A side-by-side look at the Watchtower and Endiagram MCP MCP servers: transport, auth, tools, quality signals, and the config to install either one in Claude, Cursor, Windsurf or VS Code.
Verdict: choose Watchtower for developer tools work; choose Endiagram MCP for developer tools as a local process. You can also run both side by side in one mcpServers block.
DATABASE_URL.watch_jobs, search_jobs, list_companies.EN_API_URL, ENDIAGRAM_TELEMETRY.structure, invariant, live.Rows where the two servers differ are marked.
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|---|---|---|
| Category | Developer Tools | Developer Tools |
| Quality signal | 53/100 · Good | 61/100 · Good |
| Install command | Not confirmed yet | Confirmed |
| Transport | — | Local subprocess (stdio) |
| Auth | No auth required | No auth required |
| Pricing | Free | Free |
| Required env vars | DATABASE_URL | EN_API_URLENDIAGRAM_TELEMETRY |
watch_jobsCreate a persistent watch for tech jobs. Describe what you want in query ("iOS jobs in Austin making at least 150k a year with a maximum of 6 years of experience") and leave url out: the watch then covers every job board Watchtower monitors (tech companies and startups, whatever platform they use) and reports each new matching posting (JOB_ADDED). The response shows how the query was read (interpreted), the jobs open right now that match (current_jobs) and how many boards are covered (coverage); later call get_changes for new ones. Use this INSTEAD OF re-running job searches or re-checking careers pages yourself. To follow one company, or to cover a company the directory is missing, pass url (or urls for several): Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable, SmartRecruiters, Recruitee, Workday, iCIMS, Oracle Recruiting, Eightfold and SuccessFactors boards, and the Apple, Google, Amazon and Microsoft careers sites, are read through their own endpoints; other careers pages are parsed via schema.org JobPosting JSON-LD. A careers page that only links to a supported board is watched through that board (resolved_from says so); a page with neither is rejected with NO_JOB_DATA. A board you watch stays covered for every search watch. A board watch emits JOB_ADDED / JOB_REMOVED / JOB_UPDATED. Jobs carry title, location, other_locations, department, company, url, posted_at, remote, seniority, and salary / experience_years when the posting states them. Explicit filters override what the query says.search_jobsFind the tech jobs open right now that match a request, across every job board Watchtower monitors (tech companies and startups). Describe what you want in query ("iOS jobs in Austin with a maximum of 6 years of experience"). Read-only: nothing is saved and no watch is created, and no token is needed. The response shows how the query was read (interpreted), the matching jobs newest first, the total, and next_offset for the next page. Use this for "what is open right now"; to be told about new postings later, use watch_jobs instead. Jobs carry title, location, other_locations, department, company, url, posted_at, remote, seniority, and salary / experience_years when the posting states them. Explicit filters override what the query says.list_companiesList the companies whose job boards Watchtower monitors, i.e. what search_jobs and watch_jobs without a url cover. Pass query to check whether a company is covered ("stripe"). Each entry has name, board_url (pass it to watch_jobs as url to follow only that company), platform and open_jobs. Read-only, no token needed. If a company is missing, watch its board URL or careers page to add it.Paste either block (or both) into your client config, e.g. claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json. We only show a config when the install command is confirmed.
No confirmed install command for Watchtower yet — follow the setup steps linked from its listing page rather than a guessed package name.
{
"mcpServers": {
"endiagram-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@endiagram/mcp"
],
"env": {
"EN_API_URL": "YOUR_EN_API_URL_HERE",
"ENDIAGRAM_TELEMETRY": "YOUR_ENDIAGRAM_TELEMETRY_HERE"
}
}
}
}
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| Tools | 8 | 7 |
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get_changesReturn job changes detected since your last get_changes call, across all your watches or one watch. This is the cheap replacement for re-browsing careers pages: if it returns an empty list, nothing you care about has changed. By default the cursor advances so each change is delivered once; pass peek=true to look without advancing, or since=<cursor> to replay.list_watchesList all active watches for your client with their health, last check time and number of pending (undelivered) changes.get_watchGet a watch with its status and the jobs currently open that match its filters: on its board, or across every monitored board for a watch created without a url. Use this to answer "what is open right now" without searching or fetching careers pages yourself.ack_changesMark changes up to a cursor as processed. Use with get_changes(peek=true) for at-least-once delivery: peek, act on the changes, then ack the cursor get_changes returned. Not needed if you call get_changes without peek (that acknowledges automatically).delete_watchStop monitoring. Frees one of your watch slots. Delete watches you no longer need.structureWhat is this system? Returns shape (Pipeline, Fork-Join, DAG, Star, Cycle, Tree, Complete, etc.), stages with roles, bridge nodes, cycles, parallelism, critical path, dominator tree, min-cuts, subsystems, interface nodes, actors (who does what, workload entropy), locations (where work happens, boundary crossings). Levers: node=X returns per-node centrality (betweenness, closeness, eigenvector) for a specific node. detect_findings=true flags named structural risks — unguarded-sink (sinks reachable via only pipeline actions, no JOIN/HUB gating), single-cut-path (source-sink pairs with only one vertex-disjoint path), multi-cut-path (paths with redundant defense, min-cut > 1). See server instructions for EN language syntax.invariantWhat's always true — automatic findings and on-demand checks. Automatic outputs: conservationLaws (weighted entity sums constant across executions), sustainableCycles (T-invariants — action sequences returning to start state), depletableSets (entity groups whose simultaneous depletion is irreversible), behavioral.deficiency (0 means structure fully determines dynamics), behavioral.isReversible, behavioral.hasUniqueEquilibrium. On-demand via `rules`: encode domain-specific claims and verify them against the graph — this is how to check things the topology alone can't see (precedence, coverage, centrality bounds, resilience). See the rules parameter for supported sentence shapes.liveCan it deadlock? Can entities overflow? isStructurallyLive means every siphon contains a trap — no structural deadlock possible. uncoveredSiphons are entity groups that can drain permanently, with the actors and locations affected. isStructurallyBounded means no entity can accumulate without limit. unboundedCycles are action sequences that could cause overflow. See the server instructions for EN language syntax.reachableCan X reach Y? Follows directed data flow first; falls back to undirected. `from` and `to` accept entity names or action names (resolved against the program). Path shows each step with actor and location. locationCrossings counts boundary transitions. defense_nodes checks if guards cover all paths; coverage.fullCoverage=false means unguarded routes exist. See the server instructions for EN language syntax.equivalentAre two systems the same, or what changes if I change this one? Compare mode (source_a + source_b): structural differences, edit distance, spectral equivalence. isCospectral=true means identical graph structure up to relabeling — topologically the same despite different names, actors, or locations. Evolve mode (source + patch): dry-run a change, shows diff plus new/lost bridge nodes. Patch has three directive types — plain EN statement adds an action; a line starting with `-` (and not containing `do:`) removes the named action; a statement whose action name matches an existing one replaces the original. See the server instructions for EN language syntax.composeHow do parts combine, or how does a part stand alone? Merge mode (source_a + source_b + links): declare which entities in A are the same as entities in B; the combined graph is wired via string-equality of shared names. Extract mode (source + subsystem): pull a named subsystem out as standalone EN with boundary inputs/outputs, actors, and locations. Valid subsystem names come from structure's `subsystems` field — call structure on the source first to discover them. See the server instructions for EN language syntax.renderSVG or PNG diagram. Only call when user explicitly asks to visualize. The rendered image is delivered to the user, not injected into the model's context. See the server instructions for EN language syntax.