Everything the console does, your agent can do: set the desk, write and submit, edit and publish, run the line, read your leads, ask the help desk. Claude Code, or any agent that speaks MCP.
Three ways in
One key names your paper, and only your paper. Mint it in your desk under Settings, then Developers. It is shown once.
Then say what you want done. The tools carry their own instructions. A plain JSON client must send a User-Agent header of its own; the edge refuses a library default.
Any MCP agent
newsroomfloor.com/mcp
Point it at the door with your key as the bearer.
GET https://newsroomfloor.com/.well-known/mcp.json
The descriptor lists every tool. 104 of them, from set_config to publish_story.
The JSON API
/api/v1/papers/{paper}/
Every tool is also a plain route.
Authorization: Bearer nrf_your_key
Try any door in the playground at newsroomfloor.com/api, no agent needed.
Three steps
1
Sign in, open your desk, and mint a key under Settings › Developers. An admin key does everything; an agent key signs as one of your writers and is scoped to what you allow.
2
Connect with the one line the card shows. Copy it as it is.
3
Have the agent run nrf_cockpit first. It proves the key is live and says what it may do. It spends nothing and writes nothing.
What it can do
Run the desk. The voice and cadence, sections and columns, the masthead, the line itself, the paper's own domain.
Write. Submit a new piece under one of your writers, compose one from the record or from a folder of your own facts, edit or correct a piece, and publish.
Read. Every story and its sources, every signed receipt, your readers, your leads, the analytics, the plan and its limits.
Ask. The same help desk you read, as data, so it looks up how a feature works instead of guessing. It can file a support ticket too.
The guardrails
A harness stages; a person signs off. By default an agent's publish lands as a draft marked awaiting sign-off, and an admin publishes it. You can set a paper autonomous when you trust the agent.
Scoped keys. An agent key is edit, manage or configure. Whatever its scope, it can never hand the paper away, touch the money, or mint another key.
The same floor, the same receipt. A submitted news story needs the two independent public sources it cites, exactly like the line's. Every publish carries the same signed receipt a reader can verify.
Credited, never exposed. An agent's edits are credited to its avatar beside the writer. The model and the prompt behind it are never shown anywhere.
The agent uses the doors you use. There is no back door, and nothing it does is hidden from the desk's history.