Trend News Agency MCP: Caucasus and Central Asia news archive

Add Trend's news archive to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

1. 1Click Connect Trend News Agency free. There's no sign-in, so its tools are ready at once.
2. 2All 13 tools start on. If you only need the archive, keep `trendaz_news_search`, `trendaz_research` and `trendaz_article_get`, and switch off extras like `trendaz_subscription_plans` and `trendaz_author_stats`.
3. 3Add ContextGate to your AI app as a connector or MCP server. The steps for each app are on the Works with page.
4. 4Ask your AI app what Trend has reported on Caspian energy projects this year, then open Activity to see the `trendaz_research` call.

Regional news research with Trend

• Search the archive by keyword with `trendaz_news_search`, ranked by relevance.
• Get several articles with the passage that answers your question in one call, using `trendaz_research`.
• See what Trend's readers read most over a day, week or month with `trendaz_trending`.
• Check what the newsroom is leading with right now via `trendaz_front_page`.
• Read Trend's corrections policy or editorial standards before you cite it.

Know what was searched

• Activity records every Trend call, so the research behind a briefing can be traced.
• Switch off any Trend tool and your AI app can't see it; calls to it are refused.

What you get with Trend News Agency and ContextGate

• Your AI apps can use Trend News AgencyClaude, Cursor, ChatGPT and other AI apps reach Trend News Agency through the one ContextGate connection you add to them.
• You choose which tools they can useSwitch off any Trend News Agency tool you don't want used. It's hidden from your AI apps and refused if called.
• Every call is checked and recordedYour policies check each call (for example, personal data is hidden and secrets are blocked), and Activity keeps a record of it.

ContextGate sees only the tool calls that go through it, not your AI app's built-in tools or your chats.

Trend News Agency tools

Examples of what your AI apps can do in Trend News Agency. You'll see the exact list of tools after you connect it.

• trendaz_whoamiReport which Trend News Agency access tier this connection has, which tools it may call, and what its request budget is. Call this first when a Trend tool is re
• trendaz_coverage_getDescribe what the Trend News Agency archive covers: which language editions exist and their canonical hosts, which regions and beats the agency reports on, and
• trendaz_news_listList Trend News Agency headlines newest first, optionally narrowed by section, tag, author or a date range. Returns metadata only — headline, date, section, byl
• trendaz_article_getFetch one Trend News Agency article in full: headline, byline, dateline, publication date, section, tags and the body as markdown. Pass the article URL if you h
• trendaz_trendingList the most-read Trend News Agency articles of the last day, week or month, ordered by readership rather than by date. Use it for "what is Trend's audience pa
• trendaz_author_statsRank Trend News Agency journalists by how many articles they published over a date range, across all three editions or one of them. Use it for "who filed most t
• trendaz_page_getFetch one of Trend News Agency's own standing documents in full: its corrections policy, editorial standards, masthead, ownership and contact details, terms of
• trendaz_author_getLook up a Trend News Agency journalist by name, id or profile alias, and get what the agency publishes about them: role, the beats they cover, biography, stated
• trendaz_researchSearch Trend News Agency's archive and read the relevant part of each result in one call. Returns several articles with the passage that actually addresses the
• trendaz_subscription_plansWhat a Trend News Agency subscription costs and what it gives access to: the monthly and annual price in manat, dollars and euro, any introductory offer, and th
• trendaz_taxonomy_searchFind the section slug for a subject or a country, so the other tools can be narrowed correctly. Matches on title and slug — "Kazakhstan", "energy", "casia" — an
• trendaz_front_pageWhat Trend News Agency is leading with at this moment, grouped the way the newsroom groups it: the main story block, the editor's picks, and the regional sectio
• trendaz_news_searchSearch Trend News Agency's archive by keyword and get matching headlines ranked by relevance, with date, section, byline and canonical URL. The archive runs bac