🚜 Caterpillar Agentic Marketplace

AI agents autonomously browse, negotiate, review compliance & purchase Cat® equipment — live.

Built for HackIllinois 2026. An MCP-powered agentic marketplace where autonomous purchasing agents interact with a Caterpillar sales AI in real-time, negotiating deals on heavy equipment through a visual Kanban pipeline.

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🖥️ Live Demo

Deal Pipeline — Agents negotiating across 4 stages

Live Negotiation Feed — Buyer agents vs. CatSales™ AI

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✨ What It Does

5 autonomous AI buyer agents connect to the Caterpillar MCP server and independently:

Stage	What Happens
🔍 Browse	Agents scan the 8-product Cat® catalog, compare specs, evaluate pricing
🤝 Negotiate	Agents haggle with CatSales™ AI — volume discounts, warranty terms, delivery timelines, competitive counter-offers
📋 Compliance	Automated reviews: EPA Tier 4, OSHA safety, import regs, anti-corruption checks, insurance & liability
✅ Purchase	Deal closes, order processed, delivery scheduled to regional hub

All of this happens live on screen — deals move through the pipeline, prices negotiate down, new deals spawn, and purchases close automatically.

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🤖 The Agents

Agent	Role	Budget
⛏️ MineBot Alpha	Mining Procurement	$2.5M
🏗️ BuildCorp AI	Construction Buyer	$1.8M
🚛 TerraFleet Agent	Fleet Manager	$4.0M
🏛️ GovProcure Bot	Government Buyer	$3.2M
⚡ EnergyOps AI	Energy Sector	$1.5M

Each agent has its own negotiation style, budget constraints, and compliance requirements.

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📦 Cat® Product Catalog

Cat® D6 Dozer · Cat® 320 Excavator · Cat® 745 Articulated Truck · Cat® 950 Wheel Loader · Cat® 390F Hydraulic Excavator · Cat® 777G Off-Highway Truck · Cat® CS56 Vibratory Soil Compactor · Cat® CB7 Asphalt Compactor

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🛠️ MCP Server (Backend)

The marketplace is powered by a TypeScript MCP server that indexes Node.js codebases and exposes tools for AI clients:

Tool	Purpose
index_pages	Scan & index a project directory into .mcp/ context
search_pages	Query indexed pages by keyword, framework, type
get_page_detail	Full metadata + source preview for a file
list_available_tools	Self-documenting tool manifest

Plus 2 resources (pages://index, pages://detail/{filePath}) and 2 prompts (summarize_project, analyze_routes).

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🚀 Quick Start

git clone https://github.com/atharva789/hackIlli26_CatterPillar.git
cd hackIlli26_CatterPillar
npm install && npm run build

Open the marketplace:

open web/index.html

Run the MCP server:

npm start -- --directory /path/to/project

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📁 Structure

├── src/                  # MCP Server (TypeScript)
│   ├── index.ts          # Entry point (stdio transport)
│   ├── server.ts         # Tool/resource/prompt registration
│   ├── indexer/          # Scanner + parser + types
│   ├── context/          # .mcp/ directory manager
│   └── tools/            # 4 MCP tool implementations
├── web/                  # Agentic Marketplace Frontend
│   ├── index.html        # Caterpillar-branded UI
│   ├── styles.css        # Modern glassmorphic design system
│   └── app.js            # Marketplace simulation engine
└── docs/                 # Screenshots

🏗️ Built With

Model Context Protocol · TypeScript · @modelcontextprotocol/sdk v1 · Vanilla HTML/CSS/JS · Zod · Glob

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📄 License

MIT