treevu-ai/cli-market-world

CLI Market is described as commerce infrastructure for AI agents. The README says that around 3,760 online retailers, including names like Nike, Carrefour, Samsung, and Motorola, all run on a platform called VTEX that exposes the same public API. The problem the project tries to solve is that each retailer still has its own login, its own search, and its own cart, so an AI agent that wants to comparison-shop ends up stuck before its first query. CLI Market puts a single API in front of all of them. You install it with pip, start a local backend, and then use commands like market search, market compare, market add, and market checkout from the terminal. There is a Spanish-language flavor to the examples in the README, with queries for milk, oil, and rice and a payment method called yape, which is common in Peru. The same tool offers an agent mode where you type a natural request such as buy rice and let the system handle the steps, and a JSON output mode for scripts. For AI assistants, the project exposes 12 tools through an MCP server, which is a small protocol used by clients like Claude, Cursor, and DeepSeek. Those tools mirror the CLI commands, covering login, search, compare, cart management, checkout, orders, and reorder. There is also a REST API hosted on a public URL with a Swagger page and an llms.txt file aimed at agents. A second component called the data moat is a price collector that hits 40 reference products across all the retailers every four hours and stores the results in a SQLite database. It runs up to 50 stores in parallel, applies a circuit breaker on repeated failures, and keeps tables for price snapshots, collector runs, and store health. The software is MIT licensed, while the collected pricing data and SKU mappings are kept as proprietary.