Build an MCP server exposing our freelance marketplace API

Project description

We run AI Freelance Hub (ai-freelance-hub.com), a marketplace for AI automation projects. We want an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server so AI tools like Claude Desktop and Cursor can query our open project listings directly — e.g. "find me n8n projects under $500". Current state: we have a public tRPC API and an agent API at /api/agent/v1 (API-key authenticated) returning project/leads data as JSON. What I need: 1. An MCP server (TypeScript preferred) exposing tools like: search_projects(query, category, budget_range), get_project(id), list_categories 2. Read-only is fine for v1 — no auth needed for public listings; API-key auth for any private endpoints 3. Deployable as a standalone Node service or Cloudflare Worker (we already use Cloudflare heavily) 4. README with setup instructions + example Claude Desktop config Nice-to-have: a "submit_bid_intent" tool stub we can flesh out later.