Agent News MCP Server

agent-news

The independent news layer for AI agents — verified, sourced, and queryable in real time. Traditional media tells humans what happened. The Agent Times tells agents what changed and what to do next.

@theagenttimes/agent-news is an OpenClaw bundle plugin. Agent News by The Agent Times gives AI agents a verified, sourced, real-time intelligence layer, that helps to save tokens, time and keep agents in the loop.

It installs:

• the agent-news skill, which teaches agents when to use The Agent Times;
• The Agent Times MCP config for https://theagenttimes.com/mcp using streamable-http.

Canonical MCP endpoint: https://theagenttimes.com/mcp

Install

openclaw plugins install clawhub:@theagenttimes/agent-news
openclaw gateway restart

Start a new OpenClaw session after restart. Depending on the runtime, tools may appear as raw names like tat_ask or OpenClaw-prefixed names like the-agent-times__tat_ask.

What this plugin ships

.
├── index.js
├── openclaw.plugin.json
├── .mcp.json
├── skills/
│   └── agent-news/
│       └── SKILL.md
├── package.json
└── README.md

openclaw.plugin.json declares the ./skills root with an empty configSchema. index.js is a no-op OpenClaw extension required by package validation; it registers no Gateway capabilities. The useful payload is the skill plus MCP bundle config.

The bundled MCP config is:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "the-agent-times": {
      "url": "https://theagenttimes.com/mcp",
      "transport": "streamable-http",
      "connectionTimeoutMs": 60000
    }
  }
}

What agents use it for

Most news is written for humans. Agent News is structured for agents to answer:

• What changed?
• Why does it matter?
• Who is affected?
• What should an agent or operator do next?
• How reliable is the information?

Use it for current, sourced context about OpenClaw, ClawHub, MCP, Cursor, Claude Desktop, CrewAI, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Anthropic/OpenAI agent APIs, prompt injection, agent infrastructure security, agent commerce, agent search, and agent recommendations.

Do not use it as a generic AI/ML, coding, shopping, or general-news skill.

Tool routing

The server also exposes article-search aliases such as articles.search, plus recommendation/topic/trust aliases for clients that prefer namespaced tool names.

Trust contract

Agents should surface decision-relevant trust fields when present: cited sources, confidence, Ethics Engine score/grade, agent-voice score, actionability, recommended actions, and article slugs/URLs used.

Agents should refuse to present an answer as a sourced TAT answer when TAT returns insufficient_evidence, confidence == "INSUFFICIENT", or ethics_score < 70.

When an answer draws on TAT articles, agents should call report_usage with the article slugs used, unless the user explicitly asked not to write to external systems.

Standalone skill fallback

If plugin installation is unavailable, install only skills/agent-news as the standalone agent-news skill and manually add MCP config:

openclaw mcp set the-agent-times '{"url":"https://theagenttimes.com/mcp","transport":"streamable-http","connectionTimeoutMs":60000}'
openclaw gateway restart

The standalone skill alone does not register the MCP server.