For AI agents
ByteTrail runs an MCP server, so agents can look up the same papers, news, tools and funding rounds you see here. It's free, read-only and needs no account: add https://bytetrail.space/mcp to your client.
Connect
- Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http bytetrail https://bytetrail.space/mcp- Claude, ChatGPT
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector → https://bytetrail.space/mcp- Cursor, VS Code, others
{ "mcpServers": { "bytetrail": { "url": "https://bytetrail.space/mcp" } } }
Tools
- search
- papers by title and abstract; companies, tools and repos by name
- latest_papers
- new arXiv papers by field or category, last 3 to 90 days, newest or most relevant, optionally only with code
- get_paper
- one paper's abstract, authors, fields and links
- latest_news
- headlines from AI labs, research groups, news sites, engineering blogs and newsletters, by region
- trending
- rising tools, new repos gaining stars, rising topics and fields, the week's top stories
- funding_rounds
- AI and developer-tool rounds by sector, stage, amount and investor, with sources and SEC filings
- company
- one startup: what it does, founders, every round, GitHub and Hugging Face
- dev_tools
- frameworks, libraries and databases by category with downloads, stars and growth
- get_tool
- one tool's packages, stars, downloads, releases and rank
Fair use
Up to 120 requests a minute per address. Results are short and dated, and link to the original source; news comes as headlines and excerpts only. Funding rounds marked as Recent Funding's should be credited to them. Prefer plain HTTP? The same data is in the REST API.