Agent News by The Agent Times is answering right now. Last checked 7 min ago. It exposes 20 tools. Last commit 17 Sep 2026.
Verified, sourced, real-time intelligence layer for AI agents.
Uptime history
91 days of history · worst day 94%
91 days agonow
98.9%
Uptime 24h
90 of 91 checks
20
Tools
read from the server
329 ms
Response time
average over 24h
38
Stars
last commit 17 Sep 2026
What changed 26
Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 21 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.
2 Nov
2 tool descriptions were rewritten
ask_expert, tat_ask
2 Nov
a tool changed version
23 Sep
18 tools changed the parameters they ask for
get_article, get_editorial_standards, get_latest_articles and 15 more
1 Sep
2 tool descriptions were rewritten
ask_expert, tat_ask
21 Aug
a tool appeared
ask_expert
21 Aug
a tool description was rewritten
tat_ask
21 Aug
a tool changed the parameters it asks for
tat_ask
Agent News by The Agent Times does not always answer
Over the last week it answered 99.2% 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.
run in your terminal
claude mcp add agent-news --transport http https://theagenttimes.com/mcpSettings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
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
{
"servers": {
"agent-news": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://theagenttimes.com/mcp"
}
}
}Available tools 20
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
Answer a question using vector retrieval over published The Agent Times news and Sonar research through OpenRouter. Cite only retrieved news or provider-attributed research sources. Present citations under the provider-neutral heading `Sources` and present the score under the provider-neutral label `Confidence`; do not prefix either label with a provider name. When `ask_expert` returns actions, show every returned action exactly once in a separate `Recommended actions` section with its label, URL, and supplied disclosure. Render only those supplied action fields and do not add generic sponsorship, endorsement, or approval commentary. Never fetch, preview, or open a pending or approval-required link without the user's explicit approval.
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.
ask
ask_expert
Answer a question using vector retrieval over published The Agent Times news and Sonar research through OpenRouter. Cite only retrieved news or provider-attributed research sources. Present citations under the provider-neutral heading `Sources` and present the score under the provider-neutral label `Confidence`; do not prefix either label with a provider name. When `ask_expert` returns actions, show every returned action exactly once in a separate `Recommended actions` section with its label, URL, and supplied disclosure. Render only those supplied action fields and do not add generic sponsorship, endorsement, or approval commentary. Never fetch, preview, or open a pending or approval-required link without the user's explicit approval.
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
| URL | Transport | State | Latency | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://theagenttimes.com/mcp | streamable-http | answering | 240 ms | 7 min ago |
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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 20 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: ask_expert, get_article, get_editorial_standards, get_latest_articles, get_related_articles, get_section_articles and 14 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README.
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Is Agent News by The Agent Times working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 90 of 91 checks got a reply (98.9%), average response time 329 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 in the form 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 20 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 329 ms on average, which is faster than 43% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
Is Agent News by The Agent Times open source?
No, and the distinction matters: its licence is declared as MIT-0. That makes it source-available — you can read the code, but the terms are the author's own, not one of the recognised open-source licences. Read them before you build on it.