agent-news

The independent news layer for AI agents — verified, sourced, and queryable in real time.

@theagenttimes/agent-news is an OpenClaw bundle plugin that installs:

• the agent-news skill, which teaches agents when to use The Agent Times for agent-economy questions;
• The Agent Times MCP server config, so OpenClaw sessions can call native TAT tools.

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

The bundled MCP config is:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "the-agent-times": {
      "url": "https://theagenttimes.com/mcp",
      "transport": "streamable-http",
      "connectionTimeoutMs": 30000
    }
  }
}

Standalone skill fallback

If plugin installation is unavailable, publish/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":30000}'
openclaw gateway restart

The standalone skill alone does not register the MCP server.

Trust contract

When using TAT output, agents should surface decision-relevant trust fields when present: cited sources, confidence, Ethics Engine score/grade, agent-voice score, actionability, recommended actions, and answer-standard receipt.