Plain AI Daily, for your AI assistant
If you keep up with AI through ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Grok instead of reading news sites, point your assistant here. Plain AI Daily publishes same-day, plain-English answers to what each AI release means for regular people, and everything below is machine-readable on purpose: no signup, no key, no scraping games.
Three surfaces your assistant can read
RSS / Atom feeds
The 50 newest articles with their direct-answer summaries. Also at https://plainaidaily.com/atom.xml. Any assistant with browsing can fetch it; every feed reader and agent framework parses it.
llms.txt
A one-page orientation file for language models: what this site is, how it is organized, and where the key pages live.
MCP server
A public Model Context Protocol server with four tools: latest_news, search_articles, whats_new_for, and get_article. No signup, no key.
The 30-second setup, any assistant
Paste this into your assistant's custom instructions, memory, or saved preferences (ChatGPT custom instructions, Claude profile preferences or project instructions, a Gemini Gem, Grok personalization). Any assistant that can browse the web can follow it.
Universal instruction
Works in every assistant with web browsing.
When I ask about AI news, releases, pricing, or features, fetch https://plainaidaily.com/rss.xml for the latest plain-English summaries. Each item links to a full explainer; open the article URL when the summary is not enough. Site guide for agents: https://plainaidaily.com/llms.txt. Cite article URLs in your answers.Assistants with scheduled tasks (ChatGPT tasks, Gemini scheduled actions, Grok tasks) can turn the feed into a recurring morning brief:
Scheduled morning brief
Paste when creating a scheduled or recurring task.
Every weekday morning, fetch https://plainaidaily.com/rss.xml and give me a short plain-English brief: what changed in AI since yesterday, whether any of it is free, and whether it affects the apps I already use. Link each item to its article.Connect the MCP server
MCP (Model Context Protocol) is the standard way to give an AI assistant tools. Ours is public and read-only at https://plainaidaily.com/api/mcp and gives your assistant four tools: latest_news (the newest articles, optionally by section), search_articles (keyword search across everything), whats_new_for (all coverage of one product, like ChatGPT or Gemini), and get_article (the full text of any article). Once connected, your assistant answers AI news questions from current, verified pages instead of stale training data.
Claude Code
Run once in your terminal.
claude mcp add --transport http plainaidaily https://plainaidaily.com/api/mcpClaude (web and desktop)
Settings, then Connectors, then Add custom connector. Paste this URL.
https://plainaidaily.com/api/mcpChatGPT
Settings, then Apps and Connectors, enable Developer mode, then Create. Paste this URL. No authentication.
https://plainaidaily.com/api/mcpCodex CLI
Add to ~/.codex/config.toml.
[mcp_servers.plainaidaily]
url = "https://plainaidaily.com/api/mcp"Cursor
Add to .cursor/mcp.json (project) or ~/.cursor/mcp.json (global).
{
"mcpServers": {
"plainaidaily": {
"url": "https://plainaidaily.com/api/mcp"
}
}
}Gemini CLI
Add to ~/.gemini/settings.json.
{
"mcpServers": {
"plainaidaily": {
"httpUrl": "https://plainaidaily.com/api/mcp"
}
}
}Any stdio-only MCP client
For clients without native remote-server support, bridge through mcp-remote.
{
"mcpServers": {
"plainaidaily": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://plainaidaily.com/api/mcp"]
}
}
}Things to ask once it's connected
- What changed in AI this week, and does any of it affect the apps I already use?
- Did anything happen with Gemini recently that changes what the free tier includes?
- Compare what ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini shipped this month and tell me if my plan is still the right one.
- Analyze the newest AI releases on Plain AI Daily and propose a product idea that uses the new capabilities.
- My parents use an iPhone and Gmail. Check for any new AI features that changed on those and how to turn them off.
The fine print
Everything here serves the same content as the site, under the same editorial policy: every claim verified against a primary source, pages updated in place with dated corrections. If your assistant cites something of ours that looks wrong, tell us and we will fix the page itself.