Agent MCP Server

Hiring, SEC, research papers, GitHub & Hacker News as JSON for AI agents. Pay-per-result on Apify.

Remote serverstreamable-http

What is the Agent MCP server?

Hiring, SEC, research papers, GitHub & Hacker News as JSON for AI agents. Pay-per-result on Apify. The agent mcp server wraps that behind the Model Context Protocol, so an assistant can use it rather than through you.

What it actually does

One MCP server that gives your AI agent nine live data tools — company hiring signals (Greenhouse/Lever/Ashby), SEC EDGAR full-text filings, academic papers (OpenAlex), GitHub repositories, Hacker News mentions, Stack Overflow questions, ClinicalTrials.gov trials, US Federal Register documents, and global GDELT news — all returned as flat, citation-ready JSON.

  • Zero infrastructure — — hosted by Apify; this listing just pre-selects a coherent toolkit for signals & intelligence work (sales intel, due diligence, research grounding, brand monitoring)
  • Honest billing — — pay-per-event through your own Apify account; each tool's price is on its Apify page; no subscription, no markup
  • Agent-first output — — flat JSON, stable schemas, OpenAPI also available per tool on its Apify API tab

Adding it to your client

Being a remote server, there is no local install. You register the endpoint with your client, authorise it once, and the tools appear.

Configuration

You will need one environment variable: YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN. The server will not start without them, which is usually why the tools fail to appear on a first run. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than in a file you might commit.

When to reach for it

This sits in the payments and commerce group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. It is maintained by hassanahashish-design; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.

We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.

Caveats

  • Your data travels to the provider's service, so the usual questions apply about what you send and what they retain.
  • Missing credentials fail quietly in some clients — if no tools show up, check the environment block first.
  • MCP clients confirm each tool call by default. Leave that on until you have watched what the agent mcp server does with a few real requests.

How to install the Agent MCP server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "agent-signals": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?actors=oblanceolate_mandola%2Fcompany-hiring-signals%2Coblanceolate_mandola%2Fsec-edgar-filings%2Coblanceolate_mandola%2Fresearch-paper-search%2Coblanceolate_mandola%2Fgithub-repo-search%2Coblanceolate_mandola%2Fhacker-news-monitor%2Coblanceolate_mandola%2Ffederal-register-monitor%2Coblanceolate_mandola%2Fclinical-trials-search%2Coblanceolate_mandola%2Fstackoverflow-search%2Coblanceolate_mandola%2Fgdelt-news-monitor%2Coblanceolate_mandola%2Fcourt-opinions-search",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer <YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>" }
    }
  }
}

Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.

Configuration

VariableDescriptionRequired
YOUR_APIFY_TOKENCredential the server authenticates with.Yes

Frequently asked questions

It connects Agent to MCP-compatible AI assistants such as Claude and Cursor. Instead of copying data back and forth by hand, the assistant works with Agent directly.