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ByteTrail MCP

A read-only MCP server providing access to AI research papers, news, developer tools, and startup funding rounds. It supports tools for searching, retrieving specific items, and tracking trends without requiring user authentication.

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ByteTrail MCP logo, by ByteTrailVendor evidenceStreamable HTTPNo sign-inEndpoint checked 2026-11-07Operated by ByteTrail
MCP endpoint (Streamable HTTP)
https://bytetrail.space/mcp
Vendor documentation

What its tools do

9 tools, grouped by the hints the server advertises. Hints are self-declared, not verified behavior.

Read-only (9)

9 of 9 have a description · 9 of 9 declare behavior hints · 1 of 9 with parameters document them all

Checks and signals

Each line is separate evidence, not a trust score.

  • Passed Endpoint answered the live check ·
  • Passed Official MCP Registry namespace is tied to bytetrail.space ·
  • Passed Endpoint is on the registry namespace domain ·
  • Availability 1 of 1 checks passed in 30 days

What you can do with it

  • Search for AI papers by title or abstract
  • Retrieve latest arXiv papers by field
  • Get details on startup funding rounds
  • Find trending developer tools

Source and maintenance

Vendor evidenceRegistry 1.0.0
mcp-registry: space.bytetrail/bytetrail@1.0.0Project website

Protocol and capabilities

Server
ByteTrail 4.1.3
MCP protocol negotiated in check
2025-11-25
Tools
9 advertised
Resources
0 advertised
Resource templates
0 advertised
Prompts
0 advertised
Server-advertised capabilities
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  "resources": {
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}

Server-provided instructions

Untrusted server output shown for inspection. It is not Koskamo guidance and is excluded from knowledge search.

ByteTrail tracks AI research, news, open-source tools and startup funding, updated through the day. Every tool is read-only and free; results are short, dated and link to the original source and to ByteTrail. - Papers: latest_papers (by field or arXiv category), get_paper, search. arXiv announces new papers Sunday to Thursday. - News: latest_news (labs, research, news sites, engineering blogs, newsletters; by region). - Trends: trending (tools, new repos, topics, fields, stories). - Funding: funding_rounds (AI and developer-tool startups, filter by sector, stage, amount, investor), company. - Developer tools: dev_tools (by category), get_tool. Funding rounds marked with `credit` come from Recent Funding; cite them as such. Rounds with `flags` need checking.

Tools

9 advertised

search — Search
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-only

Search ByteTrail: arXiv papers by title and abstract, and companies, tools and repos by name.

search input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "query"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "kind": {
      "enum": [
        "all",
        "papers",
        "companies",
        "tools"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "default": "all"
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "default": 10,
      "maximum": 25,
      "minimum": 1
    },
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 200,
      "minLength": 2,
      "description": "words to look for"
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
search output schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": true
}
search annotations
{
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": false,
  "idempotentHint": true,
  "destructiveHint": false
}
latest_papers — Latest Papers
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-only

New AI papers from arXiv, newest first or by ByteTrail's relevance score, with excerpt, authors and links.

latest_papers input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "days": {
      "enum": [
        3,
        7,
        30,
        90
      ],
      "type": "integer",
      "default": 7
    },
    "sort": {
      "enum": [
        "new",
        "relevance"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "default": "new"
    },
    "field": {
      "anyOf": [
        {
          "type": "string"
        },
        {
          "type": "null"
        }
      ],
      "default": null,
      "description": "a ByteTrail field slug such as 'agents', 'rag', 'code-models' (see trending kind='fields')"
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "default": 10,
      "maximum": 50,
      "minimum": 1
    },
    "category": {
      "anyOf": [
        {
          "type": "string"
        },
        {
          "type": "null"
        }
      ],
      "default": null,
      "description": "an arXiv category such as 'cs.CL'"
    },
    "has_code": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "default": false,
      "description": "only papers a GitHub repo implements"
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
latest_papers output schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": true
}
latest_papers annotations
{
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": false,
  "idempotentHint": true,
  "destructiveHint": false
}
get_paper — Get Paper
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-only

