Surprise Buddy

What is Surprise Buddy?

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What it can do

  • Find Gifts: Search the curated Surprise Buddy database for gift ideas matching a recipient. Returns product cards with title, image, price, why-it-fits, and a clickable product URL. Country is require
  • List Supported Countries: List ISO-2 country codes that currently have at least one active gift entry in the database. Coverage grows over time.
  • List Supported Occasions: List occasion codes that have active gift entries, optionally narrowed to a specific country.

What data it sees

Do you need an account

No: the server works without sign-in

What is Surprise Buddy?

Surprise Buddy is a curated, country-scoped gift database exposed via a public Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. International coverage — every result is a real product page on a real marketplace (Amazon, Etsy, Mercado Libre, Otto, Bol.com, Allegro, Jochen Schweizer) and the link can be presented to the user as-is.

Live MCP endpoint: https://www.surprise-buddy.com/api/mcp

Exposed tools

  • find_gifts — main search (country required, all other filters optional)
  • list_supported_countries
  • list_supported_occasions(country?)
  • list_supported_interests
  • list_supported_colors

Authentication

None — the MCP server is fully open. Reasonable rate limiting may apply.

License

MIT © Surprise Buddy

How to connect

How to connect Surprise Buddy to Claude

The server address to paste into Claude settings:

https://mcp-server--surprise-buddy.run.tools

  1. Open Claude (claude.ai or the desktop app).
  2. Go to Settings → Connectors.
  3. Click Add custom connector.
  4. Paste the server address copied below into Remote MCP server URL and click Add.
  5. In a chat, click + → Connectors and switch the new connector on.

Custom connectors are available on Free, Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans (Free is limited to one). On Team and Enterprise an organization Owner adds the connector first under Organization settings → Connectors.

Authorization

After you click Add, a sign-in window for the service opens. Sign in with your own account and approve access. Claude never sees your password.

How to connect Surprise Buddy to ChatGPT

The server address to paste into ChatGPT settings:

https://mcp-server--surprise-buddy.run.tools

  1. Open ChatGPT in a browser (chatgpt.com). A Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise or Edu plan is required.
  2. Turn on developer mode once: Settings → Apps → Advanced settings → Developer mode.
  3. Open Settings → Connectors and click Create.
  4. Fill in the form: Name (anything), Description (one line about what the service does), MCP server URL (copy it below).
  5. Under Authentication choose OAuth if the service requires sign-in, otherwise None. Click Create.
  6. In a new chat open + → Apps/Connectors and enable the connector.

OpenAI has renamed this section before (Connectors → Apps/Plugins). If the label differs, search settings for "developer mode". On Business/Enterprise workspaces an admin must allow custom connectors first.

Authorization

On first use ChatGPT opens the service's sign-in window. Sign in and approve access.

How to connect Surprise Buddy to Cursor

The server address to paste into Cursor settings:

https://mcp-server--surprise-buddy.run.tools

Fastest: click Open in Cursor below and confirm the prompt.

Manually:

  1. In Cursor open Settings → Cursor Settings → MCP and click Add new global MCP server.
  2. Paste the JSON copied below into ~/.cursor/mcp.json (per project: .cursor/mcp.json in the repo root).
  3. Save the file. The server appears in the MCP list; authorize it there if asked.

Authorization

If the service needs sign-in, an authorize button appears next to the server in the MCP list.

Server tool list (5)

Raw names from tools/list. Only developers need these.

find_giftsSearch the curated Surprise Buddy database for gift ideas matching a recipient. Returns product cards with title, image, price, why-it-fits, and a clickable product URL. Country is required and is a hard filter — results are scoped to the marketplace + currency of that country.
list_supported_countriesList ISO-2 country codes that currently have at least one active gift entry in the database. Coverage grows over time.
list_supported_occasionsList occasion codes that have active gift entries, optionally narrowed to a specific country.
list_supported_interestsList the canonical interest/hobby tag vocabulary used by find_gifts.interests. Matches the tags shown in the website UI.
list_supported_colorsList the canonical favorite-color vocabulary used by find_gifts.favorite_color. Matches the color picker shown in the website UI.