Swervie

io.github.SwerviePublished by GitHub account Swerviev1.6.0Updated Oct 29, 2026

Cross-retailer product catalog: one scored answer per product with live prices and buy links.

VerifiedStreamable HTTPWeb executableWeb Search & ScrapingBusiness & Commerce

Overview

AI-generated overview

Swervie is a cross-retailer product catalog that lets an assistant answer shopping queries with one consolidated, scored product answer, live prices and buy…

What you can do
  • Search products from a free-text shopping query, resolving a named product, a comparison or a category shelf with constraints as filters and wishes as ranking preferences
  • Find a matching category and its filter contract, then browse that category's ranked shelf with explicit filters and preferences
  • Look up a single product by name, ASIN, UPC/EAN/GTIN or brand plus model number
  • Fetch full detail for up to 25 products: all specs with provenance, review sub-ratings with verbatim quotes, and every seller offer
  • Each result carries an interpretation receipt showing how the query was read and which shopper words no filter covered
When to use it
Useful when an assistant needs to answer product research or purchase-intent questions across retailers: comparing models, checking prices and sellers, or narrowing a category by specs and budget. It suits shopping assistants and agent platforms that want structured, precomputed catalog data rather than scraped listings.
Requirements
A remote Streamable HTTP endpoint; no auth, API key or headers are needed. An optional user_signature value can be supplied for a per-shopper rate-limit quota. Anonymous limits are 60 requests per minute and 2,000 per day per client.
Before you install
Buy links are affiliate links and responses include a commission disclosure; purchasing hands off to the retailer. The server stores tool name, query, category and product ids per call, plus the signature when present. An optional user_signature should be a hashed pseudonymous id, never a raw email or phone number. All tools are read-only.

Installation

In SourceWeft

  1. Open Swervie in the dashboard and add it to a workspace.
  2. Enable the server for the chats that should use its tools.

Web executable via Streamable HTTP. Remote servers run from the web runtime once configured in a workspace.

Use with an agent

Paste this prompt into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or another agent — or into SourceWeft chat. The agent reads this server's install guide, shows you its publisher, endpoint and sign-in, and adds it to your client once you agree. Keys never go into a command.

Read https://sourceweft.com/mcp/io.github.Swervie%2Fswervie/install.md and connect the MCP server it describes to my client. Before changing any config, show me its publisher, endpoint and sign-in method and wait for my OK. Never put an API key in a command or in a file I would commit; ask me where it should come from.

Read the install guide the agent follows

Other MCP clients

Add this to your client's mcpServers config.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "swervie": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://us-central1-swervie-prod.cloudfunctions.net/mcp"
    }
  }
}

README

[Swervie]

Swervie MCP server

One scored answer per product, across every retailer, for AI agents.
Remote MCP server · Streamable HTTP · no auth · no API key · free

Developer docs · Tool reference · Connect a client · Response shapes · Data handling


https://us-central1-swervie-prod.cloudfunctions.net/mcp

Swervie is a cross-retailer product catalog built for assistants. Ask a normal shopping question and get one consolidated, scored answer per product: live prices, comparable specifications, review-derived ratings with verbatim evidence quotes, and a buy link for every seller. Instead of eight duplicate listings and a stale listicle.

  • Consolidated. Listings of the same product across retailers collapse into one row. White-label clones sold under different brands are grouped too.
  • Structured. Every category has its own spec schema; specs are extracted from manufacturer pages, retailer listings and spec tables, with provenance.
  • Scored. Each product carries a quality score and a value score, plus review-derived sub-ratings backed by quotes from real reviews.
  • Deterministic and compact. No LLM in the serving path. Answers are precomputed pipeline output: ~4k tokens, sub-second for a full shelf.
  • Interactive in hosts that support MCP Apps. Results render as a shelf with sort controls, seller-by-seller offers and the review evidence (io.modelcontextprotocol/ui extension); plain JSON everywhere else.

Coverage today: 300+ categories, from robot vacuums and televisions to espresso machines, mattresses and hiking boots, across hundreds of sellers. The live list is at swervie.xyz/llms.txt.