One paper: full abstract, authors, fields, whether it has code or a model, and its links.

get_paper input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "arxiv_id"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "arxiv_id": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 40,
      "description": "an arXiv id such as '2610.12345'"
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
get_paper output schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": true
}
get_paper annotations
{
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": false,
  "idempotentHint": true,
  "destructiveHint": false
}
latest_news — Latest News
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-only

The newest posts from AI labs, universities, news sites, engineering blogs and newsletters: headline, short excerpt and link (never the full article).

latest_news input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "type": {
      "anyOf": [
        {
          "enum": [
            "labs",
            "research",
            "news",
            "engineering",
            "platforms",
            "newsletters"
          ],
          "type": "string"
        },
        {
          "type": "null"
        }
      ],
      "default": null
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "default": 15,
      "maximum": 50,
      "minimum": 1
    },
    "region": {
      "anyOf": [
        {
          "enum": [
            "north-america",
            "europe",
            "asia",
            "india",
            "mea",
            "latam",
            "global"
          ],
          "type": "string"
        },
        {
          "type": "null"
        }
      ],
      "default": null
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
latest_news output schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": true
}
latest_news annotations
{
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": false,
  "idempotentHint": true,
  "destructiveHint": false
}
trending — Trending
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-only

What's rising in AI right now, by kind.

trending input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "kind"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "kind": {
      "enum": [
        "tools",
        "repos",
        "topics",
        "fields",
        "stories"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "description": "tools: rising developer tools; repos: new GitHub repos gaining stars fastest; topics: research topics rising this week; fields: research fields by paper growth; stories: the week's top items on Hacker News, GitHub and Hugging Face"
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "default": 10,
      "maximum": 30,
      "minimum": 1
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
trending output schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": true
}
trending annotations
{
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": false,
  "idempotentHint": true,
  "destructiveHint": false
}
funding_rounds — Funding Rounds
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-only

Recent funding rounds of AI and developer-tool startups: company, amount, stage, investors, source and, when one exists, the SEC Form D filing. `flags` say what to check before trusting a round.

funding_rounds input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "days": {
      "enum": [
        7,
        30,
        90,
        365
      ],
      "type": "integer",
      "default": 30
    },
    "sort": {
      "enum": [
        "latest",
        "largest"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "default": "latest"
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "default": 15,
      "maximum": 50,
      "minimum": 1
    },
    "stage": {
      "anyOf": [
        {
          "enum": [
            "pre-seed",
            "seed",
            "series-a",
            "series-b+",
            "unknown"
          ],
          "type": "string"
        },
        {
          "type": "null"
        }
      ],
      "default": null
    },
    "sector": {
      "anyOf": [
        {
          "enum": [
            "ai-agents",
            "ai-coding",
            "foundation-models",
            "ai-infra",
            "voice-ai",
            "devtools-cloud",
            "data-analytics",
            "cybersecurity",
            "robotics",
            "education",
            "sales-marketing",
            "legal-compliance",
            "fintech",
            "media-content",
            "health-bio",
            "industrial",
            "commerce",
            "consumer-social",
            "real-estate",
            "logistics-mobility",
            "hr-recruiting",
            "climate-energy",
            "insurance",
            "defense"
          ],
          "type": "string"
        },
        {
          "type": "null"
        }
      ],
      "default": null
    },
    "investor": {
      "anyOf": [
        {
          "type": "string",
          "maxLength": 100
        },
        {
          "type": "null"
        }
      ],
      "default": null,
      "description": "part of an investor's name"
    },
    "min_amount_usd": {
      "anyOf": [
        {
          "type": "integer",
          "minimum": 0
        },
        {
          "type": "null"
        }
      ],
      "default": null
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
funding_rounds output schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": true
}
funding_rounds annotations
{
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": false,
  "idempotentHint": true,
  "destructiveHint": false
}
company — Company
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-only

