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 6 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 48 days of history · worst day 99%

48 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

645 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 17 Jul 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Beacon - verified-merchant index for AI shopping agents 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 6 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

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

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://beacon-index.onrender.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	262 ms	6 min ago

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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 645 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 645 ms on average, which is faster than 19% 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 Beacon - verified-merchant index for AI shopping agents open source?

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