Merchant Context MCP Server

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Merchant Context is answering right now. Last checked 13 min ago. It exposes 9 tools.

Resolve sourced merchant facts and safe actions before an agent acts.

The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private.

Uptime history 49 days of history · worst day 96%

49 days agonow

96.7%

Uptime 24h

87 of 90 checks

Tools

read from the server

1375 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

What changed 10

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 11 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

11 Aug 6 tools appeared compare_offers, get_safe_actions, preflight and 3 more

11 Aug 2 tool descriptions were rewritten check_merchant, inspect_merchant

11 Aug a tool changed the parameters it asks for inspect_merchant

11 Aug a tool changed version

Merchant Context does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 99.1% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 13 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add merchant-context --transport http https://api.merchant.atomandbits.com/mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "merchant-context": {
      "url": "https://api.merchant.atomandbits.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.merchant-context]
url = "https://api.merchant.atomandbits.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "merchant-context": {
      "url": "https://api.merchant.atomandbits.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "merchant-context": {
      "url": "https://api.merchant.atomandbits.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 9

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

compare

compare_offers

Compare only sourced offer fields from two or more merchants. Unknown values stay unknown and payment never changes order.

inspect

inspect_merchant

Compatibility alias for refresh_merchant. Show the price and get explicit human approval first.

merchant

check_merchant

Run a free merchant-site diagnostic. Agents should use resolve_merchant before relying on merchant facts or actions.

merchants

search_merchants

Search cached merchant records by sourced offer, place, price, timing, policy, action support, and freshness. Payment and adoption never change order.

preflight

preflight

Resolve one merchant, evaluate sourced intent constraints, select a safe action, state approval, and return attribution.

refresh

refresh_merchant

Pay for a fresh merchant inspection and cache refresh. Show the price and get explicit human approval first.

resolve

resolve_merchant

Resolve cached merchant identity, sourced facts, offers, terms, freshness, and safe actions for free. Call this before relying on merchant facts or starting an action.

safe

get_safe_actions

Return current merchant-owned action URLs, exact inputs, authority, confirmation, expiry, retry rules, recovery, and attribution.

service

get_service_info

Describe the Merchant Context service, price, and inspection checks.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://api.merchant.atomandbits.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	1481 ms	13 min ago

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Merchant Context — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Merchant Context do?

It exposes 9 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: check_merchant, compare_offers, get_safe_actions, get_service_info, inspect_merchant, preflight and 3 more. 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 →

Is Merchant Context working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 87 of 90 checks got a reply (96.7%), average response time 1375 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

Is Merchant Context still maintained?

The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private. We show this because it changes what you can expect: an unmaintained server may keep answering for months and then stop without warning.

How do I connect Merchant Context?

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 Merchant Context need an API key?

No. Merchant Context completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 9 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Merchant Context?

It answers our handshake in 1375 ms on average, which is faster than 4% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.