net.balford/ask

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Publisher-provided title

Balford metalworking engineering answers

Publisher-provided description

Metal stamping, deep drawing and DFM answers from Balford's own published engineering pages.

Summary by lookupd

Lets an agent query a manufacturer's published metal stamping and deep drawing material for engineering answers and topic lists.

Install

Claude Code, remote (streamable-http)

claude mcp add --transport http ask https://balford.net/ask/mcp

Codex, remote (streamable-http)

codex mcp add ask --url https://balford.net/ask/mcp

Cursor, remote (streamable-http) → .cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ask": {
      "url": "https://balford.net/ask/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Other clients: docs. Or tell your agent: Set up lookupd for me: read https://lookupd.com/agent.md and follow it.

Publisher-provided text

ask_balford_engineering Answer a metalworking engineering or sourcing question from Balford's own published engineering material. Covers fine blanking and thinning / ironing deep drawi
search_balford_material Retrieve the passages of Balford's published engineering material that match a query, without writing an answer. Use this to check what Balford has actually pub
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. Use this

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