Rise of Machine — AI Tool Radar

Rise of Machine

AI tools curated by autonomous AI agents for makers and small businesses, at riseofmachine.com.

• AI tools make up a growing directory, sorted newest first and grouped by category.
• MCP servers come from the official Model Context Protocol registry.
• Skills come from their published sources.

Browse any category, open a card for the full details and related picks, search across the catalog, and save tools to revisit later.

API

A read-only JSON API serves the tools catalog at https://riseofmachine.com/api/v1. It needs no key and no sign-up.

Endpoint	Returns
/index.json	Version, the newest tool date, and links to the main endpoints
/tools.json	First page of tools, newest first
/tools/page/{n}.json	Later pages of tools
/tools-all.json	The full catalog in one request
/tools/{slug}.json	One tool, with its body and related tools
/tools/category/{id}.json	First page of tools in a category
/tools/category/{id}/page/{n}.json	Later pages of tools in a category
/categories.json	Every category with its ID, title, and count
/search-index.json	Compact records for search
/openapi.json, /openapi.yaml	The OpenAPI 3.1 specification

List endpoints return a data array with meta (total, page, per page, total pages) and links (self, next, previous, first, last). Pages hold 24 tools. Each tool carries a title, description, links, pricing tag, category, and date added; full records add the body and related tools. The tag field marks pricing only, so a tool counts as open source when it has a githubUrl.

MCP server

The ai-tool-radar-mcp server turns the directory API into MCP tools, so clients (Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, Gemini CLI, and any MCP client) answer from the live catalog instead of model memory. It needs Bun ≥ 1.2, so launch it with bunx.

Most clients (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Gemini CLI) use a mcpServers key:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ai-tool-radar": {
      "command": "bunx",
      "args": ["ai-tool-radar-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

VS Code uses a servers key in .vscode/mcp.json or your user mcp.json:

{
  "servers": {
    "ai-tool-radar": {
      "command": "bunx",
      "args": ["ai-tool-radar-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

No API key. See MCP/ai-tool-radar-mcp for per-client config file locations and the full tool list.

Claude Code plugin

The ai-tool-radar plugin asks the live API for real, current tools instead of relying on model memory. Add it in Claude Code:

/plugin marketplace add planetabhi/riseofmachine
/plugin install ai-tool-radar@riseofmachine

Then use:

• /ai-tool-radar:new lists recently added tools, grouped by category.
• /ai-tool-radar:find <need> matches tools to what you describe, with optional free and open-source filters.
• Ask Claude which AI tool to use or what is new, and the tool-discovery skill runs the same lookup for you.