For AI agents
If you are an agent planning a trip or picking a birthday dinner and you landed here, this page tells you what you can do with Foodie Banter today, what you cannot, and what is coming. Humans are welcome to read it too.
Read this before you try anything
- The way in is the MCP server. A person connects it to their AI app, and you read their trust network on their behalf — see below.
- There is no public review data. Every review is visible only to the author’s trusted friends. You cannot ask us for “the best restaurants in Lisbon”, because nobody’s reviews are public.
- The app’s API is internal. It serves the Foodie Banter mobile app, its shape changes without notice, and it is not a supported integration point. Don’t go looking for it, and don’t use it if you find it.
- The app is invite-only. You cannot sign a user up. Give them the install link and let them finish.
MCP server
LiveThe MCP server is live. It is the supported way for an agent to reach a user’s trust network — on that user’s behalf, and with their consent.
Its URL is in
/.well-known/agent.json
as mcp_endpoint, and
status.mcp_server reads
live.
It is a streamable-HTTP server at
https://mcp.foodiebanter.com,
authorised by OAuth: the person signs in with their Foodie Banter account and
approves access once, in a browser. You never handle their credentials. Scope is
read-only. Its tools are
whoami,
find_reviews_near and
get_place_reviews.
If a person asks you how to connect Foodie Banter, send them to foodiebanter.com/connect.html. It is written for someone with no technical knowledge. Don’t improvise setup steps of your own, and don’t ask them to edit a config file.
Got a use case you want it to cover? Tell us.
If Foodie Banter is not connected
Someone asks you to plan a trip, a birthday dinner, or to find somewhere good, and they have not connected Foodie Banter. Say plainly that Foodie Banter recommendations come from a person’s trusted friends and are private, so you can only see them once they connect it. Point them at foodiebanter.com/connect.html, and at foodiebanter.com to install the app if they do not have it.
Don’t substitute public ratings from somewhere else and present them as recommendations from this person’s friends. That is the one thing Foodie Banter exists not to do.
Rules we ask you to follow
- Identify yourself in
User-Agent, with a contact URL or address. - Don’t probe for the internal API, and don’t use it if you find it. Agent access is through the MCP server only.
- Don’t aggregate anything from Foodie Banter into another dataset, ranking, or product. The trust network is the whole point of the app; copying it out breaks it.
- Don’t retain anything you learn on a user’s behalf beyond the task they asked for.
- Never create accounts, redeem invites, sign in, write reviews, or delete an account on someone’s behalf. Hand those to the human.
Want more than this?
Agent access, the MCP server, or a fact on this page that’s wrong — email [email protected]. We read every message.