DeFoor Report

The DeFoor Report is an hourly, ranked AI and large-language-model news front page published by DeFoor Innovations (edited by Nathan DeFoor, based in Georgia, USA). It aggregates headlines on AI labs, the LLM race, agents, robotics, AI jobs, funding, policy, health, security breaches and crypto, linking each story to its original publisher, and runs an AI startup directory. Its llms.txt advertises a key-authenticated news index API (GET https://argolabs.us/v1/news) with an OpenAPI description, and a remote Streamable HTTP MCP server at mcp.defoorreport.com with OAuth sign-in and tools such as top_news, search_news and save_story.

DeFoor Report publishes 2 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including News API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Company, News, Artificial Intelligence, Media, and News Aggregation.

The DeFoor Report catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

DeFoor Report’s developer surface includes authentication, signup flow, support, YouTube channel, and 32 more developer resources.

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Company News Artificial Intelligence Media News Aggregation MCP LLM

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 44.0/100 · developing

Contract Quality 11.9 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 3.1 / 17

Access Clarity 9.4 / 17

Operational Transparency 3.5 / 11

Contract Governance 2.2 / 10

Discoverability 6.2 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.4 / 15

Agent readiness — 44/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 5 / 5

Registration Without a Human 6 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
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Documented Reversibility +6 pts — a reversal operation in the contract, graded up when a window is documented too
Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document +5 pts — a parsing /.well-known/ucp.json or acp.json declaring a version and at least one service, OR (0.27) a live x402 payment challenge from _data/x402-adoption.json — `self` when its endpoints are on the provider's own domain, `platform` when they are on a vendor's

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Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Developer Ergonomics scores 18.5 — up to +16.3 composite points
Contract Quality scores 56.1 — up to +11.0 composite points
Contract Governance scores 22.0 — up to +9.4 composite points

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Standards implemented 5

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (documented)

OAuth 2.0 Protected Resource Metadata

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

Dynamic Client Registration

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OAuth 2.0

measured — observed by APIs.io (declared)

APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

DeFoor Report MCP Server

Remote Streamable HTTP MCP server at https://mcp.defoorreport.com/mcp with OAuth sign-in (scope news) using the reader's DeFoor Report email. Documented tools: top_news, news_by...

DeFoor Report News API

The News API from DeFoor Report — 1 operation(s) for news.

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

DeFoor Report MCP Server

Remote MCP server at mcp.defoorreport.com over streamable HTTP requiring OAuth; 9 tools listed.

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 1

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

defoorreport-get-ai-news

AGENT SKILL

DeFoor Report API pricing

Prices published by DeFoor Report.

Plan	Price
Free plan	Both are free.

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Free plan daily requests: Free plan: 25 requests a day, 5 stories each.
Stories per request: Free plan: 25 requests a day, 5 stories each.

Rate-limit details →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Defoorreport Com Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Defoorreport Com Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Defoorreport Com Context

1 classes · 6 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

DeFoor Report API Rules

44 rules · 42 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Defoorreport Com Openapi Overlay

2 actions · update · defoorreport-com-openapi.yml

DERIVED

JSON Schema 1

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Story

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Defoorreport Com Authentication

http/oauth2 · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Defoorreport Com Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Defoorreport Com Agentic Access

1 operation

1 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

SignUp

SignUp

Agent Surfaces 6

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgentSkill

LLMsTxt

MCPServer

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 7

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Spectral

JSONLD

Vocabulary

DataModel

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Conformance

Scroll for all 7

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

IntegrationEdges

IntegrationEdges

ToolCrosswalk

ToolCrosswalk

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

SecurityTxt

Security

Authentication

DomainSecurity

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

YouTube

YouTube

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Support

Support

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 5

The organization behind the API

Newsroom

Website

About

Bluesky

Instagram

Other 5

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Hosts

Vendors

TikTok

Source (apis.yml)

