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Read the web (page text, DNS, WHOIS, TLS, uptime) + research (Wikipedia, arXiv, GitHub, packages).
Remote server: your requests and data go to augur-trade.com. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http a-u-g-u-r-foresight-web-research https://augur-trade.com/foresight/mcp/web · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.
web_read — Any public URL → clean readable markdown: the article/main content without nav, ads or boilerplate, plus title, author, date, word count andweb_meta — Everything a page says about itself: title, description, OpenGraph/Twitter card, canonical, favicon, language, RSS/Atom feeds, JSON-LD schemdns_lookup — All DNS for a domain — A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, NS, TXT, CAA, SOA — plus SPF and DMARC parsed and graded, so an agent knows where a domain pointsdomain_whois — Who registered a domain and when: registrar, creation/expiry dates, age, days to expiry, status locks, nameservers — or that it looks availatls_check — A site's TLS certificate: issuer, validity, days until expiry, SANs, protocol, cipher, chain and whether browsers trust it. Live TLS handshahttp_probe — Is a site up and how is it served: status, full redirect chain, timings (DNS/TLS/first byte/total), server, CDN, caching, compression, and arobots_check — May I crawl this? Checks a URL against the site's robots.txt for any user-agent, lists sitemaps and crawl-delay, and reports which AI crawleemail_check — Will this email address work? Syntax, domain MX records, disposable/throwaway provider detection, role address (info@, admin@) and free-mailwiki — Wikipedia in any language: search a topic and get the best article's summary, description, thumbnail and link — or the full article text. Searxiv_search — Search arXiv research papers by keywords, author or category — newest or most relevant — with abstracts, authors, dates and PDF links. arXivpackage_info — Any npm, PyPI or crates.io package: latest version and release date, license, downloads, maintainers, repo, dependency count, deprecation — github_repo — A GitHub repository at a glance: stars, forks, open issues, last commit, latest release, license, languages, contributors, archived — is it hn_search — Search Hacker News stories and comments by keyword, sorted by relevance or date, filtered by time window and minimum points — what developerdoi_lookup — Resolve a DOI — or search a paper title — to full citation metadata: title, authors, journal, year, citations count, publisher, license, andbook_search — Find books by title, author, subject or ISBN: first published year, editions, ISBNs, page count, ratings, subjects and cover image. Open LibNot tested by KitScout yet. When our harness runs it, pros, cons and the tasks we tried appear here, with the date and evidence.