CellarTracker MCP

Connect Claude to your CellarTracker wine cellar. Query your inventory, get drinking recommendations, and analyze purchases and drinking history, all through natural conversation. No need to refresh your inventory, or share your tasting notes. Claude pulls them directly from your CellarTracker account.

Install

Two install methods for different Claude interfaces. You may need one or both:

Which do I need?

• Chat (Desktop) only → Desktop Extension
• Code only → Claude Code Plugin
• Cowork only → Either works (plugin adds skills)
• Full coverage → Install both

Installing both is safe. The extension covers Chat (Desktop); the plugin covers Cowork and Code. In Cowork, both are accessible without conflict. Note, there is no coverage for claude.ai web chat sessions.

Desktop Extension (Chat & Cowork)

One-click install. No terminal needed.

1. Download cellartracker-mcp.mcpb from the latest release
2. Double-click the file to install in Claude Desktop
3. Enter your CellarTracker username and password when prompted
4. Start chatting (e.g. "What wines should I open this month?")

Credentials are stored in your OS keychain (macOS Keychain / Windows Credential Manager). To update them later, go to Customize > Connectors > CellarTracker.

Claude Code Plugin (Cowork & Code)

Full experience with tools and skills.

Via Desktop app

1. Open the Code tab > Customize > Browse plugins > Personal > + > Add marketplace from GitHub > enter slavins-co/cellartracker-mcp
2. Find "CellarTracker MCP" in the plugin browser and click Install
3. Set up credentials immediately: In a new Code or Cowork session, say "Set up my CellarTracker credentials"

Via terminal

Step 1: Add the marketplace

/plugin marketplace add slavins-co/cellartracker-mcp

Step 2: Install the plugin

/plugin install cellartracker-mcp@cellartracker-mcp

Step 3: Set up credentials immediately — say:

"Set up my CellarTracker credentials"

Claude will verify and save them. No restart needed. Without credentials, tools will return errors and skills won't have data to work with.

Alternative: Set CT_USERNAME and CT_PASSWORD as environment variables in your shell profile.

Credentials are stored only on your machine. When using the setup tool, they pass through Anthropic's servers as part of the conversation. They are sent to CellarTracker's servers for authentication.

What you can do

Included skills

Note: Skills are available in Cowork and Code modes via the Claude Code plugin. Chat mode (Desktop Extension) provides tools only.

cellartracker-data — Teaches Claude to interpret CellarTracker data: table relationships, score abbreviations, drinking windows, and query routing.

wine-purchase-evaluator — Framework for evaluating wine purchases. Two-score system (Quality + Personal Fit) with BUY/CONSIDER/PASS verdicts. Checks your cellar for redundancy, verifies pricing, and applies drinking window discipline.

To customize the evaluator for your preferences, copy skills/wine-purchase-evaluator/references/preferences-example.md to preferences.md in the same directory and edit it.

How it works

CellarTracker has no official API. This server uses their CSV export endpoint, which authenticates with your username and password over HTTPS. Data is cached locally and auto-refreshes every 24 hours.

The server can only access your data — inventory, purchases, notes, and wishlist. It cannot search CellarTracker's full wine database.

Security & credentials

CellarTracker API limitations

CellarTracker has no OAuth, API keys, or scoped tokens. Authentication requires your actual account username and password, sent as URL query parameters over HTTPS. While encrypted on the wire, query parameters are routinely logged in server-side access logs on CellarTracker's infrastructure. There is no way to create read-only or limited-access credentials, therefore, this MCP only performs read operations, but it authenticates with your full account.

How this server protects your credentials

The Claude Code plugin stores credentials as plaintext in ~/.config/cellartracker-mcp/.env. We evaluated OS keychain integration (#22) and decided against it. The native dependency cost (node-gyp / keytar) outweighs the security benefit for wine cellar data, and the Desktop Extension path already uses the OS keychain.

Recommendations

• Use a unique password for CellarTracker. Do not reuse a password from other services.
• Prefer environment variables over the setup-credentials tool if you want to avoid persisting credentials to disk.
• Pin to a specific version in your MCP config (e.g., cellartracker-mcp@0.4.1) rather than relying on @latest.

Development

For contributors or anyone who wants to run from source:

git clone https://github.com/slavins-co/cellartracker-mcp.git
cd cellartracker-mcp
npm install
npm run build

# Set credentials
cp .env.example .env
# Edit .env with your CT login

# Test as Claude Code plugin
claude --plugin-dir .

npx local-resolution footgun

If you run npx -y cellartracker-mcp (e.g. via an MCP client config) with your working directory inside a local checkout of this repo, npm can resolve the bare package name to that local folder instead of downloading it from the registry — so whatever is on disk in dist/ gets served, not the published version. npm install/npm ci now runs a prepare script that rebuilds dist/ automatically, so a fresh clone is always current. But if you edit src/ directly and don't run npm install or npm run build again, dist/ will silently go stale — the server keeps running the old compiled code with no error. If output looks wrong while developing, rebuild (npm run build) before assuming the bug is in src/.

AI Disclosure

This project was developed with AI assistance.

Trademark Disclosure

This project is in no way affiliated or connected to CellarTracker! LLC. "CellarTracker" is a trademark of CellarTracker! LLC.

License

MIT