cinderline/northcinder
Open-source MCP server for comparing products and asking the buyer before purchase.
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Your shopping agent should work for you. AI agents are starting to do more than answer shopping questions. Soon they will decide which products people see and, in some cases, buy on their behalf. Big marketplaces are building the easiest version of this: an agent that searches one catalog and steers the buyer toward that platform's checkout. That may be convenient, but it is not independent advice. The marketplace still decides what can be seen and makes money when the agent closes the sale. NorthCinder takes a different approach. It compares products from the sources you choose and shows where its facts came from. Before it buys anything, it asks for your approval. NorthCinder is software you run alongside your AI app. The repository owner does not operate a NorthCinder service. There is no NorthCinder account or cloud service. You need Node.js 20 or later and an MCP-capable AI app.…
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- NorthCinder
- Get started
- What a result looks like
- Research before recommendation
- Buying stays a separate decision
- Rules you can inspect
- How NorthCinder works
- Store coverage
- Self-hosted engine
- Privacy
- Build from source
- Contributing and support
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What this repository does
Open-source MCP server for comparing products and asking the buyer before purchase.
Repository facts
- Owner
- cinderline
- Primary language
- JavaScript
- Stars
- 1,209
- Forks
- 8
- Open issues + pull requests
- 5
- License
- MIT
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2026-08-17T11:42:31.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-08-22T12:11:30.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: agentic-commerce, human-in-the-loop, local-first, mcp, mcp-server, model-context-protocol, privacy, self-hosted, shopping-agent, typescript
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