Retail: Product Catalog Cleanup with Claude Code: MCP Tool Boundary
A production playbook for product catalog cleanup in retail operations using Claude Code: mcp tool boundary, run-scoped inputs, logs, typed results, and artifacts.
Audience: Retail and marketplace catalog teams
The problem
Retail and marketplace catalog teams need product catalog cleanup to run repeatedly against product feeds, images, descriptions, taxonomy rules, and exception lists. In retail operations, the pain is not one good answer; it is repeatability, auditability, exception handling, and evidence that survives handoff.
Implementation path
Expose only the MCP tools needed for product catalog cleanup, validate tool arguments, keep credentials in the owning service, and log each call outside the sandbox.
Tradeoffs and failure modes
Narrow tool boundaries reduce agent flexibility, but make the integration reviewable and supportable. For product catalog cleanup, the practical test is whether a second run can be debugged, retried, and consumed by a product without reading the raw agent transcript.
Tool policy
tool: retail-product-catalog-cleanup_lookup
agent: Claude Code
input_scope: /skill/.argo/inputs
credential_owner: broker
log_arguments: true
network_policy: allowlisted
Run this on Argo