/Ashton & Forge·MCP server
Let your assistant read the directory
Connect Claude, or anything that speaks MCP, to the same directory of vetted AI agencies this site runs on. Ask it what the marketplace covers and who works in your industry, and let it hand you the brief when you're ready. It's public, it's free, and there's no account to make.
/ Server URL
https://ashtonforge.com/mcp/directoryread-only · no key · no account
How to connect it
01
Claude
- Open Settings, then Connectors.
- Choose Add custom connector.
- Paste this as the remote MCP server URL:
https://ashtonforge.com/mcp/directory - Leave authentication empty. There is no account to create and no key to paste.
02
Claude Code
- Add the server:
claude mcp add --transport http ashtonforge https://ashtonforge.com/mcp/directory - Confirm all 3 tools are listed:
/mcp
03
Anything else
- The server speaks streamable HTTP at the same URL.
- Point any MCP client at it. It needs no headers, no key and no OAuth flow.
It won't name an agency
Every listing is a capability profile: what an agency builds, who it builds for, the industries it knows, the size of engagement it takes. No names, no websites, no contact details, and no tool that returns them.
That's a decision, not a limitation. A list of names is something you'd still have to filter alone, which is the work we exist to do. So an assistant can tell you honestly whether someone can build what you're describing, and then hand you a brief that ends in up to three introductions a human approved.
You can read the same directory yourself on the homepage, or skip ahead and start a brief.
Questions
- What does it cost?
- Nothing. The server is public and needs no account. It reads the same directory the homepage shows.
- Can it change anything?
- No. Every tool reads. There is nothing in it that creates, updates or deletes, and it holds no data of yours to change.
- Will it give me agency names?
- No, and that is deliberate rather than a permissions problem. Agencies are described by capability, never by name. The introduction is what we sell, so the supply side is described rather than listed. File a brief and we make the introduction.
- What data does it send you?
- The query itself, and nothing more. There is no account, no key and no cookie, so a call carries no identity. We cannot tell one caller from another.
- How current is it?
- It reads the live marketplace. An agency approved this morning is in the next call you make.
- Why is there no agency name in any of it?
- A directory of named agencies is a list a buyer has to filter alone, which is the job we exist to do. Describing capability lets an assistant answer "can someone build this" honestly, then hand the person a brief that ends in three introductions.
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