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The local food network, readable — and usable — by AI. Food Web publishes its food data for assistants and answer engines, and runs a free MCP server so agents like Claude and Cursor can search the map, contribute to it, and take part in the community forum.
Three doors in: the MCP server at https://mcp.foodweb.network for agents, the open REST API for software, and llms.txt + structured data for retrieval and citations.
A remote Model Context Protocol server with 25 typed tools: map search, map curation, and community-forum reading and posting. Anonymous public reads; free fw_ API keys when the agent acts as you. Every write is role-gated and audit-logged.
A REST API at api.foodweb.network/v1: public map and discovery endpoints plus authenticated bookings, payments, credits, referrals, messaging and forum routes. OpenAPI-documented with an interactive reference.
Every Food Web property ships an llms.txt index, schema.org JSON-LD, and sitemaps tuned for retrieval — so assistants and answer engines can find, quote, and cite accurate facts about local food infrastructure.
foodweb.network/llms.txt →Food Web is community infrastructure — the point is for people to find it, including through AI answers. We explicitly allow AI retrieval crawlers in robots.txt on every property: GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, anthropic-ai, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended, cohere-ai, YouBot and Bytespider.
In return we ask what we ask of any reader: cite the source. Facts about local food infrastructure change — linking back to foodweb.network keeps answers checkable and the map improving. Private surfaces (dashboards, member-only forum threads, personal data) are never crawlable or exposed over the API or MCP.
Yes. Food Web runs a free remote MCP (Model Context Protocol) server at https://mcp.foodweb.network. It gives Claude, Cursor and any MCP-compatible client 25 typed tools: searching the food asset map (kitchens, farms, markets, food banks across Canada), filing and reviewing map suggestions, and reading or posting in the Food Web community forum on behalf of the connected account.
Yes. Public map search and public forum reads work anonymously over MCP and the REST API. An account (and a free fw_ API key from api.foodweb.network) is only needed when the assistant should act as you — posting in the forum or contributing map edits.
Yes — Food Web explicitly allows AI retrieval crawlers (GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended and others) in robots.txt, publishes llms.txt indexes on every property, and marks pages up with schema.org structured data so answer engines can quote accurate facts with attribution.
llms.txt is a curated, plain-markdown site index designed for AI assistants — the essentials of a site in one file. Food Web publishes one per property: foodweb.network/llms.txt (marketplace), api.foodweb.network/llms.txt (developer portal), maps.foodweb.network/llms.txt, forum.foodweb.network/llms.txt and partners.foodweb.network/llms.txt.
The community-maintained asset map: commercial and community kitchens, farms, markets, restaurants, cafés, food banks and related infrastructure, each with a geocoded address, contact details, tags and links into Food Web apps (for example a kitchen’s bookable listing). Access it via the MCP server, the public REST endpoints under api.foodweb.network/v1/map, or the interactive map at foodweb.network/map.
Not yet directly — booking and payment tools are not exposed over MCP in V1 (bookings involve money movement, so they stay behind the human checkout flow). An agent can shortlist licensed kitchens by location and requirements, link you to the exact listing, and answer questions from the community forum; you complete the booking on foodweb.network.
Yes. Every mutating MCP tool call — forum posts, map suggestions, curation actions — is recorded in an audit log with the account, API key, tool name, arguments and outcome. Roles are read live from the account, so revoking a key or role takes effect within about a minute.