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# Maker MCP

Marked `DEFAULT` in the connectors list. Maker MCP is product discovery powered by the **Maker Nav backend** — if your store's catalogue feed is connected to Maker, the assistant can search and look up your products with no further setup.

## When to turn it off

Turn it off when your catalogue isn't in Maker — and connect a different source instead:

* **Shopify merchants without Nav** can use Shopify's public catalog MCP. Greatstore works for any Shopify store this way, with no Maker account involved.
* Any commerce platform that publishes an MCP can take the same slot.

See [Adding your own connector](/maker-greatstore/connectors/adding-your-own.md).

## Its tools

Maker MCP publishes read-only tools only — **Search products**, **Browse catalog**, **Show catalog** and **Get product details**. Nothing it exposes can change your store, which is why it's safe to leave on while you tighten access on other connectors.

## Narrowing it, rather than turning it off

You don't have to choose all-or-nothing. Two ways to keep it and take less:

* **Disallow the tools you don't want.** Each one can be switched off individually — see [Controlling tool access](/maker-greatstore/connectors/tool-access.md).
* **Override a tool with your own.** Add your connector, place it **above** Maker MCP and expose a tool with the same name; yours wins for that tool while Maker MCP serves the rest.


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