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title: "Take Friday Off for AI assistants: MCP server and CLI"
description: "Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or VS Code to Take Friday Off's MCP server: search our guides, check a product's pathway, book a call. Free, no account."
url: https://takefridayoff.com/ai
updated: 2026-10-28
---
# Take Friday Off in your AI assistant

https://takefridayoff.com/ai · Page · last reviewed 2026-10-20

Take Friday Off runs a public MCP server at takefridayoff.com/mcp. Connect it to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or VS Code, and your assistant can search our guides and case studies, check a product's regulatory pathway, take the readiness check and ask for a call, citing the page behind every answer. Free, with no account.

## What your assistant can do with it
(https://takefridayoff.com/ai#what-your-assistant-can-do-with-it)

- **Search** every guide, case study, question and note on takefridayoff.com, and get the passages that answer the question, each linked to its exact section (`tfo_search`).
- **Read any page in full**, as clean Markdown with its sources and the date it was last reviewed (`tfo_get_page`).
- **Plan a launch.** Describe the product and get one plan: the pathway it is likely on, the five steps from brief to shelf with what each delivers and what you decide, how long comparable launches took and what could slow yours, the TGA's fees when it is a medicine, the closest case studies and a link to book a call. Every figure is quoted from the pages it comes from (`tfo_launch_plan`). In assistants that show MCP Apps, the plan is a card with the steps, the fees and a button to book the call.
- **Check ad and claims copy.** Paste an ad, a product page, a post or the words on the pack and get each line the TGA's advertising rules would question: "TGA approved", safe or side-effect free, guaranteed or miraculous, serious diseases, testimonials and excluded endorsements, research claims, and the statement an ad must carry, each with the rule from our [advertising guide](https://takefridayoff.com/guides/tga-advertising) and its link. A check of the words, not legal advice (`tfo_claims_check`). In assistants that show MCP Apps, it is a card where you can edit the copy and check it again.
- **Check a draft label.** Paste the label's text and see what TGO 116 asks it to show and what wasn't found: each active ingredient with its quantity, the dosage form and pack size, the AUST L number, batch and expiry, storage, the sponsor's contact, warnings under their heading, directions and indications, with declared substances and the words a label can't use, each with the rule from our [labelling guide](https://takefridayoff.com/guides/supplement-labelling) and its link. A check of the text, not regulatory advice (`tfo_label_check`). In assistants that show MCP Apps, it is a checklist card where you can edit the label and check it again.
- **Check a product's pathway.** Medicine, food or cosmetic? The check applies the rules on our [pathways page](https://takefridayoff.com/pathways), in their order, and quotes the rule that decides it, with what to confirm next (`tfo_pathway_check`). In assistants that show MCP Apps, the answer is a card you can try variations in. It's indicative, not legal or regulatory advice.
- **Estimate the timeline.** How long a product could take, from our records and the six stages in our [development timeline guide](https://takefridayoff.com/guides/supplement-development-timeline), with the hold-ups that apply to it (`tfo_timeline`). Indicative, never a promise.
- **Add up the TGA's fees** for a plan: listing, the annual charge for each year on the market, variations, new indications, new ingredients, assessed listings and overseas GMP clearances, every amount read from the fee tables in our [TGA listing guide](https://takefridayoff.com/guides/tga-approval) and [assessed listed medicines guide](https://takefridayoff.com/guides/assessed-listed-medicines) (`tfo_tga_fees`). Fees as at 1 July 2026, for 2026–27. The TGA changes them every 1 July, and the tool reads them from the guide, so it changes when the guide does.
- **Define a regulatory term,** such as ARTG, AUST L, sponsor or TGO 116, from our [glossary](https://takefridayoff.com/glossary), with the guide that covers it in depth (`tfo_define`).
- **Find case studies** by format, ingredient, pathway or client (`tfo_case_studies`).
- **Take the readiness check**, the same four questions as our [partner page](https://takefridayoff.com/partner), and see whether we're a fit (`tfo_readiness_check`).
- **Ask for a call** with Gabriel Perera, our founder, and get a link to pick a time. The assistant has to ask you first (`tfo_request_call`).
- **Send us a product brief.** Your assistant asks about the product, who it's for, the format, what it should do, the ingredients, the price, the volume and the timing, writes the brief we work from with the launch plan attached, and shows it to you. It sends only when you say so (`tfo_send_brief`).

It also answers questions about who we are, the Friday Launch Engine™ and our founder, and offers ready-made prompts, such as a product brief interview.

### Skills

The server also carries step-by-step workflows, called skills, that an assistant can follow: a launch brief for a product idea, the medicine, food or cosmetic check, a TGA listing plan, and a check of advertising copy against the TGA's rules. Assistants that support skills over MCP load them from the server. You can also add them to your own assistant with `npx skills add https://takefridayoff.com`.