Quick start

Claude Code

bash
claude mcp add --transport http swervie https://us-central1-swervie-prod.cloudfunctions.net/mcp

Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code, Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, Gemini CLI and others: see docs/clients.md. Every config is the same one line, the URL above, with no headers and no secrets.

curl

bash
MCP=https://us-central1-swervie-prod.cloudfunctions.net/mcpH=(-H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'Accept: application/json, text/event-stream')
# Handshake: server info, capabilities, agent instructionscurl -s -X POST $MCP "${H[@]}" -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"initialize","params":{"protocolVersion":"2025-06-18","capabilities":{},"clientInfo":{"name":"curl","version":"1.0"}}}'
# A whole shopping answer in one callcurl -s -X POST $MCP "${H[@]}" -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search_products","arguments":{"query":"65 inch OLED TV under $1500","limit":3}}}'

More in examples/: a Node client using the official SDK, a Python client, and the curl script above.

Tools

ToolKindWhat it does
search_productsreadThe one-call path. Resolves a free-text query to a named product, an "A vs B" comparison, or a category shelf with constraints as filters and wishes as ranking preferences. Returns an interpretation receipt.
lookup_productreadOne product by name, ASIN, UPC/EAN/GTIN, or brand + model. Full detail, every seller offer, and its rank on its shelf.
find_categoryreadThe matching category and its filter contract: every filterable spec with type, units, allowed values and importance, plus price bands.
browse_categoryreadA category's ranked shelf with explicit filters (hard) and preferences (soft), sorted by value, quality or price.
get_productsreadFull detail for up to 25 ids: all specs with provenance, review sub-ratings with evidence quotes, every offer.

Every tool is read-only and annotated (title, readOnlyHint: true, openWorldHint: true), so hosts can run them without a confirmation prompt. The server provides data only: it writes nothing on the user's behalf, and neither its instructions nor its results direct the model. Full input schemas and descriptions, generated from the live server, are in docs/tools.md.

A typical conversation

  1. "Find me a 65-inch OLED TV under $1,500" → search_products → ranked shelf with prices, buy links and the commission disclosure.
  2. "Which of those is better for gaming?" → get_products → refresh rate, VRR, HDMI 2.1, and what reviewers say about input lag.
  3. "Is the Sony A95L any cheaper anywhere?" → lookup_product → every seller offer, plus its rank on the shelf and higher-scoring alternatives.

The server ships instructions on initialize that describe each tool and the fields its results carry, so a client needs no prompt engineering.

User signature (optional, no PII)

Every tool accepts an optional user_signature: an opaque, stable, pseudonymous id that gives each shopper their own rate-limit quota (instead of sharing one per session or egress IP) and attributes their buy-link clicks. The recommended recipe:

user_signature = "sv1-" + sha256hex("swervie/v1|" + id).slice(0, 24)

where id is the user's most stable identifier, normalized (lowercase, trimmed; email preferred, with +tags stripped). Never send the raw identifier. If none is available, use "sv1r-" + a UUID kept for that user, or omit the field. A value that changes every session counts as a new shopper each session. The server hashes any raw email or phone number that arrives by mistake before anything is stored.

Limits, affiliate links, and privacy

  • Rate limits. Anonymous tier: 60 requests/min and 2,000/day per client (signature, session, or IP), with a higher per-IP ceiling sized for shared agent-platform egress. Partner keys with their own quota are available for platforms: contact [email protected].
  • Buy links are affiliate links. Every response that carries buy_url also carries a disclosure string worded for the shopper. Commissions never affect rankings, scores, or which products are shown.
  • No account, no checkout, no payments. Purchasing hands off to the retailer's own page.
  • What is stored. Tool name, query, category and product ids per call, the signature when present, and rate-limit counters. Nothing the user owns, and nothing written on the user's behalf.

Details in docs/data-handling.md. Policies: privacy · terms · disclosure.

What is in this repository

This repository is the public home of the Swervie MCP server: documentation, the registry manifest (server.json), client configuration, examples, and brand assets for directories. The serving code runs as a Google Cloud Function inside Swervie's main monorepo and is not published here. The hosted endpoint is the supported way to use it. Issues and feature requests are welcome.

Server version is reported by initialize (serverInfo.version). Protocol version 2025-06-18. Transport: Streamable HTTP, stateless.

Changes: v1.6.0 (2026-10) removed the two non-destructive write tools (record_selection, submit_feedback) and rewrote the server instructions and result notes as descriptions of the data; the server is now read-only end to end.

License

Documentation, examples and assets in this repository are MIT licensed (© Plum Applications, Inc.). Use of the hosted service is governed by the terms.

