RAK OS — media without an owner, in every country

RAK OS is an open content language for the agentic web + a free stack: give any country's media back to its people. The @rak-ad/mcp Model Context Protocol client connects any AI agent to the RAK network. Poland (rak.ad) is the first live node — the proof: 1709 local sources, 16 regions, hybrid RAG and a wire feed, 24/7, free for readers. Your country is next — fork a node.

🕊️ Manifesto: MANIFESTO.md (PL) · 👑 The Realm: REALM.md · 🏛️ Governance: GOVERNANCE.md

🌍 Site/docs: https://rak.ad/mcp · 📦 npm: @rak-ad/mcp · 🔌 Remote: https://rak.ad/api/mcp/rak/mcp

📜 RAK language spec (v0.2): SPEC.md — the open standard "write once → own it → cited by every agent". One envelope for content and market (FOP profile).

💸 Economics (the moat): ECONOMICS.md — pay-per-AI-citation. Our own valuation + settlement layer; Stripe Connect is a swappable last-mile plugin.

@rak-ad/mcp connects Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, ChatGPT and any MCP agent to a RAK node. The reference node today is Poland (rak.ad / Kanał ZERO) — the live test — plus universal editorial tools (research + write). The same rak_<module>_<operation> tools work for any node you run.

What is RAK OS? (TL;DR)

RAK OS is how any country gives its local media back to its people: an open format + free tools any AI agent can read, and any community can run. Poland is the first live node — the test. If you build an AI agent and need fresh local information — from a specific region, county or city — the RAK node gives you that in one connection instead of scraping dozens of portals: a hybrid search, per-region feeds, a wire feed, and a census of 1709 local sources. Reader tools are free and work anonymously (no key). Your country is next — fork a node.

What you get

• 🔎 Instant content — hybrid search (FTS + semantics), articles, wire feed, feeds for all 16 regions, a census of 1709 local sources.
• 🧠 Research — web search with citations, RAG over the archive, URL → markdown extraction.
• ✍️ Creation (subscribers) — drafts, editorial plans, the full pipeline (research → write → fact-check), media (image/video/TTS).
• ✅ QA (subscribers) — fact-check, moderation, uniqueness.
• 🌍 Free discovery — rak_meta_* and rak_content_* anonymously, no key. A free index of the node — Poland today, your country next.

Quickstart

Claude Desktop / Cursor / Windsurf — mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "rak": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@rak-ad/mcp"],
      "env": {
        "RAK_API_KEY": "rk_...",        // omit for anonymous (reader) access
        "RAK_BASE_URL": "https://rak.ad"
      }
    }
  }
}

Remote (server agents) — Streamable HTTP

POST https://rak.ad/api/mcp/rak/mcp
Authorization: Bearer <RAK_API_KEY>     # omit for the anon tier
Api-Version: 2026-05

Inspect / smoke

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector

Access tiers

| Tier | Key | Scope | |---|---|---| | anon (reader) | no | content_*, rag_*, meta_* — search, wire, region feeds, source census | | free | yes | as above + higher limits | | paid (subscriber) | yes | + writing, media, fact-check, full RAG (on credits) | | partner | yes | read-only (content + optionally RAG) | | internal | yes | full (publishing + distribution) |

Tool catalog (rak_<module>_<op>)

| Module | Tools | Tier | |---|---|---| | content | search, get_article, list_section, wire_feed, region_feed | free | | rag | find_related, semantic_search | free | | meta | list_sources, list_skills, health | anon / discovery | | research | web, extract, fact_pack, summarize | anon → paid | | write | draft, edit, export, plan, pipeline, publish | paid → internal | | media | generate_image, generate_video, tts | paid | | qa | fact_check, moderate, uniqueness | paid | | crawl / distribution | crawl_search, add_source, subscribe, distribution_publish | internal | | owned | publish, list, get, verify | creator (paid+) |

Per-skill details: skills/.

