Harness Atlas — MCP server
A remote Model Context Protocol server for sourcing
wire harnesses and cable assemblies. It answers two questions an agent cannot answer from
general web knowledge: who manufactures this, and what part can replace this one.
Hosted, public, no API key, nothing to install.
Listed in the official MCP registry as io.github.pawel-kowalczyk/harness-atlas.
The endpoint moved to harnessatlas.com on 2026-08-24 (manifest v0.2.0). The previous Supabase
URL still works and is not being retired, so existing clients keep functioning — but this is the
address to use.
Why it exists
Wire-harness sourcing data is scattered across trade directories, PDF catalogues and
manufacturer sites that general-purpose models summarise badly and cite unreliably. Harness
Atlas is a structured directory of the sector with per-field provenance, exposed over MCP so an
agent can query it directly instead of guessing.
Tools
find_manufacturer
Search the directory of wire-harness and cable-assembly manufacturers. All parameters optional.
Returns name, HQ country and city, website, industries served, plant count, capabilities and a
profile URL.
find_alternative
Cross-reference a component part number — connectors, terminals, seals, cable protection —
against the XrefBase equivalence graph. part_number is required; manufacturer is optional and
disambiguates an MPN that exists under several makers (aliases such as TE and H+S are
accepted). Punctuation and case are normalised, so 1-967616-1 and 19676161 both match.
Results are grouped by relationship strength, and the groups are not interchangeable:
Every claim carries a confidence level and, where one exists, a public source URL. The grouping
is the point: a tool that returns one flat list of "alternatives" invites an agent to propose a
mating connector as a replacement part.
Connecting
Claude Code
Claude Desktop / any client taking a remote MCP URL — add to your MCP config:
Straight JSON-RPC, to try it without a client:
The data, honestly
- 513 published manufacturers, 715 plants, 65 countries. Coverage is deepest in Europe,
with meaningful presence in North America and Asia.
- Profiles are compiled from public sources and manufacturer self-declaration. Independent
verification is in progress and is not yet reflected in most listings — treat capability and
certification claims as sourced, not audited, and follow the profile URL to the operator's own
material before relying on one commercially.
- Equivalence claims carry their own confidence level and a source URL where a public one
exists.
verified_replacements is the only group that should be read as a substitution
recommendation, and even that warrants engineering review for a safety-relevant application.
- Corrections are welcome — open an issue here or use the contact form on the site.
Scope
Harness Atlas is a directory and reference service. It does not broker, quote or transact, and
listing is not endorsement.
This repository
The server runs as a hosted endpoint; its implementation is not open source. This repository is
the public home for the server: its registry manifest, documentation and examples.
server.json is a mirror published for registry discovery. The canonical copy lives with the
implementation and is what mcp-publisher publishes — if the two ever disagree, the version in
the official registry is authoritative.
Links
Licence
MIT — covering this repository's contents: the server manifest, documentation and
examples.
The licence does not extend to the Harness Atlas directory data returned by the hosted endpoint.
That data remains proprietary and is offered for use through the endpoint itself.