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Northcinder

Northcinder is an MCP server that adds tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Open-source MCP server for comparing products and asking the buyer before purchase. It has 1,205 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with npx -y northcinder.

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Install Northcinder

Generated from the server's published package. Replace your-value with your own values.

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "northcinder": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "northcinder"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport stdio northcinder -- npx -y northcinder

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "northcinder": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "northcinder"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "northcinder": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "northcinder"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).

About Northcinder

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.

  • agentic-commerce
  • human-in-the-loop
  • local-first
  • mcp
  • mcp-server
  • model-context-protocol
  • privacy
  • self-hosted
  • shopping-agent
  • typescript

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How do I install the Northcinder MCP server?

Add the command npx -y northcinder to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.

Is Northcinder free?

The server is open source under the MIT license, so running it is free. It does not declare any required API key.

Is Northcinder actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Aug 22, 2026. The latest release is v0.2.1, published Aug 22, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.