# Brandloupe Index (remote · api.brandloupe.com)

Weekly data on 600k+ Shopify stores: launches, best sellers, prices, apps and similar stores.

- Trust score: 63/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-10-18

## Components

- remote · `api.brandloupe.com`: 63/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-brandloupe-brandloupe/api-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-brandloupe-brandloupe/api-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://api.brandloupe.com/api/mcp/`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.0.0`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-10-18.

- **Endpoint Security**: 63/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one.
  - HTTPS enforcement could not be verified: the plaintext port answered with HTTP 405, which proves neither a plaintext path nor enforcement.
  - HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 61/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 766 tokens (~191/item across 4 items; 4 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 7/100
  - Stability observed for 2 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 94/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 83% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 4 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 5 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 60/100
  - Spec-recency check failed: implements MCP spec 2025-06-18; the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the Brandloupe Index MCP server?

Brandloupe Index is a hosted endpoint at https://api.brandloupe.com/api/mcp/, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http com-brandloupe-brandloupe 'https://api.brandloupe.com/api/mcp/'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-brandloupe-brandloupe": {
      "url": "https://api.brandloupe.com/api/mcp/"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "com-brandloupe-brandloupe": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.brandloupe.com/api/mcp/"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.com-brandloupe-brandloupe]
url = "https://api.brandloupe.com/api/mcp/"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "com-brandloupe-brandloupe": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://api.brandloupe.com/api/mcp/",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add com-brandloupe-brandloupe --url 'https://api.brandloupe.com/api/mcp/' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  com-brandloupe-brandloupe:
    url: "https://api.brandloupe.com/api/mcp/"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "com-brandloupe-brandloupe": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://api.brandloupe.com/api/mcp/"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add com-brandloupe-brandloupe -t streamable-http -u 'https://api.brandloupe.com/api/mcp/'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-brandloupe-brandloupe": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.brandloupe.com/api/mcp/"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-10-17 (score 63, +1)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-10-16 (score 62)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (4)

### `lookup_store` (~62 tokens)

Look up a Shopify store

One Shopify store's profile from the latest crawl: newest products, best sellers, price range, catalog, apps, theme, pixels, estimated US traffic and similar stores (competitors).

Input parameters:

- `domain` (string, required): Store domain, e.g. gymshark.com

### `weekly_changes` (~104 tokens)

What changed on Shopify this week

Totals and examples from the latest weekly crawl compared with the previous one: product launches, price drops of 10% or more, new discounts, best-seller climbs and apps stores added. Optionally for one category or country.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string): Store category key, e.g. fashion, beauty, home, health, food-drink, pets
- `country` (string): Two-letter country code of the store's business address, e.g. US

### `find_stores` (~440 tokens)

Find Shopify stores

Up to 10 live Shopify stores matching filters (category, country, apps they run or lack, pixels, theme), sorted by popularity, estimated US visits, recent launches or catalog size.

Input parameters:

- `app` (string): Comma-separated app keys the store runs (all of them, max 5). Keys by category: Email & SMS marketing: klaviyo, attentive, postscript, omnisend, privy; Pop-ups & conversion: justuno; Product reviews:…
- `category` (string): Store category key, e.g. fashion, beauty, home, health, food-drink, pets
- `country` (string): Two-letter country code of the store's business address, e.g. US
- `no_app` (string): Comma-separated app keys the store runs none of (max 10), e.g. all of a category's keys for 'no reviews app'
- `no_pixel` (string): Comma-separated pixel keys the store runs none of
- `pixel` (string): Comma-separated pixel keys the store runs: meta, tiktok, google_ads, google_analytics, pinterest, snapchat, microsoft_ads, reddit, northbeam, rakuten
- `sort` (string)
- `theme` (string): Theme name, e.g. Dawn

### `technology_usage` (~78 tokens)

Shopify app, theme or pixel usage

How many live Shopify stores run an app, theme or pixel, its share of its category, top countries, apps used with it and the most visited stores running it. Slugs: app key with hyphens (judge-me), theme name + '-theme' (dawn-theme), pixel key (meta).

Input parameters:

- `slug` (string, required)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-brandloupe-brandloupe/api-mcp#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-10-18: 63
- 2026-10-17: 63
- 2026-10-16: 62

## Common questions

### What is the Brandloupe Index MCP server?

Brandloupe Index is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as com.brandloupe/brandloupe. Weekly data on 600k+ Shopify stores: launches, best sellers, prices, apps and similar stores. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://api.brandloupe.com/api/mcp/).

### Is the Brandloupe Index MCP server safe to use?

Brandloupe Index scores 63 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the Brandloupe Index MCP server expose?

Brandloupe Index exposes 4 tools: lookup_store, weekly_changes, find_stores, technology_usage. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 684 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Brandloupe Index MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to Brandloupe Index without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the Brandloupe Index MCP server still maintained?

Brandloupe Index is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 18 October 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://api.brandloupe.com/api/mcp/
- Website: https://brandloupe.com/ai/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-brandloupe-brandloupe/api-mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-brandloupe-brandloupe/api-mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-brandloupe-brandloupe/api-mcp