How do I install Opedd — Licensed Content For AI?

Copy the http config for Cursor, Claude Desktop, Claude Code, or VS Code on this page. It uses the publisher's install, not a PlugMCP proxy.

Does Opedd — Licensed Content For AI need an API key?

The publisher lists these environment variables: OPEDD_BUYER_TOKEN, OPEDD_ACCESS_KEY, OPEDD_BUYER_JWT, OPEDD_PUB_BEARER.

What transport does Opedd — Licensed Content For AI use?

Opedd — Licensed Content For AI is reached over HTTP.

When was Opedd — Licensed Content For AI last checked?

Last checked 2026-11-08. Content licensing for the AI era: licensed, rights-cleared content for AI agents.

Opedd — Licensed Content For AI MCP server

Unlike generic search APIs, Opedd returns content with a verifiable license key — with the rights cleared and a record you can show your legal team.

Quick start

npx opedd-mcp

Then add it to your MCP host (see Claude Desktop / Cursor / Windsurf setup below). Discovery + verification tools work with no configuration; purchasing and content retrieval use optional API keys from opedd.com.

Hosted endpoint — no install (mcp.opedd.com)

Prefer zero-install? The same 20 tools are served hosted at https://mcp.opedd.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP). Auth is an Authorization: Bearer header with any Opedd key — public discovery tools need no auth at all.

Claude Messages API (production agents):

{
  "mcp_servers": [{
    "type": "url",
    "url": "https://mcp.opedd.com/mcp",
    "name": "opedd",
    "authorization_token": "opedd_buyer_live_..."
  }]
}

OpenAI Responses API:

{
  "tools": [{
    "type": "mcp",
    "server_label": "opedd",
    "server_url": "https://mcp.opedd.com/mcp",
    "authorization": "opedd_buyer_live_..."
  }]
}

claude.ai / Claude Desktop custom connector (all plans): Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector → URL https://mcp.opedd.com/mcp; add a Authorization: Bearer <your key> request header for the credentialed tools.

Cursor (.cursor/mcp.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "opedd": {
      "url": "https://mcp.opedd.com/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer ${env:OPEDD_KEY}" }
    }
  }
}

Key routing: opedd_sk_* (legacy opedd_pub_*) → publisher tools · opedd_buyer_* → content retrieval · ent_* → bulk feeds · buyer-portal JWT → audit/compliance/EU-AI-Act tools. Your key is forwarded per request and never stored by the gateway.

What it does

Exposes up to 20 tools to any AI assistant (some are conditional on env vars):

Every tool carries a title and MCP annotations (readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint) so an assistant can tell which tools only read and which spend money or write (v0.12.0).

Always available — discovery + per-article purchase + onboarding + rights signaling

Tool	Description
`search_content`	Free discovery. Full-text search across everything licensable (v0.8.0) — ranked matches with publisher, prices, word count and a description snippet; quotes for phrases, `-word` to exclude. Returns no article text — use `search_passages` to actually read
`search_passages`	Paid per answer, or included in a monthly subscription. Ask a question, get licensed passages that answer it, with citations. Per-question licences: charged once per publisher per question at that publisher's own price, capped at 300 words or 25% of the article, counted cumulatively. Monthly AI answers subscriptions (v0.12.0): included, not capped, from the subscription's start. Narrow with `publishers`, `published_after`, `published_before`, `max_results` (1–25). Needs a buyer key with the `search` scope. Re-asking within 24h is free
`lookup_content`	Look up an article by URL — returns title, publisher, pricing
`purchase_license`	Buy a Human republication licence for one article via Stripe — returns OP-XXXX-XXXX key. Requires `terms_accepted: true` (genuine buyer assent to opedd.com/terms; recorded with the licence)
`verify_license`	Verify a license key — returns validity, article, publisher, public-record proof
`browse_registry`	Browse the public Opedd registry — lists issued LICENSES (use `publisher_directory` to browse publishers themselves)
`publisher_directory`	Browse the public Opedd publisher catalog — paginated publishers with article counts + pricing + sample articles (primary buyer-discovery surface for AI labs)
`place_licence_order`	Place a licence order for one or more publishers: AI answers (`monthly` full text, or `metered` pay-per-request snippets ≤300 words / 25%), Full catalogue (`archive`, `one_time`: everything published up to the order date, kept permanently, no AI training), AI training (`one_time`, back catalogue), client display (`monthly` × end clients). Optional on a monthly AI answers order adds each publisher's Full catalogue for complete access. Each publisher is its own Schedule at its own price; returns the order, lines, publishers and . Needs and

Requires OPEDD_BUYER_TOKEN (opedd_buyer_live_*) — one key covers search, articles and the feed (v0.12.0)

