Comprehensive Model Context Protocol server for managing Home Assistant through AI assistants.
Nothing to run from here
Balford metalworking engineering answers is installed from its publisher's own source and answers where it runs, so this marketplace is not in the path of a single call. There is no address here to send one to, and a panel that pretended otherwise would be showing you an answer we made up. Install it and call it from your own client — the Installation tab has the entry for each one.
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What it does
Metal stamping, deep drawing and DFM answers from Balford's own published engineering pages.
Quickstart
# 1 — add it to Claude Code
claude mcp add --scope user --transport http balford-metalworking-engineering-answers-mcp https://balford.net/ask/mcp
# 2 — ask your agent for something these tools do
# ask_balford_engineering, search_balford_material, list_engineering_topics
Balford metalworking engineering answers costs nothing on mcprush: there is no plan to choose here, no cap to set and nothing mcprush can bill you for.
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BAAll 1 server
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Collected from a public index. Nobody has claimed this account, so nothing here was written by its author — claim it if it is yours.
Installation
Where are you running it?
Every route below installs the same thing and ends at the same approval screen. Nothing here runs on your machine and nothing runs on ours: this server answers at its publisher’s own address, and what you install is the connection straight to it.
Claude Codedeclared by this listing
This is a public server: it answers at its publisher’s own address and this marketplace is not in the path. Claude Code registers it in one command; --scope user makes it available in every project. The transport below is http, as the publisher's own manifest declares it.
claude mcp add --scope user --transport http balford-metalworking-engineering-answers-mcp https://balford.net/ask/mcpReconnect, or start a new session, and the tools appear in the model’s tool list.
Free on mcprush, and it answers at its publisher’s own address: this marketplace is not in the path, so there is no key of ours to hold and no card to add.
What it writes
One config entry pointing straight at the publisher’s own address — this marketplace is not in the path, and nothing from this listing executes on your machine.
What you approve
3 tools, with what each one reads, writes and reaches shown before you agree — the same list on every route above. Read the tool surface.
Tool surface
What the model actually sees. Descriptions are diffed on every release — see version history.
Answer a metalworking engineering or sourcing question from Balford's own published engineering material. Covers fine blanking and thinning / ironing deep drawing as focus processes, plus progressive and transfer dies, precision stamping, sheet metal, CNC, brazing, annealing, plating, tolerances, DFM and RFQ preparation. Returns a written answer with numbered citations plus the source pages. Use t
| Parameter | Type | Required | Notes |
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| question | string | yes | The engineering or sourcing question, in plain language. Max 600 characters. |
| lang | string | no | BCP-47 language tag for the question, for the review log. Defaults to 'en'. |
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 published on a topic, to gather source URLs for a citation, or to ground your own reasoning. Costs no model tokens. Answers are assembled from Balford's own published engineering material and cite the page each claim came from. Nothing is quot
| Parameter | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| query | string | yes | Search terms, e.g. 'thinning deep drawing 0.35 mm wall' or 'PPAP level 3'. |
| limit | integer | no | Maximum number of passages to return. Default 6, maximum 12. |
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 to find the right published answer before asking a free-form question, or to see whether a topic is covered at all. Costs no model tokens.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| category | string | no | Optional. Return only one process family, matched case-insensitively against the family title (e.g. 'fine blanking', 'deep drawing'). Omit to return every family. |
Free
$0 forever
- Every tool — any call limit is its publisher’s, not ours
- No card, and mcprush charges nothing for it
- Runs at its publisher’s own address — this marketplace is not in the path
- Nothing to cap, because mcprush bills nothing
What counts against your monthly calls
| Tool | Unit | Calls used | Out of the allowance |
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Nothing here is billable: mcprush charges nothing to install Balford metalworking engineering answers or to call it, at any volume.
Call allowance · this installenforced at the gateway
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Alert at 80% · then the tool returns a normal MCP error
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No rule-by-rule report on file for this release
Two independent axes, because powerful and malicious are different questions. The grade is threat only. The capability level is blast radius, and it is never a penalty on the grade — it is priced as one subtract-only term in the score, where you can see it.
This listing is an address its publisher runs, and you connect to it directly — this marketplace is not in the path. The scanner reads packages and public source, and an address is neither. So there is no grade — not a withheld one, an unmeasured one.
Release history
This is an address its publisher runs: which release it serves is theirs to choose, so there is nothing here to pin. The history below is for reading; the current release on file is 1.0.0.
1.0.0
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latestNo release note was published with this version.
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Who can review
One review per account, from a signed-in account that does not publish this listing. Nothing else is asked — you can say what you think before you install it. Publishers can reply once per review, and a review can be edited or deleted by whoever wrote it.
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