How to Use the Hacker News MCP in Google ADK

Q: How do I initialize the Hacker News MCP Server in Google ADK?

Use McpToolset with StreamableHttpServerParameters pointing to your Vinkius URL. Pass the toolset object into the tools list of your Google ADK LlmAgent.

Q: How do I limit which Hacker News MCP tools my Google ADK agent can access?

Pass a list of allowed tool names to the toolnames filter when initializing your Google ADK toolset. For example, you can restrict the agent to only run the new stories tool.

Connect Google ADK agents directly to Hacker News to feed live tech discussions into BigQuery and long-context Gemini models.

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Feed live front-page data into Gemini using this MCP Server

The `top_stories` tool pulls the current top Hacker News posts directly into your Google ADK runtime. Since Gemini models handle massive context windows, your Google agent can ingest the text of dozens of front-page HN stories simultaneously without running out of tokens. You pass the Hacker News MCP Server toolset directly into the Google ADK `LlmAgent` tool list. This allows the Gemini model to decide when to pull the latest Hacker News front-page list based on your user's prompt.

Track fresh tech submissions in Google ADK

The `new_stories` tool retrieves the most recent Hacker News posts submitted by the community for your Google ADK pipeline. Your Google agent can run background polling loops, cross-referencing these new HN links against your existing datasets in Vertex AI. You can restrict the Google ADK agent to only see this Hacker News endpoint by passing an optional `tool_names` filter to your toolset initialization. This keeps your Gemini agent focused and prevents it from executing unwanted HN tools during autonomous runs.

Analyze deep discussion trees with BigQuery integration

The `get_item` tool fetches specific Hacker News story details and comments for your Google ADK pipeline, converting raw HTML into clean Markdown. Your Google agent parses these structured HN discussions and stores them directly in BigQuery for sentiment analysis. The Hacker News toolset supports both Stdio and HTTP transports, making it easy to run your Google ADK agent pipelines inside Google Cloud Run. You get clean, pre-formatted Hacker News Markdown text without writing custom HTML parsers in your Google Cloud environment.

Setup guide

Set up Hacker News MCP in Google ADK

Prerequisites

Python 3.10+ installed
google-adk package (pip install google-adk)
Active Vinkius subscription with a valid endpoint token

1

Install Google ADK

Run pip install google-adk to install the Agent Development Kit. MCP support is included via the McpToolset class.
2

Connect via SSE transport

Use McpToolset.from_server() with SseServerParams pointing to your Vinkius endpoint. Replace [YOUR_TOKEN_HERE] with your token from cloud.vinkius.com.
3

Create an LlmAgent

Pass the returned mcp_tools list directly to LlmAgent(tools=mcp_tools). The ADK maps each MCP tool to a native Gemini function call — no manual schema definitions required.
4

Run with any Gemini model

The agent works with any Gemini model (gemini-2.0-flash, gemini-2.5-pro, etc.). Copy the full example on the right to get started with Hacker News tools in your ADK agent.

agent.py

from google.adk.agents import LlmAgent
from google.adk.tools.mcp_tool.mcp_toolset import McpToolset
from google.adk.tools.mcp_tool.mcp_session_manager import SseServerParams

# Connect to the MCP via SSE
mcp_tools, exit_stack = await McpToolset.from_server(
    connection_params=SseServerParams(
        url="https://edge.vinkius.com/[YOUR_TOKEN_HERE]/mcp"
    )
)

# Create your agent with auto-discovered tools
agent = LlmAgent(
    name="Hacker News_agent",
    model="gemini-2.0-flash",
    instruction="You have access to Hacker News tools via MCP.",
    tools=mcp_tools,
)

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Common questions about Hacker News MCP in Google ADK

Use `McpToolset` with `StreamableHttpServerParameters` pointing to your Vinkius URL. Pass the toolset object into the `tools` list of your Google ADK `LlmAgent`.

Yes, Gemini's million-token context window easily digests deep Hacker News comment trees fetched via `get_item`. The Google ADK tool converts comments to Markdown, which keeps token consumption efficient.

Pass a list of allowed tool names to the `tool_names` filter when initializing your Google ADK toolset. For example, you can restrict the agent to only run the new stories tool.

Yes, you can deploy your python code to Cloud Run. The server handles HTTP transport, allowing your agent to query the API from any serverless container.

The connection only transmits public Hacker News IDs and text content over HTTPS. No corporate BigQuery credentials or Vertex AI model parameters are exposed to the external server.

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