API & MCP

Everything a person can do on Section Properties Calculator: Area, Moments of Inertia, Torsion Constant, a program or AI agent can do with the same inputs and get the identical result.

HTTP API

• POST https://prooflinesectionproperties.usefulweb.app/api/v1/calculate – run Section Properties Calculator: Area, Moments of Inertia, Torsion Constant
• GET https://prooflinesectionproperties.usefulweb.app/api/v1/tool – inputs, output schema, examples
• OpenAPI 3.1: /openapi.json · /openapi.yaml
• Errors: application/problem+json; 422 includes per-field errors.

Every result contains

inputs (normalised, defaults applied), summary, result (validated against the published schema), units, assumptions, sources, warnings, computedAt and links.

MCP (Model Context Protocol)

• Streamable HTTP endpoint: https://prooflinesectionproperties.usefulweb.app/mcp – protocol revisions 2026-07-28 (stateless) and 2025-11-25 / 2025-06-18 / 2025-03-26 (initialize handshake).
• Tools: proofline_section_properties
• Local stdio connector: node src/mcp-stdio.ts --tool=proofline-section-properties

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "proofline-section-properties": { "type": "http", "url": "https://prooflinesectionproperties.usefulweb.app/mcp" }
  }
}