ChefBear

npx add-mcp 'https://chef-bear.com/api/menu-sharing/mcp'

Who can connect

1. Anyone with a ChefBear account. Install ChefBear 4.4 or later on your iPhone and sign in with Apple, Google or a verified email.
2. Add the server in your AI app with the steps below and start the sign-in. ChefBear’s sign-in page asks you to open ChefBear.
3. On your iPhone, tap Open ChefBear; on a computer, scan the QR code with your iPhone camera. Then tap Allow in ChefBear.

Your assistant never needs your ChefBear password, and there’s no code to paste into a chat. Accounts in the mainland China service region can’t connect.

Install it in your app

Name the server chefbear where your app asks for a name.

Claude Web, desktop and mobile · from Claude’s directory

Open ChefBear in Claude’s directory and select Connect. If it isn’t listed for you, in Claude choose Customize › Connectors › Add › Custom › Web, name it ChefBear and paste the server URL.

ChatGPT Web, desktop and mobile · the ChefBear plugin

Open ChefBear in ChatGPT’s plugin directory and tap Install, then Connect. In developer mode you can instead add a custom MCP server with the server URL and choose OAuth.

Claude Code One command in the terminal

claude mcp add --transport http --scope user chefbear https://chef-bear.com/api/menu-sharing/mcp

--scope user adds ChefBear for all your projects. Then start a new Claude Code session, run /mcp, choose chefbear (shown as plugin:chefbear:chefbear if the ChefBear plugin added it) and select Authenticate. The approval page names Claude Code and returns to localhost on your computer.

Newer versions of Claude Code can also sign in from the terminal with claude mcp login chefbear.

Codex One command in the terminal

codex mcp add chefbear --url https://chef-bear.com/api/menu-sharing/mcp

If Codex doesn’t open the sign-in by itself, run codex mcp login chefbear.

Cursor One click on a computer, or mcp.json

To add it by hand, put ChefBear in ~/.cursor/mcp.json (every project) or .cursor/mcp.json (one project), next to any servers already there:

{ "mcpServers": { "chefbear": { "url": "https://chef-bear.com/api/menu-sharing/mcp" } } }

Then approve the sign-in when Cursor opens it.

VS Code One click, or the command line

Or run this in a terminal:

code --add-mcp '{"name":"chefbear","type":"http","url":"https://chef-bear.com/api/menu-sharing/mcp"}'

Then approve the sign-in when VS Code asks.

Gemini CLI One command in the terminal

gemini mcp add --scope user --transport http chefbear https://chef-bear.com/api/menu-sharing/mcp

--scope user adds ChefBear for all your projects. Then run /mcp auth chefbear in Gemini CLI. It opens the sign-in in a browser on the same computer.

Google Antigravity IDE 2.6.0 or later, or the Antigravity App

In the Antigravity IDE (version 2.6.0 or later), select … at the top of the agent panel › MCP Servers › Manage MCP Servers › View raw config. In the Antigravity App, select Customizations › Installed, then Copy Config File Path in the MCP Servers section, and open that file. Add ChefBear inside mcpServers, next to any servers already there, and save:

{ "mcpServers": { "chefbear": { "serverUrl": "https://chef-bear.com/api/menu-sharing/mcp" } } }

Then select Authenticate (in the Antigravity App: Customizations › Installed, then Authenticate next to chefbear under MCP Servers) and finish signing in to ChefBear in your browser. Antigravity’s page then shows an authorization code: paste it into Antigravity’s own Enter authorization code field and select Submit.

That code is Antigravity’s own; ChefBear doesn’t show a code. Never paste it into a chat. ChefBear accepts Antigravity only through its client metadata document, which the IDE supports from version 2.6.0.

Other MCP clients OAuth sign-in with a localhost callback

Add a remote MCP server with the server URL above. Choose Streamable HTTP (some apps just say HTTP) and OAuth; there’s no API key or header to set. Your app must sign in with OAuth and return to a localhost callback on the same computer; apps that return to a web address can’t connect. If your app can’t finish the sign-in, tell us.

Install with your AI

Paste this into an assistant that can use MCP servers. The prompt tells it to ask before it runs a command or changes a setting, and you still approve the sign-in in the ChefBear app.

Install the ChefBear MCP server for me.
Server URL: https://chef-bear.com/api/menu-sharing/mcp
Server name: chefbear. It is a remote Streamable HTTP server with OAuth sign-in and no API key.
Steps for each app: https://www.chef-bear.com/mcp/

1. Work out which app you are running in. In ChatGPT, install the ChefBear plugin instead: https://chatgpt.com/plugins/plugin_asdk_app_6ad87a4dcfcc8191bc0aecbab55b5927
   In Claude on the web, desktop or mobile, add ChefBear from Claude's directory: https://claude.ai/directory/chefbear
2. If you can run commands or edit your own MCP settings, tell me exactly what you will run or change, and do it only after I agree. Otherwise, walk me through this app's steps.
3. Start the sign-in. I approve the connection in the ChefBear iPhone app (version 4.4 or later): I tap Open ChefBear on ChefBear's page, or scan its QR code with my iPhone, then tap Allow. Never ask me to paste a password, code, token or cookie into this chat.
4. After I approve, call connection_status and report only the steps that actually worked.

ChefBear is a restaurant menu app, not Bear, the notes app. Accounts in the mainland China service region can't connect.

Tools

Tool	What it does
import_menu	Reads 1 to 5 menu photos into a private ChefBear menu. Uses your recognition allowance, once per import.
get_import_status	Checks an import until the menu is ready.
save_menu	Saves a menu your assistant has already read from a photo or text as a private ChefBear menu, at once.
list_menus	Lists your saved menus, newest first. Needs the “See a list of your saved menus” permission.
get_menu	Reads one of your saved menus: dishes, short descriptions, categories and prices.
get_shared_menu	Reads a ChefBear menu link someone shared with you.
share_menu	Turns on a public link for a menu, only when you ask.
revoke_menu_share	Turns that link off; the private menu stays.
connection_status	Checks that the connection works and what it may do.

In Claude on the web, desktop and mobile, ChefBear also offers get_taste_profile, update_taste_profile and recommend_dishes, with separate taste profile permissions you grant on ChefBear’s approval page. Other apps don’t get them yet.

ChefBear never books tables, places orders or takes payments. Dish details come from the restaurant’s menu, so confirm allergens with the restaurant.