Building Glippy MCP: giving Claude the power to audit a site's AI readiness

I spent the last few weekends turning Glippy , a desktop app and browser extension that scores a site's readiness for AI crawlers, into a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. The result is glippy-mcp : a Node.js binary that plugs into Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and anything else that speaks MCP, then exposes nine tools for analysing, comparing, and exporting GEO reports on any domain. This post walks through why I built it, what it does, and the handful of design decisions th