Agent Chef MCP server

Family meal planning run by your own AI agent. Every week your agent proposes ten dinners, the household votes and leaves feedback from personal links (no accounts), the top picks win, and Agent Chef builds the grocery list minus what's already in the pantry. Your agent fills the cart; you approve checkout.

• Website & how it works: https://agentchef.net
• Remote MCP endpoint (Streamable HTTP): https://agentchef.net/mcp
• Official registry entry: net.agentchef/agent-chef

This repository is the public connector for the hosted service. The app itself runs at agentchef.net.

Connect

OAuth (Claude.ai, ChatGPT, Claude Desktop): add https://agentchef.net/mcp as a custom connector. The client discovers Agent Chef's authorization server, you sign in once and click Allow. No key needed.

API key (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, scripts):

1. Sign in at https://agentchef.net, create your household, and open Settings → Agents.
2. Click Add to Claude / Add to ChatGPT / Claude Code / Cursor. You get an API key and exact steps for that agent.
3. Tell your agent: “Run Agent Chef.” It calls run_agent_chef, receives the operating manual plus today's checklist, schedules itself to run twice a day, and takes it from there.

Manual configuration for any MCP client:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "agent-chef": {
      "url": "https://agentchef.net/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer <your API key>" }
    }
  }
}

Clients that can't set headers can use https://agentchef.net/mcp?key=<your API key>. OAuth discovery lives at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource and /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server.

Running locally over stdio

For clients that only speak stdio (and for directories that build servers in a container), this repo is a small Node MCP server. It ships the full tool catalog, so initialize, tools/list and prompts/list work offline; tool calls run on the hosted service for the household identified by AGENT_CHEF_API_KEY.

npx -y agent-chef-mcp                          # or: git clone … && npm install && npm start
AGENT_CHEF_API_KEY=ac_... node server.js

Docker:

docker build -t agent-chef-mcp .
docker run -i -e AGENT_CHEF_API_KEY=ac_... agent-chef-mcp

Client config for stdio:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "agent-chef": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "agent-chef-mcp"],
      "env": { "AGENT_CHEF_API_KEY": "ac_..." }
    }
  }
}

Without a key the server still lists everything; tool calls return a message explaining where to get a key. npm run sync refreshes catalog.json from the live server; npm test runs a stdio smoke test.

Tools (37)

| Area | Tools | |---|---| | Run loop | run_agent_chef, next_actions, get_instructions, record_schedule, dismiss_setup_checklist | | Access | get_connected_agents, revoke_connected_agent | | Preferences | get_recipe_preferences, update_recipe_preferences | | Household | get_members, upsert_member, remove_member | | Pantry | get_ingredients, update_ingredients | | Recipes | search_recipes, get_recipe, update_recipe, import_recipe, import_recipes, create_recipe, set_recipe_image, get_favorite_recipes, favorite_recipe, get_past_recipes | | Weekly cycle | propose_recipes, add_candidates, message_group, add_vote, add_ballot_feedback, get_past_votes, get_current_week, set_this_weeks_recipes, reopen_voting, set_voting_deadline, rate_recipe | | Shopping | assemble_online_grocery_order, record_grocery_order |

Prompts: run_agent_chef (also weekly_cycle).

Privacy & terms

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