Dad Jokes Skill

Overview

Each GET request requires no query parameters or request body. The service selects an entry at random and returns a single text string containing the complete setup and punchline, ready to render directly in user interfaces.

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The tool

Once your client is connected to the VerveKit server, this appears in its tool list as DadJokesSkill. It is read-only and open-world — it fetches and never mutates anything on your side — so most clients call it without asking you to confirm.

Tool call

{
  "name": "DadJokesSkill",
  "arguments": {}
}

Connecting

One server URL covers every skill in the catalog, including this one. Authorization is OAuth: the client opens a browser once, and there is no key to paste into a config file.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vervekit": {
      "url": "https://api.vervekit.com/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Per-client setup — Claude, Cursor, VS Code, ChatGPT — is on the MCP setup page.

What the model gets back

The result carries a structuredContent object matching the tool's declared outputSchema, so a client reads fields without parsing prose. status is "ok" and error is null on success; a null field means the value was not available for that input, not that the call failed.

Result

{
  "status": "ok",
  "error": null,
  "data": {
    "joke": "What state do crayons go to on vacation? Color-ado."
  }
}

Response fields

Paths are relative to data. Premium fields are absent rather than zeroed on plans that do not include them, so check for presence instead of comparing to 0.

Field	Type	Example	Description
`joke`	string	`What state do crayons go to on vacation? Color-ado.`	A randomly selected humorous dad joke text.

Failure modes

Errors come back as tool errors carrying a sentence the model can act on, not a bare status code. Error handling covers the full list.

Status	What it means
`400` / `422`	The arguments did not validate. The message names the offending one.
`401`	The OAuth session is invalid or expired — reconnect the server.
`403`	Blocked by a key restriction or an IP allow-list. Never a bad identity.
`404`	This skill is not part of VerveKit. Check the catalog.
`429`	Out of credits, or a brief rate limit. The message tells them apart.

A call costs 2 credits each time the tool actually runs; a model that reasons about the tool without calling it costs nothing.

Use cases

Loading Screen Humor: Front-end developers display a random joke string to keep users amused while long asset downloads or background imports run.
Team Chat Commands: When a member types a fun slash command in team channels, a custom Slack bot prints the joke text instantly.
Daily Digest Greetings: Community managers fetch one joke each morning to insert an icebreaker into daily subscriber newsletters.
Custom Error Pages: To soften user frustration after broken links, web designers show a random pun on custom 404 pages.

Other ways to use Dad Jokes Skill

Set up Dad Jokes Skill on VerveKit, or reach the same source a different way. Your VerveKit account and credits work on all of them — one key, one balance.

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