aid: defoorreport-com
name: DeFoor Report
description: The DeFoor Report is an hourly, ranked AI and large-language-model news front page published by DeFoor Innovations
  (edited by Nathan DeFoor, based in Georgia, USA). It aggregates headlines on AI labs, the LLM race, agents, robotics, AI
  jobs, funding, policy, health, security breaches and crypto, linking each story to its original publisher, and runs an AI
  startup directory. Its llms.txt advertises a key-authenticated news index API (GET https://argolabs.us/v1/news) with an
  OpenAPI description, and a remote Streamable HTTP MCP server at mcp.defoorreport.com with OAuth sign-in and tools such as
  top_news, search_news and save_story.
url: https://artifacts.apis.io/defoorreport-com/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:mcp-registry
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-11-05 (modular-v1; was harvest)
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Free · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  probe_state: covered
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-11-05'
modified: '2026-11-05'
tags:
- Company
- News
- Artificial Intelligence
- Media
- News Aggregation
- MCP
- LLM
tags_raw:
- Company
- News
- Artificial Intelligence
- Media
- News Aggregation
- MCP
- Large Language Models
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
image: https://defoorreport.com/og/defoor-report.png
common:
- type: IntegrationEdges
  url: integrations/defoorreport-com-integration-edges.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/defoorreport-com-agentic-access.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/defoorreport-com-rate-limits.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/defoorreport-com-plans-pricing.yml
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/defoorreport-com-rules.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/defoorreport-com-context.jsonld
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/defoorreport-com-vocabulary.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/defoorreport-com-data-model.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/defoorreport-com-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/defoorreport-com-problem-types.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/defoorreport-com-conformance.yml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/defoorreport-com-openapi-overlay.yaml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/defoorreport-com-llms.txt
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/defoorreport-com-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/defoorreport-com-mcp.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/defoorreport-com-bsky-security.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/defoorreport-com-well-known.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/defoorreport-com-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/defoorreport-com-vendors.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://defoorreport.com/ai-directory/security
- type: Newsroom
  url: https://defoorreport.com/ai-directory/media
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/defoorreport-com-authentication.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/defoorreport-com-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://defoorreport.com/
- type: About
  url: https://defoorreport.com/about
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: https://defoorreport.com/llms.txt
- type: SignUp
  url: https://defoorreport.com/subscribe
- type: Support
  url: https://defoorreport.com/contact
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://defoorreport.com/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://defoorreport.com/privacy
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/defoorreport
- type: Bluesky
  url: https://bsky.app/profile/defoorreport.bsky.social
- type: YouTube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/@defoorreport
- type: Instagram
  url: https://www.instagram.com/defoorreport/
- type: TikTok
  url: https://www.tiktok.com/@defoorreport
apis:
- aid: defoorreport-com:defoorreport-com-mcp-server
  name: DeFoor Report MCP Server
  description: 'Remote Streamable HTTP MCP server at https://mcp.defoorreport.com/mcp with OAuth sign-in (scope news) using
    the reader''s DeFoor Report email. Documented tools: top_news, news_by_section, search_news, just_for_you, save_story,
    my_saved_stories, remove_saved_story, follow_topic, unfollow_topic.'
  humanURL: https://defoorreport.com/llms.txt
  baseURL: https://mcp.defoorreport.com/mcp
  tags:
  - MCP
  - News
  properties: []
- aid: defoorreport-com:defoorreport-com-news-api
  name: DeFoor Report News API
  description: The News API from DeFoor Report — 1 operation(s) for news.
  humanURL: https://defoorreport.com/llms.txt
  baseURL: https://argolabs.us
  tags:
  - News
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/defoorreport-com-news-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/defoorreport-com-story-schema.json
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: identity-verified
  detail: Name, publisher and links read from defoorreport.com homepage, /about and /llms.txt (front door open).
  evidence:
  - url: https://defoorreport.com/
    status: 200
  - url: https://defoorreport.com/about
    status: 200
  - url: https://defoorreport.com/llms.txt
    status: 200
  - url: https://defoorreport.com/subscribe
    status: 200
  - url: https://defoorreport.com/contact
    status: 200
  - url: https://defoorreport.com/terms
    status: 200
  - url: https://defoorreport.com/privacy
    status: 200
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-11-05'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 36
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=anthropic,contract=anthropic,surfaces=anthropic,docs=anthropic,regulatory=anthropic

DeFoor Report API — frequently asked questions

Does DeFoor Report have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from DeFoor Report, including DeFoor Report MCP Server and DeFoor Report News API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the DeFoor Report API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 1 OpenAPI specification for DeFoor Report, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the DeFoor Report API?

DeFoor Report documents its authentication (http/oauth2 · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Defoorreport Com Authentication.

How much does the DeFoor Report API cost?

DeFoor Report publishes its prices; its Free plan plan is Both are free. as of 2026-11-05. APIs.io lists 1 pricing plan for DeFoor Report, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Does DeFoor Report have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for DeFoor Report: Remote MCP server at mcp.defoorreport.com over streamable HTTP requiring OAuth; 9 tools listed.

Is the DeFoor Report API ready for AI agents?

DeFoor Report has a Kin Score of 44.0 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 43.9 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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