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Flexport and Meteor AI agents
Connect Flexport to a Met: track shipments, search ocean and air rates, HS codes and ports, and request pricing with Flexport's official MCP.
How does Flexport connect to Meteor?
With the Flexport ready connector, your Met uses Flexport's official MCP server with the user of whoever connects, authorized with OAuth, and sees only what that person sees in Flexport. It gives your Met 16 tools: it tracks a shipment with its milestones, estimated dates and customs status, filters the shipments that need attention, searches contract and spot rates for ocean FCL or LCL and air freight, requests pricing from your Flexport team when there is no rate, and finds HS codes, ports and saved addresses. First, an administrator at your company enables the connection in the Flexport client app. Booking against a rate does not start turned off: the admin decides whether it stays on.
What it automates
What a Meteor Met does with Flexport
Answer where the import is
With the shipment ID or name, your Met checks in Flexport its status, the latest milestone, the estimated arrival date, the vessel and whether it has any customs hold, and sums it up in the chat.
See which shipments need attention
The Met filters your active shipments and tells you which ones have customs holds, overdue tasks, exceptions or risk of demurrage and detention charges.
Quote ocean or air freight
With the product, the origin port and the destination port, the Met finds the HS code, looks up the ports, searches contract and spot rates and works out the total price of the option.
Request pricing when there is no rate
If the search returns no rate for the lane, the Met requests pricing from your Flexport team and then reviews the quote request and the charges of each option when they arrive.
Book against a rate
If the admin leaves rates_instant_book on, the Met books the freight against the rate it just pulled, with the price, routing and cargo validated first by Flexport.
16 tools
Everything your Met can ask Flexport for
Each one is a real action in the connector. You can switch off the ones you would rather it never used.
| Tool | What it does |
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browse_shipments | Lists your active shipments and flags the ones that need attention, such as customs holds, overdue tasks, exceptions or demurrage and detention risk. |
track_shipment | Tracks a shipment by Flexport ID, name or tag, with status, milestones, estimated departure and arrival, vessel and customs status. |
list_active_company_users | Lists the active users of your company in Flexport, as its name indicates. |
network_search_addresses | Searches the verified addresses your company already has saved in Flexport. |
network_search_company_entities | Searches the companies registered in your Flexport network, as its name indicates. |
network_search_google_addresses | Searches for an address in Google's address search, as its name indicates. |
network_search_hs_codes | Finds the Harmonized System (HS) code that matches a product from its name. |
network_search_ports | Searches official port identifiers and country codes. |
rates_search_instant_price | Searches the available contract and spot rates for ocean FCL or LCL and air freight on a lane. |
rates_evaluate_total_price_from_instant_price_search | Works out the total price of an option returned by the rate search, as its name indicates. |
rates_request_rate | Requests pricing from your Flexport team when no rate is available for the lane. |
rates_browse_quote_requests | Lists your active quote requests, by name, by Flexport ID or all of them. |
rates_get_quote_request_details | Brings the details of a quote request and its priced options. |
rates_get_quote_details | Shows the line item charges of a priced option. |
rates_instant_book | Books freight against a rate the Met just pulled, after validating price, routing and cargo. Does not start turned off. |
rates_book_without_rate | Requests a booking without a rate, which stays pending approval. Starts turned off. |
The limits
What the Flexport integration does NOT do
We would rather say it here than have you find out during rollout.
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It does not ask you for confirmation in the chat before booking. rates_instant_book does not start turned off: if the admin leaves it on, the Met can book freight. rates_book_without_rate does start turned off.
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It does not do historical analysis, such as average transit times by lane. Flexport says its current tools focus on live shipments and current rates.
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It does not see more than the person who connected sees. Each connection runs with the Flexport user who authorizes it and with that user's permissions in the Flexport app.
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It does not work unless an administrator at your company enables the connection in the Flexport client app. Without that step, nobody on your team can connect.
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It is not a parcel shipping quoter. It works with the ocean FCL or LCL and air freight of your Flexport account, not with single parcel shipments.
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It does not pay for freight. What you book is billed to your Flexport account under the terms you have with them.
Before you start
What you need to connect Flexport
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A company account in Flexport
The account your company moves cargo with through Flexport, with an active user for the person who will connect.
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A Flexport administrator enables the connection
An administrator at your company enables it once from the Flexport client app. From then on, any active user can connect with their own user.
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Connect it in Met
In Met, open Connections → Flexport → Connect. You sign in with your Flexport user and authorize access. There is no key to paste into the chat.
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Decide which actions stay on
rates_instant_book books freight and does not start turned off: the admin decides whether it stays on. rates_book_without_rate starts turned off.
Frequently asked questions
Questions about Flexport and Meteor
No. According to Flexport, its MCP server runs separately from its public API and has its own rate limits, so your current integrations are not slowed down by using it.
Any active Flexport user, once an administrator enables it. Administrators see every connection and can revoke a user or switch it off for the whole company.
Not yet. Flexport says its current tools cover live shipments and current rates, and that historical analysis will come later.
Yes. The Met explains what Flexport returns, such as statuses, dates and charges, in the language of the conversation.
You do, with your Flexport account: the freight you book and the terms you have with them. Meteor does not resell the service.
Step by step
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Complete tasks, with the steps and the tools that run at each one.
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