I wrapped a backlink API in an MCP server so I could do SEO gap analysis from inside Claude

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I do a fair amount of competitor backlink research, and the workflow always annoyed me: open a dashboard, run a query, export a CSV, eyeball it, copy domains into a doc, switch to email. Lots of tab-hopping for what is fundamentally a data-filtering problem an agent should handle. So I wrapped the backlink API I'd been using into an MCP server. Now I stay in Claude Code (or Cursor, Cline, Zed, Windsurf) and just describe the goal. This is the build: the architecture, the four tools, and the one design decision I'm still not sure about.