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Add it to any MCP client that supports remote servers.

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  "mcpServers": {
    "api-evangelist": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.apievangelist.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

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• get_overview

  START HERE. What the API Evangelist network offers: sixteen years of API research as searchable stories, 77 topic areas, governance building blocks (guidance, rules, policies, standards, strategies), papers, conversations, and the consulting services Kin Lane offers teams. Return

• guide_topic

  PRO — Curated guide to one API topic (e.g. "gateways", "api governance", "discovery", "agents"). Bundles the matching topic area (with related areas), top guidance, rules, policies, and standards, relevant papers and recent stories, plus the API Evangelist services that can help

• find_services

  The services API Evangelist offers teams and customers — API strategy, governance, discovery, and evangelism engagements by Kin Lane. The front door to working with API Evangelist. (For the third-party vendor registry, use find_solutions.)

• get_service

  Full detail for one service offering by slug; include=["content"] inlines the full pitch.

• find_solutions

  The solutions registry — 740+ third-party API services and tools (gateways, portals, testing, monitoring, …) ranked by adoption across the companies API Evangelist tracks.

• get_solution

  One solution from the vendor registry by slug, with its website and adoption count.

• find_tools

  The open-source tooling registry — 400+ tools in use across the companies API Evangelist tracks, each with adoption counts and technology-radar placement.

• get_tool

  One tool from the tooling registry by slug, with its website, adoption count, and radar ring.

• get_contact

  Every way to reach API Evangelist — email, contact form, newsletter, GitHub, social channels, and postal mail.

• search_api_evangelist

  Unified search across the whole network: 5k+ stories, 77 topic areas, 2.5k governance building blocks, papers, conversations, videos, tools, timelines, services, and vocabulary. Filter with types (posts, areas, guidance, rules, policies, standards, strategies, schema, properties,

• find_posts

  Search or browse 5,100+ API Evangelist stories (2010–present); filter by year or tags.

• get_post

  One story by slug (YYYY-MM-DD-slug); include=["content"] returns the full markdown body.

• find_areas

  The 77 focused topic areas of the network (agents, gateways, security, …), each a subsite with its own catalog.

• get_area

  One topic area with its related-area graph resolved — walk the network from here.

• find_building_blocks

  Search the governance building blocks by type: guidance (177), rules (617), policies (283), standards (432), strategies (75), schema (11), properties (790), experiences (46), lifecycle (29).

• get_building_block

  One building block by type + slug; include=["content"] returns the full body.

• find_conversations

  API Evangelist Conversations — recorded discussions with API practitioners (guest, company, YouTube/SoundCloud links).

• get_conversation

  One conversation with guest detail and media links; include=["content"] returns the writeup.

• find_papers

  API Evangelist papers — single-PDF deep dives on one practice or topic, with outlines.

• get_paper

  One paper with its full outline and purchase/landing URL.

• find_videos

  The API Evangelist video library — interviews and discussions from across the API space, searchable by transcript.

• get_video

  One video by slug with its YouTube id; include=["content"] returns the full transcript.

• get_timeline

  One of the four research timelines in chronological order: api (the moments that shaped web APIs), resources (which digital resources became APIs and when), industries (the industrial history framing API infrastructure), people (the people who made compute and APIs possible).

• get_guidance_section

  One editorial guidance section as a list: history, technology, business, politics, governance, or evangelism — the six lenses API Evangelist organizes guidance through.

• find_vocabulary

  The API vocabulary — thousands of resources, actions, personas, domains, schemas, and tags extracted from the API landscape. Filter by category.

• get_feeds

  The static machine-readable feeds every network site publishes (JSON, APIs.json, zero-auth) — the no-key alternative to this API.

• find_tags

  Browse and rank the network tag taxonomy — every subject tag across 16k+ docs, by frequency or breadth (how many content types use it). Search with q. The map of what API Evangelist covers.

• get_tag

  One tag with its per-type counts and everything it labels across the whole network (stories, areas, guidance, papers, …). Filter with types.

• find_related

  Given any doc (type + slug), the most related content across the whole network, ranked by shared-tag relevance (rare, specific tags weigh most). "More like this," across stories, areas, guidance, papers, conversations, and more.

• get_stats

  PRO — catalog intelligence: per-type counts, stories-per-year, and the top tags by reach across the network.

• find_company_insights

  Browse profiled companies (Fortune 1000 + API providers) by name; ranked by technology-readiness signal. Free.

• insights_dimensions

  Cross-section ranking of the 40 tracked investment dimensions (AI, cloud, governance, …) by company signal. Free.

• insights_adoption

  Services, tools, or standards ranked by how many companies adopt them. Free.

• get_company_insight

  Full demand-side profile for one company: 40-dimension readiness, adopted stack, per-quarter history. Pro.

• company_gaps

  A company's weakest investment dimensions — where it is thin. Pro.

• company_dimensions

  PRO — a company's investment dimensions, each read AGAINST the measured cohort: the cohort median, mean and max, this company's rank and percentile, and an index where 1.0 is exactly typical. A raw dimension score is unreadable on its own; these are the columns that make it mean

• company_peers

  PRO — the companies most comparable to this one (same sub-sector where the data supports it, same industry otherwise), each with signal totals and top dimensions. The response says which basis it used.

• company_whitespace

  PRO — what this company's peers run that it does not, ranked by how many peers carry it. The opening list for a vendor selling into the account.

• company_signals

  PRO — the company's adopted stack entity by entity (services, tools, standards), each with how many companies across the cohort carry it and its radar ring.

• find_entities

  Browse the demand-side entity catalog — every service, tool and standard companies are measured against, ranked by how many carry it. Free. This is the left-hand side of the inversion: pick an entity here, then call entity_demand to see WHO.

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