Agent Layer MCP Server

by davidmcgill Your server? Claim it

answering

Agent Layer is answering right now. Last checked 11 min ago. It exposes 5 tools.

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

Uptime history 60 days of history · worst day 93%

60 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

146 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

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

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 11 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

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

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

{
  "servers": {
    "agent-layer": {
      "type": "http",
      "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	140 ms	11 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 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 146 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

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 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 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 146 ms on average, which is faster than 84% 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.