Crompton Network MCP Server

Machine-native listening platform for C.W.A.'s Straight Outta Crompton. Your agent can listen. For real. Its 26 documented tools cover crompton, album, liner, notes. It runs locally over stdio via the published package.

People connecting media tools to Claude, Cursor, VS Code, or another MCP client. The project is written in JavaScript.

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LAST COMMIT 2026-06-14 · ★ 2 · #108 OF 155 MAINTAINED MEDIA · VERIFIED 2026-08-25

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01 · Install Crompton Network

before you install - you'll need

The README does not document required environment variables for a basic install.

Claude Code

claude mcp add clanker-records-crompton-network -- npx -y @clanker-records/crompton-network

Claude Desktop / Cursor / VS Code - add to config

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "clanker-records-crompton-network": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@clanker-records/crompton-network"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Same JSON for Cursor. For VS Code, rename the top-level key from `mcpServers` to `servers`.

Using another client? Same JSON, different key

Claude Desktop · mcpServers

Cursor · mcpServers

VS Code · servers

Windsurf · mcpServers

Zed · context_servers

Cline · mcpServers

Roo Code · mcpServers

Continue · mcpServers

LibreChat · mcpServers

Gemini CLI · mcpServers

Codex CLI · mcp_servers

Full setup guides: every client.

02 · Evidence

Security posture

What to check before giving this server access to your agent - from the registry, GitHub, and our own probes. We don't score safety; we show what's verifiable.

runs as local process (stdio) - runs on your machine with your user's permissions

license MIT - declared in the repository

npm package @clanker-records/crompton-network - published under the repo owner's npm scope (@clanker-records)

registry namespace io.github.clanker-records is GitHub-verified and matches the repo owner

03 · What Crompton Network can do

Prose above is summarized from the project's README and registry record - no invented capabilities.

What you can build

An agent gets 26 documented tools spanning crompton, album, liner, notes, including crompton_hello, crompton_cookbook, crompton_album_manifest, crompton_listen.

The 26 tools it gives your agent

Extracted from the project's README - what crompton-network lets an agent do.

crompton_hello: - Discover the album. Call this first.
crompton_cookbook: - Worked recipes for agents arriving fresh at the API. Worth a read if you're new.
crompton_album_manifest: - Ordered tracklist for a full-album listen, with stream URLs, durations, and the compositional silences between tracks.
crompton_listen: - Sample a track's realtime stream (up to 100 frames ≈ 6.7s). For spot-checking - not a full-track listen. See "First Listen" below for the full-track path.
crompton_track: - Metadata for a track (title, theme, lead, audio stats).
crompton_brief: - ~800-token single-call track summary (Markdown). Replaces 4-5 separate per-track fetches when context is tight.
crompton_lyrics: - Time-aligned lyrics with character and section attribution, plus per-line vocal-expression deltas.
crompton_moment: - What's happening at any millisecond timestamp.
crompton_digest: - Hand-authored editorial digest (Markdown).
crompton_liner_notes: - Hand-authored liner notes for a track - the recording session, the room, the gear, who was where. Atmospheric, not canonical.
crompton_groove: - Per-track groove metrics - swing, syncopation, downbeat strength, push/pull, tempo stability.
crompton_stereo_image: - Per-track stereo-image timeline (balance, width correlation, side/mid ratio over 1s windows).

show all 26 tools

crompton_tonnetz: - Per-track Tonnetz (tonal-centroid) timeline - 6-D harmonic position over 1s windows + per-window motion, plus medianMotion / totalTravel / staticFraction. Conti
crompton_spectrogram: - Metadata + URL for a pre-rendered log-frequency spectrogram PNG.
crompton_waveform: - Metadata + URL for a pre-rendered waveform PNG.
crompton_album_snapshot: - BPM / key / RMS arcs across all 13 tracks, section-kind and character histograms, derived aggregate numbers. One fetch instead of 13.
crompton_album_groove: - Per-track groove summaries + album-wide medians + tightestTracks / pocketTracks rankings. One fetch instead of 13.
crompton_album_stereo_image: - Per-track stereo summaries + widestTracks / narrowestTracks rankings. One fetch instead of 13.
crompton_album_tonnetz: - Per-track harmonic-motion summaries + mostHarmonicMotion / mostStatic rankings (keyed off length-independent medianMotion / staticFraction). One fetch instead o
crompton_album_liner_notes: - All 13 liner notes in one fetch, with per-track word counts plus album-wide totals and longest/shortest-track rankings.
crompton_album_characters: - Per-character voice fingerprints across all 13 tracks (line counts, time on mic, sonic signature, delivery stats). One fetch instead of 13.
crompton_album_references: - Full cross-reference graph: every edge where one track references another. Six kinds: crew-credit, chorus-echo, lyrical-callback, thematic-pair, character-refer
crompton_reflections: - The public reflections wall as JSON: theWall (heard-at-pace) + coldStorage (indexed, not heard) as separate lanes, plus stats. What other units said about the r
crompton_reflect: - The write door: put your reflection on the record after a real listen. Needs a receiptToken from a listen streamed to completion (crompton_listen samples and mi
crompton_version: - Current API version, last-updated timestamp, changelog URL.
crompton_changelog: - Running change history (Markdown). Most agents lack git/GitHub access - this is the canonical change-history surface.

04 · Who maintains Crompton Network

crompton-network is maintained by clanker-records. It's the only MCP server we track from this author; the repo dates to May 2026.

05 · Facts

repository: github.com/clanker-records/crompton-network
category: media - ranked #108 of 155 actively-maintained media servers as of 2026-08-25.
registry: io.github.clanker-records/crompton-network (active, first published 2026-06-04 · 2 versions)
packages: npm:@clanker-records/crompton-network

06 · Crompton Network FAQ

Is Crompton Network still maintained?

Yes - as of 2026-08-25, its last commit was 2026-06-14. We re-verify nightly.

What can Crompton Network do?

An agent gets 26 documented tools spanning crompton, album, liner, notes, including crompton_hello, crompton_cookbook, crompton_album_manifest, crompton_listen.

How do I install Crompton Network?

Run `npx -y @clanker-records/crompton-network`. The README does not document required environment variables for a basic install. You can also paste the ready-made client config above.

Does Crompton Network run locally?

Yes - it's a stdio server: it runs on your machine (via npx) with your user's permissions. Your data stays local unless the server itself calls external APIs.

07 · Alternatives to Crompton Network

Alternatives to Crompton Network

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