generated: '2026-08-12'
method: derived
status: candidate
source: Derived from the operations in openapi/ibotta-product-api-openapi.yml. Ibotta publishes NO MCP
  server — this is an API Evangelist candidate mapping, not a provider-published one.
provider_published:
  mcp_server: false
  probes:
  - url: https://api.ibops.net/bex-api/mcp
    status: 404
  - url: https://ibotta.com/mcp
    status: 200
    note: SPA HTML shell (soft 404), not an MCP endpoint.
  - url: https://ipn.ibotta.com/mcp
    status: 404
  note: No hosted or remote MCP server is advertised on any Ibotta host, in the GitHub org, or in Ibotta's
    own agent-facing document (/.well-known/ai-plugin.json, which targets the retired OpenAI ChatGPT plugin
    platform instead).
existing_agent_surface:
  kind: openai-plugin-manifest-v1
  url: https://ibotta.com/.well-known/ai-plugin.json
  note: 'Ibotta''s only shipped agent surface. It is the pre-MCP generation of the same idea: a manifest
    with a model-facing description and a pointer to an OpenAPI. Migrating it to MCP would be a small,
    mostly mechanical step — one tool, one schema.'
server:
  url: null
  transport: null
  auth: Any MCP server built over this API would inherit the Product API's service bearer token; there
    is no per-user auth (has_user_authentication is false in the plugin manifest).
tools:
- name: search_products
  status: candidate
  rest: searchProducts
  method: POST
  path: /openai/search
  description: Search Ibotta's browser-extension product coverage by one or more keyword queries, with
    optional price-range and single-store filters. Returns product name, price (with hidden-deal and price-range
    flags), image, product URL, merchant info, store id, view count, availability, and UPC/SKU.
  input_schema_source: components.schemas.ProductSearchBody
  input_schema:
    type: object
    required:
    - queries
    - limit
    properties:
      queries:
        type: array
        items:
          type: string
        minItems: 1
        description: The search query for product names.
      limit:
        type: number
        default: 25
        description: The maximum number of products to retrieve (default is 25).
      minPrice:
        type: number
        default: 0
        description: The minimum price of products to retrieve.
      maxPrice:
        type: number
        nullable: true
        description: The maximum price of products to retrieve.
      storeId:
        type: string
        nullable: true
        description: The store ID of the products to retrieve.
  output_schema_source: paths./openai/search.post.responses.200
  read_only: true
coverage:
  openapi_operations: 1
  tools_derived: 1
  operations_uncovered: 0
tool_crosswalk:
  emitted: false
  reason: A ToolCrosswalk binds provider-published MCP tools (or GraphQL fields) to backing OpenAPI operations.
    Ibotta publishes neither an MCP server nor GraphQL, so there is nothing to cross-walk — the candidate
    tool above is already a 1:1 derivation from the single operation.
deployment:
  mode: none
  verified: derived
  tools: 1
  checked: '2026-08-12'
  source: catalog MCP census