MCP server for OriginSelect Discovery API — search ethical, origin-verified products and brands via AI agents
Connect Originselect to Claude, Cursor or any other MCP client and it stops being a tab you switch to. MCP server for OriginSelect Discovery API — search ethical, origin-verified products and brands via AI agents. The originselect mcp server is what makes that connection.
The toolset is worth reading before you wire it up, because it tells you what the integration is really for:
search_products — Search the curated product catalog by values, country, category, brand, or keywordssearch_brands — The search_brands tool exposed by this serverrefine_search — Refine a previous search by adding/removing filters. Takes the intent object from a prior search_products response and applies modifications — noget_values — List all 21 supported ethical/ownership values (women-owned, b-corp, organic, etc.)get_categories — The get_categories tool exposed by this serverget_countries — List all supported countries of origin (currently Canada and USA)Configuration is passed through the environment: API_BASE_URL. Treat anything key-shaped as a real credential — scope it to the minimum the server needs, and rotate it if it ever lands in a shared config.
The server ships on npm as originselect-mcp-server, so your MCP client can launch it on demand — there is no separate build step. Add the server block to your client's configuration, restart it, and the tools register themselves.
Plenty of developer tooling servers cover similar ground. The differences that matter in practice are scope of access and how much setup stands between you and a working tool call. Originselect's toolset — search_products, search_brands, refine_search and 3 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by chhavimishra; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| search_products | Search the curated product catalog by values, country, category, brand, or keywords. |
| search_brands | The search_brands tool exposed by this server. |
| 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. |
| get_values | List all 21 supported ethical/ownership values (women-owned, b-corp, organic, etc.). |
| get_categories | The get_categories tool exposed by this server. |
| get_countries | List all supported countries of origin (currently Canada and USA). |
{
"mcpServers": {
"originselect": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["originselect-mcp-server"]
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| API_BASE_URL | Endpoint or connection string the server talks to. | Yes |
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