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TL;DR Build an MCP server to give AI agents real-time web access by wrapping the AlterLab API in a standardized tool schema. This setup allows agents to fetch live content, bypass anti-bot measures automatically, and process structured web data without hardcoding selectors for every new site. AI agents are limited by their training data cutoffs and the "wall" of the public web. While Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) helps with static data, agents often need live information from e-commerc...

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