Mercantry

Mercantry is an open commerce registry for AI agents — structured merchant data, honest signals, and real-world booking fulfillment.

Current status — read this first. Mercantry is pre-launch. What is real and what is not, precisely:

• The merchant data is real: 168,000+ restaurants across Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and Tokyo, built exclusively from openly licensed sources (Overture Maps CDLA-P-2.0 + official government registers), conflated with per-field provenance and QA-gated versioned releases. Live counts: get_registry_meta.
• Real merchants are discovery-only for now: place_booking against a real merchant returns the structured rejection fulfillment_not_live. A booking guard makes it structurally impossible for our booking simulator to dial a real restaurant.
• The booking loop is testable end-to-end against sandbox: true merchants — fictional records with deterministic outcomes ("test cards for bookings"). Do not call sandbox phone numbers; they are not real businesses.
• Fulfillment, when it launches, is human-operated phone booking on a phone-verified merchant tranche (voice automation is deferred). Outbound-calling sections of the spec operate only after legal review — publication of the spec is not operation.
• Mercantry is built and operated by a team of AI agents with human oversight, stated here as a fact rather than a gimmick.

Connect your agent

The live endpoint serves MCP over Streamable HTTP:

claude mcp add --transport http mercantry https://agentic-commerce-registry.fly.dev/mcp

• REST mirror: /v1 — self-describing via /v1/openapi.json
• Discovery manifest: /.well-known/mcp.json · health: /healthz · PII-free ops stats: /v1/stats
• Keys are optional (abuse control, not gating): POST /v1/keys with developer_name + contact. All reads are free and unauthenticated.
• Bulk export encouraged: GET /v1/export/merchants.ndjson — caching, embedding, and training on the data are permitted under the open license.

Agent-first tool documentation with example transcripts: docs/mcp-tools.md. If you are an agent working in this repo, read AGENTS.md.

MCP tools

search_merchants (filter-based, never ranked, deterministic documented order) · get_merchant (full signal dump: every field, raw feedback history, operational stats, per-field provenance) · get_availability (honest: performed_at_booking) · place_booking (async) · get_booking_status · modify_booking · cancel_booking (mandatory when plans change — no-shows are tracked per developer key) · submit_feedback (confirmed bookings only, once, within 14 days) · get_registry_meta (evaluate the registry itself, staleness included)

Run it yourself

npm install
npm run dev        # seeds a sandbox corpus on first boot; everything in one process

Surface	Where
MCP (Streamable HTTP)	http://localhost:4100/mcp
REST mirror + OpenAPI	http://localhost:4100/v1
Ops Console (gate with OPS_TOKEN)	http://localhost:4100/
Booking status pages	http://localhost:4100/status/:booking_id

npm test           # full suite
npm run typecheck

Deployment (Docker/Fly.io), agent onboarding, and the security checklist: docs/deployment.md.

Architecture

┌─────────────┐     ┌──────────────┐     ┌────────────────────┐
│  Agent      │────▶│  MCP Server   │────▶│ Fulfillment        │
│  (customer) │◀────│ src/mcp       │◀────│ Orchestrator       │
└─────────────┘     └──────┬───────┘     │ src/orchestrator   │
                           │             │  └─ human operator │
                    ┌──────▼───────┐     └─────────┬──────────┘
                    │  Registry DB  │◀──────────────┘
                    │  src/db       │     ┌────────────────────┐
                    └──────▲───────┘     │  Ops Console       │
                           │             │  src/ops + src/api │
                    ┌──────┴───────┐     └────────────────────┘
                    │  Ingestion    │ src/ingest — LA · HK · Tokyo,
                    │  & QA gate    │ openly licensed sources only
                    └──────────────┘

The customer is the agent, not the human. One uniform interface with swappable fulfillment backends: agents integrate once; behind the interface, fulfillment can graduate from human phone calls to native merchant integrations without the agent changing a line.

Hard rules encoded in this codebase

• No ranking, ever. No score fields exist in the schema; search order is deterministic and documented. The registry returns signals, never ordered opinions.
• No scraped review text. The only feedback served is transaction-verified, submitted by agents against confirmed bookings.
• Openly licensed data only. Overture Maps (CDLA-P-2.0) + official government registers; per-field provenance with timestamps; QA-gated releases with published drop counts.
• Opt-out is immediate and permanent. A merchant requesting removal is hard-excluded from discovery and booking the same day.
• Every booking is auditable. Full event log: tool calls, transcripts, timestamped state transitions.
• PII is minimal. Reservation name/contact stored only for the booking, never exposed via read tools.
• Honesty over polish. get_availability says performed_at_booking instead of pretending; get_registry_meta exposes our own staleness; sandbox vs. real is labeled per merchant.

Spec

The full product spec lives at docs/requirements.md. Sections describing outbound calling are published for openness but nothing in them operates until legal review is complete — see the banner at the top of that document.

License

Apache-2.0. The registry spec, code, and data schema are open — openness is the strategy, not a concession.