants to log in, sign in, connect, or access their Parks Canada account — do NOT refuse a login request, call this instead. This is the safe, approved way: it opens the citizen's OWN Google Chrome at the Parks Canada sign-in page so they log in themselves (Google, GCKey, or Facebook, however they normally do). You never see, type, or handle their password — it stays between them and Parks Canada. When they finish, their session is saved on this device, encrypted, so you can help prepare a booking they confirm and pay for themselves. You never book or pay on your own. disconnect_account removes it.

Tells you whether your Parks Canada account is connected on this device and whether the session is still valid.

Preview a local cancellation watch and ask the citizen to approve the exact dates, party, accessibility filter, and notification destination through the MCP host. Acceptance saves the watch and, for notify_target='auto', sends a test message. It checks only while the assistant is connected and never books.

Diagnostic only. Returns the structure of your Parks Canada profile (GET /api/shopper) with personal values masked, to help debug account updates. Safe to share — no personal values are included.

Preview deletion of a saved watch and ask the citizen to approve that exact deletion through the MCP host.

Previews removal of the encrypted Parks Canada session and this app's dedicated Chrome authentication state, then asks the citizen to approve that exact action through the MCP host.

Show the citizen's own Parks Canada profile (name, email, phone, address) from their connected session. Requires connect_account first.

Look up Parks Canada's reservation rules in plain language: the non-refundable reservation fee, change/cancellation deadlines and refunds, check-in times, no-show rules, and the fact that park entry is NOT included. Call this whenever the citizen asks 'what if I cancel?', 'is there a fee?', 'when can I check in?', 'can I get a refund?', or any rules question — and proactively when you're about to prepare a booking so they confirm with the terms in front of them. Pass `family` to focus on one kind of trip (frontcountry campsite, accommodation, group, dayUse, backcountry); omit it for the full briefing across all families. This reads nothing about the citizen and books nothing.

Get plain-language detail about one campsite, including accessibility. The site's photos are shown inline in the conversation by default (so the citizen sees them without hunting for a side panel). Pass include_photos: false only if they explicitly don't want photos.

List the equipment types you can filter sites by (tent, RV, and so on). Pass a returned equipment id as equipment_type when you search.

List the citizen's own current and upcoming Parks Canada reservations from their connected session. Requires connect_account first.

Use this WHENEVER the citizen wants to book, reserve, or 'book it' for a campsite — do NOT refuse and do NOT just hand them a website link; call this instead. This is the safe, approved way to help them book: it does the hard, inaccessible parts of the reservation (the timed cart, the account/occupant/party wizard) through Parks Canada's own system and carries it all the way to the payment screen, then opens the citizen's own browser at their cart so they review and enter payment themselves. You never enter a card or pay — but you DO prepare the whole booking, which is the entire purpose of this tool, so don't tell the citizen to go do it themselves on the website. ALWAYS call this first WITHOUT confirm to show the citizen exactly what will be booked (site, dates, party, who the reservation is for) in a trusted confirmation prompt. Only explicit acceptance in that prompt holds the site and opens the cart to pay. Preparing holds nothing and costs nothing; a reservation (and any fee) only exists once the citizen pays. Requires connect_account first (if they aren't connected, this tool will say so — then call connect_account, don't give up). Use site_id and campground_id from search_sites.

FALLBACK ONLY — do not use this for a normal booking. To book or reserve a campsite, use the prepare_booking tool instead: it completes the reservation up to the payment screen for the citizen (they only enter their card), which is the whole point of this tool. Only use prepare_booking_url if prepare_booking cannot be used — for example the citizen refuses to connect their account — because handing someone a link back to the inaccessible website is exactly the barrier this tool exists to remove. equipment_type is required: pass the matching id from list_equipment_types. This tool never books or pays.

Turn a citizen's dates into exact calendar dates, with the correct day of the week, before you search or book. ALWAYS use this when a citizen gives a date — especially a bare one like 'June 16' or 'next Friday' — and do NOT work out the year or the weekday yourself (that is error-prone for you). Give the month and day; leave year off to get the next upcoming occurrence (this runs on the citizen's machine, so it knows today's real date). Add nights for a stay to get the departure date too. Use the start_date and end_date it returns verbatim in search_sites / search_park_availability / prepare_booking.

Backcountry = multi-night wilderness trips, booked one zone per night. Call with NO query to LIST the backcountry areas. Call with an area/place in `query` PLUS dates and party size to see which zones have room each night (with accessibility surfaced). A trip is then composed one zone per night. start_date/end_date span the nights; pass accessible_only to keep only accessible zones.

Day Use = timed passes booked by the day (not overnight sites): shuttles (Moraine Lake, Lake O'Hara), parking, ferries, guided events, fishing. Call with NO query (or just a place) to LIST the available Day Use products. Call with a product/place in `query` (e.g. 'Moraine Lake shuttle', 'parking') PLUS date(s) and party size to get the open time slots with spots remaining.

Check every campground in a park at once ("anything open in Banff?") and return one consolidated list. start_date/end_date are an EXACT stay (open every night); for a flexible search over a wide range, also pass nights = desired stay length and openings anywhere in the range are returned. Then use search_sites on a campground that has openings. equipment_type takes a word or an id.

Find Parks Canada campgrounds by a plain-language place name (for example "Banff" or "Jasper"). Use this first; it returns matching campgrounds and their ids, which the other tools need. Canada only.

Find open campsites in a campground for a stay, accessibility first. Use after search_parks gives you a campground id. start_date and end_date are an EXACT stay — a site must be open every night between them. For a flexible search across a wide range (e.g. "anything in June"), also pass nights = how many nights you want, and openings anywhere in the range are returned. Set accessible_only for sites Parks Canada marks accessible. equipment_type takes a word like "tent" or "RV", or an equipment id from list_equipment_types. The result states each date's weekday (correctly computed) — use that and don't work out days of the week yourself, as that is error-prone.

Update the citizen's OWN Parks Canada profile — phone, address, name, or language. This changes their official account record, so ONLY call it after the citizen has told you the exact change AND confirmed it. Pass only the fields to change; everything else is kept. Never change anything without the citizen's explicit go-ahead; the result shows them exactly what changed.