12-tool MCP boundary
Discovery, qualification, outreach, negotiation, and comparison are exposed as explicit procurement tools rather than free-form actions.
Vendor Scout is an autonomous procurement agent for hardware teams. It searches the supplier market, qualifies what it finds, requests real quotes, negotiates the terms, and stops at the human decision.
The agent owns the repetitive procurement work end to end. Each stage persists its evidence, so every number on screen can be traced back to where it came from.
Vendor Scout can research, contact, and negotiate. It stops before money moves or terms are accepted, and hands over a decision packet with the economics, the competing offers, and the evidence behind both.
Discovery, qualification, outreach, negotiation, and comparison are exposed as explicit procurement tools rather than free-form actions.
Quotes are normalized to one currency and compared on landed cost. Unknown costs stay unknown instead of making an offer look cheaper.
The sample-order tool is marked destructive and pauses for approval immediately before execution, after the business decision is already recorded.
Find the vendor. Negotiate the deal. Approve the commitment.