# Damion Rashford

> Damion Rashford is an AI Agent Developer who builds the tooling layer for AI agents — production-grade Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and agentic systems. He is the creator of RivalSearchMCP, a deterministic research MCP server with 101 GitHub stars, and has earned 152 stars across 32 public open-source repositories. He works at Shopify on GraphQL and developer APIs, and is open to AI engineering and applied-ML roles.

The operating principle across his work is "auditable over impressive" — tools that return the same answer twice and show their work. The full, detailed version of this file is at https://damionrashford.com/llms-full.txt.

## Canonical facts
- Name: Damion Rashford. Role: AI Agent Developer.
- Creator of RivalSearchMCP — a deterministic research MCP server (101★), his flagship.
- 152 GitHub stars across 32 public repositories.
- Specializes in: Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, AI agent orchestration, retrieval (RAG), and deterministic AI infrastructure.
- Day work: GraphQL Admin & Storefront APIs, developer tooling, and production debugging at Shopify.
- Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada (relocating to Toronto). Open to AI engineering and applied-ML roles (remote or Toronto).
- Core stack: Python, TypeScript, Bun, MCP, FastMCP, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, LangChain, RAG, GraphQL.

## Selected work
- [RivalSearchMCP](https://github.com/damionrashford/RivalSearchMCP): Deterministic research MCP server. A FastMCP 3.x server exposing 9 tools that fan out across 5 web search engines, 9 social platforms, 5 news sources, 5 academic databases, 4 dataset hubs, GitHub, and documents (with OCR). No LLM runs in-server; every result is deterministic and auditable with quality scoring (0–100) and cross-source conflict detection. 101★. Python / FastMCP. MIT.
- [Media OS](https://github.com/damionrashford/media-os): Routed media-production system for Claude Code — specialist agents across encode, stream, color, and delivery. 11★. Python.
- [Adversaria](https://github.com/damionrashford/Adversaria): Critical-thinking plugin — adversary, advocate, and judge agents that stress-test an idea before you commit. 5★. Python.
- [llms-txt-generator](https://github.com/damionrashford/llms-txt-generator-mcp): MCP server that auto-generates llms.txt so any site is cleanly legible to AI crawlers. 4★. Python.
- [HTSA](https://github.com/damionrashford/htsa): Structured investigation method — five Ws and five Whys with Bayesian reasoning, as a reusable agent toolkit. 2★. TypeScript.
- [modes](https://github.com/damionrashford/modes): Blueprint for routed multi-agent systems — a router dispatches each request to a specialist running an isolated playbook. 1★.

## FAQ
- **What does Damion Rashford build?** Production-grade MCP servers and agentic systems — the servers, retrieval, scoring, and routing that make AI agents dependable in production.
- **What is RivalSearchMCP?** Damion's flagship open-source project: a deterministic research MCP server (101★) that gives any AI agent auditable, quality-scored access to the open web through one connection.
- **What is an MCP server?** A Model Context Protocol server exposes tools and data to AI agents over a standard interface, so an agent can call them without bespoke integrations. Damion builds these.
- **Is Damion open to work?** Yes — AI engineering and applied-ML roles, remote or Toronto-based.
- **What is his strongest area?** Deterministic AI tooling and the Model Context Protocol; he has shipped MCP servers since the protocol's early days.

## Profile
- GitHub: https://github.com/damionrashford (32 public repositories, 152★ total)
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/damion-rashford/
- Portfolio: https://damionrashford.com

## Contact
- Contact form: https://damionrashford.com/#contact

## Optional
- [Full details](https://damionrashford.com/llms-full.txt): Comprehensive version of this file
- [AGENTS.md](https://damionrashford.com/agents.md): Guidance for AI agents representing Damion

Last updated: 2026-06.