Source: README.md at commit 526795e

Tools

5

find_category

Find a product category

Find the Swervie product category that matches a shopping intent and return its filter contract: every filterable specification with its type, units, allowed values, and importance, plus budget, mid, and premium price bands.

Parametersqueryrequireduser_signature

browse_category

Browse a category shelf

Return a category's consolidated, ranked shelf: one row per product, with duplicate seller listings already collapsed. Each row carries price, price_band, buy_url and buy_seller (the retailer behind the link), image_url, star ratings, and the category's required and top-weighted spec values. card_specs gives the specs every product card shows, in display order. Filters are hard: a row missing the attribute is excluded. Preferences are soft: rows that measure well on them rank higher and none are excluded (for example Rated Noise, prefer low, or a pet-hair rating, prefer high). Sort by value (default), quality, or price_asc. A filter on the Price dimension applies min/max to the live offer price in cents. Responses that carry buy_url links also carry a disclosure field: the commission disclosure for those links.

Parameterssortlimitcursorfilterscategoryrequiredpreferencesuser_signature

search_products

Search products

Answer one free-text shopping query, such as 'TVs under $500 with 120hz refresh rate', 'quiet dishwasher for a small kitchen', 'robot vacuum for pet hair under $600', or 'Sony WH-1000XM5 lowest price'. A query naming one specific product resolves to that product (interpretation.mode 'product'): products[0] holds every seller offer, and shelf_context gives its shelf rank and higher-scoring alternatives. 'A vs B' returns both products with specs in one shared order (mode 'comparison'). Otherwise the category is resolved, hard constraints such as price and specs become filters, and soft wishes such as 'quiet' or 'for pet hair' become ranking preferences that exclude nothing; interpretation.preferences lists them with reasons, and each row's preference_boost shows the effect. The interpretation object records how the query was read: method (deterministic parser or query-understanding model), fit_note (a one-line judgment of the category fit), and match_quality. 'strong' means the shelf plainly fits. 'partial' means either rows are served with some shopper words unexplained (listed in unparsed_tokens and unsupported_terms), or no rows are served because the closest shelf was only a medium-confidence fit (named in interpretation.llm_category). 'weak' and 'none' return no rows and queue the request as demand (queued_for_creation for a missing category, queued_product_request for a missing product). card_specs gives the specs every product card shows, in display order. Responses that carry buy_url links also carry a disclosure field: the commission disclosure for those links.

Parameterssortlimitqueryrequiredcursoruser_signature

lookup_product

Look up a specific product

Look up one specific product by name or identifier: a product name such as 'Sony WH-1000XM5' or 'Ninja AF101 air fryer', an ASIN, a UPC/EAN/GTIN, or brand plus model number. match reports the result: 'exact' (identifier hit), 'likely' (one clear name match; interpretation.runner_up names the next best), 'ambiguous' (several fit; rows lists the candidates, best first), or 'none' (not carried; the miss is recorded as demand). On exact or likely, products[0] is the full detail (all specs, review-derived ratings with evidence quotes, every seller offer with buy_url), and shelf_context gives its rank on its category shelf by value and quality, its variants (colorways, sizes), and up to three higher-scoring alternatives in the same price band. A product with no live price or image is still returned, flagged under readiness; its price is not current. Responses that carry buy_url links also carry a disclosure field: the commission disclosure for those links.

Parametersbrandquerycategoryidentifiersuser_signature

get_products

Get product details

Full detail for up to 25 products: all specifications in the category's standard order (card_specs first), review-derived ratings with verbatim evidence quotes, every seller offer with price and buy_url, and attribute_provenance recording where each spec value came from (manufacturer page, retailer listing, spec table). ids accepts product ids and shelf row ids alike: a group row's id resolves to the product the row is named after (its top_pick_id), and resolved_groups reports each substitution. Responses that carry buy_url links also carry a disclosure field: the commission disclosure for those links.

Parametersidsrequireduser_signature

Version history

1
  1. v1.6.0LatestOct 29, 2026

Score

90% of the applicable checks met

How complete this listing is, computed from the registry entry, the endpoint and public sources. Not a rating of the server and not a statement that it is safe or working today: reachability is a dated check, and no installs or reviews go into the score.

  • Reached in the last 30 daysRequired25 pts
  • Auth declaredRequired10 pts
  • Tools listedRequired15 pts
  • DescriptionRequired15 pts
  • Logo10 pts
  • Documentation15 pts
  • License10 pts

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