Turn Hacker News into MCP tools

Give your AI agent Hacker News tools. Writ turns your Hacker News workflows into authenticated MCP tools your agent can call, taking real actions on your own account.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "writ-hackernews": {
      "url": "https://api.usewrit.app/mcp/your-workspace",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer wt_8f2c...a91" }
    }
  }
}

Record the Hacker News task once, or describe it to an AI session, and Writ turns it into an MCP tool your agent can call, taking real actions on your own Hacker News account.

1. 1
   Record a Hacker News action once

   Open the recorder and open the front page on Hacker News in a real browser. Writ captures the steps, login and 2FA included, into a workflow.

2. 2
   Publish it as an MCP tool

   One click exposes the workflow as an MCP tool with a typed input schema, alongside a REST endpoint. Your agent picks it by its description.

3. 3
   Call it from any MCP client

   Point Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, or any MCP client at your Writ server. The Hacker News tool acts on your own account and returns structured output.

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Read-only website-to-MCP tools can summarize a Hacker News page, but they can't do anything on it. Writ turns the Hacker News workflows you build into MCP tools your agent calls to take real actions (search, extract, submit), authenticated, on your own Hacker News account.

Writ runs on your own accounts, with your own credentials and data, on sites you are authorized to use.

Each tool is a real Hacker News workflow with a typed input schema and structured output. Your agent picks the right one by its description.

Example tool schema

{
  "name": "hackernews.get_front_page",
  "description": "Return front-page stories with points and rank.",
  "input_schema": {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
      "query": { "type": "string", "description": "What to look up on Hacker News." }
    },
    "required": ["query"]
  }
}

Copy the config into your client and authenticate with a wt_ key. Tools appear automatically.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "writ-hackernews": {
      "url": "https://api.usewrit.app/mcp/your-workspace",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer wt_8f2c...a91" }
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "writ-hackernews": {
      "url": "https://api.usewrit.app/mcp/your-workspace",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer csk_3a90...f4d" }
    }
  }
}

Hacker News pages are public; Writ renders them in real Chromium to capture front-page ranking and point counts as they change.

Collect Hacker News data you have the right to access and respect its guidelines and rate limits.

Give your agent Hacker News tools

Build a workflow, publish it as an MCP tool, and call it from any MCP client. Get started free.