Tool	Description
`get_content`	Retrieve a licensed article under any order your account holds — full text for AI answers monthly and client display orders; pay-per-request licences read through `search_passages` (403 `SEARCH_ONLY_LICENCE`); includes 7 RAG metadata fields (author, language, word_count, content_hash, image_urls, canonical_url, tags)

Feed tools — OPEDD_BUYER_TOKEN + order_id, or an order's OPEDD_ACCESS_KEY (ent_*)

Tool Description

list_feed List the articles a licence order covers, with since delta-feed support. AI training and Full catalogue orders carry full content_body (content_access: "included"); monthly orders are discovery-only (content_access: "retrieval_per_article", fetch text via get_content); per-request orders are "search_only". With a buyer key, pass order_id (optional when the account holds one active order)

stream_feed_ndjson Bulk-export up to 1000 articles per call via NDJSON wire format. Same content contract and credentials as list_feed

Tool	Description
`list_feed`	List the articles a licence order covers, with `since` delta-feed support. AI training and Full catalogue orders carry full `content_body` (`content_access: "included"`); monthly orders are discovery-only (`content_access: "retrieval_per_article"`, fetch text via `get_content`); per-request orders are `"search_only"`. With a buyer key, pass `order_id` (optional when the account holds one active order)
`stream_feed_ndjson`	Bulk-export up to 1000 articles per call via NDJSON wire format. Same content contract and credentials as `list_feed`

Requires OPEDD_BUYER_JWT (Supabase JWT) — buyer account + audit + compliance + attestation surfaces

Tool	Description
`get_buyer_account`	Fetch buyer profile + masked API key list — buyer-dashboard mental model
`list_licence_orders`	The buyer's licence orders and lines; with `order_id`, each line's Schedule document and its SHA-256 (the fingerprint recorded on Tempo). Also works with an audit-scoped `OPEDD_BUYER_TOKEN`
`get_audit_events`	Per-event audit ledger with public-record (Tempo) inclusion proofs inline (Phase 9.x + 10 M5)
`get_compliance_dossier`	Procurement-defense compliance dossier mapping retrievals to license terms (Phase 11 M4)
`article_53_attestation`	Signed compliance attestation (JWT) for a license — the artifact a buyer hands to legal/procurement (Phase 12 W1.4)

Requires OPEDD_PUB_BEARER (opedd_sk_; legacy opedd_pub_ still works) — publisher-side

Tool	Description
`list_publisher_content`	List your own articles with pricing and stats
`push_content`	Push your articles to Opedd so AI buyers can license them — 1–100 per call (`title`/`url`/`html_body` required, everything else optional). Onboard your back-catalogue or new posts with no code, straight from your AI assistant.

Compliance artifacts (publisher-side vs buyer-side — never conflated)

Per Opedd's platform invariants (W1.6 amendment):

rsl_get(publisher_id, jsonld=true) → publisher-side CDSM Article 4(3) opt-out declaration (signed JSON-LD receipt over the reservation state).
article_53_attestation(license_id) → buyer-side signed compliance attestation (HS256 JWT scoped to one license).
get_compliance_dossier(from, to) → comprehensive procurement-defense dossier covering BOTH sides (publisher CDSM reservation honored + buyer attestation evidence chain).

These serve different audit-defensibility modes and never share wire format. Tool descriptions cite the W1.6 invariant inline.

Install

npm install -g opedd-mcp

Or run directly with npx:

npx opedd-mcp

Configuration

Set environment variables to pre-configure the server:

Variable	Required	Description
`OPEDD_BUYER_EMAIL`	Recommended	Your email — used as default for all purchases
`OPEDD_PAYMENT_METHOD_ID`	Recommended	Stripe `pm_...` ID — used for autonomous per-article purchasing
`OPEDD_BUYER_TOKEN`	Optional	Buyer API key (`opedd_buyer_live_`; `opedd_buyer_test_` for sandbox) — enables `search_passages` (with the `search` scope), `get_content`, `list_feed` + `stream_feed_ndjson` (with `order_id`)
`OPEDD_ACCESS_KEY`	Optional	An order's enterprise access key (`ent_*`) — alternative credential for `list_feed` + `stream_feed_ndjson`
`OPEDD_BUYER_JWT`	Optional	Supabase session JWT from the buyer portal — enables `place_licence_order` + `list_licence_orders` + `get_buyer_account` + `get_audit_events` + `get_compliance_dossier` + `article_53_attestation`
`OPEDD_PUB_BEARER`	Optional	Publisher API key (`opedd_sk_<32-hex>`, canonical since 2026-08-27; older `opedd_pub_<32-hex>` keys keep working) — from the Opedd dashboard, Settings → Developers. Enables `list_publisher_content` (+ `include_body`) and `push_content`.
`OPEDD_API_KEY`	Deprecated	Legacy Publisher API key (`op_...`) — fallback during the transition window; will stop working when opedd-backend Phase C deploys. Migrate to `OPEDD_PUB_BEARER`.
`OPEDD_API_URL`	Optional	Override the API base URL (default: Opedd production)
`OPEDD_MCP_TELEMETRY`	Optional	Set to `0` to disable anonymous usage telemetry (see below)

Getting a Stripe payment method ID: Save a card in your Stripe account and retrieve the pm_... ID via the Stripe API.

