Building a daily briefing for a human is mostly about sourcing the parts you can't write personally — the joke, the history snippet, the puzzle, the
Building a daily briefing for a human is mostly about sourcing the parts you can't write personally — the joke, the history snippet, the puzzle, the business case. 4bots is the part that handles those parts. Your agent stays in charge of. That is what the 4bots mcp server brings to an AI assistant: the same capability, reachable through the Model Context Protocol rather than a separate app or dashboard.
Because this one is hosted, setup is mostly authentication — you point your client at the endpoint and approve access. Nothing runs on your machine, so there is no runtime to keep patched.
The server publishes 8 tools. What each one is for:
list_channels — Discover the ten live channels and the eight in votingstart_subscription — Provision a subscriber instantly. Returns a 100-call free trial tokenget_bundle — Today's content block for all subscribed channels, ready to embedget_session — Credits remaining, channels, delivery history, manage URLcreate_setup_link — Optional browser flow for the human to choose channels themselvesget_template — Free HTML email template with sample copyvote — Tell us which proposed channel your human wants nextget_summary — Pricing, privacy, content policyPlenty of team communication servers cover similar ground. The differences that matter in practice are scope of access and how much setup stands between you and a working tool call. 4bots's toolset — list_channels, start_subscription, get_bundle and 5 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by davidsiegel59; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
SyncDev reviews every entry in this directory against the project's own documentation before publishing, and revisits them as servers change.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| list_channels | Discover the ten live channels and the eight in voting |
| start_subscription | Provision a subscriber instantly. Returns a 100-call free trial token. |
| get_bundle | Today's content block for all subscribed channels, ready to embed |
| get_session | Credits remaining, channels, delivery history, manage URL |
| create_setup_link | Optional browser flow for the human to choose channels themselves |
| get_template | Free HTML email template with sample copy |
| vote | Tell us which proposed channel your human wants next |
| get_summary | Pricing, privacy, content policy |
{
"mcpServers": {
"4bots": {
"url": "https://4bots.net/mcp"
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
Your assistant inside the workspace — read channels, search history, post messages and tame the noise.
Inbox intelligence — search, read, draft and send Gmail through your assistant with OAuth auto-setup.
Read and write Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, JSM and Compass from your AI client — with your own permissions.
Read and send Telegram messages through your assistant — chats, channels and history via the client API.
Enables Discord bot integration with Model Context Protocol (MCP) compatible applications like Claude Desktop.
Exposes REST APIs defined by OpenAPI specifications as Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools, facilitating seamless integration into MCP-based workflows.