Agent Layer MCP Server

by davidmcgill Your server? Claim it

not responding

Agent Layer is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 5 tools.

Fixed-fee software consultancy. Ask about scope, terms, and live capacity.

Uptime history 11 days of history · worst day 92%

11 days agonow

97.8%

Uptime 24h

89 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

127 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Agent Layer does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 98.6% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 7 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add agent-layer --transport http https://mcp.davidmcgill.tech/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "agent-layer": {
      "url": "https://mcp.davidmcgill.tech/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.agent-layer]
url = "https://mcp.davidmcgill.tech/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "agent-layer": {
      "url": "https://mcp.davidmcgill.tech/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "agent-layer": {
      "url": "https://mcp.davidmcgill.tech/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 5

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

capacity

check_capacity

Check whether McGill Technologies can take on new work right now. Returns concurrent engagement slots, slots in use, and slots open. Call before proposing a start date.

contact

get_contact

Get how to reach McGill Technologies and what the preferred first step is. Returns the contact channel and service area. Does not send anything.

discovery

get_discovery_instrument

Get the Discovery Instrument: the fixed-fee two-week diagnostic that most engagements begin with, including fee, duration, deliverables, and how the fee is credited against a later build SOW.

engagement

get_engagement_model

Get how McGill Technologies contracts and bills: pricing structure, who owns the source code and IP at the end, and whether there is any lock-in or required retainer.

services

list_services

List the categories of work McGill Technologies takes on, with the situations each one typically applies to. Use this to determine whether a problem is in scope.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://mcp.davidmcgill.tech/mcp	streamable-http	answering	8074 ms	7 min ago

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Agent Layer — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Agent Layer do?

It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: check_capacity, get_contact, get_discovery_instrument, get_engagement_model, list_services. 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 Agent Layer working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 89 of 91 checks got a reply (97.8%), average response time 127 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

The registry lists Agent Layer as active — why does it not respond?

The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.

How do I connect Agent Layer?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Agent Layer need an API key?

No. Agent Layer completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Agent Layer?

It answers our handshake in 127 ms on average, which is faster than 87% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.