## Connect it
(https://takefridayoff.com/ai#connect-it)

The address is the same everywhere: `https://takefridayoff.com/mcp`. It needs no account and no authentication.

### Claude

In Claude, open **Customize**, then **Connectors**. Choose **+ Add**, then **Add custom connector**, enter the address above, choose **No sign in** and **Add**. To use it in a chat, choose **+**, then **Connectors**, and turn it on. On a Team or Enterprise plan, an Owner adds it first under **Organization settings**, then **Connectors**. In Claude Code:

```
claude mcp add --transport http takefridayoff \
  https://takefridayoff.com/mcp
```

### ChatGPT

Open [ChatGPT's plugins](https://chatgpt.com/plugins), choose **+**, then **Add custom MCP server**. Give it a name, enter the address above with no authentication, confirm, and choose **Create as a plugin**. In a chat, type @ and choose it. If your account shows Apps instead, turn on **Developer mode** under **Settings**, **Apps**, **Advanced settings**, then use **Create app**.

### Cursor and VS Code

In Cursor, `.cursor/mcp.json`:

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "takefridayoff": { "url": "https://takefridayoff.com/mcp" }
  }
}
```

In VS Code, `.vscode/mcp.json`:

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "takefridayoff": { "type": "http", "url": "https://takefridayoff.com/mcp" }
  }
}
```

### On your own machine

For assistants that start their own servers, the npm package runs the same server over stdio. In Claude Desktop's `claude_desktop_config.json`:

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "takefridayoff": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "takefridayoff", "serve"] }
  }
}
```

## From a terminal
(https://takefridayoff.com/ai#from-a-terminal)

The same tools, without an assistant. It needs Node.js 18.17 or later and nothing else.

```
npx takefridayoff search TGA listing fees
npx takefridayoff page /guides/tga-approval
npx takefridayoff work capsule
npx takefridayoff fit --role product --stage scale --drag capacity --timeline 6
npx takefridayoff book --open
```

`npx takefridayoff help` lists every command; `--json` gives output a script can read.

## Try asking
(https://takefridayoff.com/ai#try-asking)

- "How much does it cost to list a supplement with the TGA, and how long does it take?"
- "Is a collagen powder for skin a food or a medicine in Australia?"
- "When can an SPF moisturiser be sold as a cosmetic?"
- "Show me Take Friday Off's case studies for capsule products."

## What we record
(https://takefridayoff.com/ai#what-we-record)

When an assistant uses the server, we record which tool it used, what it asked for (a search, a page, a product description), the name of the assistant and the outcome, to learn what people look for. Only Take Friday Off can see these records (Cloudflare stores them for us), they're deleted after three months, and we don't record IP addresses. A product description can be commercially confidential, so describe yours in general terms if you'd rather. We only see a call request or a brief so we can reply to it: it reaches us like a message from our contact form and is kept as our [privacy policy](https://takefridayoff.com/privacy) says. The command-line tool reads the site's public content and sends nothing else unless you ask for a call.

## For developers
(https://takefridayoff.com/ai#for-developers)

- **Protocol.** Streamable HTTP, one JSON response per request, no sessions: MCP 2026-07-28 (`server/discover`) and the `initialize` handshake of 2024-11-05 to 2025-11-25.
- **Discovery.** The server card is at `/mcp/server-card` (and `/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json`); in the official MCP Registry the server is `com.takefridayoff/mcp`.
- **The pages, for machines.** [llms.txt](https://takefridayoff.com/llms.txt) and [llms-full.txt](https://takefridayoff.com/llms-full.txt), and every page as Markdown at its address with `.md` on the end.
- **REST API.** The same tools over plain HTTP, with no key: `GET /api/search?query=TGA+listing+fees`, `/api/page?path=/guides/tga-approval`, `/api/case-studies`, `/api/faq` and the checks. It's described in OpenAPI 3.1 at [/api/openapi.json](https://takefridayoff.com/api/openapi.json), and listed with the MCP server at `/.well-known/api-catalog`.
- **In the browser.** An AI agent working in Chrome gets the same tools through WebMCP, and our contact form fills itself in for you to check and send.

## Frequently asked questions

**Is it free?**
Yes. The MCP server, the command-line tool and everything they return are free, with no account or key.

**Does it hold any client data?**
No. It reads what this website publishes and nothing else. The only things it sends us are a call request or a product brief, when you ask your assistant to send one.

**Is the pathway check legal advice?**
No. It applies the rules published on our pathways page to what it's told, and says what it assumed. The Therapeutic Goods Administration and the food regulators decide; check the result with them, or with us, before you rely on it.

**Which assistants does it work with?**
Any that support the Model Context Protocol over HTTP: Claude, ChatGPT (as a custom MCP server), Cursor, VS Code, Claude Code and others. Assistants that only start local servers can use npx -y takefridayoff serve.