net.balford/ask
Balford metalworking engineering answers
Metal stamping, deep drawing and DFM answers from Balford's own published engineering pages.
alive probed 2026-10-15
3tools
955tokens in Claude Opus 5.5
976tokens in Claude Code
0.5 %of a 200k context window
585o200k_base estimate
513 msto initialize
104 msto list tools
- Endpoint
- https://balford.net/ask/mcp (streamable-http)
- Host
- balford.net
- Protocol
- 2025-11-25
- Reports itself as
- balford-engineering-answers 1.0.0
- Capabilities
- tools
- Instructions
- 531 characters
- Claude count
- Claude Opus 5.5, measured 2026-10-15. Counted again when the tool definitions change. Method.
- Website
- https://balford.net/ask/
- Registry
- active, updated 2026-10-14 · registry entry
- Reachable
- 1 of the last 2 probes
Most expensive tools
| Tool | Tokens (o200k) | Share of this server |
|---|---|---|
| ask_balford_engineering | 264 | 45 % |
| search_balford_material | 194 | 33 % |
| list_engineering_topics | 127 | 22 % |
History
We add a row when the result changes. A server with no change keeps its last row.
| Probed | Result | Init | Tools | Claude | o200k |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-15 11:38 | alive | 513 ms | 3 | 955 | 585 |
| 2026-10-14 09:38 | not MCP |
Badge and feed
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