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CEM's published research on building with AI: definitions, papers, calculators and the CEM Score.
Remote server: your requests and data go to mcp.cemresearchproject.org. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http cem https://mcp.cemresearchproject.org/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.
ui_list — The CEM UI kit (cem-ui registry/): tokens, brand assets, layout primitives, utilities, engines, frames, templates, components (one per job) ui_search — Find UI kit entries (cem-ui registry/) whose id, name or any recorded field holds every word of the query. Returns the best matches, id firsui_get — One UI kit entry in full, as cem-ui registry/ records it: by id ("site-header", "shell", "spacing", "CRP:ask-cem-panel"), component tag ("x-ui_laws — The CEM design laws, cem-ui LAWS.md, the one rules document. Without a law, the whole file. With a number (1 to 20), that law as written. Wiui_check — Run cem-ui's laws check (scripts/laws.mjs, `npm run laws`) and return its table: each law's check, the count now, and the baseline it may nocalculators_list — The 21 CEM calculators, the same on every site (cem-ui registry/tools.json), with what each measures, and its page and formula code from CRPcalculator_get — One calculator: what it measures (cem-ui registry/tools.json), its inputs with their defaults, and its formula as the calculator's own code cem_score — Score answers to the CEM Score self-assessment (24 questions, 12 dimensions) by the calculator's own rules (cem-ui templates/tool-calcs/cem-research_search — Find CEM research by words or code in CRP's public search index (GET /search/index.json): papers, playbooks, case studies, book chapters, fireviews_search — Find CEM's reviews of software tools (reviews.cemresearchproject.org): tool reviews, product pages with their listed prices, buying guides aresearch_get — One public CEM document by its code (DOI-07, PB-011, …): its entry in CRP's search index and its markdown from work-hub content/ (located thcem_answer — Use for any question about CEM (the Compounding Execution Method) or a term it defines, such as the Drift Tax, the Pendulum, the Governor, Sask_cem — A longer written answer from CEM's research, with the passages it drew on and their pages. Use it only after cem_answer, and only when the pask_op01 — OP-01's view: the operator in CEM's research, the one person whose every commit, session and dollar the research measures. By default, free Not tested by KitScout yet. When our harness runs it, pros, cons and the tasks we tried appear here, with the date and evidence.