INDIVIDUAL MCP TOOL

ask_balford_engineering

Answer a metalworking engineering or sourcing question from Balford's own published engineering material.

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LIVE ENDPOINT

https://balford.net/ask/mcp

No auth detected

Connect to this endpoint to inspect the live schema for ask_balford_engineering and invoke it with your own arguments.

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Inferred read-only · medium confidence · heuristic, not a guarantee.

No write-capable action terms were found; this is not proof that invocation has no side effects.

CONNECT WITH APPROVAL

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

Codex

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.balford-engineering-answers]
url = "https://balford.net/ask/mcp"
enabled = true

Claude Code

.mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "balford-engineering-answers": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://balford.net/ask/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector

Name: balford-engineering-answers
Remote MCP URL: https://balford.net/ask/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": {
    "balford-engineering-answers": {
      "url": "https://balford.net/ask/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Visual Studio Code

.vscode/mcp.json

Add to Visual Studio Code

{
  "servers": {
    "balford-engineering-answers": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://balford.net/ask/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Generic MCP

Client-specific MCP configuration

{
  "name": "balford-engineering-answers",
  "transport": "streamable-http",
  "url": "https://balford.net/ask/mcp"
}

MCP Inspector

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

search_balford_material — Retrieve the passages of Balford's published engineering material that match a query, without writing an answer.
list_engineering_topics — List the canonical engineering questions Balford's knowledge base is built around, grouped by process family, with the URL of the answer page for each.