MCP Server
AKADATA provides an MCP server so AI agents can read the public AKADATA catalogue in a structured, safe, and predictable way.
What is MCP?
MCP means Model Context Protocol. It allows an AI agent, coding tool, browser agent, or automation client to connect to a service and ask for clearly defined information through known tools instead of scraping pages, guessing routes, or inventing answers.
We built the AKADATA MCP server because AI agents are now part of the web. If an agent wants to understand AKADATA, discover public pages, search the site, or read public content, it should not need to pretend to be a browser or scrape random HTML. It should have a clean way in. That is what this server provides.
Why AKADATA has an MCP server
AKADATA is built to be readable by humans, search engines, and AI systems.
The public website is rendered as proper HTML. The sitemap is available. The llms.txt file explains the site to language models. The /webmcp.json file publicly describes the available MCP-style tools and endpoints.
The MCP server completes that path.
It gives AI agents a proper interface to the same public data that users can browse on the site. It also lets us keep control of safety, authentication, rate limits, and access rules without hiding what the platform does.
We do not want agents scraping blindly. We do not want fake traffic pretending to be human. We do not want useful public catalogue data locked away behind unnecessary friction either. So we made a proper door.
Free access
Basic MCP access is free.
The public read-only MCP server can be used by an AI agent or MCP client without creating an account or API key.
That free access is enough for normal reading, testing, public site search, page discovery, and structured content retrieval.
It is free because that is how we do things. Useful public access should not be made difficult just because the client is an AI agent instead of a person with a browser.
Authentication and AIE
The public MCP description is available for anyone to inspect at /webmcp.json. The tool list and current read-only endpoints are public.
Future protected MCP endpoints will require an API key that can be exchanged for a short-lived AIE bearer token.
AIE is the AKADATA encrypted access layer. It protects requests without relying on ordinary cookie or session behaviour. When protected tools are introduced, an agent will authenticate with an API key, receive a limited bearer token, and use that token only for the MCP tools it is allowed to call.
The first MCP access level is read-only. An agent can read public site content, but it cannot change accounts, submit forms, update content, or perform manager actions.
What agents can do
An authorised MCP client can use AKADATA tools to:
- list public pages
- search the public site
- read a public page as structured content
- understand what AKADATA exposes without scraping the site
These tools are designed for AI agents, coding tools, and automated assistants that need structured access to AKADATA.
Merchant access
Merchant-specific MCP tools can come later.
The first version is deliberately simple: public catalogue and platform read access only.
In future, a merchant account may be able to create merchant-scoped API keys, allowing AI tools to read merchant-specific data or help manage merchant information through carefully limited permissions.
That will only be added when the permission model is correct.
Why this matters
The web is changing.
Search engines still matter. Human visitors still matter. But AI agents now read, summarise, compare, recommend, and automate.
AKADATA is being built so those agents can interact honestly.
We would rather publish clear rules, clear endpoints, and clear access paths than force agents into scraping behaviour that looks like abuse.
The MCP server is part of that principle.
Humans
get pages
Search engines
get HTML + sitemaps
LLMs
get llms.txt
Agents
get MCP
MCP Server
AKADATA public read-only MCP access is free.
Connect an MCP-compatible agent using the public manifest and endpoint. No account or API key is required for the current read-only tools.
Public tool description: /webmcp.json. Future protected MCP access will require an AIE bearer token requested with a valid API key.