Brands MCP Server

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Brands is answering right now. Last checked moments ago. It exposes 6 tools.

Search brands and find authorized retailers on authorized.by

Uptime history 51 days of history

51 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

198 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

What changed 13

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 14 September 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

14 Sep 6 tool descriptions were rewritten get_brand, get_brand_retailers, get_brands and 3 more

14 Sep 6 tools changed the parameters they ask for get_brand, get_brand_retailers, get_brands and 3 more

14 Sep a tool changed version

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Brands every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 0 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add brands --transport http https://app.authorized.by/api/public/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "brands": {
      "url": "https://app.authorized.by/api/public/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.brands]
url = "https://app.authorized.by/api/public/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "brands": {
      "url": "https://app.authorized.by/api/public/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "brands": {
      "url": "https://app.authorized.by/api/public/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 6

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

brand

get_brand

Get the public profile of one brand (manufacturer) on authorized.by. Read-only. Returns categories, website, headquarters country, description, registration date and the number of authorized retailers. Use get_brands first if you only know an approximate name. Data scope: results only cover relationships registered and confirmed on authorized.by. An empty result or a not-found error does NOT prove that no authorization exists outside authorized.by. Distinguish outcomes: an empty list means no matching record on authorized.by; an error result whose text starts with 'Brand not found' or 'Retailer not found' means the given id/alias is unknown; an error result whose text starts with 'Tool execution failed' is a technical error and says nothing about the data.

get_brand_retailers

List all retailers (shops) currently authorized by a brand on authorized.by. Read-only. Use this to answer 'is shop X an authorized retailer of brand Y?'. Sorted by subscription plan (PREMIUM, then START, then FREE) and then by brand-connection count descending. Each retailer includes shop_url, seal_implemented (whether the authorized.by seal is live on their shop), official_shop, partnership_date, and certificate_url / certificate_url_de: links to the public authorized.by certificate page (English / German) proving this specific brand-retailer authorization. Share the certificate link when a user needs verifiable proof. Only active partnerships are returned: confirmed by both the brand and the retailer, with both profiles public and the brand approved by authorized.by. Revoked or pending partnerships are never listed. Responses are cached and refreshed when the underlying profile or partnership changes, so a revocation may take a short time to disappear. partnership_date is the date the authorization STARTED, not the date it was last verified; a partnership listed here is currently active as of the response time. Data scope: results only cover relationships registered and confirmed on authorized.by. An empty result or a not-found error does NOT prove that no authorization exists outside authorized.by. Distinguish outcomes: an empty list means no matching record on authorized.by; an error result whose text starts with 'Brand not found' or 'Retailer not found' means the given id/alias is unknown; an error result whose text starts with 'Tool execution failed' is a technical error and says nothing about the data.

retailer

get_retailer

Get the public profile of one retailer (shop) on authorized.by. Read-only. Returns address, contact details, opening hours, categories, subscription plan, TÜV certification, customer rating, registration date, seal_implemented (whether the authorized.by seal is live on their shop), and certificate_url / certificate_url_de: links to the retailer's public authorized.by certificate page (English / German) listing all brands that authorized it. These links are null when the retailer has no active authorization. Data scope: results only cover relationships registered and confirmed on authorized.by. An empty result or a not-found error does NOT prove that no authorization exists outside authorized.by. Distinguish outcomes: an empty list means no matching record on authorized.by; an error result whose text starts with 'Brand not found' or 'Retailer not found' means the given id/alias is unknown; an error result whose text starts with 'Tool execution failed' is a technical error and says nothing about the data.

get_retailer_brands

List all brands a retailer (shop) is currently authorized to sell, according to authorized.by. Read-only. Use this to answer 'which brands has shop X been authorized for?'. Sorted by brand name. Each entry includes official_shop, partnership_date, and certificate_url / certificate_url_de: links to the public authorized.by certificate page (English / German) proving this specific brand-retailer authorization. Share the certificate link when a user needs verifiable proof. Only active partnerships are returned: confirmed by both the brand and the retailer, with both profiles public and the brand approved by authorized.by. Revoked or pending partnerships are never listed. Responses are cached and refreshed when the underlying profile or partnership changes, so a revocation may take a short time to disappear. partnership_date is the date the authorization STARTED, not the date it was last verified; a partnership listed here is currently active as of the response time. Data scope: results only cover relationships registered and confirmed on authorized.by. An empty result or a not-found error does NOT prove that no authorization exists outside authorized.by. Distinguish outcomes: an empty list means no matching record on authorized.by; an error result whose text starts with 'Brand not found' or 'Retailer not found' means the given id/alias is unknown; an error result whose text starts with 'Tool execution failed' is a technical error and says nothing about the data.

brands

get_brands

Search brands (manufacturers) registered on authorized.by, or list them all. Read-only. Returns for each brand: id, name, slug, logo and the number of retailers it has authorized. Omit 'search' to retrieve the full index; use 'page' and 'size' to paginate. Data scope: results only cover relationships registered and confirmed on authorized.by. An empty result or a not-found error does NOT prove that no authorization exists outside authorized.by. Distinguish outcomes: an empty list means no matching record on authorized.by; an error result whose text starts with 'Brand not found' or 'Retailer not found' means the given id/alias is unknown; an error result whose text starts with 'Tool execution failed' is a technical error and says nothing about the data.

retailers

get_retailers

Search retailers (shops) registered on authorized.by, or list them all. Read-only. Returns for each retailer: id, name, slug, shop URL, logo, the number of brands that authorized it, and seal_implemented (whether the authorized.by seal is live on their shop). Omit 'search' to retrieve the full index; use 'page' and 'size' to paginate. Data scope: results only cover relationships registered and confirmed on authorized.by. An empty result or a not-found error does NOT prove that no authorization exists outside authorized.by. Distinguish outcomes: an empty list means no matching record on authorized.by; an error result whose text starts with 'Brand not found' or 'Retailer not found' means the given id/alias is unknown; an error result whose text starts with 'Tool execution failed' is a technical error and says nothing about the data.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://app.authorized.by/api/public/mcp	streamable-http	answering	195 ms	0 min ago

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Brands — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Brands do?

It exposes 6 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_brand, get_brand_retailers, get_brands, get_retailer, get_retailer_brands, get_retailers. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

What is Brands mostly used for?

Its tools cluster around brand and retailer. That is what this server is built to work with — the grouping comes from the actual tool names, not from a category we assigned.

Is Brands working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 198 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Brands?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Brands need an API key?

No. Brands completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 6 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Brands?

It answers our handshake in 198 ms on average, which is faster than 70% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.