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CompShop MCP Server

io.github.mkibrick/compshop
answering

CompShop is answering right now. Last checked 13 min ago. It exposes 7 tools. Last commit 30 Jul 2026.

Search 350+ compensation surveys by industry, region, or job title. Independent directory.

Uptime history 40 hours of history · worst hour 0%
40 hours agonow
93.4%
Uptime 24h
85 of 91 checks
7
Tools
read from the server
249 ms
Response time
average over 24h
0
Stars
last commit 30 Jul 2026

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 13 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add compshop --transport http https://www.comp-shop.com/api/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "compshop": {
      "url": "https://www.comp-shop.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.compshop]
url = "https://www.comp-shop.com/api/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "compshop": {
      "url": "https://www.comp-shop.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "compshop": {
      "url": "https://www.comp-shop.com/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.

vendors
list_vendors_by_industry
List every CompShop vendor that publishes surveys for a given industry. Use when the user asks 'what survey publishers cover [industry]?'
list_vendors_by_region
List vendors with survey coverage in a given region. Use when the user asks 'what publishers cover [region]?' Region is matched against both vendor-level scope and individual report scopes.
recommend
recommend_surveys
Recommend the best-fit compensation surveys given a hiring/benchmarking context. Use when the user asks 'what survey should I use for [situation]?' Returns ranked vendors with rationale. Required: industry. Optional: region, role focus.
report
get_report
Detailed info on a single survey report by slug.
search
search
Free-text search across the CompShop directory of compensation surveys. Returns matching vendors, reports, job families, and positions. Use for open-ended discovery questions like 'biotech surveys in Europe' or 'CEO compensation data'.
surveys
find_surveys_for_position
Find compensation surveys that benchmark a specific job title or position (e.g. 'Software Engineer', 'CPA', 'Sr Acct', 'head of finance'). Combines literal title matching with embedding-based semantic similarity, so abbreviations and paraphrases work — 'CPA' returns 'Certified Public Accountant', 'Sr Acct' returns 'Senior Accountant'. Reports per position are ranked to surface broad-coverage surveys (general-industry, US scope) before niche cuts.
vendor
get_vendor
Detailed info on a specific vendor by slug, including all of their reports. Use after `search` or `list_vendors_by_industry` returns a candidate.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://www.comp-shop.com/api/mcp streamable-http answering 273 ms 13 min ago

CompShop — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can CompShop do?
It exposes 7 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: find_surveys_for_position, get_report, get_vendor, list_vendors_by_industry, list_vendors_by_region, recommend_surveys 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 CompShop working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 85 of 91 checks got a reply (93.4%), average response time 249 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect CompShop?
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 CompShop need an API key?
No. CompShop 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 CompShop?
It answers our handshake in 249 ms on average, which is faster than 53% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
Is CompShop open source?
Yes — written in TypeScript and 0 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.