The Culture MCP Server

MCP server for The Culture — a fashion-focused social media app. Exposes Supabase database operations and Hugging Face model inference as MCP tools for use in Claude Code, n8n agents, and the Larry orchestrator.

Tools

DB Tools (Supabase)

Model Tools (Hugging Face)

Related MCP server: mcp-n8n-builder

Running the server

This server uses the MCP Streamable HTTP transport (stateless mode). It listens on PORT (default 3000) and exposes:

• POST /mcp — MCP JSON-RPC endpoint

• GET /health — health check, returns {"status":"ok"}

npm install
npm run build
SUPABASE_URL=... SUPABASE_SERVICE_ROLE_KEY=... HF_TOKEN=... HF_USERNAME=Dc-4nderson npm start

For local development without a build step: npm run dev (uses tsx).

Deploying

Deploy anywhere that runs a Node HTTP server (Render, Railway, Fly.io, etc.). Set the same four env vars (SUPABASE_URL, SUPABASE_SERVICE_ROLE_KEY, HF_TOKEN, HF_USERNAME) in the platform's environment config, and make sure the platform's assigned PORT is respected (it is, via process.env.PORT).

Connecting a client (Claude Code / Claude Desktop)

Point the client at the deployed /mcp URL:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "the-culture": {
      "url": "https://your-deployment.example.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Notes

• Models not yet deployed to HF Inference Endpoints will return a 503 until deployed from their training notebooks.

• CTR model default threshold is 0.3 (not 0.5) due to the platform's ~2.5% base click rate.

• Recommendation engine requires user_id and post_ids that exist in the model's training data.