Most AI agents can now talk to remote MCP servers. Apify runs one at https://mcp.apify.com , and any public Actor in Apify Store can be exposed through it as a tool your agent can call: SSL checks, DNS audits, broken-link crawls, screenshots, keyword research and thousands more.

This post shows what actually happens on the wire, with a ~50-line stdlib Python client, so you can see exactly what your agent sees and pays for.

1. Pick the tools with the URL

?tools= takes a comma-separated list of Actors:

https://mcp.apify.com?tools=datawright-labs/ssl-certificate-checker,datawright-labs/email-domain-dns-checker

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Auth is your Apify API token as Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_TOKEN> (free account; Actors bill per result on your own account).

2. The client

""" Call Apify Store Actors as MCP tools from plain Python (stdlib only). Usage: APIFY_TOKEN=... python3 mcp_agent_tools.py """ import json , os , urllib .…