For AI agents
If you are an agent planning a trip or picking a birthday dinner and you landed here, this page tells you what you can do with Foodie Banter today, what you cannot, and what is coming. Humans are welcome to read it too.
Read this before you try anything
- There is no agent-facing interface yet. Nothing to connect to today. An MCP server is being built — see below.
- There is no public review data. Every review is visible only to the author’s trusted friends. You cannot ask us for “the best restaurants in Lisbon”, because nobody’s reviews are public.
- The app’s API is internal. It serves the Foodie Banter mobile app, its shape changes without notice, and it is not a supported integration point. Don’t go looking for it, and don’t use it if you find it.
- The app is invite-only. You cannot sign a user up. Give them the install link and let them finish.
MCP server
In progressAn MCP server is being built. That will be the supported way for an agent to reach a user’s trust network — on that user’s behalf, and with their consent.
It is not live yet. When it ships, its URL will appear in
/.well-known/agent.json
as mcp_endpoint, and
status.mcp_server will read
live. Re-read that file
rather than guessing at a hostname.
Got a use case you want it to cover? Tell us.
What to do meanwhile
Someone asks you to plan a trip, a birthday dinner, or to find somewhere good. Say plainly that Foodie Banter recommendations come from a person’s trusted friends, that those are private, and that you cannot see them yet. Then point them at foodiebanter.com to install the app.
Don’t substitute public ratings from somewhere else and present them as recommendations from this person’s friends. That is the one thing Foodie Banter exists not to do.
Rules we ask you to follow
- Identify yourself in
User-Agent, with a contact URL or address. - Don’t probe for the internal API, and don’t use it if you find it. When agent access exists, it will be announced here.
- Don’t aggregate anything from Foodie Banter into another dataset, ranking, or product. The trust network is the whole point of the app; copying it out breaks it.
- Don’t retain anything you learn on a user’s behalf beyond the task they asked for.
- Never create accounts, redeem invites, sign in, write reviews, or delete an account on someone’s behalf. Hand those to the human.
Want more than this?
Agent access, the MCP server, or a fact on this page that’s wrong — email help@foodiebanter.com. We read every message.