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deploy/docker-compose.yml — replace <product>/<registry> placeholders with concrete values for Drawbar's stack: - image: git.jpaul.io/justin/seed-mcp:latest (CF tunnel for pulls; CI pushes via LAN 192.168.0.2:1234 to avoid 100 MB body cap) - container_name: seed-mcp - port 8001:8000 (8001 host-side to not collide with crop-chem-docs on 8000) - PRODUCT_NAME=crop_seed, hybrid search enabled, stateless HTTP - llama-rerank shared with crop-chem-docs (NOT redefined here — expected to already be in Drawbar's parent compose network) - networks.drawbar-mcp external: true so seed-mcp joins the existing cross-MCP shared network .gitignore — corpus/ is now COMMITTED, not ignored. The monthly refresh workflow scrapes and commits corpus changes; the image-only workflow rebuilds indexes from the committed corpus. Allowing the corpus to flow through git means the :corpus-YYYY.MM.DD image tag pins to a specific seed-catalog snapshot. chroma/ and bm25/ remain ignored — those are deterministically derived from corpus. Initial committed snapshot: 614 varieties. - bayer_seeds: 475 (DEKALB 288 + Asgrow 102 + WestBred 85) - golden_harvest: 139 (Syngenta corn + soy; 36 sitemap URLs 302-redirected = discontinued) rag/chunk.py — normalize brand and crop to uppercase/lowercase in Chroma metadata so cross-vendor brand-filter lookups don't break on casing inconsistency (Bayer stores "DEKALB", Golden Harvest stores "Golden Harvest"; _build_where uppercases user-supplied brand which matched the former but not the latter pre-fix). Sidecar JSON keeps original casing for display. Stub scrapers (nk, agripro, becks_pfr, becks_products) — change return code from 2 to 0 so the monthly-refresh CI workflow doesn't fail on deferred sources. Real implementations will return 0 on success / 1 on failure when they ship. Smoke-tested cross-vendor retrieval against the 614-chunk index: - list_versions shows both vendors with correct facet counts - broad "corn hybrid 100 RM" query returns both DEKALB and Golden Harvest hits in top 5 - brand='Golden Harvest' filter returns 3 GH-only varieties - variety-code prefilter still works (E085Z5 → top hit on GH) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
seed-mcp
MCP server over the public catalogs of major US row-crop seed
vendors — corn, soybeans, wheat. Sibling project to
crop-chem-docs
(pesticide labels), feeding the same Drawbar farm-advisor AI.
The server exposes per-variety records with agronomic ratings, disease tolerance, trait stack, maturity, and regional notes — so the advisor can answer questions like "which corn hybrid for sandy soil, drought-prone, RM ≤105 in northeast Iowa?" without rummaging through individual brand sites.
Vendor coverage
| Vendor | Verdict | Varieties | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bayer seeds (DEKALB + Asgrow + WestBred) | 🟢 | ~475 | Same cropscience.bayer.us Next.js infra as crop-chem-docs |
| Golden Harvest (Syngenta) | 🟢 | ~175 | Sitemap + server-rendered HTML + Syngenta CDN PDFs |
| NK (Syngenta) | 🟢 | 29 | Shares PDF fetcher with Golden Harvest |
| AgriPro (Syngenta wheat) | 🟢 | 24 | Drupal Views, server-rendered |
| Beck's PFR | 🟡 | 2,089 | Public Sanity GROQ API (no auth) |
| Beck's products | 🟡 | 860 | Identity-only until SeedIQ XHR sniffed |
| Pioneer (Corteva) | 🔴 | — | ToS bans automation — curated fallback lesson instead |
Quick start
git clone https://git.jpaul.io/justin/seed-mcp.git
cd seed-mcp
python -m venv venv && source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
# Run one scraper
python -m scrape.runner --source bayer_seeds --force
# Rebuild indexes
python -m rag.index --rebuild
# Local MCP server (stdio for Claude Desktop dev)
python -m docs_mcp.server --transport stdio
Tools exposed
| Tool | Purpose |
|---|---|
search_docs |
Hybrid + rerank variety search with crop / RM / trait / region filters |
get_page |
Full variety record by (source, source_key) |
list_versions |
Discover crops, brands, traits, RM/MG ranges, wheat classes |
corpus_status |
Counts + freshness; useful for health probes |
crop_seed_api_lessons |
Curated agronomy lessons — Pioneer fallback, disease-scale normalization, regional placement heuristics |
Build phases
This is a clone of docs-mcp-template.
The 13 phases in PLAN.md apply:
| Phase | Status |
|---|---|
| 0 — scaffold | done |
| 1 — first scraper (bayer_seeds) | next |
| 2 — chunk + index | pending |
| 3 — baseline MCP tools | template defaults |
| 4-5 — Dockerfile + CI | done (placeholders filled) |
| 6 — reranker | shares llama-rerank sidecar with crop-chem-docs |
| 7 — eval harness | pending (curate ~25 queries) |
| 8 — hybrid search | done (template) |
| 9 — diff_versions, list_cluster | optional |
11 — crop_seed_api_lessons curated layer |
pending |
See CLAUDE.md for the canonical sidecar schema and the
disease-scale-normalization gotcha (Golden Harvest is reversed).
Infrastructure
- Registry:
git.jpaul.io/justin/seed-mcp:latest(Watchtower) /:corpus-YYYY.MM.DD(production pin) - Embedder: shared Ollama pool with crop-chem-docs (Gitea-host GPUs + Windows Ollama; CI never hits trashpanda's production Ollama)
- Reranker: shared
llama-reranksidecar on trashpanda's Tesla P4 (one container, both MCPs use it) - PRODUCT_NAME:
crop_seed(notseed_mcp— used in Chroma collection, BM25 db filename, andcrop_seed_api_lessonstool)