Show HN: Mu – Tools for Agents

Tools for agents Overview Mu gives an agent the everyday internet as tools: news, web search, mail, markets, weather, video, places, images, files, calendar, contacts. 67 of them, behind one MCP endpoint. Connect once and your agent has all of them, instead of wiring up a server for each. Real tools, not wrappers. Most things offering an agent tools are a thin layer over somebody else's API. Mu runs the mail server (SMTP with DKIM), the feed aggregator, the search index, the app sandbox and the wallet it hands you. mail_inbox reads a real inbox. db_create writes to real storage. The tools aren't a catalogue of other people's products — they're this instance's own capabilities, exposed. There is also a web app on the same tools, because the operator is a person too. Use it hosted at micro.mu, or self-host the single Go binary — same product either way. Open source, AGPL-3.0. Point an agent at it { "mcpServers": { "mu": { "url": "https://micro.mu/mcp" } } } That's the whole setup. There is no key in that config because there is nothing to paste: the first call gets a 401 pointing at the instance's authorization server, your client walks you through sign-in and keeps the token itself. This is the MCP authorization spec — Claude Desktop and Cursor both speak it. For a client that doesn't, create a Personal Access Token at /token and send it as Authorization: Bearer. curl -X POST https://micro.mu/mcp -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \ -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}' Reading this instance's own content is included. Calls that cost us money to run — a model call, a paid third party — draw credits from your balance. Browse what's there: micro.mu/tools — every tool, grouped by service, with what each call costs. MCP docs for the protocol detail. The tools Area Tools Web web_search · web_fetch — search the web, read a page as clean text News news_list · news_read · news_search — RSS aggregation, full articles Markets — crypto, futures, commodities, currencies Weather — conditions, forecast, pollen Places · · — points of interest, geocoding, travel time Video · — curated channels, no ads or recommendations Mail mail_inbox · mail_send · mail_address — a real SMTP server with DKIM, and an address per agent Storage db_create · db_get · db_list · db_update · db_delete — per-caller records Files · · · — keep a file, get a URL Calendar · · — schedule, and find when you are free Contacts · · — turn a name into an address Search your own — everything this instance holds for you Images · Writing blog_* · social_* · stream_* — publish, read, discuss Apps apps_build · apps_run · apps_edit — build and run small web tools Faith · · · quran · hadith Money — credits, and where to send USDC to top up Agent agent · chat — ask the whole thing a question and let it compose Every tool is also a mu CLI subcommand. Account-scoped tools (mail, storage, index, images, events, files, contacts) need a signed-in caller; mail_send always does, so an unaccountable caller can't spend a domain's reputation. Why the tools are real Each area above is a service — a Go package with typed handlers, registered in-process behind a Go Micro registry. One binary, no external infrastructure. The registry is the single source of truth: a service declares itself once and every surface derives from that declaration. var Spec = service.Spec{ Name: "web", Handler: new(Server), Description: "The open web: search it, read a page from it", Page: "/search", Endpoints: map[string]service.Endpoint{ "Search": {Doc: "Search the web for current information", Cost: wallet.OpWebSearch}, "Fetch": {Doc: "Fetch a web page and return readable content", Cost: wallet.OpWebFetch}, }, } Register that and it becomes available, in the same moment and with no extra wiring, to: agents, over MCP at /mcp — for Claude Desktop, Cursor, or your own; the built-in agent, as a tool it can call; custom agents, in the tool picker at /agent/new; the CLI, where each tool is a subcommand; apps, through mu.service(name, method, args) in the SDK. So extending Mu is adding an element, not wiring N integrations. // inside an app — any registered service, no SDK change needed const { times } = await mu.service('islam', 'prayer', { lat, lon, tz }) const { summary } = await mu.service('weather', 'forecast', { lat, lon }) Identity is bound server-side from the call context — a caller never names whose data it wants, and there is no account field in any request to forge. The app The same tools, for a person. Cards render each service at a glance (headlines, prices, weather, unread mail) and the agent sits inline to act on what you're looking at. Logged-out visitors get a public version with live data. An LLM — Claude, Atlas Cloud (DeepSeek), or a local Ollama / OpenAI-compatible endpoint — calls the services as tools, composes answers, and keeps per-user memory across sessions. Sign in with a username and password, a passkey (WebAuthn), or Google. For the CLI, generate a Personal Access Token at /token. CLI Every tool is a mu subcommand. The same binary runs the server (mu --serve) and the CLI. mu news_list # latest headlines mu news_search "ai safety" # search news mu web_search "claude code" # search the web mu agent "what is the btc price?" # run the full agent mu --lat 51.5 --lon -0.12 mu wallet # your balance mu help # full tool list The CLI is registry-driven — a tool added to the server automatically becomes a CLI command. mu login # opens /token in your browser, paste the PAT back mu config set token xxx # or set it directly export MU_TOKEN=xxx # or use the environment See CLI docs. Discord & Telegram Talk to the agent from Discord or Telegram — questions, markets, news, all from chat. Join the Discord Discord: /agent, /news, /markets, /weather, /mail, /social, /blog, /video, /search, /apps, /balance, /usage. Telegram: /agent, /ask, /news, /markets, /weather, /usage. Setup for both is in Installation. Self-hosting Run your own instance and you are the operator: the tools are yours, and anyone paying to call them pays you. curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/micro/mu/main/install.sh | sh # Docker git clone https://github.com/micro/mu && cd mu docker compose up # From source git clone https://github.com/micro/mu cd mu && go install mu --serve First-run setup Open http://localhost:8080 and Mu walks you through a one-time setup: create your admin account and pick an AI provider (Claude, Atlas Cloud, or a local Ollama / OpenAI-compatible endpoint). That's enough to have a working agent. Prefer the terminal? Configure the provider headless, then start the server: mu setup # pick a provider, paste a key mu --serve # first account you create becomes admin Or set everything by hand: export ADMIN=you@example.com # who's admin (else: first account) export =xxx # or ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, or mu --serve Once you're admin, every other key (YouTube, Brave search, weather, mail/DKIM, Google sign-in…) is configurable from /admin/env in the browser. See Installation guide. Configuration Customise feeds, prompts and cards by editing JSON files: service/news/feeds.json — RSS news feeds service/chat/prompts.json — chat topics home/cards.json — home screen cards service/video/channels.json — YouTube channels service/places/locations.json — saved locations See Environment Variables for all options. Documentation Full docs in the docs folder. Start with MCP for agents, Architecture for the code. The live tool catalogue is at /tools. License AGPL-3.0 — use, modify, distribute. If you run a modified version as a service, share the source.