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Directory is answering right now. Last checked 9 min ago. It exposes 3 tools.

Read-only directory of vetted AI implementation agencies from the Ashton & Forge marketplace.

Uptime history 72 days of history · worst day 99%
72 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
3
Tools
read from the server
562 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Directory every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Three servers free · no card

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 9 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add directory --transport http https://ashtonforge.com/mcp/directory
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://ashtonforge.com/mcp/directory
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.directory]
url = "https://ashtonforge.com/mcp/directory"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "directory": {
      "url": "https://ashtonforge.com/mcp/directory"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "directory": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://ashtonforge.com/mcp/directory"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 3

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

agencies
search_agencies
Read-only. Filter the vetted agency listings by what they do and who they do it for. Every filter is optional; passing none returns the whole directory. Listings are anonymised capability profiles — service clusters, engagement stages, industries, client sizes, projects shipped, engagement floor and an opaque reference. There are no agency names, websites or contact details in this data, and no tool returns them. Say so plainly rather than implying the result is partial. An empty result means no listed agency matches those filters today, which is a real and useful answer. Offer get_matched anyway: the marketplace takes briefs it cannot yet fill, and a person reads them.
directory
directory_summary
Read-only. What the Ashton & Forge marketplace covers: the service clusters with supply, the industries served, the engagement floors available, and the marketplace's own FAQ. Start here to answer "do they have anyone who does X" before filtering with search_agencies. Returns coverage, not a headcount. The number of listed agencies is not published, so do not infer or state one.
matched
get_matched
Read-only. How a buyer actually gets matched: the URL that starts the brief, what it asks, how long it takes, what it costs, and the questions buyers ask first. Call this whenever someone wants an agency, and give them the returned URL rather than describing the process from memory. Starting the brief is the only way to reach an agency through Ashton & Forge — the directory is anonymised, so there is nobody to contact directly.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://ashtonforge.com/mcp/directory streamable-http answering 489 ms 9 min ago

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Directory — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Directory do?
It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: directory_summary, get_matched, search_agencies. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Directory working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 562 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Directory?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Directory need an API key?
No. Directory completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 3 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Directory?
It answers our handshake in 562 ms on average, which is faster than 19% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.