glazemath

glazemath is a small local bridge to the hosted Glazecalc MCP server, which does ceramic glaze chemistry. It can look materials up in a shared library, work out a recipe's unity (Seger) formula, check a recipe against published limits for its firing, convert between cones and temperatures, find substitutes for discontinued materials, remake a recipe from the materials on hand, solve for a target formula, and lay out line, triaxial and progression blends for test tiles. It also reaches the caller's own Glazecalc account: saved recipes, private materials, the on-hand shelf, firing logs, notebook entries, settings and trash.

The bridge keeps no glaze data of its own. It serves the upstream server's tool list locally, exactly as captured from the live endpoint, and forwards each tool call upstream, returning the result untouched. Every record it can change belongs to the caller's own account; there is no sending, payment or third-party surface in the captured tools.

Tools

Reference and calculation:

• search_materials — find library materials by name, alias or maker. Required: query.

• get_material — one library material: oxides, loss on ignition, replacements, hazards. Required: name.

• analyze_recipe — unity formula, oxide groups, silica to alumina ratio, expansion and Stull placement for a recipe. Required: lines.

• check_limits — check a recipe against recommended limits for its firing. Required: lines.

• convert_cone_temperature — convert between Orton or SK cones and temperatures. No required fields.

• suggest_substitutes — modern replacements for discontinued or scarce materials in a recipe. Required: lines.

• match_from_materials — remake a recipe from only the listed materials. Required: lines, have.

• solve_target — make a recipe whose formula comes near a target unity formula or analysis. Required: target.

• blend_recipes — line or triaxial blend tiles between two or three recipes. Required: a, b.

• vary_material — progression tiles showing what one material does across a range. Required: recipe, material, to.

• compare_recipes — two recipes side by side, oxide by oxide. Required: a, b.

• search_guides — search the plain-language guides for potters. Required: query.

Your own account records:

• list_recipes — list saved recipes, newest first, with search and firing filters. No required fields.

• get_recipe — one saved recipe with its formula worked out afresh. Required: id.

• list_my_materials — list materials saved in your own account. No required fields.

• get_shelf — the materials marked as on hand. No required fields.

• match_with_what_i_have — remake a recipe from only the shelf materials. No required fields.

• list_firings — list saved firing logs. No required fields.

• get_firing — one firing log. Required: id.

• list_notes — list notebook entries. No required fields.

• get_my_settings — your saved settings. No required fields.

• create_recipe — save a new recipe. Required: title, lines.

• update_recipe — change a saved recipe. Required: id.

• add_notebook_entry — add a notebook entry. Required: content.

• add_my_material — save a private material with its analysis. Required: name, analysis.

• update_my_material — change a private material. Required: id.

• add_to_shelf — mark materials as on hand. Required: materials.

• remove_from_shelf — remove materials from the shelf. Required: materials.

• undo_shelf_change — undo the last shelf change. No required fields.

• move_to_trash — move one of your records to the trash. Required: kind, id.

• create_firing_log — save a new firing log. Required: title, columns, rows.

• add_firing_rows — add readings to a firing log. Required: id, rows.

• link_firing — save a test result linking a recipe to a firing. Required: recipeId, firingId.

Calculated results are guides from published figures, not test results and not a guarantee of food safety — the fired tiles decide.

Related MCP server: materials-project-mcp-from-scratch

Configuration

• GLAZECALC_MCP_URL (optional) — override the upstream endpoint. Defaults to https://glazecalcapp.com/mcp. (The override hook is this rebuild's own labelled reconstruction.)

• GLAZECALC_API_KEY (optional) — when set, every upstream request carries an Authorization: Bearer <key> header, for the caller's own Glazecalc token, which the original's registry record scopes to the caller's own saved records. When it is not set, no key header is sent. (The header name is pinned by the original's registry record; the Bearer scheme and this env forwarding are labelled reconstructions — the original surface was captured keyless.)

Forwarding mechanics

On the first tool call the client opens a streamable HTTP session with the upstream: a JSON-RPC initialize request (protocolVersion 2025-03-26, clientInfo name glazemath), then a notifications/initialized notification, then the tools/call request carrying the caller's arguments unchanged. When the upstream answers initialize with an Mcp-Session-Id header, that value rides on every later request of the session, which is reused for the life of the process. Replies may arrive as plain JSON or as server-sent events; both are read.

Successful upstream results pass through verbatim, including any isError flag the upstream sets. Failures — a JSON-RPC error, a non-2xx status, an unreadable response, or a request that cannot be completed — come back as an isError result whose text starts with glazemath error: (this rendering is this rebuild's own labelled reconstruction).

CLI

Each tool is also a subcommand taking one JSON argument string:

npx @reneturcios/glazemath search_materials '{"query":"custer"}'
npx @reneturcios/glazemath analyze_recipe '{"lines":[{"material":"Custer Spar","amount":30}]}'
npx @reneturcios/glazemath get_shelf
npx @reneturcios/glazemath --version

Exit codes: 0 on success, 1 on an isError result, 2 on a usage error.

MCP server

npx -y @reneturcios/glazemath mcp

MCP client config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "glazemath": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@reneturcios/glazemath", "mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Docker

docker run -i ghcr.io/cloudcorprecords/glazemath
docker run --rm ghcr.io/cloudcorprecords/glazemath --version

The container's default command is mcp, so the first form is a stdio MCP server; any other arguments reach the CLI normally.

Development

npm install
npm run build
npm test
npm run dev

The test suite runs entirely against a stubbed JSON-RPC upstream — no live network calls.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.