AirShelf generic catalog is a remote MCP server that gives an AI agent 8 tools, among them compare_products, explain_product, find_products. It answers at https://mcp.airshelf.ai/mcp over streamable HTTP, and it listed its tools to an anonymous client, so no sign-in was needed for that. Our probes reached it 10 of 10 times since 5 September 2026; the last check, on 18 October 2026, succeeded.
Cross-vendor product catalog: search, get, compare, explain.
Description as the publisher wrote it.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
compare_products | Compare 2-10 catalog products side-by-side on their datasheet specs. Slugs come from search_catalog and are case-insensitive and dash-tolerant ("e-STUDIO 331AC", "toshiba-e-studio-331ac" and "e-studio331ac" all resolve to the same product). Inputs: slugs, provenance |
explain_product | Explain the evidence behind a catalog row. Returns stored processing stages when available and always returns a golden-record field summary with source coverage. Inputs: slug |
find_products | Discover candidate products for a buyer need. Takes a need in natural language (e.g. "best value home espresso machine", market "TH"), checks the verified catalog first, then uses live web discovery only when the catalog has no candidates. Inputs: need, market, max |
get_product | Get the full golden record (AirShelf's verified product record) and latest price for one catalog product by slug ("<manufacturer>-<model>"). Returns the product's specs and provenance (which page each fact came from), plus canonical_name (i Inputs: slug |
list_merchants | List public AirShelf merchants that have an assigned slug and at least one active product. Internal/demo and empty catalogs are excluded. Returns each merchant's name, slug, and product count; the slug is the `merchant` argument for request |
request_quote | Send a quote request for catalog products to a merchant's sales team on behalf of a named buyer. This is a two-step, double opt-in flow. The first call emails a confirmation link to `contact.email` and returns status "confirmation_required" Inputs: merchant, products, quantity, contact, notes, brandSlug |
research_shopping | research_shopping is the full verified-research job; find_products is the quick candidate-list tool. It runs as a background job and returns status "running" with a research ID while the minutes-long research continues; the same research ID Inputs: need, market, persona, answers, research_id |
search_catalog | Search the AirShelf cross-vendor product catalog by natural-language query. The catalog covers industrial-automation components (sensors, encoders, vacuum handling, motors and drives, circuit protection, machine vision — the largest categor Inputs: q, category, limit, market, specs |
Every block below points at https://mcp.airshelf.ai/mcp. Pick your client and copy.
claude mcp add --transport http airshelf-generic-catalog https://mcp.airshelf.ai/mcp
{
"mcpServers": {
"airshelf-generic-catalog": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.airshelf.ai/mcp"]
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"airshelf-generic-catalog": {
"url": "https://mcp.airshelf.ai/mcp"
}
}
}{
"servers": {
"airshelf-generic-catalog": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://mcp.airshelf.ai/mcp"
}
}
}{
"context_servers": {
"airshelf-generic-catalog": {
"url": "https://mcp.airshelf.ai/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"airshelf-generic-catalog": {
"serverUrl": "https://mcp.airshelf.ai/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"airshelf-generic-catalog": {
"url": "https://mcp.airshelf.ai/mcp"
}
}
}name: AirShelf generic catalog
version: 0.0.1
schema: v1
mcpServers:
- name: AirShelf generic catalog
type: streamable-http
url: https://mcp.airshelf.ai/mcp{
"mcpServers": {
"airshelf-generic-catalog": {
"httpUrl": "https://mcp.airshelf.ai/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"airshelf-generic-catalog": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://mcp.airshelf.ai/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"airshelf-generic-catalog": {
"url": "https://mcp.airshelf.ai/mcp"
}
}
}goose://extension?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmcp.airshelf.ai%2Fmcp&type=streamable_http&id=airshelf-generic-catalog&name=AirShelf%20generic%20catalog
It answered our last check on 18 October 2026 in 411 ms. Over 10 checks since 5 September 2026 it answered 10. Status here comes from Neuronto's own probes, not from the publisher.
8, as returned by the server's own tools/list on 31 August 2026: compare_products, explain_product, find_products, get_product, list_merchants, request_quote, research_shopping, search_catalog.
It answered our last check on 18 October 2026 in 411 ms. Over 10 checks since 5 September 2026 it answered 10.
Put the server under mcpServers in ~/.cursor/mcp.json with the URL https://mcp.airshelf.ai/mcp. The exact JSON is above, with the same setup for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, VS Code, Windsurf, Zed, Gemini CLI and the rest.
It listed its tools to an anonymous client, so reading the tool list needs no key. Individual tools can still ask for credentials in their own inputs.
Publisher: airshelf. Endpoint host: mcp.airshelf.ai. ARD identifier: urn:air:airshelf:mcp:generic-catalog.
First indexed 31 August 2026. The tools are exactly what the server returned; nothing on this page
is inferred from its name. Ranking in Neuronto search is never for sale.