A side-by-side look at the Debriefing and TGGET Niche Research MCP servers: transport, auth, tools, quality signals, and the config to install either one in Claude, Cursor, Windsurf or VS Code.
Verdict: choose Debriefing for research work over a hosted endpoint; choose TGGET Niche Research for research. You can also run both side by side in one mcpServers block.
Which MCP server should you choose?
Choose Debriefing when
You need dedicated capabilities in the Research domain.
You prefer a remote HTTP/SSE transport.
You want tools like search_public_briefs, get_public_brief, search_guides.
search_public_briefsSearches the competitive briefs Debriefing publishes on debriefing.io about named companies, newest first. Each brief is dated and every finding cites a public source. Filter by words in the brief and by company name, slug, or domain. With no arguments, lists the newest briefs. Needs no Debriefing…
get_public_briefGets one competitive brief that Debriefing published on debriefing.io: the summary, each finding with its category and date, and the numbered public sources with their URLs. Name the brief by its URL, or by company_slug and slug from search_public_briefs. With company_slug only, gets the newest bri…
search_guidesSearches the public competitive intelligence library on debriefing.io: how-to guides, glossary terms, tool comparisons, alternatives pages, company profiles, and market intel posts. Returns the title, a short excerpt, and the page URL of each match, best match first. Needs no Debriefing account.
get_free_brief_linkGets the debriefing.io links where a person requests a free competitive brief about their own company and competitors, signs up for a workspace, or compares plans. It only returns links. It sends nothing and creates nothing.
get_workspaceGets the Debriefing workspace this connection works on: its name and website, who you are in it and your role, the scopes this connection holds, and the plan. Call it first when you are not sure what you may do.
get_plan_and_limitsGets the workspace plan and every limit an agent runs into: competitor slots, the weekly research allowance, the daily caps on battlecards, ICP refreshes and positioning drafts, share link lifetimes, monitoring cadences, and which features need a paid plan. Includes the pricing link.
list_competitorsLists the competitors this Debriefing workspace tracks, with the id, name, website, and category of each. Call it first to get the competitor_id that other tools take.
get_competitorGets the dossier for one tracked competitor: company facts, the risk and opportunity it poses to this workspace, and the stored reads on positioning, product, pricing, funding, traffic, and more. Use it when the user asks about one competitor in depth.
search_signalsSearches open signals, newest first. A signal is a competitor move that Debriefing found, such as a price change or a launch, with the source evidence. Filter by competitor_id, severity (low, medium, high), a text query, or a since time. Use it when the user asks what a competitor changed.
list_digestsLists the digests Debriefing wrote for this workspace, newest first. A digest is a brief that sums up competitor moves over a period. Filter by type, such as daily_digest.
get_digestGets one digest by id or slug, or the newest digest when no id is given. Pass type daily_digest for the newest daily digest. Use it when the user asks for the latest brief.
list_battlecardsLists the battlecards Debriefing wrote for this workspace, one for each competitor that has one. A battlecard holds talk tracks for sales calls against that competitor.
start_researchStarts a niche research from a short search phrase or a plain-language description of an app or service idea. A phrase is scanned directly (demand, sub-topics, competitors, signals); a description is first turned into real search queries, the best one is then scanned automatically. Demand is measured in one country and one language: `country` and `language` when given, otherwise the country and the language of the phrase (English: United States, Spanish: Spain, Portuguese: Brazil); write the phrase in the language people search in there. `country` and `language` of the answer tell how the numbers were measured. Returns the research id to poll with get_research. Counts as one research of the plan allowance, whether the data comes from the sources or from the shared cache.
get_researchReturns the current state and findings of a research by id: status, `country` and `language` the demand was measured in (null where a source does not measure by country), headline numbers, ranked candidate phrases, competitor overview, child researches (sub-topics, competitor checks, signals) with their ids, and skipped stages. Call repeatedly until status is completed and pending is 0.
get_reportReturns the final niche report of a finished scan (or the report research itself) as Markdown: verdict, what product to build (customer pains with evidence and severity, positioning, MVP with the pain each feature relieves, platform, monetization, competitor matrix), napkin economics (price hypothesis, acquisition cost from the cost per click in paid search, revenue per customer, whether it adds up, assumptions), SEO plan for the site (clusters, pages with title/H1/description, content plan, FAQ), ASO for App Store and Google Play, name options with domain and App Store availability, landing page draft, distribution channels by type with a first step, effort and priority, validation steps and risks. Pass format "json" for structured data (keys: verdict, product, economics, seo, aso, names, landing, channels, validation, risks).
list_researchLists the researches the account started itself, newest first: niche scans of a phrase and descriptions of an idea, without the checks they spawned. Use it to find the id of an earlier research before get_research, get_report, compare_research or follow_niche, or to see what is still running. Each item has `id`, `kind`, `phrase`, `status` (queued, running, completed, failed), `mode`, `country` and `language` the demand was measured in, `created_at`, `url` of its page and `total_count`: monthly searches of the phrase, null for a description. `quota` tells how many researches the plan has left. Reads only; spends nothing.
