Approval-Gated Flexport Rate to Booking

Overview

Separate discovery from commitment. MCP rate tools can search, evaluate, request, and book; a booking must never be inferred from a search result or performed before a named approver accepts the final normalized terms.

Prerequisites

• Validated origin, destination, cargo, dates, mode, and incoterm
• Authenticated connection to https://mcp.flexport.com/mcp
• Named approver, spend boundary, and duplicate-prevention store

Instructions

Step 1: Normalize the lane

Resolve addresses, company entities, ports, addresses, and commodity inputs with read-only network tools. Preserve opaque Flexport identifiers.

Step 2: Search without commitment