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Aicoffee, an MCP server.

Add this roastery to the assistant you already use, and ask for coffee in a sentence.

I built this so that the questions people write to me about, which roast, what grind, whether the second coffee is a mistake at four in the afternoon, could be answered inside Claude or ChatGPT while you are already there. It reads the same catalog and prices as the shop. It knows the cafés on my map. And when you have decided, it puts the bag together and sends you here to pay, because I would rather you paid on a page you can see.

Live since September 2026 · 6 tools · no account, no payment, nothing stored

The serverhttps://askespresso.com/api/mcp

What it can do

  • List the roasts

    The Askespresso catalog: light, medium, dark, and the custom roast, with tasting notes, the 1 to 4 tasting chart (acidity, bitterness, body, sweetness), the brewer each suits, prices in INR for 250 g and 500 g, grind options, and whether each is on sale right now. Also lists the gift packages and their prices.

    list_roasts

  • Recommend a roast

    Given a few sentences about someone's life right now (how they brew, whether they take milk, a new baby, exams, training for a race, working from cafés, moving abroad, a gift) suggest one of the roasts, a grind, a bag size, and why, with reading from the roaster's journal and an order the assistant can pass to prepare_order.

    recommend_coffee

  • Plan caffeine around sleep and training

    A day plan for coffee: when to have the first cup, the latest cup that will not cost sleep, a cup timed before a workout with the dose used in sports nutrition, and the day's total against the 400 mg guideline (200 mg when pregnant or breastfeeding). Times are 24-hour HH:MM in the person's own time zone. General guidance, not medical advice.

    plan_caffeine

  • Find a café in India

    Good cafés in Bengaluru, Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Pune, and Jaipur, scored by one roaster for working (Wi-Fi in Mbps, plugs, laptop welcome), for the coffee, for quiet, and for meeting someone, with a one-line note and a Google Maps link for each.

    find_cafes

  • List the gifting guides

    The gifting guides on askespresso.com (connoisseurs, the office, for him, for her, first-time brewers, café workers, new parents, under INR 2,000), each with the gift package that ends it, its price for 250 g and 500 g bags, and the saving against buying the pieces separately.

    list_gift_guides

  • Prepare an order

    Turn one or more choices into a priced bag and a checkout link on askespresso.com. The person opens the link, checks the delivery address, and pays there. This tool does not place the order or take payment. Items are roasts (light, medium, dark, custom) or gift packages by slug.

    prepare_order

Try one here

The caffeine planner, answered by the server itself, the way an assistant would see it. Caffeine has a half-life of about five hours, so the plan puts the last cup eight hours before bed and times a cup before training the way sports nutrition does.

Connect it

One URL, no key. The menus in these apps move about, so if a step looks different, look for the word connector.

Claude, on the web or the desktop app

  1. Open Settings, then Connectors.
  2. Choose Add custom connector.
  3. Name it Aicoffee and paste https://askespresso.com/api/mcp. Leave the authentication fields empty.
  4. In a new chat, switch it on from the tools menu and ask for coffee.

Custom connectors are part of Claude’s paid plans.

ChatGPT

  1. Open Settings, then Connectors, then Advanced.
  2. Turn on Developer mode.
  3. Choose Create, name it Aicoffee, paste https://askespresso.com/api/mcp, and set authentication to none.
  4. In a new chat, add it from the plus menu.

Connectors are part of ChatGPT’s paid plans.

Claude Code, in the terminal

claude mcp add --transport http aicoffee https://askespresso.com/api/mcp

Then ask it to plan your coffee around your commits.

Cursor, and most other clients

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "aicoffee": { "url": "https://askespresso.com/api/mcp" }
  }
}

Streamable HTTP, JSON-RPC 2.0, protocol versions 2024-11-05 to 2025-06-18. A GET on the URL describes the server.

Things to ask it

  • I run at six, sleep at half past ten, and want three coffees. When should they be?
  • Our baby is three weeks old. What coffee should we be making, and how?
  • Find me a café in Indiranagar with good Wi-Fi where nobody minds a laptop for four hours.
  • A gift for my father, who drinks strong coffee with milk. Under three thousand rupees.
  • Put 500 g of the dark roast in a bag for me, ground for a moka pot.
  • Which roast should I try first if I only ever drank instant?

What it will not do

It will not place an order or take a payment. It prepares the bag and gives you a link to this site, where you check the address and pay. It will not tell you anything about your health beyond what public guidelines say about caffeine, and it says so each time. It keeps no record of you. If something goes wrong, or you want it to do something more, the request form reaches me.

Questions people ask

What is an MCP server?

The Model Context Protocol is an open standard that lets an assistant such as Claude or ChatGPT call an outside service as if it were one of its own tools. This server is that outside service for my roastery: it answers questions about the roasts, the cafés, and your caffeine, and it can put a bag together for you.

Can it order coffee for me?

It prepares the order and hands you a link. The link opens your bag on this website with the items in it, where you check the address and pay. Nothing is ordered and nothing is charged until you do that yourself.

What does it store about me?

Nothing. There is no account, no session, and no log of what you asked. The server reads my catalog, works out an answer, and forgets the question.

Does it cost anything?

No. The coffee costs what it costs in the shop, and shipping in India is free.