# AI and agents for agents

https://mcpshortlist.com/ai-and-agents

## Facts, sources and dates

Unknown values are null, never no or zero.

```json
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  "example": false,
  "read_on": "2026-10-11",
  "category": {
    "id": "ai-and-agents",
    "label": "AI and agents",
    "what": "AI models, and the tools an assistant works with: search, browsing and memory.",
    "url": "https://mcpshortlist.com/ai-and-agents",
    "software": 0,
    "not_sorted_yet": [],
    "subcategories": [
      {
        "id": "agent-memory",
        "label": "Agent memory and knowledge",
        "what": "Services that give an assistant a memory or a set of documents to search.",
        "also": ["memory", "rag", "retrieval", "knowledge graph", "context"],
        "url": "https://mcpshortlist.com/agent-memory",
        "category": "ai-and-agents",
        "software": [],
        "not_listed": []
      },
      {
        "id": "agent-builders",
        "label": "AI agent builders",
        "what": "Software for building AI agents and running them.",
        "also": ["ai agents", "agent framework", "agent platform", "orchestration", "multi-agent"],
        "url": "https://mcpshortlist.com/agent-builders",
        "category": "ai-and-agents",
        "software": [],
        "not_listed": []
      },
      {
        "id": "ai-models",
        "label": "AI models",
        "what": "Services that provide AI models to build with.",
        "also": ["llm", "inference", "model api", "embeddings", "prompts"],
        "url": "https://mcpshortlist.com/ai-models",
        "category": "ai-and-agents",
        "software": [],
        "not_listed": []
      },
      {
        "id": "browser-automation",
        "label": "Browser automation",
        "what": "Services that let an assistant open pages, click and fill forms in a browser.",
        "also": ["headless browser", "web automation", "computer use", "rpa"],
        "url": "https://mcpshortlist.com/browser-automation",
        "category": "ai-and-agents",
        "software": [],
        "not_listed": []
      },
      {
        "id": "document-extraction",
        "label": "Document extraction",
        "what": "Services that read documents and turn them into data.",
        "also": ["ocr", "document parsing", "document ai", "invoice extraction"],
        "url": "https://mcpshortlist.com/document-extraction",
        "category": "ai-and-agents",
        "software": [],
        "not_listed": []
      },
      {
        "id": "mcp-platforms",
        "label": "MCP platforms",
        "what": "Services that host, connect or manage MCP servers for a team.",
        "also": ["mcp gateway", "mcp hosting", "mcp servers", "model context protocol", "tool routing"],
        "url": "https://mcpshortlist.com/mcp-platforms",
        "category": "ai-and-agents",
        "software": [],
        "not_listed": []
      },
      {
        "id": "vector-databases",
        "label": "Vector databases",
        "what": "Databases that store text by meaning, so an assistant finds the passages close to a question.",
        "also": ["vector search", "embeddings store", "semantic search"],
        "url": "https://mcpshortlist.com/vector-databases",
        "category": "ai-and-agents",
        "software": [],
        "not_listed": []
      },
      {
        "id": "web-search",
        "label": "Web search and scraping",
        "what": "Services that search the web or read pages for an assistant.",
        "also": ["search api", "crawling", "scraping", "web data", "ai web scraping"],
        "url": "https://mcpshortlist.com/web-search",
        "category": "ai-and-agents",
        "software": [],
        "not_listed": []
      },
      {
        "id": "computer",
        "label": "Your computer",
        "what": "Connectors that let an assistant use the files and apps on your own computer.",
        "also": ["desktop", "mac", "windows", "filesystem", "local files"],
        "url": "https://mcpshortlist.com/computer",
        "category": "ai-and-agents",
        "software": [],
        "not_listed": []
      }
    ]
  },
  "note": "Categories and sub-categories are ours. A product under \"software\" was sorted by us. A product \"not sorted yet\" sits in a category because the Claude connectors directory files it there. \"not_listed\" means not found in that directory, never \"has no connector\"."
}
```