MCP server development for WordPress and WooCommerce

What I ship

• Custom Anthropic MCP server in TypeScript, deployed on Cloudflare Workers or a Node runtime, exposing typed tools for the catalogue and order-intent flows the client needs.
• Schema.org enrichment in parallel, so the same catalogue stays legible to crawlers and AI assistants that do not yet speak MCP. Schema.org and the MCP tool surface stay in sync as the catalogue evolves.
• Observability for agent traffic separated from human traffic at the analytics layer: per-tool latency, error rate, authorisation failures, and conversion attribution.
• Claude API test harness that exercises every MCP tool end to end against a staging WordPress, with recorded transcripts as the regression baseline. Shipping a new tool requires a green run on the harness.

When MCP is the right choice

An MCP server earns its place when an agent needs to take action rather than only read. The action might be creating a B2B quote with custom pricing, applying a partner discount code, changing a subscription cadence, or committing to an order on a logged-in shopper's behalf. The interface for those actions has to be typed, authenticated and idempotent; that is the contract MCP gives you.

The second case is authentication. When the agent is acting inside a shopper session, on behalf of a partner, or under a machine-to-machine credential, the catalogue surface needs to know who is calling and what they are allowed to do. A typed MCP tool with an authorisation policy is the right shape for that; a public REST endpoint is not.

The third case is stateful flows. Carts, quotes, subscriptions and order intents have lifecycle. Determinism and idempotency keys matter so that a retried call does not double-charge or duplicate a quote. MCP tools express that intent explicitly; scraping the storefront does not.

Who this is for

• WooCommerce stores with custom workflows: subscriptions, B2B quotes, partner discounts, multi-region pricing, custom checkout steps.
• B2B catalogues where every transaction needs an authenticated quote rather than a self-service add-to-cart, and where the buyer is increasingly an agent acting on behalf of a procurement team.
• Content sites with affiliate commerce, where the page is the catalogue and an MCP tool surface lets agents reason over Offers, availability and partner terms in one structured call.
• Headless WordPress setups already running Astro or Next.js on Cloudflare Workers, where the MCP server slots in alongside the existing front end without changing the editorial back end.

How I package MCP work

Senior B2B contracts on EU jurisdiction. Scope and pricing are individual per project; the discovery step usually changes the cost of the build. Three ways to start:

• AI agent readiness audit. Before building anything, I map what an AI agent could safely reach in your stack: the data surfaces, the auth model, the read-versus-write boundary. You get a scoped plan and an honest answer on whether MCP is worth it for you. Often the fastest first step.
• Build and integration. I design and ship the server, read-only first, exposing only the surfaces you choose, over the REST or GraphQL APIs you already run. Nothing to install on the store.
• Managed MCP. As your needs grow I add tools, rotate credentials, monitor agent traffic, and keep pace with model and SDK changes.