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MCP Server

The entire API Evangelist network is available to AI agents as a Model Context Protocol server over Streamable HTTP:

Code
https://mcp.apievangelist.com/mcp

It covers the same resources as the REST API, plus concierge tools that bundle curated research for a topic. The server card is published at https://apievangelist.com/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json.

Start with the concierge

Two tools are designed as the entry point — agents should reach for these first:

• get_overview — start here: what the network contains, counts per resource type, and how the tools fit together.
• guide_topic(topic) — a curated bundle for one topic: the area plus its guidance, rules, policies, papers, stories, and services in a single call.

Tools

Tool	What it does
get_overview	Start here — network contents, counts, and how the tools fit together
guide_topic(topic)	Curated bundle: area + guidance/rules/policies + papers + stories + services
find_services / get_service	API Evangelist services — Kin's own offerings, the front door to an engagement
find_solutions / get_solution	The solutions registry — 740+ third-party API services and tools ranked by adoption
search_api_evangelist	Unified search across every resource type, faceted with types=
find_posts / get_post	5,100+ blog stories since 2010
find_areas / get_area	The 77 topic areas and their related-area graph
find_building_blocks(type) / get_building_block(type, slug)	Guidance, rules, policies, standards, strategies, schema, properties, experiences, lifecycle
get_guidance_section(section)	One editorial guidance section — history, technology, business, politics, governance, or evangelism
find_tools / get_tool	The open-source tooling registry — 400+ tools ranked by adoption, with radar placement
find_conversations / get_conversation	Conversations with API producers, consumers, and vendors
find_videos / get_video	The video library, searchable by transcript
find_papers / get_paper	White papers
get_timeline(timeline)	The api, resources, industries, and people research timelines
find_vocabulary(category)	The API vocabulary
get_feeds	Machine-readable index of the static JSON feeds
get_contact	Every way to reach API Evangelist

Connect

Claude Code

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claude mcp add --transport http api-evangelist https://mcp.apievangelist.com/mcp

Claude Desktop / .mcp.json

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{
  "mcpServers": {
    "api-evangelist": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.apievangelist.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Cursor (~/.cursor/mcp.json)

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{
  "mcpServers": {
    "api-evangelist": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apievangelist.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

VS Code (.vscode/mcp.json)

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{
  "servers": {
    "api-evangelist": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.apievangelist.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Poke it directly

The server speaks JSON-RPC — initialize, tools/list, and tools/call:

Code
curl -s https://mcp.apievangelist.com/mcp \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'

The same tiers and limits apply as the REST API — keyless free tier, with higher limits by request.