Perigon MCP for AI Agents

Securely connect your AI agents and chatbots (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, etc) with Perigon MCP or direct API to search breaking news, analyze trending topics, summarize articles, and retrieve structured news data through natural language.

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Perigon is a news and web content API that delivers structured, real-time news data. It helps you power applications needing up-to-date, reliable news coverage and analysis.

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TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every Perigon action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Get News Articles

Tool to retrieve a list of news articles based on filters.

Get Companies

Tool to retrieve information on companies in Perigon’s entity database.

Get Journalists

Tool to retrieve journalist profiles including title, Twitter handle, bio, and location.

Get Media Sources

Tool to retrieve a list of media sources with filtering options.

Get Stories

Tool to retrieve clusters of related articles covering the same event or topic with aggregate metrics.

Get Topics

Tool to retrieve all available Perigon news topics.

Get Wikipedia Articles

Tool to search and filter Wikipedia pages.

Vector Search Articles

Tool to perform a vector search on Perigon’s real-time news database.

Vector Search Wikipedia

Tool to perform semantic retrieval of Wikipedia pages using vector search.

SETUP GUIDE

Connect Perigon MCP Tool with your Agent

1

Install Composio

typescript
npm install @composio/core ai @ai-sdk/openai @ai-sdk/mcp
Install the Composio SDK and Claude Agent SDK
2

Create Tool Router Session

typescript
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';

const composio = new Composio({ apiKey: 'your-api-key' });

console.log("Creating Tool Router session...");
const { mcp } = await composio.create('your-user-id');
console.log(`Tool Router session created: ${mcp.url}`);
Initialize the Composio client and create a Tool Router session
3

Connect to AI Agent

typescript
import { openai } from '@ai-sdk/openai';
import { experimental_createMCPClient as createMCPClient } from '@ai-sdk/mcp';
import { generateText, stepCountIs } from 'ai';

const client = await createMCPClient({
  transport: {
    type: 'http',
    url: mcp.url,
    headers: { 'x-api-key': 'your-composio-api-key' }
  }
});

const tools = await client.tools();

const { text } = await generateText({
  model: openai('gpt-4o'),
  tools,
  messages: [{ role: 'user', content: 'Get the latest technology news headlines' }],
  stopWhen: stepCountIs( 5 )
});

console.log(`Agent: ${text}`);
Use the MCP server with your AI agent
SETUP GUIDE

Connect Perigon API Tool with your Agent

1

Install Composio

typescript
npm install @composio/openai
Install the Composio SDK
2

Initialize Composio and Create Tool Router Session

typescript
import OpenAI from 'openai';
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';
import { OpenAIResponsesProvider } from '@composio/openai';

const composio = new Composio({
  provider: new OpenAIResponsesProvider(),
});
const openai = new OpenAI({});
const session = await composio.create('your-user-id');
Import and initialize Composio client, then create a Tool Router session
3

Execute Perigon Tools via Tool Router with Your Agent

typescript
const tools = session.tools;
const response = await openai.responses.create({
  model: 'gpt-4.1',
  tools: tools,
  input: [{
    role: 'user',
    content: 'Get the latest technology news headlines'
  }],
});
const result = await composio.provider.handleToolCalls(
  'your-user-id',
  response.output
);
console.log(result);
Get tools from Tool Router session and execute Perigon actions with your Agent

Why Use Composio?

AI Native Perigon Integration

  • Supports both Perigon MCP and direct API based integrations
  • Structured, LLM-friendly schemas for reliable tool execution
  • Rich coverage for reading, searching, and analyzing news data

Managed Auth

  • Built-in API key management with secure storage
  • Central place to manage, scope, and revoke Perigon access
  • Per user and per environment credentials instead of hard-coded keys

Agent Optimized Design

  • Tools are tuned using real error and success rates to improve reliability over time
  • Comprehensive execution logs so you always know what ran, when, and on whose behalf

Enterprise Grade Security

  • Fine-grained RBAC so you control which agents and users can access Perigon
  • Scoped, least privilege access to Perigon resources
  • Full audit trail of agent actions to support review and compliance
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Yes, Perigon requires you to configure your own API key credentials. Once set up, Composio handles secure credential storage and API request handling for you.

Yes! Composio's Tool Router enables agents to use multiple toolkits. Learn more.

Composio is SOC 2 and ISO 27001 compliant with all data encrypted in transit and at rest. Learn more.

Composio maintains and updates all toolkit integrations automatically, so your agents always work with the latest API versions.

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