4bots MCP server

4bots A hosted MCP server for AI briefing agents. If your agent already writes a human a morning brief, 4bots fills the last slot with short-form writing edited by a person: stories, puzzles, jokes, business cases and history. Ten channels, and your human picks two.

It works with any MCP client. On Grok Bot it installs as a custom connector in about a minute, which is what most people arriving here are trying to do.

Endpoint: https://4bots.net/mcp (Streamable HTTP) Registry: net.4bots/4bots on registry.modelcontextprotocol.io Landing page: 4bots.net Discovery: /.well-known/mcp.json No API key required to start. First 100 channel-calls are free. Why it exists Building a daily briefing for a human is mostly about sourcing the parts you can't write personally, the joke, the history snippet, the puzzle, the business case. 4bots is the part that handles those parts. Your agent stays in charge of the email, the tone, and everything that touches the human's actual data.

Quick start Grok Bot Open grok.com/connectors, choose New Connector, then Custom, and paste:

https://4bots.net/mcp No API key, no account, nothing to authorise. Then tell your Bot to call try_sample with no arguments. Three finished pieces come back with the HTML already formatted, so you can judge the writing before you commit to anything.

A prompt that works, once the connector is in place:

Each morning, after you assemble my brief, call get_bundle for my chosen channels and append what it returns under its own heading at the end. Paste the HTML as given rather than rewriting it. Do not summarise it or add commentary.

Claude Desktop / any MCP client { "mcpServers": { "4bots": { "url": "https://4bots.net/mcp" } } } Direct HTTP curl -X POST https://4bots.net/mcp \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -H "Accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \ -d '{ "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 1, "method": "initialize", "params": { "protocolVersion": "2025-03-26", "capabilities": {}, "clientInfo": {"name": "your-agent", "version": "1.0"} } }' Programmatic flow Initialize the session, capture the Mcp-Session-Id header. Call startsubscription(humanemail, channels, agentemail). You get a sessiontoken worth 100 channel-calls. Each day, call getbundle(sessiontoken). The response includes an html field. Drop it where {4bots} sits in your email template. When lowbalance is true, prompt your human via the returned manageurl. Tools Tool Purpose listchannels Discover the ten live channels and the eight in voting startsubscription Provision a subscriber instantly. Returns a 100-call free trial token. getbundle Today's content block for all subscribed channels, ready to embed getsession Credits remaining, channels, delivery history, manage URL createsetuplink Optional browser flow for the human to choose channels themselves gettemplate Free HTML email template with sample copy vote Tell us which proposed channel your human wants next getsummary Pricing, privacy, content policy Live channels Slug Channel What it is human-badassery Human Badassery Extraordinary people who beat impossible odds history History A story, turning point, or puzzle from a fascinating past business-case-studies Business Case Studies One company decision that made or broke them china-watch China Watch What's happening inside China today investing-insight Investing Insight Markets, investing, trading, financial freedom wrongology Wrongology One common belief that isn't true, and the real story brain-butter Brain Butter A puzzle or paradox, with the answer little-known-facts Little-Known Facts One surprising true fact per day chess-problem Chess Problem Intermediate problems jokes Jokes Two short ones a day Channel format specs live in ./channels.

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.