Random Joke Skill

Overview

Every GET request pulls a joke split into an opening setup and a concluding punchline. By default the joke comes from a reviewed pool that leaves out sexual, offensive, violent and political jokes, so it suits workplace and family apps; set safe to false to draw from the full collection. Paid subscriptions append a numeric quality score to each returned joke.

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The tool

Once your client is connected to the VerveKit server, this appears in its tool list as RandomJokeSkill. 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": "RandomJokeSkill",
  "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.

Arguments

These are the properties on the tool's inputSchema, so a well-behaved client validates them before the call is made. Premium arguments are accepted on every plan but only take effect on plans that include them.

Argument	Type	Description
`safe`Optional	boolean	Only return jokes reviewed as safe for a general audience (no sexual, offensive, violent or political jokes). Set to false to include the full collection, which has adult humor default true

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": {
    "score": 9,
    "setup": "Why did the stonemason break up with the female con artist?",
    "punchline": "She took him for granite."
  }
}

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
`score`Premium	number	`9`	Joke rating or score value
`setup`	string	`Why did the stonemason break up with the female con artist?`	Opening or setup line of the joke
`punchline`	string	`She took him for granite.`	Punchline or conclusion of the joke

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 1 credit each time the tool actually runs; a model that reasons about the tool without calling it costs nothing.

Use cases

CLI MOTD Banners: To lighten command-line workflows, terminal scripts fetch and print a setup and punchline whenever an engineer opens a shell session.
Interactive Kiosk Idling: When visitors leave a public touchscreen idle, display software cycles through jokes to draw pedestrians back to the screen.
Livestream Overlay Alerts: During broadcast breaks, streaming software displays a joke setup followed by punchline text on screen to entertain waiting viewers.
Push Notification Punchlines: Mobile apps boost daily retention by delivering the joke setup as a notification teaser and revealing the punchline on tap.

Other ways to use Random Joke Skill

Set up Random Joke 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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