Icecat MCP: product specs and content in your AI app

Connect Icecat to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

1. 1Click Connect Icecat free. There's no sign-in, so its tools are ready at once.
2. 2Icecat splits product content into narrow tools, from `product_specs` to `product_warranty`, all on. Switch off the ones your work doesn't touch, such as `product_analytics` or `product_360_view`, to keep your AI app focused.
3. 3Add ContextGate to your AI app as a connector or MCP server. The steps for each app are on the Works with page.
4. 4Ask your AI app for the technical specs and warranty of a product by its GTIN, then open Activity to see the `product_specs` and `product_warranty` calls.

Product content from Icecat

• Get structured technical specs with `product_specs`, or everything at once with `product_overview`.
• Pull manuals, leaflets and warranty details for a product.
• Fetch images, 360° views and videos for a product page.
• Find alternatives, accessories and compatible items with `product_related`.

Control over product lookups

• Switch off any Icecat tool; your AI app won't see it, and calls to it are refused.
• Activity records every product lookup made through ContextGate.

What you get with Icecat and ContextGate

• Your AI apps can use IcecatClaude, Cursor, ChatGPT and other AI apps reach Icecat through the one ContextGate connection you add to them.
• You choose which tools they can useSwitch off any Icecat tool you don't want used. It's hidden from your AI apps and refused if called.
• Every call is checked and recordedYour policies check each call (for example, personal data is hidden and secrets are blocked), and Activity keeps a record of it.

ContextGate sees only the tool calls that go through it, not your AI app's built-in tools or your chats.

Icecat tools

Examples of what your AI apps can do in Icecat. You'll see the exact list of tools after you connect it.

• account_localesReturns the locales this account is authorised to use. Call before requesting content in a specific locale.
• product_360_viewReturns 360° view images.
• product_additional_documentsReturns additional product documents not classified in other tools.
• product_analyticsRetrieves product popularity information based on the total product downloads from Icecat. Use this tool when the user requests product popularity analytics.
• product_brand_contactsReturns brand-related legal and regulatory contact organizations for the product, including GPSR economic operators.
• product_certificatesReturns safety, compliance, and sustainability documents.
• product_descriptionReturns brand-authored descriptive and marketing text only. Do NOT use for: specs, warranty, identifiers, images.
• product_galleryReturns product images.
• product_identifiersReturns basic product identifiers only. Use only for: brand, code, GTINs, category, family, series, model, title.
• product_leafletReturns product leaflets.
• product_lifecycleReturns product lifecycle information.
• product_manualReturns product manuals.
• product_overviewReturns complete aggregated product information. Use only when full or complete product information is explicitly requested.
• product_reasons_to_buyReturns structured promotional selling points for a product.
• product_relatedReturns related products for a given product, each classified by relation type (e.g. alternative, accessory, consumable, service, compatible).
• product_reviewReturns product reviews.
• product_specsReturns structured technical specifications. Use only for: detailed features or attributes.
• product_storyReturns product story.
• product_videoReturns product videos.
• product_warrantyReturns warranty data only.