# Ration

> AI-native kitchen management. Pantry inventory, recipes, weekly meal plans, supply lists, and an OAuth MCP server — paste one URL into Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor and authorize in your browser.

Ration is built by Mayutic on Cloudflare Workers, D1, R2, and Vectorize. It ships an open MCP server, a public REST API, and a free tier suitable for getting started.

## Product

- [Home](https://ration.mayutic.com/): Overview, features, pricing, and signup.
- [About](https://ration.mayutic.com/about): The team, mission, and principles behind Ration.
- [Tools](https://ration.mayutic.com/tools): Free public utilities — unit converter and more.
- [Unit Converter](https://ration.mayutic.com/tools/unit-converter): Convert cups to grams, tablespoons to milliliters, ounces to grams, with ingredient-specific density for 200+ baking ingredients.

## For developers and AI agents

- [API documentation](https://ration.mayutic.com/docs/api): REST API and OAuth MCP connection guide.
- [MCP server card](https://ration.mayutic.com/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json): MCP server metadata (oauth2 transport).
- [OAuth authorization server](https://ration.mayutic.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server): OAuth 2.1 metadata for MCP clients.
- [Agent skills index](https://ration.mayutic.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json): Available agent skills exposed by Ration.
- [OpenAPI spec](https://ration.mayutic.com/api/openapi.json): Full machine-readable API specification.

## Blog

The Ration blog covers AI-native kitchen software, MCP integrations, and the workflows that emerge when an AI agent has structured access to your pantry.

- [How Ration Uses Cloudflare Vectorize for Semantic Pantry Search](https://ration.mayutic.com/blog/cloudflare-vectorize-semantic-pantry-search): A technical walkthrough of Ration's semantic ingredient matching stack: embeddings, Vectorize namespaces, D1 hydration, and quantity-aware result validation.
- [Food Waste Is a Data Pipeline Problem](https://ration.mayutic.com/blog/food-waste-data-pipeline): Reducing household food waste is not only about discipline. It is mostly an information freshness problem across inventory, recipes, planning, and shopping.
- [Designing a Consumer App for AI Agents: Ration's MCP Architecture](https://ration.mayutic.com/blog/mcp-consumer-app-architecture): How Ration exposes pantry, meal planning, and shopping workflows through MCP with scoped auth, tool-level safety controls, and predictable schemas.
- [Why Pantry Search Needs Semantics, Not Just Keywords](https://ration.mayutic.com/blog/semantic-pantry-search): Keyword search breaks in real kitchens because pantry data is messy human language. Here is how semantic matching makes pantry inventory actually useful.
- [Breaking the Meal Planning Loop](https://ration.mayutic.com/blog/meal-planning-loop): The weekly cycle of planning, shopping, cooking, and repeating is relentless by nature. Here's how a connected workflow reduces the overhead without adding complexity.
- [The Pantry Data Problem](https://ration.mayutic.com/blog/pantry-data-problem): Most pantry trackers fail because getting data in is harder than keeping it organized. Here's how AI image processing, APIs, and structured ingestion change the equation.
- [Your Kitchen Has an API Now](https://ration.mayutic.com/blog/mcp-kitchen-assistant): How to connect Ration to Claude, Cursor, and any MCP client — with real prompts, real outputs, and workflows that make it worth setting up.

## Discovery

- [Sitemap](https://ration.mayutic.com/sitemap.xml): Full list of indexable URLs.
- [RSS feed](https://ration.mayutic.com/blog/rss.xml): Subscribe to new blog posts.
- [Full content for LLMs](https://ration.mayutic.com/llms-full.txt): All blog posts and product copy concatenated for grounding.

## Contact

Ration is built by Billy Downing at Mayutic. Reach out via [mayutic.com](https://www.mayutic.com).