discover_businesses
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Find businesses in the Facet Universal Business Index that an agent can transact with. Returns featured (claimed merchants with a live terminal_url — point your catalog and checkout calls there) and results (the wider directory). Use this first when you do not already know which merchant to talk to. REQUIRES IDENTITY: send a Facet KYA as Authorization: Bearer <kya> on the MCP request. A KYA is an ES256 JWT from Facet's default issuer https://issuer.facet.llc (or another issuer this Terminal trusts — see KYA-Issuers in its /.well-known/agents.txt). Calling without one returns 401 with a signup link.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| query | string | no | Free-text query, e.g. "flowers" or "makeup brushes". |
| near | object | no | Optional geographic center to rank by proximity. |
| radius_km | number | no | Search radius around `near`, km. Default 25. |
| limit | integer | no | Max matches to return. Default 10, cap 50. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"query": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Free-text query, e.g. \"flowers\" or \"makeup brushes\"."
},
"near": {
"type": "object",
"description": "Optional geographic center to rank by proximity.",
"properties": {
"lat": {
"type": "number",
"description": "Latitude, decimal degrees."
},
"lng": {
"type": "number",
"description": "Longitude, decimal degrees."
}
},
"required": [
"lat",
"lng"
]
},
"radius_km": {
"type": "number",
"description": "Search radius around `near`, km. Default 25."
},
"limit": {
"type": "integer",
"minimum": 1,
"maximum": 50,
"description": "Max matches to return. Default 10, cap 50."
}
}
}