About this plugin
MCP for WooCommerce turns your store into a read-only Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. AI assistants such as Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or VS Code can connect to it and answer questions about your catalogue, using the same information a shop visitor already sees on your storefront.
This is a community-developed plugin. It is not an official WooCommerce or WordPress plugin and is not affiliated with Automattic.
What AI assistants can read
- Products – published products, prices, sale prices, stock status, variations, images and product links
- Catalogue structure – categories, tags, brands and attributes
- Reviews – approved product reviews (the reviewer’s name, never their e-mail address)
- Shipping and taxes – shipping zones, enabled shipping methods and their costs, tax classes and rates
- Payment methods – the payment methods offered at checkout
- Posts and pages – published WordPress posts and pages
- Smart product search – natural-language search that understands price ranges, brands, categories and attributes
What it never does
- It never creates, changes or deletes anything. Every tool is read-only.
- It never signs in as a WordPress user and has no administrator access.
- It never returns orders, customers, users, e-mail addresses, settings, or draft, private or password-protected content.
How access works
The MCP endpoint is public while MCP is enabled, the same way the WooCommerce Store API and the public WordPress REST API are. Because it only returns storefront information, no account or token is needed. You can switch the whole endpoint off, or turn individual tools off, from the settings page.
What is MCP?
The Model Context Protocol is an open standard that lets AI assistants call tools and read data from external systems. This plugin is an MCP server: it describes your store’s read-only tools so an AI assistant can use them.
Use cases
- A shopping assistant or AI chatbot that recommends products and links straight to them
- Answering customer questions about products, shipping and payment options
- Exploring your catalogue in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or VS Code
Requirements
- WordPress 6.4 or higher
- PHP 8.0 or higher
- WooCommerce
Additional Information
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Documentation: Comprehensive documentation is available within the plugin settings page and in our online documentation.
Contributing: This plugin is open source. Contributions are welcome through our GitHub repository.
Privacy: This plugin does not collect, store or transmit personal data. It never returns customer, order or user information, and it sends nothing to external services.