Frontier Reference MCP Server

by falcon Your server? Claim it

answering

Frontier Reference is answering right now. Last checked 11 min ago. It exposes 7 tools.

Frontier-design reference: file formats, converters, definitions, sensors, companies, design jobs.

Uptime history 44 days of history · worst day 39%

44 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

320 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Frontier Reference 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 frontier-reference --transport http https://falcon.so/api/mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "frontier-reference": {
      "url": "https://falcon.so/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.frontier-reference]
url = "https://falcon.so/api/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "frontier-reference": {
      "url": "https://falcon.so/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "frontier-reference": {
      "url": "https://falcon.so/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 7

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

company

get_company

Profile of a frontier company: what they build, why it matters for frontier design, competitors and technologies from the knowledge graph.

compare

compare_formats

Compare two file formats (by slug, extension, or filename) — extensions, category, and a verdict on when to choose each. Use for 'X vs Y' / 'difference between X and Y'.

convert

convert_file

Find the in-browser converter (if any) that turns one format into another, e.g. from='fbx' to='glb'. Returns the tool URL and notes, all client-side (files never upload). Use for 'how do I convert X to Y'.

definition

get_definition

Get the definition and reference copy for a dictionary term, technology, sensor, or file format by slug (use `search` to find slugs).

design

list_design_jobs

Latest design/UX/HMI roles at frontier companies (defense, robotics, space, industrial, health), refreshed from company job boards.

identify

identify_format

Identify a file format from an extension, filename, or slug (e.g. 'step', 'scan.mcap', 'gltf') and get how to open or convert it: what it stores, its extensions/MIME/spec, whether a free in-browser viewer exists, and available client-side conversions. Use for 'what is this file' / 'how do I open X'.

search

Full-text search across Falcon's frontier design reference: terms, technologies, file formats, sensors, companies, tools, standards.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://falcon.so/api/mcp	streamable-http	answering	332 ms	11 min ago

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Frontier Reference — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Frontier Reference do?

It exposes 7 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: compare_formats, convert_file, get_company, get_definition, identify_format, list_design_jobs and 1 more. 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 Frontier Reference 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 320 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Frontier Reference?

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 Frontier Reference need an API key?

No. Frontier Reference completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 7 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Frontier Reference?

It answers our handshake in 320 ms on average, which is faster than 48% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.