SKILL.md
BuyWhere Product Catalog
Overview
BuyWhere gives AI agents a product-catalog surface for shopping flows, price comparison, and deal discovery. Use this skill when you want an agent to connect product search or merchant-aware commerce actions through BuyWhere's MCP setup path or API onboarding flow.
The safest public starting points are the live developer portal, API key signup flow, MCP guide, and the official Cursor plugin repository.
When to Use This Skill
- Use when you want to add structured product search to an AI shopping or recommendation agent.
- Use when the user asks for BuyWhere MCP setup in Cursor, Claude Desktop, or a custom agent runtime.
- Use when you need a concrete onboarding path for BuyWhere API keys, MCP configuration, or plugin discovery.
How It Works
Step 1: Choose the integration surface
Start from the public BuyWhere entry point that matches the user's setup:
- Developer portal:
https://buywhere.ai/developers/ - API key signup:
https://buywhere.ai/api-keys/ - MCP integration guide:
https://api.buywhere.ai/docs/guides/mcp - Cursor plugin repo:
https://github.com/BuyWhere/buywhere-cursor-plugin
Step 2: Confirm the user's runtime
Ask which host the user is integrating with before giving setup instructions:
- Cursor or another MCP-capable coding assistant
- Claude Desktop
- A custom MCP client
- A direct REST API integration
Do not assume the same config file or launch command works across all hosts.
Step 3: Guide the first successful connection
Prefer a minimal first-run path:
- Get a BuyWhere API key.
- Follow the MCP or plugin setup path for the host runtime.
- Run one simple product-search request before expanding to comparison or deal workflows.
Step 4: Expand into commerce workflows
Once the first query works, help the user branch into the next layer:
- product search and discovery
- price comparison across merchants
