recipebrain

Personal Swiss recipe knowledge base with promotion-aware meal planning, exposed via MCP.

Companion to cellarbrain. Standalone — no Python coupling. Interop via MCP at runtime, orchestrated by the chat host.

Status

Pre-alpha. Skeleton only. No scraping, no real MCP tools, no queries yet.

Quickstart

git clone https://github.com/<owner>/recipebrain.git
cd recipebrain
python -m venv .venv
.venv/Scripts/activate   # Windows
# source .venv/bin/activate  # macOS/Linux
pip install -e ".[dev]"
cp recipebrain.toml.example recipebrain.toml
pytest
recipebrain --help

Documentation

Relationship to cellarbrain

recipebrain and cellarbrain are independent Python packages that interoperate via MCP:

• cellarbrain answers "which wine pairs with this dish?"
• recipebrain answers "which dish pairs with this wine I want to open?"
• Together (both MCP servers configured in the same host) = end-to-end meal planning with wine pairing.

No shared library. No Python imports between them. The chat host orchestrates cross-server tool calls. See docs/06-architecture.md for details.

Privacy

All data stays local. No cloud sync, no telemetry, no accounts. Recipe data is scraped from public websites and stored as local Parquet files. Your cook log, pantry, and preferences never leave your machine.

Releasing

PyPI publishing uses trusted publishers (OIDC). Configure the pypi environment in GitHub repo settings with PyPI's trusted publisher binding. Then push a version tag:

git tag v0.0.1
git push origin v0.0.1

The publish.yml workflow handles the rest.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.