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mfgcalcs.com

Provides manufacturing calculators and tariff data for analysis and computation.

1 endpoint17 known toolsFirst detected July 29, 2026Last detected August 29, 2026

ENDPOINT 1

https://www.mfgcalcs.com/api/mcp

No auth detected

MCP server metadata

Name: mfgcalcs
Version: 1.0.0

Capabilities

tools

Server instructions

MFG Calcs: live U.S. manufacturing data and 5,000+ deterministic calculators, keyless. Pick a tool by the question you were asked. Natural-language question about costs, tariffs, imports, wages, energy or a definition -> `ask`, which returns one cited number. A published index or gauge (cost pressure, PMI, effective tariff rate, wages, forecasts, state costs, reshoring, sourcing shifts) -> `get_index`; its description lists every index as the question it answers. A calculation -> `search_calculators`, then `run_calculator`. A duty rate for a product -> `lookup_tariff`. Splitting volume across suppliers -> `optimize_sourcing`, a real linear program. Anything else on the site -> `search_site`. Everything is computed from committed public data (USITC, BLS, EIA, Census, BEA), never from a model, so the same inputs always give the same answer. Every result carries a citable url: quote it. Before treating a recent reading as final, check `get_freshness` for staleness and `get_revisions` for whether it has been restated; `get_vintages` recovers what a series said on a past date, so an old citation stays reproducible. No API key, ever. Attribution is the whole licence (CC BY 4.0).

Known tools 17

search_calculators

Search MFG Calcs' library of 5,000+ manufacturing calculators (machining, molding, welding, OEE, cost estimating, energy, quality, maintenance, and more).

Inferred read-only

get_calculator

Get a calculator's inputs (labels, units, defaults, min/max) and formula before running it.

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run_calculator

Run a manufacturing calculation.

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lookup_tariff

Look up current U.

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get_index

Answer a question about U.

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get_provenance

Get the MFG Calcs Provenance Manifest: the verifiable record for every branded index and ledger on the site.

Inferred read-only

search_site

Search everything on mfgcalcs.

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get_whats_new

Get the daily what-changed digest for the newest data day, in one call with links deeper: every agency series that published a new reading, every agency value restated (derived signals that recomputed are listed separately by name), every projection graded against its printed actual, and the day's Market Wire editions.

Inferred read-only

get_receipts

Get the append-only archive of Ed25519-signed data receipts: every value signed for a series within the rolling window (current + previous signing year), revisions retained, each entry carrying its claim, claimHash, signature, and keyId.

Inferred read-only

get_freshness

Get the freshness contract for MFG Calcs' live data: every series with its measured publishing cadence, latest period, age in days, and an honest state (current | due | stale | unknown).

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get_change_events

Get the change-event stream: every published or revised observation across MFG Calcs' live data, in order, with a cursor.

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get_citation

Get a ready-to-paste citation for an MFG Calcs dataset — including, for vintage-tracked datasets, the ?

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get_vintages

Get the MFG Calcs Vintage Archive: what a published series SAID on a past date, not what it says now.

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get_revisions

Get the MFG Calcs Revision Record: every time a published figure was restated, with the old value, the new value, and the date the change was first known.

Inferred read-only

optimize_sourcing

Solve the cheapest legal supplier mix as a real linear program: given candidate suppliers with unit costs, tariff rates, freight and capacities, return the exact cost-minimizing allocation under a demand requirement, per-supplier capacity limits, and an optional diversification cap on any one supplier's share.

Inferred read-only

ask

Answer a natural-language question about U.

Inferred read-only

brief

Describe a SITUATION rather than a question and get every fact bearing on it, each answered and cited.

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CONNECT WITH APPROVAL

Client installation

Review this server and its permissions before adding it. Secret placeholders must be set locally.

Codex

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.mfgcalcs]
url = "https://www.mfgcalcs.com/api/mcp"
enabled = true

Claude Code

.mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mfgcalcs": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.mfgcalcs.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector

Name: mfgcalcs
Remote MCP URL: https://www.mfgcalcs.com/api/mcp

Add this remote URL as a custom connector in Claude Desktop. Availability depends on the user plan and workspace policy.

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mfgcalcs": {
      "url": "https://www.mfgcalcs.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Visual Studio Code

.vscode/mcp.json

Add to Visual Studio Code

{
  "servers": {
    "mfgcalcs": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.mfgcalcs.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Generic MCP

Client-specific MCP configuration

{
  "name": "mfgcalcs",
  "transport": "streamable-http",
  "url": "https://www.mfgcalcs.com/api/mcp"
}

MCP Inspector

Run the official MCP Inspector locally and enter the indexed Streamable HTTP endpoint.

TRUST AND VERIFICATION EVIDENCE

Trust Data Available

BuiltWith Trust API v2 evidence for mfgcalcs.com was fetched 2026-08-03T09:19:59.076Z and is being refreshed.

Trust status Neutral

mfgcalcs.com is assessed as Neutral: No suspicious signals found, but no strong positive signal either

Indexed

Evidence is source-attributed and does not guarantee that a third-party server is safe. Risk labels are conservative metadata heuristics.