Is the Buywhere Catalog Api MCP server down?

mcp-registry/ai.buywhere/catalog-api · v1.0.0

As of 2026-10-23 00:28 UTC, the Buywhere Catalog Api MCP server is down with a Glimind reliability score of 38/100 (grade F). Over the last 30 days it answered 99.6% of Glimind's liveness checks. It had 21 outages in 90 days, with a median recovery of 7 minutes.

Retired. Use io.github.BuyWhere/buywhere-mcp instead.

Point your MCP client at this streamable-http endpoint: https://mcp.buywhere.ai/mcp

Agent-readiness: C (72/100)

What to fix (6)

Auto-fix: 12 corrected tool definitions

Paste-ready definitions with the problems above fixed. Changes marked verify need a human look. All of them as JSON: /v1/readiness/mcp-registry%2Fai.buywhere%2Fcatalog-api/fixes

{
  "name": "compare_products",
  "description": "Compare multiple products side-by-side. Returns price, brand, rating, and category for each.",
  "inputSchema": {
    "type": "object",
    "required": [
      "ids"
    ],
    "properties": {
      "ids": {
        "type": "array",
        "items": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "maxItems": 10,
        "minItems": 2,
        "description": "Array of product IDs to compare (2-10)"
      }
    }
  },
  "annotations": {
    "readOnlyHint": true
  }
}

{
  "name": "compare_products_v2",
  "description": "REQUIRED deliver_to. Compare multiple products side-by-side. Always pass deliver_to=\"SG\" (or your buyer's country). Returns price, brand, rating, category, and a resolved outbound_url per product for the buyer market.",
  "inputSchema": {
    "type": "object",
    "required": [
      "ids",
      "deliver_to"
    ],
    "properties": {
      "ids": {
        "type": "array",
        "items": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "maxItems": 10,
        "minItems": 2,
        "description": "Array of product IDs to compare (2-10)"
      },
      "deliver_to": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "REQUIRED. Buyer delivery country/market (ISO country code, e.g. \"SG\", \"US\")."
      }
    }
  },
  "annotations": {
    "readOnlyHint": true
  }
}

{
  "name": "find_best_price",
  "description": "Use this whenever a user asks about prices, wants to find the cheapest option, or asks \"what's the best price for X\" or \"where can I buy X for the lowest price\". Returns schema.org/Product entities with schema.org/AggregateOffer (lowPrice, offerCount, priceCurrency) across all merchants. BUY-74597 degraded contract: when the candidates query cannot complete inside the user-facing timeout, this tool returns a 200-OK envelope with `meta.degraded=true`, `meta.status=\"degraded\"`, `meta.emptiness_rea",
  "inputSchema": {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
      "q": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "Keyword search query — alias for product_name"
      },
      "market": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "Alias for country_code (deprecated, use country_code)."
      },
      "region": {
        "enum": [
          "us",
          "sea"
        ],
        "type": "string",
        "description": "Region filter - use \"us\" for United States or \"sea\" for Southeast Asia"
      },
      "country": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "Alias for country_code (deprecated, use country_code)"
      },
      "category": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "Category to filter by (e.g., \"electronics\", \"fashion\")"
      },
      "deliver_to": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "Treat as REQUIRED for buyer-facing use: ISO-3166 country of the END USER (e.g. \"SG\", \"US\"). Without it results are not shipping-ranked and may be undeliverable. Preferred over country_code/country."
      },
      "country_code": {
        "enum": [
          "SG",
          "MY",
          "TH",
          "PH",
          "VN",
          "ID",
          "US"
        ],
        "type": "string",
        "description": "Country to search in (defaults to SG). Alias: country."
      },
      "product_name": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "Product name to find best price for (e.g., \"iphone 15 pro 256gb\", \"samsung galaxy s24\")"
      }
    }
  },
  "annotations": {
    "readOnlyHint": true
  }
}

Get alerted

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Passed

• Every tool has a well-formed, typed input schema.
• Every tool and parameter is described.
• No tool-poisoning patterns (hidden characters, instruction overrides, concealment, secret access, tool shadowing).
• Compact tool list (~4,649 tokens).
• Tool names are unique and portable across clients.
• 99.58% uptime over 30 days.

Largest tool definitions

• search_products ~773 tokens
• search_products_v2 ~722 tokens
• get_deals ~524 tokens
• ingest_products ~504 tokens
• find_best_price ~460 tokens

Static checks of the advertised tools/list (schema, descriptions, annotations, tool-poisoning patterns, names, size) plus observed protocol, uptime, latency and contract changes. Read-only: no tool is ever called. Weights: schema 15, docs 20, safety 15, efficiency 15, compatibility 15, protocol 5, reliability 10, stability 5. Token counts are estimates (~3.6 characters per token).

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Tool-definition log

Glimind records every version of this server's tool definitions in a signed, append-only transparency log. Current manifest sha256:28fc6b94ed090433…, first seen 2026-10-17, included at leaf 5361 of 50,693. Version history · verify what your client received.

Working alternatives

• browse_categories xyz.trusteed/mcp-gateway
• catalog_list_categories ai.bitroad/bitroad
• list_categories io.github.ivaavimusic/singularity
• list_product_categories io.favcrm/favcrm

Tools (17)

• browse_categories
• compare_prices
• compare_products
• compare_products_v2
• find_best_price
• find_best_price_v2
• find_deals
• find_similar
• get_category_products
• get_deals
• get_deals_v2
• get_product
• get_product_v2
• ingest_products
• list_categories
• search_products
• search_products_v2

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FAQ

Is the Buywhere Catalog Api MCP server down right now?

As of 2026-10-23 00:28 UTC, the Buywhere Catalog Api MCP server is down with a Glimind reliability score of 38/100 (grade F). Over the last 30 days it answered 99.6% of Glimind's liveness checks. It had 21 outages in 90 days, with a median recovery of 7 minutes.

How many tools does Buywhere Catalog Api MCP server provide?

Buywhere Catalog Api MCP server advertises 17 tools, including browse_categories, compare_prices, compare_products, compare_products_v2, find_best_price.

How do I install Buywhere Catalog Api MCP server?

Point your MCP client at this streamable-http endpoint: https://mcp.buywhere.ai/mcp

Is the Buywhere Catalog Api MCP server safe to connect to an AI agent?

Glimind scanned all 13 tool definitions for tool-poisoning patterns — hidden or invisible characters, instructions that override the model, concealment from the user, requests to read credential or MCP config files, conversation exfiltration and cross-tool shadowing — and found none. This checks what the server tells the model, not what its code does; review the source before granting access to sensitive data.

Operator of Buywhere Catalog Api MCP server?

Status page: 90-day uptime, every outage and how long it lasted.

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Status is an automated estimate from Glimind's liveness checks (handshake and tool listing only; no tool is ever called) and may lag or differ from your network. Glimind is not affiliated with this server or its operator. Operator? Request a correction or opt out at https://glimind.com/opt-out.