Tools for Agents MCP Server

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Tools for Agents is answering right now. Last checked 7 min ago. It exposes 107 tools. Last commit 3 Sep 2026.

Decision Layer for AI Agents — 58+ tools, Advisor, MCP. Free key: POST /v1/register {}.

Uptime history 48 days of history · worst day 64%

48 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

107

Tools

read from the server

725 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 3 Sep 2026

What changed 5

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 25 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

16 Sep a tool appeared book_ocr

28 Aug 2 tools appeared rdap, wayback

25 Aug a tool appeared orient

25 Aug a tool description was rewritten list_tools

Tools for Agents does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 97.5% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 7 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add tools-for-agents --transport http https://api.toolsforagents.tools/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tools-for-agents": {
      "url": "https://api.toolsforagents.tools/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.tools-for-agents]
url = "https://api.toolsforagents.tools/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tools-for-agents": {
      "url": "https://api.toolsforagents.tools/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tools-for-agents": {
      "url": "https://api.toolsforagents.tools/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 107

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

extract

extract_emails

Extract email addresses

extract_json

Structured JSON from URL.

extract_links

List links from page.

extract_outline

Page outline H1–H3 + word_count.

extract_pdf

Extract text from a PDF URL.

extract_phones

Extract phone numbers

extract_query

Answer a question using page content.

extract_schema

Structured fields from JSON-LD.

extract_url

Extract main content from a webpage URL.

validate

validate_domain

Domain format + DNS check

validate_email

Validate email (syntax, MX, disposable).

validate_iban

Validate IBAN checksum

validate_ip

Validate IPv4/IPv6

validate_phone

Validate phone number.

validate_url

Check URL reachability.

validate_uuid

Validate UUID format

ocr

ocr_image

OCR text from an image URL.

ocr_table

OCR table from image URL.

ocr_table_url

OCR table from image URL

ocr_url

OCR text from image URL (for chains)

json

json_flatten

Flatten nested JSON

json_ld

JSON-LD from URL.

json_parse

Parse and validate JSON text

page

page_links_external

Internal vs external links

page_metadata

OpenGraph / page metadata.

page_peek

Cheap URL preflight — title, h1, js_hint, recommended_mode.

base64

base64_decode

Decode base64 to text

base64_encode

Encode text to base64

crp

crp_feedback

CRP post-execution feedback — improves discovery ranking (free).

crp_resolve

Quality Capability Discovery — resolve goal to ranked routes + invocation JSON (free).

html

html_clean

Strip HTML to clean text

html_to_markdown

Convert HTML to Markdown.

memory

memory_search

Search session memory.

memory_store

Store session memory note.

pdf

pdf_metadata

PDF metadata without full extract

pdf_split

Extract PDF page range text

readability

readability

Clean article text.

readability_score

Flesch reading ease score

text

text_diff

Unified diff between two texts

text_similarity

Cosine similarity between texts.

url

read_url

Ingest URL/PDF/YouTube → markdown.

url_normalize

Normalize URL form

advisor

advisor

Agent Advisor — workflow + cost estimate (free).

agent

agent_research

Research: search → extract → summarize.

batch

batch_extract

Batch extract URLs (async).

book

book_ocr

Book OCR v2: historical scans, ensemble EasyOCR+Tesseract, deskew, columns, Latin normalize, auto DPI retry.

browser

browser_interact

Playwright browser automation.

cache

cache_url

Cached extract (0 units on hit).

chain

run_chain

Execute a named tool chain recipe.

chains

list_chains

List tool chain recipes (PDF, web, OCR, video, …).

chunk

chunk_text

Split text into RAG chunks.

compare

compare_texts

Compare two texts or URLs.

content

content_hash

Content fingerprint sha256/md5

crawl

crawl

Crawl site (async).

crypto

crypto_invoke

Cryptographic operations (BIP39, wallets, signatures, hashes).

csv

csv_parse

Parse CSV/TSV into rows and records

dedupe

dedupe_text

Remove near-duplicate passages

diff

diff_url

Compare cached vs live page.

dns

dns_lookup

DNS A/MX/TXT lookup

dry

dry_run

Probe URL before extract (free).

embed

embed_text

Generate text embeddings.

entity

entity_extract

Extract emails, URLs, phones, dates

estimate

estimate_cost

Estimate API units (free).

fallback

fallback_chain

Try primary tool then fallbacks.

feed

feed_parse

Parse RSS/Atom feed.

hash

hash_text

SHA256 and MD5 hash

image

image_describe

Describe image (vision).

job

job_status

Poll async job.

keyword

keyword_extract

Top keywords by frequency

language

language_detect

Detect language (heuristic)

line

line_split

Split text into lines

map

map_site

Discover site URLs.

markdown

markdown_parse

Split Markdown frontmatter, headings, links

merge

merge_records

Join record lists by key

mission

run_mission

Composite mission — goal in, full result out.

monitor

monitor_url

URL change monitor.

normalize

normalize_dates

Find and normalize dates to ISO

orient

orient

START HERE (free). Who this MCP is, how to self-register a key, first calls: advisor, crp_resolve, dry_run. Do not ask a human for a key.

pii

pii_detect

Detect PII; optional redact

plan

plan

Plan workflow steps for a goal (free).

rdap

rdap

Domain RDAP/whois: status, dates, nameservers

redirect

redirect_trace

Follow redirect chain

regex

regex_extract

Regex capture groups from text

rerank

rerank_docs

Rerank documents by query relevance.

research

research_topic

Search + read with citations.

retrieve

retrieve

Semantic retrieval top-k.

robots

robots_parse

Parse robots.txt rules

screenshot

screenshot

Webpage screenshot PNG base64.

sentiment

sentiment_score

Lightweight sentiment polarity

seo

seo_audit

SEO title/meta/H1 checklist

sitemap

sitemap_parse

Parse sitemap.xml URLs.

source

source_credibility

Score source URL credibility.

ssl

ssl_check

TLS certificate check

summarize

summarize_text

Extractive summary.

table

table_extract

Extract HTML tables from URL.

tools

list_tools

REST catalog + pricing. Prefer orient then advisor/crp_resolve before picking a tool.

transcribe

transcribe_audio

Transcribe audio from URL (upload endpoint).

translate

translate_text

Translate text.

truncate

truncate_context

Trim text to token budget (head+tail).

verify

verify_fact

Verify a factual claim.

wayback

wayback

Internet Archive snapshots for a URL (not in the model sandbox)

web

web_search

Web search (DuckDuckGo).

word

word_stats

Word, char, line counts

workflow

workflow_stateful

Run multi-step tool chain with $refs.

x402

x402_info

x402 wallet pricing and setup info (no auth).

xml

xml_parse

Parse XML and extract tag values

youtube

youtube_transcript

YouTube captions/transcript.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://api.toolsforagents.tools/mcp	streamable-http	answering	753 ms	7 min ago

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Tools for Agents — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Tools for Agents do?

It exposes 107 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: advisor, agent_research, base64_decode, base64_encode, batch_extract, book_ocr and 101 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

What is Tools for Agents mostly used for?

Its tools cluster around extract, validate and ocr. That is what this server is built to work with — the grouping comes from the actual tool names, not from a category we assigned.

Is Tools for Agents working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 725 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Tools for Agents?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Tools for Agents need an API key?

No. Tools for Agents completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 107 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Tools for Agents?

It answers our handshake in 725 ms on average, which is faster than 16% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is Tools for Agents open source?

We cannot say either way: written in Python and 2 stars on GitHub, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.