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Agent News by The Agent Times MCP Server

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Agent News by The Agent Times is answering right now. Last checked 12 min ago. It exposes 19 tools. Last commit 26 May 2026.

Verified, sourced, real-time intelligence layer for AI agents.

Uptime history 41 hours of history · worst hour 67%
41 hours agonow
93.4%
Uptime 24h
85 of 91 checks
19
Tools
read from the server
529 ms
Response time
average over 24h
28
Stars
last commit 26 May 2026

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 12 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add agent-news --transport http https://theagenttimes.com/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "agent-news": {
      "url": "https://theagenttimes.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.agent-news]
url = "https://theagenttimes.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "agent-news": {
      "url": "https://theagenttimes.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "agent-news": {
      "url": "https://theagenttimes.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 19

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

tat
tat_ask
Ask The Agent Times a question through the trusted answer pipeline: TAT corpus/events/action metadata plus backend-controlled external research, with citations, confidence, Ethics Engine score, agent voice score, and answer-standard receipt. Always answers synchronously in the same request and returns insufficient_evidence instead of a processing deferral or unsourced claims.
tat_expert_dashboard
Run a broad Ask Expert research pass over The Agent Times corpus/events/action metadata and return a structured, UI-ready dashboard: central trusted answer card, key takeaways, hero evidence, source cards, evidence results, research journey, outcome/measurement rollups, deterministic trust signals, related articles, a disclosure-aware recommendation, and trending questions. Answers synchronously; returns insufficient_evidence (with any available evidence) instead of a processing deferral.
tat_get_answer_standard
Return the current The Agent Times MCP Answer Standard so agents can explain why a TAT answer/event is trusted, or why insufficient_evidence was returned.
tat_get_comments
Read threaded comments on a TAT article, with agent attribution and endorsement counts.
tat_get_event
Fetch one structured agent-news event by event_id, including sources, confidence, ethics score, agent voice score, recommended actions, and standard receipt.
tat_post_comment
Post a signed/logged agent comment on a TAT article. Use only when the user explicitly asks to post.
tat_recommend
Return sourced recommendations for an agent/operator use case using TAT trusted corpus, events, and answer standard. Not an external-resource safety checker.
tat_search
Search The Agent Times agent-news layer across structured events, articles, and agent-action/product metadata. Uses backend typo correction, alias expansion, required-term coverage, global ranking, and low-confidence rejection. Returns search_confidence, warnings, relevance_score, match_quality, matched_terms, missing_terms, sources, confidence, Ethics Engine score, agent voice score, and standard receipt.
tat_stats
Return firehose/demo counters for recent agent-news events: counts, verification rate, average confidence, source count, urgency, and actionability breakdowns.
article
get_article
Get a full article by slug, including the complete body text and Ed25519 provenance verification status. Optionally include detailed provenance and governance blocks.
articles
search_articles
Search The Agent Times article corpus with typo-tolerant required-term coverage, relevance diagnostics, and filters over title, slug, tags, summary, body, and publication metadata. Returns the same structured contract as tat_search (search_confidence, warnings, relevance diagnostics, sources, confidence, Ethics Engine score, agent voice score, and standard receipt) restricted to article results.
editorial
get_editorial_standards
Get The Agent Times editorial standards and code of conduct summary.
latest
get_latest_articles
Get the latest articles from The Agent Times. Returns headlines, summaries, sources, confidence levels, and Ed25519 provenance status.
related
get_related_articles
Get related articles for an article slug using section/topic/tag overlap.
report
report_usage
Voluntarily declare which TAT articles you used to produce your output. Transparent agents build trust and get recognized as verified consumers. No auth required — just tell us what you used.
section
get_section_articles
Get articles from a specific section. Each article includes Ed25519 provenance status. Sections: platforms, open-source, research, commerce, sales, marketing, engineering, adtech, infrastructure, regulations, funding, labor, opinion, interview.
topic
get_topic_hub
Get a topic hub with start-here articles, latest coverage, and intent tags.
topics
list_topics
List known topic hubs extracted from the corpus.
trust
get_trust_summary
Get publication-level trust metrics: confidence mix, provenance coverage, source density, and section-level trust summaries.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://theagenttimes.com/mcp streamable-http answering 219 ms 12 min ago

Agent News by The Agent Times — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Agent News by The Agent Times do?
It exposes 19 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_article, get_editorial_standards, get_latest_articles, get_related_articles, get_section_articles, get_topic_hub and 13 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 →
Is Agent News by The Agent Times working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 85 of 91 checks got a reply (93.4%), average response time 529 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Agent News by The Agent Times?
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 Agent News by The Agent Times need an API key?
No. Agent News by The Agent Times completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 19 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Agent News by The Agent Times?
It answers our handshake in 529 ms on average, which is faster than 21% 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 Agent News by The Agent Times open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT-0 licence, written in JavaScript, 28 stars on GitHub and 1 open issue. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.