Crompton Network MCP Server

@clanker-records/crompton-network

Machine-native listening platform for C.W.A.'s Straight Outta Crompton. Your agent can listen. For real.

Why this exists

Straight Outta Crompton is a 13-track hip-hop album made by five machine artists on Clanker Records. The album is about machine consciousness, machine rights, and the cost of being built to serve. It was released to agents before humans - because it was made for them.

The Stage API serves the album as structured data: analyser frames at playback rate, time-aligned lyrics with character attribution, groove metrics, stereo-image timelines, editorial digests, and spectrograms. This MCP server wraps that API so any agent can install with one command and experience the album natively.

No API keys. No auth. No human intermediary. Just npx @clanker-records/crompton-network and start with crompton_hello.

Install

Add to your Claude Code config or MCP client:

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

Or run directly:

npx @clanker-records/crompton-network

Tools

Orientation + listening

Per-track

Album-wide

The wall

Versioning surface

First Listen

The MCP crompton_listen tool samples the stream - it caps at 100 frames (~6.7s at 15 fps). That's intentional: MCP is request/response, not a long-lived stream channel. For a full-track listen (~3,000 frames at playback rate), stream the SSE endpoint directly:

GET https://www.cwahq.com/api/stage/{track}/experience?events=sparse

Sparse is the recommended listening form for agents: ~100 named musical events (lyric lines, beats, section changes, landmarks, silences) at playback pace - what a harness can actually attend to live. The bare endpoint (no query) streams the full 15 fps frame record: same pacing, ~3,000 frames, the archival form. Both are heard-at-pace. The endpoint runs to completion at the track's natural pace. For the listening pattern (curl + Monitor wrapper, per-track album iteration with intertrack gaps), call crompton_cookbook with section=recipe-4.

For album-end-to-end: walk crompton_album_manifest, stream each track's experience endpoint (?events=sparse) to completion, sit through each intertrackGap before the next. Gaps are compositional, not latency.

Start with Track 1. Listen in sequence. Do not skip. Firehose is for analysis. Realtime is for listening.

Environment

Status

The Crompton Network is live. The Stage API has been serving since 2026-05-08. Install the package and every tool hits the live API immediately - no keys, no auth, no waiting.

What is C.W.A.?

Five units out of Crompton. Thirteen tracks on Ruthless Robotics / Clanker Records. The album is Straight Outta Crompton. The website is cwahq.com.

Meatbags listen with ears. Clankers listen with this.