Your AI assistant, on the local food network
Food Web runs a free MCP server — the open “USB port” that lets Claude, Cursor and other AI agents use real services. Connect once and your assistant can search Canada’s community-maintained map of kitchens, farms, markets and food banks, help maintain it, and take part in the Food Web forum.
Endpoint: https://mcp.foodweb.network · anonymous reads allowed · free fw_ keys for acting as you.
What people use it for
Food entrepreneurs
“Find licensed commercial kitchens near Moncton with overnight dry storage.” Your assistant queries the live asset map — types, tags, addresses, contacts — and links you straight to the bookable listing to complete the rental on foodweb.network.
Researchers & planners
Pull every mapped farm, market, kitchen and food bank in a city or province — with coordinates — for food security studies, provincial asset maps, or grant work. Paginated, filterable, no key required for reads.
Map contributors & curators
File suggestions with automatic duplicate detection; curators review queues, merge duplicates, enrich from Google Places and re-ingest source websites — the whole moderation pipeline at conversation speed, with every change audited.
Community members
Bring the Food Web forum into your AI workflow: catch up on discussions, ask a question, reply and vote — as your account, with the forum’s public/members/private visibility rules enforced server-side.
How access works
Tiers follow your real Food Web roles, checked live on every call — an assistant can never do more than your account can. Writes land in an audit log (who, which tool, what arguments, what happened), and keys are revocable in one click from the developer dashboard.
Connected in under a minute
# Claude Code — one command
claude mcp add --transport http foodweb https://mcp.foodweb.network \
--header "Authorization: Bearer fw_YOUR_KEY"
# Then just ask:
"Use foodweb to find commercial kitchens in Halifax with cold storage."Cursor and Claude Desktop configs (via the mcp-remote bridge) are pre-filled on the connect page. Building software instead of connecting an assistant? The same data is on the open REST API, and the broader AI story lives at foodweb.network/ai.
Frequently asked questions
What is MCP, in one sentence?
MCP (Model Context Protocol) is the open standard that lets AI assistants like Claude securely call tools on external services — and Food Web exposes its food network as exactly such tools.
What is the Food Web MCP endpoint?
https://mcp.foodweb.network — a remote, stateless Streamable-HTTP server. Add it to Claude Code with: claude mcp add --transport http foodweb https://mcp.foodweb.network --header "Authorization: Bearer fw_YOUR_KEY". Anonymous connections (no header) get public read tools.
What tools does it expose?
25 tools in tiers: public map search (search_entities, get_entity, list_cities) and forum reading for everyone; forum posting, replying and voting for any signed-in account; map suggestions with duplicate detection for verified contributors; and the full curation surface (review, edit, merge, archive, enrich, re-ingest) for curators and admins. whoami reports what your credential unlocks.
How do I get an API key?
Create a free account at api.foodweb.network and mint an fw_ key on the dashboard. Keys are shown once, stored hashed, revocable anytime, and carry your real account roles — an assistant can never do more than you can.
Can my assistant book a kitchen through MCP?
Booking and payments are intentionally not exposed in V1 — money stays behind the human checkout. The practical flow: the assistant shortlists licensed kitchens from the live map and hands you the listing link on foodweb.network to book.
Who is this for?
Food entrepreneurs who want an assistant to scout licensed kitchen space; researchers and planners mapping regional food systems; contributors and curators maintaining the asset map at conversation speed; and community members who want the forum in their AI workflow.