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Pantry Buddy MCP

Pantry Buddy MCP

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Pantry Buddy MCP

Ask your AI assistant about your kitchen: what's in stock, what expires soon, what to buy and what you spent on groceries.

Pantry Buddy turns your grocery receipts into a live pantry. This repository documents its remote MCP server. It holds no server code and no keys: the server is hosted by Bonbrain LLC.

MCP URL

https://mcp.bonbrain.com/mcp

Transport

Streamable HTTP

Auth

OAuth 2.1 (authorization code + PKCE S256, dynamic client registration or client ID metadata document)

Registry

com.bonbrain/pantry-buddy in the official MCP Registry

Docs

https://bonbrain.com/pantry-buddy/assistants

Privacy

https://bonbrain.com/privacy-policy

Support

info@bonbrain.com

What you need

  • The Pantry Buddy iPhone app (App Store) and a Pantry Buddy account.

  • An MCP client that supports remote servers with OAuth (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code, Cline, Grok, Le Chat and others).

Related MCP server: pantry-pulse

How connecting works

  1. Add https://mcp.bonbrain.com/mcp as a remote MCP server (custom connector) in your assistant.

  2. Your assistant opens the Pantry Buddy sign-in page.

  3. In the app, open Settings → AI connection → Connect an assistant and type the 6-digit code it shows. The code is valid for 10 minutes and works once.

  4. You are connected. The connection appears in the app under Settings → AI connection, where you can revoke it at any time.

Under the hood this is standard MCP authorization: the server answers 401 with WWW-Authenticate: Bearer resource_metadata=…, publishes protected resource metadata and authorization server metadata, supports dynamic client registration (RFC 7591) and client ID metadata documents, requires PKCE S256 and returns iss on the authorization response (RFC 9207).

Client setup

Claude (claude.ai, Desktop, mobile): Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector → URL https://mcp.bonbrain.com/mcp.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http pantry-buddy https://mcp.bonbrain.com/mcp

ChatGPT: Settings → Apps → Create (developer mode) → MCP server URL https://mcp.bonbrain.com/mcp, authentication OAuth.

Cursor / VS Code / Cline / Windsurf: add the server by URL. Example mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pantry-buddy": { "url": "https://mcp.bonbrain.com/mcp" }
  }
}

The client starts the OAuth sign-in the first time it calls the server.

Tools

All tools act only on the signed-in user's own pantry (or a shared pantry they belong to, via optional pantryId). No tool deletes data.

Tool

What it does

Writes

list_pantry_items

Pantry stock with quantities and expiry dates

list_expiring_items

Items expiring in the next 7 days plus ones that expired in the last 3 (both adjustable)

add_pantry_item

Add or restock an item

yes

update_pantry_item

Edit an item

yes

mark_pantry_item_used

"I finished the milk", "used half the spinach"

yes

list_shopping_lists

Shopping lists and their items

create_shopping_list

New list

yes

add_shopping_list_item

Add a line to a list

yes

add_to_shopping_list

Add items by name, skipping what's already on the list

yes

update_shopping_list_item

Check off or edit a line

yes

list_my_recipes

Your cookbook

search_ingredients

Ingredient catalog (ids for recipes)

create_my_recipe

Save a recipe

yes

update_my_recipe

Edit a recipe

yes

list_receipts

Receipts scanned in the app: store, date, totals

get_receipt

One receipt with its line items

Every tool carries readOnlyHint, destructiveHint and openWorldHint annotations. Receipts are scanned in the iPhone app; there is no image upload tool.

Example prompts

  • "What's in my pantry?"

  • "What expires this week?"

  • "Make a shopping list for tacos and skip what I already have."

  • "Add 2 gallons of milk to my pantry."

  • "Do I have eggs? If not, add them to my list."

  • "How much did I spend at Kroger this month?"

Privacy

Pantry Buddy reads and writes only the signed-in user's pantry, lists, recipes and receipts through Bonbrain's own API. It handles no health data and shows no sponsored content. Full policy: https://bonbrain.com/privacy-policy

Not in this repository

Server or app source code, deployment configuration and credentials. This repository is documentation only; all rights reserved by Bonbrain LLC.

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Maintenance

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