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Panko Alerts — Food Safety Data

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build.protocol_tooling.mcp

Install Panko Alerts — Food Safety Data in your MCP client

Panko Alerts — Food Safety Data is a Model Context Protocol server. Add it to your MCP client config once, restart, and the server's tools become available to your AI assistant. The same JSON snippet below works across all four major clients — only the config file path differs.

  1. Locate your client's MCP config file.
    • Cursor: ~/.cursor/mcp.json
    • Claude Desktop (macOS): ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
    • Claude Desktop (Windows): %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json
    • VS Code: Settings → Extensions → MCP
    • Windsurf: Settings → MCP Servers
  2. Add Panko Alerts — Food Safety Data to the mcpServers map — paste the snippet below into your config file. If you already have other MCP servers, merge the entry into the existing mcpServers object.
  3. Restart your client so it picks up the new server.
  4. Verify — ask the assistant to list available tools; Panko Alerts — Food Safety Data's tools should appear.
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "panko-alerts---food-safety-data": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@panko-alerts---food-safety-data/mcp-server"
      ],
      "note": "Replace with the actual package name from the server's documentation."
    }
  }
}

Install Panko Alerts — Food Safety Data in Cursor

Open ~/.cursor/mcp.json in your editor, paste the snippet above into mcpServers, save, and restart Cursor. Panko Alerts — Food Safety Data will show up in the assistant's tool list on next launch.

Install Panko Alerts — Food Safety Data in Claude Desktop (macOS)

Open ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json in your editor, paste the snippet above into mcpServers, save, and restart Claude Desktop (macOS). Panko Alerts — Food Safety Data will show up in the assistant's tool list on next launch.

Install Panko Alerts — Food Safety Data in Claude Desktop (Windows)

Open %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json in your editor, paste the snippet above into mcpServers, save, and restart Claude Desktop (Windows). Panko Alerts — Food Safety Data will show up in the assistant's tool list on next launch.

Install Panko Alerts — Food Safety Data in VS Code

Open Settings → Extensions → MCP in your editor, paste the snippet above into mcpServers, save, and restart VS Code. Panko Alerts — Food Safety Data will show up in the assistant's tool list on next launch.

Other Model Context Protocol servers in the same space as Panko Alerts — Food Safety Data. Each one adds different capabilities to your AI assistant — pick based on the data sources or workflows you need.

Browse the full MCP server directory or use Stork's one-line install to let your agent pick the right server automatically.