Yelp for AI agents
Yelp Fusion provides business search, reviews, and ratings for local businesses, used by apps and services surfacing local business information. Connect it once through Arc0, and your agent, or Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor, can use it through one MCP endpoint, limited to what each user approved.
What agents do in Yelp.
Search businesses by location
Find businesses matching a category and location, a read-only search.
Get a business's reviews
Pull recent reviews for a business as a read-only summary.
Get business details
Look up hours, contact info, and rating for a specific business.
12 Yelp actions, graded by risk.
Every Yelp action is tagged read, write or destructive, so one policy covers the whole app and new actions inherit the right default.
read
12Look things up. Allowed by default.
- yelp.get_eventGet Event Details
- yelp.get_categoryGet Category Details
- yelp.search_eventsSearch Events
- yelp.list_categoriesList Categories
- yelp.search_and_chatSearch and Chat
- yelp.search_by_phoneSearch Business by Phone
- yelp.get_autocompleteAutocomplete Search
- yelp.search_businessesSearch Businesses
- yelp.get_featured_eventGet Featured Event
- yelp.get_business_detailsGet Business Details
- yelp.get_business_reviewsGet Business Reviews
- yelp.get_review_highlightsGet Review Highlights
write
0Create and change things. Allow, or ask the user first.
- No write actions.
destructive
0Delete, cancel or archive. Ask first, or deny outright.
- No destructive actions.
Yelp in three steps.
- 01Your users connect YelpThey add their Yelp no auth on Arc0 Connect, under your brand. It goes straight into the vault.
- 02You set the rulesReads run, and writes like “updates” can wait for the user to approve.
- 03Any agent can actYour agent calls Yelp through the Arc0 SDK or MCP, and so can Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor. Every call lands on the audit log.
await arc0.policies.set('yelp', { read: 'allow', write: 'ask', destructive: 'deny', }) # Claude Code: the same connection, one URL $ claude mcp add --transport http arc0 \ https://mcp.arc0.ai/u/u_8f2
How Yelp connects.
Yelp needs no credentials. Arc0 still applies your policies and records every call, so public tools get the same controls as private ones.
The same Yelp connection serves your agent over MCP and your own backend over REST and the proxy, so a user connects once. How Arc0 handles credentials →
- AUTH
- No auth
- CREDENTIALS
- Per-tenant encrypted vault
- MODEL SEES
- Results only, never credentials
- AUDIT LOG
- Every call, on every plan
Use Yelp from any agent.
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Yelp and Arc0, answered.
Can I use Yelp with Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor?
Yes. Connect Yelp to Arc0 once, then add your Arc0 MCP URL to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or any other remote-MCP client. Each assistant only gets the Yelp actions you allow.
How do users connect Yelp?
Yelp needs no credentials. Arc0 still applies your policies and records every call, so public tools get the same controls as private ones.
Which Yelp actions can my agent take?
12 in total: 12 read, 0 write and 0 destructive. Your policies decide which of them each agent may call.
Can I make my agent read-only in Yelp?
Yes. Allow read actions and deny writes in the Yelp policy. Your agent can still look things up, and any write it attempts is blocked and logged.
Can my own backend call Yelp too?
Yes. The same Yelp connection is available over REST and through the Arc0 proxy, so your product and your agent share one connection per user.
Plug Yelp into your agent.
Your users connect Yelp once, under your brand. Your agent gets 12 actions behind your policies, with every call on the record.
Free to build · MCP + REST · Audit log on every plan