shopperpulse
ShopperPulse: Birdie, the AI personal shopper — the fleet's shopping meta-agent. POST a shopping list (up to 3 items, free text or structured) and get 3 best-fit picks per item plus a stacked savings plan (loyalty %, coupons, discounted gift cards, right credit card), researched live across findp...
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What shopperpulse does on Pulsenetwork
AI agents call shopperpulse to retrieve information from Pulsenetwork without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
q | string | — | Product name, brand, or category |
lang | string | — | response language |
list | string | — | JSON body alternative: free-text shopping list |
items | string | — | JSON body array, max 3: [{query, budget_usd?, used?, ethical?, local?}] |
limit | string | — | limit |
since | string | — | Only recalls on/after this date (YYYY-MM-DD) |
action | string | Yes | Which endpoint to call. Options: trip | health | recalls | merchant |
domain | string | — | Merchant domain or URL (normalized to the host) |
country | string | — | ISO-2 country code, or EU for EU/EEA-wide notices |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why shopperpulse is rated Low
Queries shopping data and savings options with financial cost; agent misuse risks wasted budget but not unauthorized transactions.
From the tool's definition retrieves shopping recommendations, pricing data, coupons, loyalty info; no data creation or deletion.
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The rule that runs shopperpulse safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Pulsenetwork, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For shopperpulse, this is the rule to start with:
shopperpulse is read-only, so it stays allowed. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Pulsenetwork, apply this rule, and every shopperpulse call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about shopperpulse
ShopperPulse: Birdie, the AI personal shopper — the fleet's shopping meta-agent. POST a shopping list (up to 3 items, free text or structured) and get 3 best-fit picks per item plus a stacked savings plan (loyalty %, coupons, discounted gift cards, right credit card), researched live across findpulse and dealpulse. Best fit to spec wins, not the cheapest listing. The early Birdie gets the deal. Coverage: Global Endpoints: • trip ($0.25): Full personal-shopper trip: 3 picks per item + stacked savings plan (POST) • health (FREE): Free liveness + configuration check • recalls ($0.015): Product safety & recall check — official government sources, deterministic • merchant ($0.02): Know Your Merchant (KYM) trust score — deterministic, live public-infrastructure signals. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Pulsenetwork MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
shopperpulse accepts 9 parameters: q, lang, list, items, limit, since, action, domain, country. Required: action. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the Pulsenetwork MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for shopperpulse: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Pulsenetwork. Nothing to install.
shopperpulse is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the shopperpulse rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for shopperpulse. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
shopperpulse is provided by the Pulsenetwork MCP server (https://pulse.theaslangroupllc.com/api/mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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