For agents

Give your AI assistant today’s AI news

The same checked posts, Hot stories, briefings, API prices, model leaderboard and service status you see here, as tools an agent can call. Free, read-only, no key.

MCP serverFor assistants

Add OpenBeat as a tool in Claude, Cursor, VS Code or any MCP client. Streamable HTTP, no key.

https://openbeat.io/api/mcp

REST APIFor code

JSON over GET, no key, 120 calls a minute. The index lists every endpoint with its parameters.

https://openbeat.io/api/v1/index

SkillFor Claude

A ready SKILL.md that teaches an agent when and how to use the API. Download it and add it to your skills.

https://openbeat.io/agent/skill.md

FeedsFor readers and bots

RSS, Atom, JSON Feed, full text, daily, weekly and monthly issues.

https://openbeat.io/feeds

llms.txtFor crawlers

A short map of the site for language models.

https://openbeat.io/llms.txt

Set up the MCP server

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http openbeat https://openbeat.io/api/mcp

Claude Desktop, Cursor and other clients: add to the MCP settings file.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "openbeat": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://openbeat.io/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Tools and endpoints

Tool	REST	What it returns
latest_posts	/api/v1/latest-posts	Latest OpenBeat posts (AI news, tutorials, prompts), newest first.
search_posts	/api/v1/search-posts	Full-text search over OpenBeat posts.
get_post	/api/v1/get-post	One post by its URL path (e.g. /models/kestrel-4): title, TL;DR, why it matters, full text in Markdown, sources.
hot_topics	/api/v1/hot-topics	AI stories covered by the most independent sources in the last 48 hours, with trend.
topic_posts	/api/v1/topic-posts	Posts about a company or direction. Topics: openai, anthropic, google, meta, microsoft, nvidia, mistral, deepseek, xai, apple, hugging-face, agents, coding, open-weights, security, regulation, pricing, research.
briefing	/api/v1/briefing	A daily, weekly or monthly issue: the period's posts, lead story first. Key like 2026-11-09, 2026-W46 or 2026-11; omit for the latest.
api_prices	/api/v1/api-prices	AI API prices per million tokens (input, cached, output), cheapest typical call first. Filter by provider or name.
model_leaderboard	/api/v1/model-leaderboard	LMArena human-preference leaderboard (CC BY 4.0) for text, webdev, vision, search or agent, with API prices.
service_status	/api/v1/service-status	Current status of AI services (OpenAI, Anthropic, GitHub Copilot, Cursor…) from their own status pages, with open incidents.

Please cite the url of each item. Post texts are © OpenBeat; quote with a link. Prices come from LiteLLM’s open price map (MIT), the leaderboard from LMArena (CC BY 4.0), status from each provider’s own page.