Perigon MCP server

Connect Perigon to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, GitHub Copilot and any other MCP client, for your whole team. Metorial adds security, governance, and tracing, and gives everyone one Magic MCP URL to connect.

What you can do with the Perigon MCP server

Ask your agent in plain language. Each of these maps to a real tool on the server.

  • Use the search journalists tool in Perigon
  • Use the search wikipedia tool in Perigon
  • Use the search topics tool in Perigon
  • Use the search companies tool in Perigon
  • Use the search sources tool in Perigon
  • Use the search articles tool in Perigon

Supported Tools

search_journalists

Search Journalists

Search Perigon's database of 230,000+ journalist and reporter profiles. Returns journalist details including bio, publications, coverage areas, and publishing activity. Use this to find journalists covering specific topics or writing for specific publications.

search_wikipedia

Search Wikipedia

Search Wikipedia pages for information on any topic. Returns page summaries, full content, categories, pageview data, and Wikidata metadata. Supports filtering by language, pageview threshold, Wikidata entity type, and Wikipedia category.

search_topics

Search Topics

Browse available news topics and categories supported by Perigon. Use this to discover valid topic names that can be passed as filters to the Search Articles and Search Stories tools.

search_companies

Search Companies

Search company profiles referenced in news articles. Returns company details including CEO, employee count, industry, sector, and headquarters location. Use quoted names for exact matching (e.g. `"Airbnb"`).

search_sources

Search Sources

Discover and retrieve information about the 160,000+ media sources indexed by Perigon. Filter sources by name, domain, country, category, topic, audience, publishing volume, or paywall status. Returns source details including publishing volume and content focus areas.

search_articles

Search Articles

Search and retrieve news articles from 200,000+ global sources. Supports keyword search with Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) and filtering by source, category, topic, country, date range, sentiment, people, and companies mentioned. Each article includes AI-enriched metadata like sentiment scores, entity extraction, and summaries.

search_stories

Search Stories

Search story clusters — groups of related articles covering the same event or topic. Returns aggregate data including article counts, sentiment breakdown, AI-generated summaries, and entity mentions across all articles in each cluster. Use the returned storyId with the Search Articles tool (as clusterId) to retrieve individual articles within a story.

search_people

Search People

Search Perigon's database of 650,000+ public figures, politicians, celebrities, and newsworthy individuals. Returns biographical information including occupations, positions held, and aliases. Use quoted names for exact matching (e.g. `"Jeff Bezos"`).

get_account_usage

Get Account Usage

Identify the organization connected to this API key and retrieve account usage, request limits, page limits, and usage reset dates. This endpoint does not consume the monthly request quota.

Connect Perigon to your AI client

Every client uses the same Magic MCP URL, and so does any other MCP client. Add it once and sign in with SSO.

  1. Enable Perigon in Metorial. In your Metorial portal, enable the Perigon MCP server and sign in with the account that owns the data. Access stays governed by your team policies.
  2. Add a custom connector. Open Customize, then Connectors. Select Add, then Custom, then Web.
  3. Paste your Metorial MCP URL. Name it Metorial, paste your Magic MCP URL (<your-magic-mcp-url>) and continue.
  4. Sign in. Select Add and sign in to load Perigon tools.

Run Perigon through the Metorial gateway

One governed layer for every app your agents reach, not a separate connector per tool.

  • Give Perigon and every other app to your whole team through one MCP gateway, behind your SSO.
  • Scope which teams and agents can use Perigon tools with role-based access control, and trace every call.
  • Prefer to run it yourself? Metorial is open source and self-hostable.

More integrations teams use with Perigon

GitHub

Manage repositories, issues, and pull requests. Create and configure branches, star repositories, review code, and merge changes. Automate CI/CD workflows with GitHub Actions, manage workflow runs, secrets, and artifacts. Track issues with labels, milestones, and assignees. Search across code, repositories, issues, and users. Manage organizations, teams, and memberships. Create and manage projects, gists, packages, deployments, and environments. Access security alerts including code scanning, secret scanning, and Dependabot alerts. Read and write file contents in repositories. Manage webhooks, notifications, and codespaces.

Salesforce

Manage CRM data including Accounts, Contacts, Leads, Opportunities, Cases, and custom objects. Create, read, update, and delete records. Query data using SOQL and search across objects using SOSL. Perform bulk data operations for large-scale imports, exports, and migrations. Execute composite requests to batch multiple operations in a single API call. Access analytics, reports, and dashboards. Manage files and attachments associated with records. Interact with Chatter feeds, posts, and groups for social collaboration. Manage org metadata including custom objects, fields, layouts, and workflows. Query data using GraphQL for precise data retrieval across related objects.

Sharepoint

Manage SharePoint sites, document libraries, lists, and files. Create, read, update, and delete lists and list items with custom columns. Resolve site users to numeric Person/Group LookupId values. Upload, download, move, copy, and version files in document libraries. Search across sites, files, folders, lists, and list items using Microsoft Search. Manage permissions at site, list, and item levels with granular access control. Define and manage content types and site columns. Retrieve site properties and search for sites across Microsoft 365.

Airtable

Create, read, update, and delete records in Airtable bases and tables. Manage base schemas including creating tables and fields. Filter records using formulas, sort by fields, and scope queries to specific views. Upsert records to find, create, or update in a single call. Upload attachments to records, read and write record comments, list accessible bases, and receive real-time base change events through webhooks.

Sentry

Track, manage, and resolve application errors and performance issues. List, query, and bulk-update issues and error events with filters like status, assignment, and tags. Create and manage releases, associate commits, and upload source maps. Configure issue alert rules and metric alert rules with notification actions. Set up cron monitors to detect missed or failed scheduled jobs. Build custom dashboards with configurable widgets. Run ad-hoc Discover queries across errors and transactions for performance analysis. Manage organizations, teams, projects, and members. Provision users via SCIM. Access session replay data.

Discord

Send, edit, and delete messages in channels. Manage servers (guilds), channels, roles, members, invites, webhooks, threads, scheduled events, auto moderation rules, audit logs, application commands, and custom guild emojis.

Technical notes for Perigon

Search news articles and story clusters with keyword, entity, source, location, date, and sentiment filters. Discover people, companies, journalists, media sources, and topics; search Wikipedia pages; and identify the connected organization and account usage limits.

Frequently asked questions

Common questions about connecting Perigon to AI agents with Metorial.

  1. How many tools does the Perigon MCP server have?
    The Perigon MCP server exposes 9 tools, including Search Journalists, Search Wikipedia, Search Topics. Each one is governed and traced through Metorial.
  2. Perigon exposes tools your agents call on demand; it does not publish event triggers yet. Everything still runs through one governed MCP URL.
  3. Any MCP client, including VS Code, Windsurf, Zed, OpenCode and Grok. Each one reaches the Perigon MCP server through the same Metorial URL.
  4. Use role-based access control to decide which teams, users, and agents can use Perigon and which of its tools they can call.
  5. Yes. Metorial is open source, so you can run the Perigon MCP server yourself or use the hosted gateway.

Connect Perigon to production AI agents

See how Metorial gives your team governed access to Perigon, with tracing and security controls built in.