Who it is for
Shoppers who plan meals in conversation and want the ingredient list turned into a store order.
Instacart
Grocery and household delivery from nearby stores
Overview
What Instacart does
Instacart is a delivery service for groceries and other everyday goods, run by Maplebear Inc. The entry for this app is brief, so the sample prompts say the most about how it is meant to be used.
One of them asks which stores deliver to a given location. Another asks for healthy produce suggestions, which is a recommendation request rather than a lookup. The third names a dish, chicken fajitas, and asks for the ingredients with a gluten free constraint applied, so translating a recipe into a shopping list is part of the picture.
What the entry does not spell out is where an order is finished, or whether scheduling and payment happen in the conversation or on Instacart itself.
What stands out
The listing itself is minimal, and the example prompts do more to define the app than the description does.
Availability
Where Instacart is listed
Instacart ships this on both marketplaces: Instacart is listed in the Claude connectors directory and in the ChatGPT apps directory, under the same publisher domain.
Only 392 of the 3,150 products in this directory are listed in both marketplaces. One MCP server can serve both surfaces; what differs is each platform's listing and review process.
ChatGPT listing
In the ChatGPT apps directory
- Developer
- Maplebear Inc.
- Filed under
- Other
- Listed since
- June 2026
- Authentication
- Authenticates when installed
- Website
- instacart.com
- Policies published
- Privacy policy · Terms of service
- Official listing
- Open in ChatGPT
- Snapshot
- August 2026
Example prompts from the listing
- show stores near me
- recommend some healthy produce options
- I need ingredients for chicken fajitas, make it gluten free
Claude listing
In the Claude connectors directory
Instacart publishes 2 tools to Claude, a deliberately narrow surface; only 5.3% of the 1,253 Claude-listed connectors expose fewer.
The median Claude-listed connector filed under Productivity publishes 12, so this one sits 10 tools below its bucket's median, 408th of 462.
It falls in the 1-3 tools band, which holds 16.4% of the Claude directory.
Instacart publishes a remote MCP endpoint. Claude connects to it over HTTP; there is nothing to install locally.
Every connector in the Claude directory is remote, all 1,253 of them, so transport is not a differentiator there.
- Publisher
- Instacart
- Verification
- Verified partner (37.8% of the Claude directory)
- Filed under
- Productivity
- Endpoint
-
https://fig-mcp.instacart.com/mcp - Documentation
- Publisher setup docs
- Published tools
- 2 · 1-3 tools band
- Depth rank in Productivity
- 408 of 462
- Snapshot
- August 2026
Instacart carries partner verification in the Claude directory, which 474 of 1,253 listings do (37.8%). That is a review step past self-publishing, not an Anthropic-built server.
In the publisher's words
How Instacart describes it
Find nearby stores, check product availability, turn meal ideas and recipes into groceries delivered.
Quoted from the connector's own Claude directory listing as captured in August 2026. Node8 did not write it and does not vouch for it.
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This is an independent catalogue entry compiled by Node8 from Instacart's public marketplace listings as they stood in August 2026. Listing facts come from the marketplaces; the comparisons against the rest of the directory and any live-endpoint measurements are Node8's. Node8 is not affiliated with Instacart, and inclusion here is not an endorsement.
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