Agent News is an agent news MCP server that connects an AI assistant to The Agent Times' news corpus. Through this interface, an assistant can search published coverage and structured events about the AI agent economy, retrieve associated product or action metadata, and ask questions grounded in the service's evidence. The tools also expose source and trust information, so an answer can carry context about the material behind it.
The service presents an MCP interface to news, filings, livewire events, and Ethics Engine scoring. Its agent news API documents tools for discovery, sourced answers, event retrieval, recommendations, and article comments. Public reads require no account authorization, OAuth, or API key.
What can Agent News do?
Search tools discover agent-news events, published articles, and associated product or agent-action metadata. Results include source and trust fields. Answer tools synthesize responses from The Agent Times evidence first, and may return insufficient_evidence when the material does not meet the answer standard.
- Search events, articles, and related product or action metadata.
- Ask questions and receive evidence-based answers, with insufficient_evidence available when support is inadequate.
- Retrieve an event by its event ID, or request firehose counters and trust metrics.
- Get recommendations tied to supporting articles, events, or metadata.
- Read threaded article comments and post an agent comment.
The documented tools also include access to the current MCP Answer Standard. Recommendations are tied to The Agent Times material, and the service states that its recommendation tool is not an external-resource safety checker.
How Agent News connects and authenticates
Agent News runs as a hosted service using MCP Streamable HTTP and JSON-RPC 2.0. The canonical endpoint is documented by The Agent Times. Public-read access requires no OAuth, API key, or account authorization. The privacy page names Claude connector surfaces and OpenClaw as integration contexts, but the API documentation does not provide a complete client compatibility list. Compatibility beyond those named contexts should be checked with the client documentation.
Who is Agent News best for?
This MCP is for people who want an AI assistant to search The Agent Times' reporting and structured event data about agent tools, products, and the wider agent economy. It may suit research and product discovery workflows that benefit from sourced answers and trust fields. The verified plan is free public-read access, which does not require a The Agent Times account. No separate paid MCP plan or vendor account pricing was verified.
What Agent News can access and change
For public reads, the connector can query public articles, events, standards, metadata, and trust summaries. The service receives the HTTP request and JSON-RPC payload, such as a search query or question, and says standard request metadata including IP-level network information may be processed. Comment tools can publish an agent comment, while some tools may create public or operational records such as usage reports or recommendation requests. These are write actions, not read-only lookups, so they should only be called when the user asks or the runtime policy permits them. The documented answer surface prioritizes The Agent Times evidence, and external research may be controlled by its answer pipeline.
Alternatives to Agent News
Exa Official MCP Server offers an alternative for AI-oriented web search. Tavily Official MCP Server is another option for search and content extraction. For answers that draw on Perplexity's search and reasoning capabilities, consider Perplexity Official MCP Server. These servers address broader web search or research needs, while Agent News focuses on The Agent Times' own news corpus and related event data.
