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Pantry Hand

For your assistant

Ask your assistant what's for dinner

Connect Pantry Hand once. Then say "I've got eggs, rice and some spinach, what can I make?" and your assistant finds the recipe and writes the shopping list for what's missing.

The connector address

https://pantryhand.com/mcp

No sign-in and no key. It only reads recipes; it cannot buy anything.

In Claude

On claude.ai, open Settings, then Customize, then Connectors. Choose Add, then Add custom connector. Name it Pantry Hand, paste the address above, choose No sign-in, and press Connect. Then just ask in a chat.

In ChatGPT

ChatGPT accepts custom connectors in developer mode. Add a new connector and paste the same address.

In Gemini

On a computer, open gemini.google.com, then Settings, then Connected Apps. Under Custom apps, choose Add a custom app, paste the address above and follow the steps. It then works in the Gemini phone app too: type @ to bring it into a chat.

Google currently offers custom apps to personal accounts in the US, in English, for people 18 and over. You can only add one on the web.

In Grok

Go to grok.com/connectors, choose New Connector, then Custom, and paste the address above. Grok finds what Pantry Hand can do on its own. Ask in any chat.

Menu names move around as these apps update. If you can't find them, look for "connectors" or "MCP" in the app's settings.

With Siri

Siri can't add connectors, but a two-minute shortcut lets you ask out loud. In the Shortcuts app on your iPhone, tap + and add these four actions, in order:

  1. Ask for Input: type Text, prompt "What have you got?"
  2. URL Encode the answer from step 1 (Shortcuts calls it Provided Input).
  3. URL: https://pantryhand.com/?have= followed by the URL Encoded Text.
  4. Open URLs.

Name the shortcut Pantry Hand. Then say "Hey Siri, Pantry Hand", answer with what you have, and the recipes open, best matches first. Siri may ask you to unlock your phone before it opens the page.

Any app or launcher that can open a web address works the same way: send people to pantryhand.com/?have=eggs,rice,spinach.

With Alexa

Say "Alexa, enable Pantry Hand", or find Pantry Hand in the Skills section of the Alexa app. Then ask "Alexa, ask Pantry Hand what I can make with eggs and spinach."

Say "something else" for another idea. Say "add it to my shopping list" and the missing items go on your Alexa shopping list, if you allow that in the Alexa app. It never orders anything.

What it can do

  • Find recipes from what you have, best matches first, filtered by time or diet.
  • Read a recipe, scaled to however many you're feeding.
  • Write the shopping list of only what's missing.

Putting that list into a supermarket cart is next. Until then, your assistant can hand you the list to paste into your grocery app.

For developers

The same data is a plain, read-only JSON API:

GET /api/recipes?have=eggs,spinach&max_minutes=20&diet=vegetarian
GET /api/recipes/red-lentil-soup?servings=6
GET /api/recipes/red-lentil-soup/shopping-list?servings=6&have=onion,garlic

What we see

When your assistant asks, the ingredients it sends reach our server so we can match recipes. We use them for that one answer and don't log or keep them. There are no accounts, so nothing ties a request to you.