OriginSelect MCP Server

Model Context Protocol server for OriginSelect — search ethical, origin-verified products and brands via AI agents.

Works with Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, and any MCP-compatible client.

See the OriginSelect developer page for API docs and other integration options.

Quick Start

Option 1: npx (recommended)

No install needed — just add to your Claude Desktop config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "originselect": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["originselect-mcp-server"]
    }
  }
}

Option 2: Global install

npm install -g originselect-mcp-server

Then add to Claude Desktop config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "originselect": {
      "command": "originselect-mcp-server"
    }
  }
}

Option 3: From source

git clone https://github.com/chhavimishra/originselect-mcp-server.git
cd originselect-mcp-server
npm install

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "originselect": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/absolute/path/to/originselect-mcp-server/src/index.js"],
      "env": {
        "API_BASE_URL": "https://api.originselect.com"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor / Windsurf

Add to your MCP settings:

{
  "originselect": {
    "command": "npx",
    "args": ["originselect-mcp-server"]
  }
}

Example Queries

Once connected, ask your AI assistant:

• "Find organic baby products from Canada under $25"

• "Show me women-owned coffee brands in the US"

• "What B Corp certified skincare brands do you have?"

• "Find vegan, cruelty-free pet products"

Tools

search_products

Search the curated product catalog by values, country, category, brand, or keywords.

"Find organic baby products from Canada under $25"
→ { country: "Canada", category: "Baby", values: ["organic"], priceMax: 25 }

search_brands

Discover brands by ethical values, country, or category.

refine_search

Refine a previous search by adding/removing filters. Takes the intent object from a prior search_products response and applies modifications — no need to re-query from scratch.

{
  "intent": { "...from previous response..." },
  "modifications": [
    { "action": "add", "field": "values", "value": "organic" },
    { "action": "remove", "field": "values", "value": "vegan" },
    { "action": "modify", "field": "priceMax", "value": 30 }
  ]
}

get_values

List all 21 supported ethical/ownership values (women-owned, b-corp, organic, etc.).

get_categories

List all 17 supported product categories.

get_countries

List all supported countries of origin (currently Canada and USA).

First-party intelligence tools

Proprietary OriginSelect traffic/revenue evidence — requires INTELLIGENCE_API_KEY (see Environment Variables). Every response is bounded, includes date-window and freshness context, and labels attribution as deterministic/aggregate/inferred so you know how much to trust each number. These tools answer "what's going on with our own site," not public-web research (SERPs, competitors) — do that separately with your own search/browse tools.

Architecture

AI Agent (Claude, GPT, Cursor)
    │
    │  MCP (stdio)
    ▼
┌─────────────────────────┐
│  MCP Server (this pkg)  │
│  19 tools               │
└───────────┬─────────────┘
            │  HTTPS
            ▼
┌─────────────────────────┐
│  OriginSelect API       │
│  api.originselect.com   │
└─────────────────────────┘

Environment Variables

Supported Values

women-owned · black-owned · indigenous-owned · veteran-owned
family-owned · lgbtq-owned · aapi-owned · latino-owned · minority-owned
b-corp · organic · sustainable · vegan · non-gmo · fair-trade
non-toxic · cruelty-free · fragrance-free · plastic-free
social-impact · gluten-free

Security & Trust

This MCP server is open source and fully auditable:

• Read-only — only makes outbound HTTPS requests to api.originselect.com

• No filesystem access — does not read or write any local files

• No telemetry — does not send user data or analytics anywhere

• Minimal dependencies — single runtime dependency (@modelcontextprotocol/sdk)

• Source code — github.com/chhavimishra/originselect-mcp-server

See SECURITY.md for vulnerability reporting.

License

MIT

Private ChatGPT transport (prepared, not published or deployed)

The existing src/index.js stdio entry point and its 19-tool inventory remain unchanged. The private Codex connection can continue using its current launcher and server-side INTELLIGENCE_API_KEY setup.

originselect-mcp-server/intelligence exports createIntelligenceServer, a separate factory reusing the 13 existing intelligence descriptors. It requires an authenticated read dispatcher; it contains no catalog/mutation dispatch and adds strict schemas, OAuth metadata and read-only annotations. Remote-only options expose a pinned page-only baseline and dated country/device diagnostics. These options do not alter the legacy stdio schemas.

The existing OriginSelect backend mounts this factory at the proposed https://mcp.originselect.com/mcp endpoint using stateless Streamable HTTP. Cognito handles user sign-in/PKCE/refresh through the official MCP SDK OAuth proxy. Backend controllers execute the reads directly: no intelligence API key is given to ChatGPT, put into a URL, or forwarded in OAuth tokens.

The backend installs a local vendor/originselect-mcp-server-1.0.12.tgz produced by its scripts/vendor-private-mcp.mjs; no npm publication is needed. After changing this factory or its descriptors, rebuild that artifact and update the backend lockfile. The vendored manifest records the archive checksum.

Deployment, owner allowlisting, ChatGPT connection instructions and rollback are documented in the backend's intelligence/mcp/README.md. A local SDK test is not ChatGPT acceptance: the deployment remains unaccepted until an actual authenticated ChatGPT call matches the saved Aug 8–Sep 4, 2026 page-only evidence.