# Shopfront Chennai Local Commerce (remote · shopfront-rouge.vercel.app)

Hyperlocal commerce and verified merchant directory MCP server for Chennai, India.

- Trust score: 76/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +3
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `shopfront-rouge.vercel.app`: 76/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/jeeva-m-21-shopfront/shopfront-rouge.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/jeeva-m-21-shopfront/shopfront-rouge)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://shopfront-rouge.vercel.app/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `2.0.0`

## 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 2026-11-05.

- **Endpoint Security**: 80/100
  - 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 is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - The HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security) header is present.
  - 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**: 57/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (fair).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 383 tokens (~76/item across 5 items; 5 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 60/100
  - Stability observed for 18 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 67/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 0% 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 5 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**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the Shopfront Chennai Local Commerce MCP server?

Shopfront Chennai Local Commerce is a hosted endpoint at https://shopfront-rouge.vercel.app/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 jeeva-m-21-shopfront 'https://shopfront-rouge.vercel.app/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "jeeva-m-21-shopfront": {
      "url": "https://shopfront-rouge.vercel.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "jeeva-m-21-shopfront": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://shopfront-rouge.vercel.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.jeeva-m-21-shopfront]
url = "https://shopfront-rouge.vercel.app/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "jeeva-m-21-shopfront": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://shopfront-rouge.vercel.app/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add jeeva-m-21-shopfront --url 'https://shopfront-rouge.vercel.app/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  jeeva-m-21-shopfront:
    url: "https://shopfront-rouge.vercel.app/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "jeeva-m-21-shopfront": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://shopfront-rouge.vercel.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add jeeva-m-21-shopfront -t streamable-http -u 'https://shopfront-rouge.vercel.app/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "jeeva-m-21-shopfront": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://shopfront-rouge.vercel.app/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.

### 2026-11-04 (score 76, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 53 to 57. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 16 days of observed history at the previous scan, 17 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-02 (score 75, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 47 to 50. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 14 days of observed history at the previous scan, 15 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-31 (score 74, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 40 to 43. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 12 days of observed history at the previous scan, 13 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-29 (score 73, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 33 to 37. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 10 days of observed history at the previous scan, 11 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-27 (score 72, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 27 to 30. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 8 days of observed history at the previous scan, 9 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-25 (score 71, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 20 to 23. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 6 days of observed history at the previous scan, 7 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-23 (score 70, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 13 to 17. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 4 days of observed history at the previous scan, 5 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-20 (score 69, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 3 to 7. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 1 days of observed history at the previous scan, 2 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

## MCP tools (5)

### `find_shops` (~143 tokens)

Find and rank local shops in Chennai for a customer request. Always provide locality when the customer has told you where they are. If the customer has not said where they are, ask them for a Chennai area before calling this tool. Use category when it is clear. Results already satisfy distance, budget, and open-now constraints.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string)
- `lat` (number)
- `limit` (integer)
- `lng` (number)
- `locality` (string)
- `max_price_inr` (integer)
- `open_now` (boolean)
- `query` (string)
- `radius_km` (number)

### `get_shop_info` (~47 tokens)

Retrieve detailed public shop profile including address, locality, coordinates, weekly opening hours, upcoming closures, contact numbers, action mode, and latest menu timestamp.

Input parameters:

- `shop_slug` (string, required)

### `get_catalog` (~55 tokens)

Retrieve available menu or service catalog items for a shop grouped by category, with price display and duration, supporting cursor-based pagination.

Input parameters:

- `cursor` (string)
- `kind` (string)
- `shop_slug` (string, required)

### `search_catalog` (~70 tokens)

Search items within a specific shop catalog using text similarity and full-text search with optional price ceiling and item kind filtering.

Input parameters:

- `kind` (string)
- `limit` (integer)
- `max_price_inr` (integer)
- `query` (string, required)
- `shop_slug` (string, required)

### `get_action_link` (~68 tokens)

Generate an actionable WhatsApp deep link, booking URL, or phone dial link with standard customer enquiry message for a shop and optional item.

Input parameters:

- `customer_note` (string)
- `item_id` (string)
- `preferred_time` (string)
- `shop_slug` (string, required)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/jeeva-m-21-shopfront/shopfront-rouge#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 76
- 2026-11-04: 76
- 2026-11-03: 75
- 2026-11-02: 75
- 2026-11-01: 74
- 2026-10-31: 74
- 2026-10-30: 73
- 2026-10-29: 73
- 2026-10-28: 72
- 2026-10-27: 72
- 2026-10-26: 71
- 2026-10-25: 71
- 2026-10-24: 70
- 2026-10-23: 70
- 2026-10-22: 69
- 2026-10-21: 69
- 2026-10-20: 69
- 2026-10-19: 68
- 2026-10-18: 68

## Common questions

### What is the Shopfront Chennai Local Commerce MCP server?

Shopfront Chennai Local Commerce is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.jeeva-m-21/shopfront. Hyperlocal commerce and verified merchant directory MCP server for Chennai, India. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://shopfront-rouge.vercel.app/mcp).

### Is the Shopfront Chennai Local Commerce MCP server safe to use?

Shopfront Chennai Local Commerce scores 76 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 Shopfront Chennai Local Commerce MCP server expose?

Shopfront Chennai Local Commerce exposes 5 tools: find_shops, get_shop_info, get_catalog, search_catalog, get_action_link. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 383 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Shopfront Chennai Local Commerce MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to Shopfront Chennai Local Commerce without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the Shopfront Chennai Local Commerce MCP server still maintained?

Shopfront Chennai Local Commerce is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 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://shopfront-rouge.vercel.app/mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/jeeva-m-21/shopfront
- Website: https://shopfront-rouge.vercel.app/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/jeeva-m-21-shopfront/shopfront-rouge.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/jeeva-m-21-shopfront/shopfront-rouge.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/jeeva-m-21-shopfront/shopfront-rouge