{
  "name": "com.frontdeskreview/front-desk-review-data",
  "title": "The Front Desk Review",
  "description": "4,764 products, 626 categories: sourced prices, dated price history, independent-test coverage.",
  "version": "1.2.0",
  "websiteUrl": "https://frontdeskreview.com/connect/",
  "repository": {
    "url": "https://github.com/AlexandDunk/frontdesk-data",
    "source": "github"
  },
  "remotes": [
    {
      "type": "streamable-http",
      "url": "https://mcp.frontdeskreview.com/mcp"
    }
  ],
  "capabilities": {
    "tools": {
      "listChanged": true
    }
  },
  "authentication": "none",
  "license": "CC-BY-4.0",
  "doi": "10.5281/zenodo.20721846",
  "coverage": "4,764 hardware products across 359 categories; 2,064 software vendors across 267 categories; 1,472 products carrying verified hands-on reviews from 54 independent outlets; a dated price-change log plus Internet Archive price points reaching back before tracking began.",
  "provenance": "Every price, spec and quote returns the source URL and the date it was captured, so any figure an agent surfaces can be cited. Where a figure is unknown the tools return null rather than a guess.",
  "tools": [
    {
      "name": "list_sections",
      "description": "Every software/SaaS pricing theme covered, with slug, label and vendor count.",
      "readOnly": true
    },
    {
      "name": "search_vendors",
      "description": "Free-text search across a theme's vendors — names, domains, integrations, plan notes, capabilities.",
      "readOnly": true
    },
    {
      "name": "compare",
      "description": "Named vendors side by side within a theme, full sourced records.",
      "readOnly": true
    },
    {
      "name": "get_normalized_pricing",
      "description": "Effective monthly cost at a chosen volume, with flat, per-minute and per-call billing reduced to one comparable number.",
      "readOnly": true
    },
    {
      "name": "get_benchmark",
      "description": "One vendor's card: entry price, cost at reference volumes, compliance, free tier, integration breadth.",
      "readOnly": true
    },
    {
      "name": "find_best",
      "description": "“Cheapest X with a free tier / HIPAA / SOC 2 / GDPR” — ranked, and never on an unverified claim.",
      "readOnly": true
    },
    {
      "name": "list_coverage",
      "description": "What the index covers, how many vendors, over what date range — and what it does not cover.",
      "readOnly": true
    },
    {
      "name": "whats_changed",
      "description": "Recent price changes, each dated and corroborated by two sources.",
      "readOnly": true
    },
    {
      "name": "get_price_history",
      "description": "The full dated price series for one product or vendor, plus archived points read off Internet Archive snapshots.",
      "readOnly": true
    },
    {
      "name": "price_movers",
      "description": "What moved most recently across a category or the whole index.",
      "readOnly": true
    },
    {
      "name": "volatility_for_entity",
      "description": "How much one product's price actually moves — withheld rather than guessed when the record is too thin.",
      "readOnly": true
    },
    {
      "name": "most_volatile_in_category",
      "description": "The least stable prices in a category, ranked.",
      "readOnly": true
    },
    {
      "name": "list_product_categories",
      "description": "Every hardware category, with product counts, comparable spec keys and brands.",
      "readOnly": true
    },
    {
      "name": "search_products",
      "description": "Free-text search inside a hardware category across names, brands and spec values.",
      "readOnly": true
    },
    {
      "name": "compare_products",
      "description": "Named products lined up on the spec keys that category actually compares on.",
      "readOnly": true
    },
    {
      "name": "find_products",
      "description": "“Best under $N” or “most <spec>” — filter and rank by price, release date or any spec.",
      "readOnly": true
    },
    {
      "name": "get_independent_test_coverage",
      "description": "How many independent labs measured a product, and what they measured — a count of evidence, never a rating.",
      "readOnly": true
    },
    {
      "name": "list_cost_decoders",
      "description": "Which categories have a cost decoder explaining what actually drives the bill.",
      "readOnly": true
    },
    {
      "name": "get_cost_decoder",
      "description": "The drivers behind a category's real cost, so a quoted price can be read properly.",
      "readOnly": true
    }
  ]
}