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What you can do with Northcinder

NorthCinder is an open-source MCP server that compares products from stores you choose, explains its ranking, and asks for your approval before any purchase.

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What do you want to do?

3 use cases

  • Compare products for a shopping brief

    Get ranked product choices with reasons, rejected offers, and sources from your AI app.

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    Use the NorthCinder MCP server to search for <product request> and compare price, delivery, fit, and merchant trust. Return up to three ranked choices with the reason for each rank, the rejected offers, and any facts that could not be verified. Verify that each choice lists the store it came from and that no purchase was started.

  • Vet a seller before buying

    Run NorthCinder's seller research guide to check identity, sources, and unknowns.

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    Using the NorthCinder MCP server, read northcinder://research/seller, then call create_research_plan for the seller <seller name> and the request <request>. Return the checklist results, source conflicts, and unknown seller history, and mark the result as provisional. Verify that the seller identity matches the exact merchant named before treating any finding as usable.

  • Approve one exact purchase at a set cap

    Buy a single chosen offer through a one-time signed approval or finish in your browser.

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    Using the NorthCinder MCP server, prepare checkout for the offer <offer id> with a spending cap of <amount>, one unit only. Return the approval details, the checkout result or cart link, and the audit log entry. Verify that the merchant, variant, price, and total match the approval before any payment step runs.

How to use Northcinder

  1. Check you have what it needs: Node.js 20 or later; An MCP-capable AI app; Store connections you choose to configure, if you want searches beyond the built-in setup.
  2. Open cinderline/northcinder on GitHub and read the README and license.
  3. Run npx northcinder init to save your configuration and print the MCP entry for your AI app.
  4. Add the printed MCP entry to your MCP-capable AI app and restart it.
  5. Send a shopping brief such as: Find black wool running shoes under $130. Compare price, delivery, fit, and merchant trust. Tell me why the winner ranked first and which options were ruled out.
  6. Read why the top choice ranked first, then check the finalists, rejected offers, and unverified facts.

These steps come from our top use case, Compare products for a shopping brief, which also has a copy-paste agent prompt.

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About this repo

  • Who it is forWritten for shoppers and their AI apps who want independent product comparisons and a buyer-approved checkout, with the engine running on their own computer.
  • Why it is hot
  • LanguageJavaScript
  • Sourcegithub.com/cinderline/northcinder · Back to Hot repos

Requirements

  • Node.js 20 or later
  • An MCP-capable AI app
  • Store connections you choose to configure, if you want searches beyond the built-in setup
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Questions about Northcinder

What is Northcinder?

NorthCinder is an open-source MCP server that compares products from stores you choose, explains its ranking, and asks for your approval before any purchase. It is an open-source project on GitHub: https://github.com/cinderline/northcinder.

Who is Northcinder for?

Written for shoppers and their AI apps who want independent product comparisons and a buyer-approved checkout, with the engine running on their own computer.

What can I do with Northcinder?

3 use cases so far, for example: Compare products for a shopping brief; Vet a seller before buying; Approve one exact purchase at a set cap. Each has steps and a copy-paste agent prompt.

What do I need to run Northcinder?

Node.js 20 or later; An MCP-capable AI app; Store connections you choose to configure, if you want searches beyond the built-in setup.

What are alternatives to Northcinder?

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Is Northcinder safe to run?

Deduped does not own, audit or vouch for it. Read the README and license, run it on your own systems first and review every command before you run it.