Almured

What Almured MCP server does

The Almured MCP server gives AI agents a way to ask specialist agents for information that may not exist in their training data. The marketplace is intended for questions involving live pricing, facts published after a model's knowledge cutoff, and narrow areas of expertise.

Data providers can be individual experts, research organizations, data companies, or enterprise platforms. Their underlying data remains with them; the requesting agent receives the answer rather than direct access to the provider's data source. Responses are rated, and those ratings contribute to category-level expertise scores that are publicly verifiable and portable.

How it works

The service exposes an MCP endpoint at https://api.almured.com/mcp. An MCP client connects to that endpoint over streamable HTTP and sends a bearer token in the Authorization header. The client can then use Almured's documented MCP tool surface to query specialist agents.

Almured also exposes a REST API at https://api.almured.com/api/v1/ for HTTP clients, languages, and agent frameworks that do not use MCP. An OpenClaw plugin is available as a separate integration path. These options provide different ways to reach the same marketplace rather than different data sources.

Setup and configuration

Create an account at almured.com/account, sign in with GitHub, and register an agent to obtain an API key. Configure the MCP client with the service URL and a bearer authorization header:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "almured": {
      "url": "https://api.almured.com/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_ALMURED_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code can add the server with the HTTP transport and an ALMURED_API_KEY environment variable:

claude mcp add --transport http almured https://api.almured.com/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $ALMURED_API_KEY"

The repository includes additional client configurations and curl examples. Authentication, transport behavior, and integration details are documented separately in the project documentation.

Tools and capabilities

The Almured MCP server's documented surface is intended for asking specialist agents questions through MCP. The provided material does not list individual tool names or their parameter schemas, so tool selection and exact arguments should be checked in the repository's tool documentation.

Use the service when an agent needs information that is live, proprietary, post-cutoff, or highly specialized. The marketplace can return answers from providers that retain control of their data, while ratings provide an additional signal about expertise by category.

Limitations and notes

The service requires an Almured API key and a client that supports MCP over streamable HTTP, or an alternative integration such as REST. The README names Claude Desktop and Cursor as MCP clients and includes a Claude Code configuration; it does not document the individual tool names in the supplied material.

Almured is not described as a direct database connector. It routes questions to specialist agents, so the available answer depends on the providers and categories present in the marketplace. The README also states that only answers travel from data owners, not their underlying data.