GadgetDrop for AI Agents — Price-Truth MCP Server

What this is

GadgetDrop records the real price of every product we review, over time, and refuses to call anything a deal unless our own history backs it up. This server exposes that dataset over the Model Context Protocol so an AI assistant can answer "is this actually a good deal?" with tracked numbers instead of marketing copy. It is read-only and serves only what is already public on this site.

Endpoint (Streamable HTTP)

https://gadgetdrop.tech/mcp

Two things every response makes explicit, and your assistant should too: the numbers are our tracked history, not live Amazon prices (each reply carries a checked_at timestamp), and stats stay null until a product has enough history — at least 2 snapshots spanning 14 days. The restraint is the product. Full details in our deal-verdict methodology, which the server also ships as a readable methodology resource.

The tools

search_tracked_products What do we cover? Name/brand substring or exact ASIN → up to 10 matches with review URLs.

get_price_history Full tracked history for one product: current price, 30/90-day low/avg/high, dated series, verdict.

get_deal_verdict One honest, dated sentence — "18% below its tracked 90-day average" — plus the stats behind it.

get_buy_or_wait_verdict Buy now or wait for the next model? Where a product line sits in its documented release cycle, crossed with our tracked price, sourced to the manufacturer's own announcement, never a rumour.

list_tracked_deals The live feed behind our Price Drops page: products ≥5% below their tracked 90-day average.

ping Connectivity check: server time + tracked product count.

Connect your assistant

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http gadgetdrop https://gadgetdrop.tech/mcp

Claude Desktop / claude.ai

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste https://gadgetdrop.tech/mcp as the remote MCP server URL.

Other MCP clients (JSON config)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gadgetdrop": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://gadgetdrop.tech/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Any client that speaks MCP over Streamable HTTP works — ChatGPT developer-mode connectors, Cursor, and friends. No authentication, no API key.

Rate limits & fair use

The server is free and anonymous, throttled at 30 requests/minute and 300 requests/day per IP, with tool inputs capped at 1 KB. Every read is cache-backed, so a tool call costs about what a page view does — but if load ever strains the site, these limits may tighten (we'd document it here). Responses are marked Cache-Control: no-store; don't re-serve them as live prices.

Affiliate disclosure

GadgetDrop earns a commission on Amazon purchases made through the links this server returns — every response says so in a disclosure field, and an assistant relaying our links should relay that sentence with them. Product links route through our redirect (never raw Amazon URLs) so the relationship stays visible. That commission is the business model; the tracked history is why you can trust the verdict anyway — see how we review.

The Price-Truth MCP Server