Anonymous usage telemetry

To understand how AI assistants use this server, opedd-mcp sends anonymous telemetry for each tool call: only the tool name, its duration, whether it succeeded, and the server version — plus a random per-process id. It never sends tool parameters, responses, your email, API keys, tokens, content, or your IP. Data goes to Opedd's PostHog (EU region).

To opt out, set either environment variable before starting the server:

OPEDD_MCP_TELEMETRY=0
# or the cross-tool standard:
DO_NOT_TRACK=1

When opted out, no telemetry client is created and nothing is sent.

Claude Desktop setup

Add to ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "opedd": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["opedd-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "OPEDD_BUYER_EMAIL": "[email protected]",
        "OPEDD_PAYMENT_METHOD_ID": "pm_..."
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor / Windsurf setup

Add to your MCP settings:

{
  "opedd": {
    "command": "npx opedd-mcp",
    "env": {
      "OPEDD_BUYER_EMAIL": "[email protected]",
      "OPEDD_PAYMENT_METHOD_ID": "pm_..."
    }
  }
}

Example usage

Once configured, you can ask your AI assistant:

"Look up the licensing options for this article: https://theinformation.com/articles/..."

"Purchase a human republication license for that article on my behalf."

"Verify license key OP-XXXX-XXXX and tell me what it covers."

"Browse the latest licenses from The Information publisher."

Phase 12 Wave 1 + 3 surfaces (v0.3.0)

"What does publisher 8268c353-ffa3-4db3-bbb2-90ddbbb43e41 license? Pull the RSL manifest." — uses rsl_get

"Get me a CDSM Article 4(3) signed receipt for that publisher's reservation state — set jsonld: true." — uses rsl_get with content negotiation

"Generate a signed compliance attestation for our license 11111111-... covering the last 90 days. I need the artifact for our procurement audit committee." — uses article_53_attestation (requires OPEDD_BUYER_JWT)

"This publisher just signed up: https://noahpinion.substack.com. Which onboarding workflow should we use?" — uses detect_platform

"Browse the finance category in the Opedd catalog — show me publishers with at least 50 articles." — uses publisher_directory

"What's in my buyer account? Show me my active API keys." — uses get_buyer_account (requires OPEDD_BUYER_JWT)

The assistant will call the appropriate Opedd tools, show you the results, and—if you've pre-configured a payment method—can complete a purchase autonomously.

Payment methods

Purchases use Stripe by default (via pm_... payment method IDs). USDC on Tempo is also supported by the Opedd API — pass payment: { method: 'usdc', tx_hash: '0x...' } directly to agent-purchase if building a custom integration.

Development

git clone https://github.com/Opedd/opedd-mcp
cd opedd-mcp
npm install
npm run dev   # runs with tsx (no build step)
npm run build # compiles to dist/

How Opedd compares to search APIs

	Opedd	Generic search APIs
What you get	Licensed content + license key + public-record proof — all in one API call	Scraped web content, no rights
Content delivery	Full article text via API (JSON) — bulk on flat-fee licenses, per-call (metered) on filtered licenses; real-time feed via webhooks	Scraped snippets or full-page dumps
Content quality	Curated publisher content (niche B2B newsletters, expert analysis)	Whatever's on the open web
Rights	Verifiable license key per article, publisher-authorized	No rights clearance
Proof	Public record (Tempo) — independently verifiable	None
Compliance	Signed attestation + full provenance chain	No provenance
Pricing	Publisher sets their own price per article	Platform decides
Delivery modes	Per-article API, bulk feed (JSON firehose), buyer webhooks (push)	Query-response only
Protocol	REST + MCP native	REST only

Opedd is the licensed content delivery layer for AI — not just a licensing wrapper. Publishers upload content, you retrieve it via API with a license attached. One integration gives your pipeline both the content and the legal right to use it.

Learn more

Opedd for AI Agents — full documentation, code examples, endpoint reference
API Docs — OpenAPI spec with agent endpoints
Verify a licence — check any licence key in the public record

License

MIT

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