One startup on ByteTrail Market: what it does, website, location, founders, every funding round, and its GitHub and Hugging Face presence.

company input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "name_or_slug"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "name_or_slug": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 120,
      "minLength": 2
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
company output schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": true
}
company annotations
{
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": false,
  "idempotentHint": true,
  "destructiveHint": false
}
dev_tools — Dev Tools
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-only

AI developer tools (frameworks, libraries, databases) with weekly downloads, stars and growth.

dev_tools input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "sort": {
      "enum": [
        "growth",
        "downloads",
        "stars",
        "name"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "default": "growth"
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "default": 15,
      "maximum": 50,
      "minimum": 1
    },
    "category": {
      "anyOf": [
        {
          "type": "string"
        },
        {
          "type": "null"
        }
      ],
      "default": null,
      "description": "a category key such as 'agents', 'inference', 'rag-vector', 'ml', 'coding' (omit for all)"
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
dev_tools output schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": true
}
dev_tools annotations
{
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": false,
  "idempotentHint": true,
  "destructiveHint": false
}
get_tool — Get Tool
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-only

One developer tool: description, GitHub repo, packages, stars, downloads, releases and its rank in Rising.

get_tool input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "name_or_slug"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "name_or_slug": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 100,
      "minLength": 1
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
get_tool output schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": true
}
get_tool annotations
{
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": false,
  "idempotentHint": true,
  "destructiveHint": false
}

Prompts

0 advertised

No prompt definitions available.

Resources

0 advertised

No resource definitions available.

30-day availability

Aggregated from read-only remote checks; this is not a tool-execution or security guarantee.

Successful checks
1 of 1 (100%)
Average latency
1190 ms
95th percentile latency
1190 ms

Maintenance history

Public check and source-refresh events. Editorial and ownership records remain private.

  • · probe · passed · 1190 ms · metadata changed · 9 tool(s), 0 resource(s), 0 resource template(s), 0 prompt(s)

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Claude Code

Run this once in a terminal. It registers the remote server. Use --scope project to write .mcp.json for the repo.
Claude Code configuration
claude mcp add --transport http bytetrail-mcp https://bytetrail.space/mcp

Codex

Run this once. Codex stores MCP servers in ~/.codex/config.toml (or .codex/config.toml in a trusted project).
Codex configuration
codex mcp add bytetrail-mcp --url https://bytetrail.space/mcp

Cursor

Merge this server into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, then enable bytetrail-mcp in your MCP settings.
Cursor configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bytetrail-mcp": {
      "url": "https://bytetrail.space/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Cline

Merge this into cline_mcp_settings.json (Cline → MCP Servers → Configure).
Cline configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bytetrail-mcp": {
      "type": "streamableHttp",
      "url": "https://bytetrail.space/mcp",
      "disabled": false
    }
  }
}

VS Code

Merge this server into .vscode/mcp.json. Use MCP: List Servers to start bytetrail-mcp and inspect its tools.
VS Code configuration
{
  "servers": {
    "bytetrail-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://bytetrail.space/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Gemini CLI

Run this once. It writes .gemini/settings.json in the current project; pass --scope user for ~/.gemini/settings.json.
Gemini CLI configuration
gemini mcp add --transport http bytetrail-mcp https://bytetrail.space/mcp

Claude Desktop

Open Claude Settings > Connectors > Add custom connector, enter this server URL and enable it for the conversation. This is a manual remote-connector handoff, not a desktop JSON configuration.
Claude Desktop configuration
https://bytetrail.space/mcp

Windsurf

Merge this into ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json, then refresh MCP in Cascade. Windsurf remote servers use serverUrl, not url.
Windsurf configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bytetrail-mcp": {
      "serverUrl": "https://bytetrail.space/mcp"
    }
  }
}

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