Ready-to-paste client configs
Paste either block (or both) into your client config, e.g. claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json. We only show a config when the install command is confirmed.
No confirmed install command for TGGET Niche Research yet — follow the setup steps linked from its listing page rather than a guessed package name.
Frequently asked questions
Debriefing is categorized under Research and uses a remote HTTP/SSE transport. TGGET Niche Research belongs to Research and uses an install path we have not confirmed yet. Pick Debriefing for research work and TGGET Niche Research for research.
Copy the mcpServers block from the config section on this page into your client's config (for example claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json), then fully restart the client. TGGET Niche Research has no confirmed install command yet — follow its own setup instructions.
Debriefing has no declared pricing — check the project's own site. TGGET Niche Research has no declared pricing — check the project's own site. Auth: api key required. If a server needs environment variables such as API keys, define them under the env key in your client's MCP config.
Yes. MCP clients support multiple servers: add debriefing and tgget-niche-research as separate keys in the same mcpServers object, and your assistant will call tools from either one.
On AllMCPs, Debriefing has a quality signal of 55/100 (Good) with 0 views, 0 installs and 0 GitHub stars. TGGET Niche Research has 53/100 (Good) with 0 views, 0 installs and 0 GitHub stars.
run_signalAdds one check to a finished research and returns the id of the new child research. Use it when the scan skipped a stage, when a person asks about one phrase in particular, or to rebuild the report after new checks. A niche scan already runs the usual checks by itself, so this tool is for what is missing. Checks added this way are free: they do not spend researches of the plan.
Checks of a demand research (`kind`):
- `competitors`: who holds the search results for a phrase of the research; pass the phrase in `phrase`.
- `dynamics`: two years of demand history.
- `appstore`: App Store apps for the phrase with ratings and freshness.
- `wiki`, `radar`, `youtube`: public interest and community signals.
- `paid`: paid search for the phrase and its strongest candidates: volume, advertiser competition, cost per click.
- `insight`: a summary of the findings written by the language model.
- `report`: the final niche report, written anew from the current data; needs a finished niche scan.
Checks of a child research:
- `fingerprint`: product sites found by a competitors check, with pricing and app links; the parent is that competitors check.
- `reviews`: recent App Store reviews of the leaders; the parent is an App Store research.
- `insight` also accepts a competitors check as the parent.
The parent must be completed and belong to the account. The check runs in the background: poll get_research with the returned `id` every 20-30 seconds until `status` is `completed`. `insight` and `report` are rebuilt at most once an hour.
compare_researchPuts two to five finished niche scans side by side to help choose between ideas. `items` are the niches with their numbers, the report's positioning and napkin economics, and `wins`: in how many rows the niche holds the better value. `rows` are the ranked measures (verdict, demand, trend, cost per click, weak search results, competitor sites, App Store apps, fresh community signals) with the value of every niche and `best`, the indexes of the items that hold the better value; `better` says which way is better (max or min), null when the row is shown but not ranked. Every item names the `country` and the `language` its demand was measured in; demand and cost per click are not ranked across different markets, countries or languages (`mixed_markets`). The marks are computed from numbers, not written by a language model. Every scan needs a finished report. `share_url` is a read-only link to this comparison that works without signing in: give it to the person only when they want to share the comparison, it shows the numbers and the conclusions of their researches to whoever holds it.
list_projectsLists the niches the account follows. A followed niche (a project) is scanned anew once a month and compared with its previous check. For each project: status, whether the plan serves it, the date of the next check, the latest numbers (verdict, demand, cost per click, competitor sites, App Store, community signals) and what changed at the latest monthly check, as structured `changes` and as `digest` lines of text. Also returns how many niches the plan follows.
get_projectReturns a followed niche with the history of its checks, newest first: the first measurement (`baseline`) and the monthly checks, each with its numbers, what changed since the previous check and the id of the research it came from. Pass that `research_id` to get_report to read the fresh report of a check. Changes are computed from numbers and lists, not written by a language model.
follow_nicheStarts following the niche of a finished scan that has a report: the scan becomes the first measurement and the niche is scanned anew every month, with a digest of what changed sent to the account. Monthly checks do not spend researches; the plan limits how many niches are followed (FREE 1, Starter 2, Pro 10). Following a niche that is already followed returns its project. The niche is followed in the country and the language its scan was measured in (`country` and `language` of the project), so every monthly check measures the same audience.
update_projectPauses a followed niche (`paused`: no monthly checks, its place in the plan is freed), follows it again (`active`, needs a free place in the plan) or stops following it (`deleted`: the project with its checks and digests is removed for good, the researches stay in the history). Ask the person before deleting.