Taste Engine
Qloo key loaded MCP 1.32
Qloo Agentic Hackathon

Cultural taste, as tools an agent can actually use.

A self-hosted Model Context Protocol server over Qloo's taste graph. Seven tools, three reference resources, two prompts — all sharing one validated client, so an agent resolves IDs first and never invents a recommendation.

Live taste check

Two real calls: free text becomes Qloo entity IDs, then those IDs seed a ranked recommendation. Verdicts are relative rank thirds; Qloo also returns a 0–1 affinity for every hit.

What the agent gets

Resolve before recommending

Entity and tag search are first-class tools, because Qloo's recommender takes IDs — never free text.

One envelope everywhere

Every tool returns hits, warnings, cache and latency_ms. Raw Qloo payloads never leak.

Honest about silence

Qloo silently ignores invalid parameters. Zero results trigger an explanation instead of a confident lie.

Explainability as evidence

Contributing anchors arrive with 0–1 scores, so a rank can be justified in plain language.

Seven tools

ToolWhat it does
qloo_search_entitiesName → Qloo entity IDs, with type, location and radius filters.
qloo_search_tagsConcept → Qloo tag IDs. Tag names are not tag IDs.
qloo_recommendRanked recommendations from seeded IDs, with optional tags and explainability.
qloo_compare_tastesTwo profiles, one entity type: where tastes converge and diverge.
qloo_trendingPopularity trend for an entity type over a date window.
qloo_build_taste_profileFree-text tastes → anchors and tags ready to seed anything else.
qloo_explainWhy a candidate ranked where it did, citing contributor scores.

Connect an agent

Streamable HTTP, stateless. Point any MCP client at the endpoint below.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "taste-engine": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "http://qloo-mcp.globie.earth/mcp"
    }
  }
}

The same operations are mirrored over REST for the Reddit app and this page: /api/profile, /api/recommend, /api/compare, /api/trending, /api/explain.