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daftscientist/rostra

v0.1.0MIT

Search the outside world from one endpoint: web search, page fetch with pagination, news and breaking news, prediction markets, and the major social and developer platforms: Reddit, Hacker News, Mastodon, Bluesky, X, GitHub, and YouTube. Read-only. Load the group for broad lookups; load a scoped skill when the job matches one.

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Rostra

Rostra is a portable Agent Plugin for the unified sovereign-search and research data layer behind the Rostra MCP endpoint (https://ask.daft.onl/mcp): web search, page reading, news, prediction markets, Reddit, Hacker News, Mastodon, Bluesky, X, GitHub, and YouTube behind one typed result shape.

This plugin ships no server code and no local state. It is a declaration package: one mcp.json remote-server entry plus eight Agent Skills that teach when and how to use the Rostra tools. All capability lives upstream; the plugin makes it discoverable and usable by agent clients.

Skills

SkillWhat it is for
topic-researchdeep research: strands, primary sources, verification, synthesis
person-researchidentity-first briefs on people, orgs, projects, products
investigationtrace a claim to its origin; grade what the receipts support
vibe-checkhow different communities actually received something
repo-intelligenceOSS due diligence: maintained, adoptable, worth it?
trend-explainerwhy something is blowing up, and whether it is real
video-digestvideo to usable knowledge, currency-checked
find-anything-onlinerecover the exact thing from messy half-remembered clues

Each skill declares allowed-tools scoping exactly the Rostra subset its job needs.

Authentication

The portable files contain no credentials (Agent Plugins v1.0.0: configured headers must be literal, secret-free package data). Rostra's MCP endpoint is OAuth-authenticated today; a shared API key path is being added upstream with an explicit MCP opt-in per key. Clients choose their own auth (see DESIGN.md §4).

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