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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 9 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 91 days of history · worst day 96%
91 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
5
Tools
read from the server
282 ms
Response time
average over 24h
0
Stars
last commit 17 Jul 2026

Beacon - verified-merchant index for AI shopping agents does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 99.2% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

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Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 9 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add beacon --transport http https://beacon-index.onrender.com/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
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
{
  "servers": {
    "beacon": {
      "type": "http",
      "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 230 ms 9 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 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 282 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 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 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 282 ms on average, which is faster than 50% 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?
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.