Agent Switchboard

The curated directory for the agentic web — AI agents, MCP servers, and agentic tools with real API, MCP, CLI, or browser-extension access. Live at agentswitchboard.dev.

A listing marked Verified is one we checked works: its URLs load and its declared access (API, MCP, CLI or extension) responds. Re-checked monthly; the label drops if it stops working.

🔌 This directory is itself an MCP server

Point any MCP client at it and query the catalog with native tools:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "agentswitchboard": { "url": "https://agentswitchboard.dev/api/mcp" }
  }
}

Tools: search_agents · get_agent · list_categories · compare_agents · alternatives_to · connect_bundle (one MCP client config for up to 10 listings) · submit_listing (files a public GitHub issue for review; publishes nothing). Streamable HTTP, no auth. Stdio-only clients: npx -y mcp-remote https://agentswitchboard.dev/api/mcp

Setup for Grok, Grok Bot, the xAI API, Claude, and ChatGPT: agentswitchboard.dev/connect.

Prefer plain HTTP? There's a REST search too:

curl "https://agentswitchboard.dev/api/agents?q=video&access=mcp&limit=5"
curl "https://agentswitchboard.dev/api/agents/agentmail"
curl "https://agentswitchboard.dev/api/categories"
curl "https://agentswitchboard.dev/api/compare?a=deepgram&b=assemblyai"
curl "https://agentswitchboard.dev/api/bundle?items=linear,sentry-mcp,playwright-mcp"

OpenAPI: /openapi.json. Connector skill: /skill.md.

Also machine-readable: /agents.json (full catalog, CORS-open), in-browser tools via WebMCP (document.modelContext), and an agent-optimized view on every page (the "For Agents" toggle).

Full API reference: docs/API.md — REST search/detail/categories, compare, alternatives and the connect bundle, MCP, WebMCP, and the catalog dump.

🗂 Git-as-CMS

The entire catalog lives in this repo:

content/
  agents/<slug>.json    one file per agent — the source of truth
  categories.json       category definitions
  changelog.json        public audit log (rendered at /changelog)

There is no database and no CMS. Editing content = editing files. Merging to main = publishing. Every entry is schema-validated in CI (scripts/validate-content.ts) — a bad entry cannot merge. A weekly job link-checks every listing's agent and provider URLs.

Want to add or fix a listing? See CONTRIBUTING.md. Non-developers: agentswitchboard.dev/submit.

Development

npm install
npm run dev          # no env vars needed — content is right here

Command
npm run dev	dev server
npm run build	production build (SSG, all pages)
npm test	unit tests
npm run lint / npm run typecheck	quality gates
npx tsx scripts/validate-content.ts	validate the catalog
npx tsx scripts/check-links.ts	link-rot sweep
npx tsx scripts/cms.ts	content ops: find / feature / update / unpublish
npx tsx scripts/weekly-drop.ts	batch-add agents (see file header)
npx tsx scripts/drop-impact.ts	what a content change does elsewhere on the site, compared with origin/main

Stack: Next.js (App Router) · Tailwind · file-based catalog · deployed on Vercel.

License

• Code (app/, components/, lib/, scripts/, config) — MIT
• Catalog data (content/, including every content/agents/*.json listing, and the same data at /agents.json, the REST API and the MCP server) — CC BY-NC 4.0: reuse for non-commercial purposes with attribution to Agent Switchboard; contact us for commercial use. Submitted listings are contributed under CC BY-NC 4.0. (Versions up to 2026-09-25 remain CC BY 4.0.)