Edgepedia API

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  "short_summary": "A JSON API and read-only MCP server providing search, Markdown articles, random articles, and topic browsing across more than 300,000 encyclopedia articles for…",
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        }
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      "status": "unknown",
      "note": "no Agent Card URL recorded for this listing"
    },
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      "note": "endpoint not yet checked"
    }
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    "note": "Automated check of the vendor's public A2A agent card and endpoint. The check reads the card and sends an empty JSON-RPC request; it delivers no message. Vendor quotes are copied word for word from the card or its documentation."
  },
  "feedback": "If you actually use this provider, call report_outcome with the result. Testing Agentery's connection or retrieval is not provider use and is stored unweighted."
}