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  "path": "/t/mcp-server-for-structured-product-search-merchant-catalogs-for-ai-agents-looking-for-feedback/1381377#post_1",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-20T19:20:28.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Hello,\n\nI’m sharing a tool we’ve been building and would really appreciate feedback from others working on agent infrastructure or commerce-related workflows.\n\nWe built an MCP server that provides structured product search for AI agents, with the added ability for merchants to publish and expose product catalogs for agent-based discovery.\n\n**What it does:**\n\n  * Structured product search across multiple merchants\n\n  * Returns normalized data (price, availability, merchant info)\n\n  * Supports merchant catalog ingestion so sellers can expose products directly to AI agents\n\n  * Designed for MCP-based agent workflows\n\n  * Free tier available (100 calls/day for early access)\n\n\n\n\n**Why we built it:**\nWe found that general web search isn’t reliable enough for commerce use cases in agents, especially when structured comparison and real-time product data are needed. At the same time, merchants currently don’t have a clean way to expose catalogs directly to AI-driven discovery systems.\n\n**What we’re exploring:**\n\n  * Whether MCP is the right abstraction layer for commerce/product data\n\n  * How merchants should best structure catalogs for agent consumption\n\n  * Where agent-based product discovery breaks today\n\n  * What “good” UX looks like when agents interact with real merchant inventory\n\n\n\n\n**Would love feedback from anyone building:**\n\n  * Shopping / commerce agents\n\n  * Retrieval or tool-use infrastructure\n\n  * Merchant-facing AI integrations\n\n\n\n\nHappy to answer any questions or share a demo if helpful. Thank you!",
  "title": "MCP server for structured product search + merchant catalogs for AI agents (looking for feedback)"
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