How to integrate Perigon MCP with Atomic Agent

Connect Atomic Agent to Perigon MCP. Get top technology news headlines today, summarize recent articles about climate change, and more using natural language, with authentication handled for you.

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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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Introduction

Atomic Agent is an open-source AI agent that runs on your machine and supports local models through llama.cpp. Connect it to 1,500+ apps through Composio, including Perigon.

This guide uses Atomic Agent's built-in Composio integration. You need Atomic Agent v0.5.6 or later, your own Composio API key, and a Perigon account. See the Atomic Agent documentation for installation instructions.

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How Atomic Agent connects to Perigon

Atomic Agent connects to Composio's Tool Router over Streamable HTTP MCP. It discovers the tools needed for your request, and Composio handles account authentication.

Execution and account-connection tools follow Atomic Agent's configured approval policy. Review any approval prompt before allowing an action on your connected account.

Connect Perigon to Atomic Agent

  1. Sign up or sign in to the Composio dashboard. Copy your API key.
  2. In Atomic Agent, open the Integrations tab and select Composio. Select API key, press e, paste the key, and press Enter. The tools become available immediately, without a restart.
  3. Ask Atomic Agent to do something in Perigon. It searches Composio for the right tool.
  4. On first use, open the sign-in link returned in the chat. Connect your Perigon account, then return to Atomic Agent to continue.

Headless setup

Add the following line to ~/.atomic-agent/.env, replacing YOUR_COMPOSIO_API_KEY with your key. Start Atomic Agent after saving the file.

bash
COMPOSIO_API_KEY=YOUR_COMPOSIO_API_KEY

What is the Perigon MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The Perigon MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Perigon account. It provides structured and secure access to real-time news and web content data, so your agent can perform actions like searching news articles, aggregating trending stories, extracting web data, and analyzing news sentiment on your behalf.

  • Comprehensive news article search: Empower your agent to search and retrieve news articles from global sources using filters like date, topic, publisher, or region.
  • Real-time trending stories aggregation: Automatically gather and summarize the latest trending news across categories such as politics, technology, finance, and more.
  • Web content extraction: Let your agent pull structured data from online articles and websites, making it easy to analyze or repurpose content.
  • News sentiment and topic analysis: Enable your agent to analyze the sentiment and topical coverage of news stories to provide actionable insights or reports.
  • Customized news monitoring: Set up continuous monitoring for specific keywords, companies, or industries, so your agent can keep you updated with relevant news as it happens.

Use Perigon from Atomic Agent

With your account connected, ask Atomic Agent to work with Perigon in natural language. You can connect more apps through the same Composio integration as you need them.

Visit the Atomic Agent website or inspect the Atomic Agent source code.

Troubleshooting

Why is my API key rejected?

Copy the key directly from the Composio dashboard. Atomic Agent requires ASCII characters because it sends the key in an HTTP header. Remove any extra characters introduced when copying.

Why are Composio tools unavailable after saving a key?

Check that you use Atomic Agent v0.5.6 or later and that Composio is enabled in your configuration. A "composio": { "enabled": false } setting disables the integration while keeping the saved key on disk.

Does Composio have a free plan?

The Hobby plan includes 100,000 tool calls per month. Composio-managed OAuth apps have a lower included allowance. See Composio pricing for the current limits that apply to your connection.

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.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

With a standalone Perigon MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Perigon tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Perigon and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Yes, you can. Atomic Agent fully supports MCP integration. You get structured tool calling, message history handling, and model orchestration while Tool Router takes care of discovering and serving the right Perigon tools.

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Perigon scopes and actions are allowed when connecting your account to Composio. You can also bring your own OAuth credentials or API configuration so you keep full control over what the agent can do.

All sensitive data such as tokens, keys, and configuration is fully encrypted at rest and in transit. Composio is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and follows strict security practices so your Perigon data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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