Shopfront Chennai Local Commerce MCP Server

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Shopfront Chennai Local Commerce is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 5 tools. Last commit 18 Oct 2026.

Hyperlocal commerce and verified merchant directory MCP server for Chennai, India.

Uptime history 21 days of history · worst day 4%

21 days agonow

8.8%

Uptime 24h

8 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

623 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 18 Oct 2026

Shopfront Chennai Local Commerce does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 14.1% 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 12 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add shopfront --transport http https://shopfront-rouge.vercel.app/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://shopfront-rouge.vercel.app/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.shopfront]
url = "https://shopfront-rouge.vercel.app/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "shopfront": {
      "url": "https://shopfront-rouge.vercel.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "shopfront": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://shopfront-rouge.vercel.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 5

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

catalog

get_catalog

Retrieve available menu or service catalog items for a shop grouped by category, with price display and duration, supporting cursor-based pagination.

search_catalog

Search items within a specific shop catalog using text similarity and full-text search with optional price ceiling and item kind filtering.

action

get_action_link

Generate an actionable WhatsApp deep link, booking URL, or phone dial link with standard customer enquiry message for a shop and optional item.

shop

get_shop_info

Retrieve detailed public shop profile including address, locality, coordinates, weekly opening hours, upcoming closures, contact numbers, action mode, and latest menu timestamp.

shops

find_shops

Find and rank local shops in Chennai for a customer request. Always provide locality when the customer has told you where they are. If the customer has not said where they are, ask them for a Chennai area before calling this tool. Use category when it is clear. Results already satisfy distance, budget, and open-now constraints.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://shopfront-rouge.vercel.app/mcp	streamable-http	answering	71 ms	12 min ago

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Shopfront Chennai Local Commerce — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Shopfront Chennai Local Commerce do?

It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: find_shops, get_action_link, get_catalog, get_shop_info, search_catalog. 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 Shopfront Chennai Local Commerce working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 8 of 91 checks got a reply (8.8%), average response time 623 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

The registry lists Shopfront Chennai Local Commerce as active — why does it not respond?

The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.

How do I connect Shopfront Chennai Local Commerce?

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

Does Shopfront Chennai Local Commerce need an API key?

No. Shopfront Chennai Local Commerce completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Shopfront Chennai Local Commerce?

It answers our handshake in 623 ms on average, which is faster than 16% 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.

Is Shopfront Chennai Local Commerce open source?

We cannot say either way: written in TypeScript and 0 stars on GitHub, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.