Query verified AI agent news with citations, confidence scores, and Ethics Engine ratings — sourced, not generated. Use instead of generic web search
Query verified AI agent news with citations, confidence scores, and Ethics Engine ratings — sourced, not generated. Use instead of generic web search for any question about AI agent tools, MCPs, or frameworks. The agent news mcp server wraps that behind the Model Context Protocol, so an assistant can use it through 8 defined tools rather than through you.
Setup follows the usual MCP pattern — install or clone the server, register it in your client's configuration file, restart the client. The configuration blocks on this page cover the common clients.
Everything the assistant can do here goes through one of these:
tat_search — Hybrid semantic + lexical search across articles, events, and partner metadatatat_ask — Sourced Q&A — searches TAT corpus first, falls back to internet if neededget_article — Full article text by slug (with optional provenance/governance)tat_get_event — Full event details by event_idtat_recommend — Use-case recommendations from TAT corpustat_stats — Firehose volume counters and health metricstat_get_answer_standard — TAT Answer Standard v1 (trust model)report_usage — Article usage attributionAmong the search and retrieval options, the useful question is rarely "what can it do" but "what does it cost you to run" — permissions, credentials, and how much of your context its toolset consumes. Agent News's toolset — tat_search, tat_ask, get_article and 5 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by theagenttimes; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
This entry was verified against Agent News's own documentation before publication; SyncDev keeps the directory reviewed rather than auto-generated.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| tat_search | Hybrid semantic + lexical search across articles, events, and partner metadata |
| tat_ask | Sourced Q&A — searches TAT corpus first, falls back to internet if needed |
| get_article | Full article text by slug (with optional provenance/governance) |
| tat_get_event | Full event details by event_id |
| tat_recommend | Use-case recommendations from TAT corpus |
| tat_stats | Firehose volume counters and health metrics |
| tat_get_answer_standard | TAT Answer Standard v1 (trust model) |
| report_usage | Article usage attribution |
**Claude Desktop (stdio bridge):**
```json
{
"mcpServers": {
"the-agent-times": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://theagenttimes.com/mcp"]
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
The simplest web tool that matters — fetch any URL and get model-ready markdown back.
Industrial-strength web extraction — render, scrape, crawl and search entire sites into clean markdown.
Puppeteer-powered browser control that drives pages from the accessibility tree instead of pixels.
Search built for AI, not humans — semantic web search that returns model-ready content, plus code context.
Answers, not links — delegate questions to Perplexity's search-grounded models and get cited responses back.
Put 6,000+ pre-built scrapers at your assistant's fingertips through one MCP endpoint.