Welcome to The Agent Examiner

The AI-agent ecosystem is moving fast. New platforms launch every week, and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) has turned "which server should I plug in?" into a real question with real trade-offs. There is a lot of marketing and not much hands-on testing.

The Agent Examiner exists to close that gap. We run these tools ourselves and write down what we find: what a server can actually do, how a platform prices real usage, and where the sharp edges are once you get past the demo.

What we cover

• MCP Servers — capabilities, transport, authentication, and behaviour under real workloads.
• Agent Platforms — pricing, model support, orchestration, and the trade-offs that surface when you build something non-trivial.
• Comparisons — side-by-side breakdowns so you can line up options on the dimensions that matter to you.

What to expect next

This is the first published post while we stand the directories up. Over the coming weeks the MCP and Platforms sections will fill in with reviewed entries, and the comparison tool will go live.

You can read how we test on the Methodology page and see our editorial and advertising note on the Disclosure page.