INDIVIDUAL MCP TOOL
fde_salary_benchmark
Posted salary bands from Plank's FDE job census, optionally narrowed by company, seniority, region, or vertical, plus total-compensation data including equity.
LIVE ENDPOINT
https://joinplank.com/mcp
Connect to this endpoint to inspect the live schema for fde_salary_benchmark and invoke it with your own arguments.
Indexed input schema
{}Risk classification
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.
Parent server
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.plank-fde]
url = "https://joinplank.com/mcp"
enabled = true
Claude Code
.mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"plank-fde": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://joinplank.com/mcp"
}
}
}
Claude Desktop
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector
Name: plank-fde
Remote MCP URL: https://joinplank.com/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": {
"plank-fde": {
"url": "https://joinplank.com/mcp"
}
}
}
Visual Studio Code
.vscode/mcp.json
Add to Visual Studio Code{
"servers": {
"plank-fde": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://joinplank.com/mcp"
}
}
}
Generic MCP
Client-specific MCP configuration
{
"name": "plank-fde",
"transport": "streamable-http",
"url": "https://joinplank.com/mcp"
}
MCP Inspector
Run the official MCP Inspector locally and enter the indexed Streamable HTTP endpoint.
Related tools
search_fde_jobs— Search Plank's first-party census of open forward-deployed engineer (FDE) roles, harvested directly from company ATS boards and individually verified.fde_market_stats— Headline numbers for the forward-deployed engineering market: Plank's verified census count, the full sizing ladder from the broadest defensible definition down to individually verified postings, top verticals and regions, and the current hiring leaderboard.fde_company_profile— A research dossier on one company's forward-deployed engineering practice: how it approaches deployment, what it is known for, the sectors and customer types it serves, its tech stack, analyst insights drawn from its job descriptions, and live open-role counts and salary bands computed from the census.fde_hiring_leaderboard— The companies hiring the most forward-deployed engineers right now, ranked by verified open roles in Plank's census.fde_tech_stack— Document frequency of languages, cloud platforms, data tools, AI/ML stacks, and expected capabilities across machine-readable FDE job descriptions in Plank's census.