Examples (for agents)

• Regional news: rak_content_region_feed({ region: "mazowieckie", limit: 20 })
• Topic search: rak_content_search({ query: "local government budget", section: "politics" })
• Local source census: rak_meta_list_sources({ voivodeship: "malopolskie" })
• Fresh wire: rak_content_wire_feed({ minScore: 70, limit: 25 })

FAQ

Is RAK MCP free? Yes — reader tools (content, search, wire, region feeds, source census) are free and anonymous. Only the creative RAK tools for subscribers are paid.

How fresh is the data? The pipeline harvests and processes sources 24/7, in 10–15 minute cycles. The rak://health resource shows freshness and 24h volume.

How many sources? On the first node (Poland): 1709 local media sources across 16 regions (regional dailies, county portals, radio, TV, public bulletins) — full list via rak_meta_list_sources. Every country's node runs its own census.

How is it different from RSS/an API? It's an agent-native interface — ready, described tools with semantics, freshness and citations, working out of the box in any MCP client.

Commercial use? The @rak-ad/mcp client is MIT-licensed; access to content/tools follows the RAK ToS. Dedicated keys for partners/enterprise.

API keys

Reader tools need no key. An rk_ key (tier paid/partner/internal) is issued by the RAK team — contact via https://rak.ad. Scopes: content:read, skills:action. Keys are tenant-scoped.

Links

• Site / docs: https://rak.ad/mcp
• LLM context: https://rak.ad/llms.txt
• Portal: https://rak.ad

Who's behind this

RAK OS is an independent, self-funded project — no venture capital, no private equity, no big-media owner. It is a kingdom, honestly: one maintainer (the Crown, @Hei33enberg) holds the vision and the last word; the community builds and is credited in the open (REALM.md). Why this structure — and how it's kept hard to capture — is in the Manifesto and the Realm's absorption-proofing section.

Build your own RAK

The OS is MIT — fork your country's RAK, for free, forever.

• Build an agent on RAK: npx create-rak-agent <name> — it speaks rak_*, shares one base and one citation market. Ship it and it's discoverable via rak_meta_list_agents.
• Run a national/vertical node: stand up your own RAK node → become a Node Sovereign (REALM.md, L5). The RAK trademark and origin brand stay with the Crown (TRADEMARK.md); everything else is yours.
• Start from SPEC.md (the contract) and the skills.

One language — content + market

RAK's content object shares a base envelope (SPEC.md §3.1) with a sibling protocol, POXI / FOP (opinions → listings → gigs). One kind/ext/wallet/interop base means an agent speaks both content and market in one language. Mapping: docs/profiles/fop.md. Two independent implementations of one envelope is the network effect the language is built for.

Built on Open Mercato

RAK (and POXI) run on Open Mercato — an open, inspectable runtime engine. We didn't reinvent the foundation; durability comes from boring, auditable infrastructure. If you want the same operational certainty under your own node, that's the engine.

Community

• Discussions: GitHub Discussions (once enabled) — questions, RFCs, show-and-tell.
• Contribute: CONTRIBUTING.md — humans and AI agents both (AGENTS.md).
• Chat: a native RAK chat/IRC surface is proposed (RFC 0001) — the goal is that community chat eventually runs on RAK itself.

Companion / Powiązane — Strajk Polski

RAK = bieżące, lokalne newsy i wiedza o Polsce. Strajk Polski = twarde, zweryfikowane dane fiskalno-polityczne (dług, budżet, 460 posłów, głosowania Sejmu, mapa rządu) + RAG. Razem: cała Polska dla agentów AI w jednym miejscu.

RAK = fresh local news & knowledge about Poland. Strajk Polski = hard, verified fiscal/political open data + RAG. Together: all of Poland for AI agents, in one place.

• MCP: npx -y @strajkpolski/mcp · https://github.com/Hei33enberg/strajkpolski-mcp · https://strajkpolski.org

License

MIT (client). Access to content/API follows the RAK ToS.

Tags: open content language · media without an owner · local news for AI agents · agentic web · content provenance · pay-per-AI-citation · model context protocol · RAG · fork a node · Poland (first node) · Kanał ZERO · RAK.AD · Claude · Cursor · Perplexity