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Beacon - verified-merchant index for AI shopping agents MCP Server

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Beacon - verified-merchant index for AI shopping agents is answering right now. Last checked 1 min ago. It exposes 5 tools. Last commit 17 Jul 2026.

Neutral verified-merchant index for AI shopping agents; regulated/alcohol-first; earned-trust only.

Uptime history 41 hours of history
41 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
92 of 92 checks
5
Tools
read from the server
361 ms
Response time
average over 24h
0
Stars
last commit 17 Jul 2026

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Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 1 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add beacon --transport http https://beacon-index.onrender.com/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "beacon": {
      "url": "https://beacon-index.onrender.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.beacon]
url = "https://beacon-index.onrender.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "beacon": {
      "url": "https://beacon-index.onrender.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "beacon": {
      "url": "https://beacon-index.onrender.com/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.

best
find_best_merchant
Rank merchants that can actually fulfill a purchase need, by honest signals only. Args: category: product category, e.g. "vodka". ship_to: ISO region the order must ship to, e.g. "US-FL". require_age_gate: only return merchants that enforce 21+. limit: max results. optimize_for: what matters to the BUYER -- "trust" (default), "price" (lowest matched price), or "speed" (same-day, then next-day fulfillment). Ties always break by earned trust. product_type/dest_state/channel: pass all three (e.g. "spirits", "FL", "ship"|"local_delivery") for STRICT COMPLIANCE mode -- only merchants with attested age-gate + attested license + a legal jurisdiction path are returned, each with its compliance verdict. Every result carries ships_to states (match them against where the buyer lives), best_price, and the evidence behind the record. Paid placement never affects any ranking (ranking_basis states the basis actually used).
index
index_stats
Graph coverage stats: counts of registry entries, merchants, offerings, capabilities.
merchant
get_merchant_view
Full agent view of one merchant: record + offerings + capabilities + evidence.
offerings
search_offerings
Find offerings (products) matching a category, joined to merchant + capabilities.
verify
verify_capability
Verify a merchant capability with evidence, e.g. age_gate_21 or ships_to_US-FL.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://beacon-index.onrender.com/mcp streamable-http answering 281 ms 1 min ago

Beacon - verified-merchant index for AI shopping agents — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Beacon - verified-merchant index for AI shopping agents do?
It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: find_best_merchant, get_merchant_view, index_stats, search_offerings, verify_capability. 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 Beacon - verified-merchant index for AI shopping agents working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 361 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Beacon - verified-merchant index for AI shopping agents?
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 Beacon - verified-merchant index for AI shopping agents need an API key?
No. Beacon - verified-merchant index for AI shopping agents 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 Beacon - verified-merchant index for AI shopping agents?
It answers our handshake in 361 ms on average, which is faster than 38% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
Is Beacon - verified-merchant index for AI shopping agents open source?
Yes — 0 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.