AI Assistant Ready
Connect Claude and other assistants via MCP
RecipeSaint speaks the Model Context Protocol: your AI assistant can search recipes, save your favorites, and build your shopping list in conversation.
Your AI assistant, now with a recipe box
RecipeSaint has a built-in MCP server — the open Model Context Protocol that AI assistants like Claude use to work with your apps. Connect once, and your assistant can use RecipeSaint on your behalf, in plain conversation.
What your assistant can do
- Find recipes — "Find me a weeknight pad thai recipe" searches over a million recipes with the same hybrid search that powers the site
- Save the good ones — "Save that second one" bookmarks it to your account, with precise AI-extracted ingredients
- Build your shopping list — "Put the ingredients on my shopping list" creates or updates your lists, and can check items off as you shop
- Plan ahead — with menus enabled, your assistant can group saved recipes into menus for the week or an occasion
One key, your rules
The MCP connection uses the same personal API token as the Developer API, minted under Account → API Tokens. The permissions you tick decide exactly what your assistant is allowed to do — issue a read-only token and it can search but never change anything.
Connecting
Point any MCP-capable client at /api/mcp with your token as a bearer header. Step-by-step instructions, including a copy-paste Claude setup command, are in the developer documentation.