INDIVIDUAL MCP TOOL

search_fde_jobs

Search Plank's first-party census of open forward-deployed engineer (FDE) roles, harvested directly from company ATS boards and individually verified.

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LIVE ENDPOINT

https://joinplank.com/mcp

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Connect to this endpoint to inspect the live schema for search_fde_jobs and invoke it with your own arguments.

Indexed input schema

{}

Risk classification

Inferred read-only · medium confidence · heuristic, not a guarantee.

No write-capable action terms were found; this is not proof that invocation has no side effects.

Parent server

joinplank.com

CONNECT WITH APPROVAL

Client installation

Review this server and its permissions before adding it. Secret placeholders must be set locally.

Codex

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.plank-fde]
url = "https://joinplank.com/mcp"
enabled = true

Claude Code

.mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "plank-fde": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://joinplank.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector

Name: plank-fde
Remote MCP URL: https://joinplank.com/mcp

Add this remote URL as a custom connector in Claude Desktop. Availability depends on the user plan and workspace policy.

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "plank-fde": {
      "url": "https://joinplank.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Visual Studio Code

.vscode/mcp.json

Add to Visual Studio Code

{
  "servers": {
    "plank-fde": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://joinplank.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Generic MCP

Client-specific MCP configuration

{
  "name": "plank-fde",
  "transport": "streamable-http",
  "url": "https://joinplank.com/mcp"
}

MCP Inspector

Run the official MCP Inspector locally and enter the indexed Streamable HTTP endpoint.

Related tools

fde_market_stats — Headline numbers for the forward-deployed engineering market: Plank's verified census count, the full sizing ladder from the broadest defensible definition down to individually verified postings, top verticals and regions, and the current hiring leaderboard.
fde_salary_benchmark — Posted salary bands from Plank's FDE job census, optionally narrowed by company, seniority, region, or vertical, plus total-compensation data including equity.
fde_company_profile — A research dossier on one company's forward-deployed engineering practice: how it approaches deployment, what it is known for, the sectors and customer types it serves, its tech stack, analyst insights drawn from its job descriptions, and live open-role counts and salary bands computed from the census.
fde_hiring_leaderboard — The companies hiring the most forward-deployed engineers right now, ranked by verified open roles in Plank's census.
fde_tech_stack — Document frequency of languages, cloud platforms, data tools, AI/ML stacks, and expected capabilities across machine-readable FDE job descriptions in Plank's census.