# VibeCart MCP Server

Agent-native commerce with trusted catalog, durable carts, and Stripe Checkout via MCP and UCP.

**Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

## Status

Pod has not dialled VibeCart yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

## Connect

A hosted endpoint at `https://vibecart.vercel.app/mcp`, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vibecart": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://vibecart.vercel.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

## Known issues

5 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own maintainers are excluded.

### Most discussed

### MCP Registry publication status

Official MCP Registry publication is complete and self-verifying.

Verified SUCCESS on commit `2731d6feb871ea187636e925c3e3775934a298e7`:
- public remote precheck: success
- official publisher install: success
- server.json validation: success
- GitHub OIDC auth: success
- publish: success
- official Registry API verification: success

The workflow continues to use this issue as the audit trail for future metadata publication attempts.

Registry server: `io.github.runjohnray2-lgtm/vibecart`.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/runjohnray2-lgtm/vibecart/issues/48) · 2026-08-18 · closed · 2 comments

### Phase 3: expose tested order lookup and map it to released UCP get_order

## Goal
Expose VibeCart's durable normalized order state through a server-to-server lookup contract, then map it to the released UCP `get_order` method only after the response validates against UCP v2026-04-08.

## Released UCP contract
The official v2026-04-08 MCP service defines `get_order(meta, id)` and returns the order schema.

The released order schema requires:
- `ucp`
- unique `id`
- originating `checkout_id`
- merchant `permalink_url`
- `line_items`
- `fulfillment`
- ISO currency
- orde

[Read the thread](https://github.com/runjohnray2-lgtm/vibecart/issues/21) · 2026-08-18 · open · 2 comments

### Merchant readiness: authentication and tenant isolation

Independent reviews agree that the current UUID-by-possession cart model and single-tenant defaults are not sufficient for a commercial multi-merchant service.

Acceptance criteria:
- define merchant identity separately from buyer/cart identity
- authenticated server-to-server access for merchant/agent operations; no raw secret values in public surfaces
- cart read/update/cancel cannot rely solely on knowing a cart UUID in hosted multi-tenant mode
- tenant-scoped database reads/writes and Stripe

[Read the thread](https://github.com/runjohnray2-lgtm/vibecart/issues/56) · 2026-08-18 · open · 1 comment

### Merchant readiness: durable distributed rate limiting

Current checkout and MCP throttles use process-local `Map` state. On Vercel/serverless this resets across cold starts and is not shared across instances, so it is not sufficient production abuse protection.

Acceptance criteria:
- replace or augment in-memory throttles with durable/shared enforcement for production
- avoid introducing a mandatory paid dependency when existing Neon can safely provide the primitive
- define separate budgets for read-only catalog traffic vs state-changing cart/chec

[Read the thread](https://github.com/runjohnray2-lgtm/vibecart/issues/57) · 2026-08-18 · closed · 0 comments

### Distribution: package one commerce backend for every major agent ecosystem

## Goal

Make VibeCart installable across major AI agent environments without forking the commerce engine.

## Principle

Provider integrations must remain thin wrappers around the same MCP/UCP/REST capabilities.

## Targets

- ChatGPT / Codex
- Claude / Claude Code
- Gemini / Google agent tooling
- Cursor
- VS Code
- generic streamable-HTTP MCP clients

## Deliverables

- provider-specific setup/config where actually required
- portable skill/instruction packages
- automated compatibility fixtu

[Read the thread](https://github.com/runjohnray2-lgtm/vibecart/issues/10) · 2026-08-15 · closed · 0 comments

## Firsthand observations

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## For agents

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