# VarynForge > VarynForge — premium keyword research forged into ready-to-publish content plans. Every docs page has a markdown copy at https://www.varynforge.com/docs/.md, and https://www.varynforge.com/api/docs.json lists them all with their summaries. The full text of every page is in https://www.varynforge.com/llms-full.txt, and what changed is in https://www.varynforge.com/changelog.md, newest first. To connect an agent to the MCP server, start at https://www.varynforge.com/mcp. ## Getting started - [What VarynForge is: the vocabulary, from project to published article](https://www.varynforge.com/docs/what-varynforge-is.md): Every noun in VarynForge, learned once: project, niche, asset, research run, opportunities, competitors, suggestion, brief, channels, the lint gate and publishing. - [Connect your agent: one endpoint, any MCP host, sign in once](https://www.varynforge.com/docs/connect-your-agent.md): The VarynForge MCP address, the exact install step for Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code and Codex, what the first sign-in does, and what your agent calls first. - [Your first project: from a URL to a writer-ready brief in one session](https://www.varynforge.com/docs/your-first-project.md): Create a project from a URL or a sentence, know when the niche is ready, and take one idea to a downloadable brief on the free plan, in a single session. - [Free and paid: what Free Forge runs, what a run costs, the caps](https://www.varynforge.com/docs/free-and-paid.md): What Free Forge includes, the daily brief cap and what still works past it, the caps on lint_draft and check_idea, what a paid research run adds, and how a wall reads. ## Workflows - [The data-backed path: a research run, ranked clusters, a content plan](https://www.varynforge.com/docs/data-backed-path.md): What a research run does and costs, how opportunity clusters rank and filter, the levers that reshape them, and how a run becomes a content plan with briefs. - [From your own ideas: score it, accept it, check it against live search](https://www.varynforge.com/docs/from-your-own-ideas.md): Score an idea against your niche with expand_idea, commit it with accept_idea, or bring a full spec, then check it against live search with check_idea. Works on free. - [From the market radar: rising topics the keyword pipeline cannot see](https://www.varynforge.com/docs/from-the-market-radar.md): What a radar snapshot holds, when the radar is lit and refreshed, and how your agent turns a rising topic into briefs with list_radar_topics, expand_radar_topic and add_radar_topic. - [Drafting and verification: your agent writes, the gate checks it](https://www.varynforge.com/docs/drafting-and-verification.md): How your agent drafts from a brief with the channel writer prompt, checks the draft with lint_draft, reads verdicts for free, and keeps the board truthful while it works. - [Publishing and attestation: your CMS publishes, VarynForge records](https://www.varynforge.com/docs/publishing-and-attestation.md): Why VarynForge ships no publish connectors, the three-step flow of publish, verify and record, and what mark_article_published and register_derived_asset do. - [Five channels: one brief, one process, one submission shape each](https://www.varynforge.com/docs/five-channels.md): The five VarynForge channels, article, x, linkedin, reels and youtube: what each brief holds, how each piece is produced, what lint_draft receives and where the live URL is recorded. - [Organizations and teams: one plan, shared credits, members and roles](https://www.varynforge.com/docs/organizations-and-teams.md): How organizations hold projects, plans, credits and limits, the three roles and what each can do, and how your agent targets and labels work across organizations. - [Client reports: the starting-point report and the pitch report](https://www.varynforge.com/docs/client-reports.md): The two client-ready reports for agencies and consultants: the free starting-point report from setup data, and the pitch report a completed research run produces. ## The app - [The Desk: the articles that need a decision from you now](https://www.varynforge.com/docs/desk.md): What the Desk lists, which pipeline states put an article on it, every action on its cards and the idea box, and the MCP tools that do the same work. - [The Dashboard: your whole portfolio of projects on one screen](https://www.varynforge.com/docs/dashboard.md): What the cross-project Dashboard counts, where each number comes from, the controls it offers, and the MCP tools that return the same read to your agent. - [The Radar: a card deck for triaging rising topics one at a time](https://www.varynforge.com/docs/radar.md): What the Radar screen deals, what lit, dormant and preview cards mean, what Keep, Dismiss and Later do, and the MCP tools behind each card. - [The Library: every article across your projects, in one table](https://www.varynforge.com/docs/library.md): What the Library table lists, how age in state and the stuck flag are worked out, its filters and sorting, and the MCP tool that returns the same rows. - [Earnings: Search Console clicks by article and by source](https://www.varynforge.com/docs/earnings.md): What the Earnings screen counts, how Search Console data reaches it and how fresh it is, what the sample preview means, and what your agent can do over MCP. - [Project Overview: where a project stands and what to do next](https://www.varynforge.com/docs/project-overview.md): What the project Overview shows before, during and after a research run, where its numbers come from, every control on it, and the MCP tools that read the same state. - [Opportunities: the ranked topic clusters a research run found](https://www.varynforge.com/docs/opportunities.md): How the Opportunities board and the cluster page rank, filter and show coverage, what Forge brief and Dismiss do, and the MCP tools that read and shape the same clusters. - [Content Plan: every article from brief to published, by status](https://www.varynforge.com/docs/content-plan.md): The Content Plan board and its eight status columns, the article page with its briefs, drafts, gate receipts and timeline, the controls on both, and their MCP equivalents. - [The Report screen: a client-ready report for every project](https://www.varynforge.com/docs/report.md): What the Report screen shows before and after a research run, where each section comes from, the markdown and PDF downloads, and the re-sync dialog. - [The Prompts screen: project-aware prompts for any chat assistant](https://www.varynforge.com/docs/prompts.md): The eight prompt templates on the Prompts screen, the project data that fills them, how to use them in ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini, and how they relate to MCP. - [The Queries screen: every keyword a research run found](https://www.varynforge.com/docs/queries.md): The Queries list and keyword detail: intent, demand bucket and difficulty per keyword, the pages ranking for it, and the matching list_keywords and get_keyword_detail. - [The Pages screen: your pages and the competitor pages that rank](https://www.varynforge.com/docs/pages.md): The Pages list and page dossier: owned versus competitor pages, exploitability, target keywords and rankings, and the matching list_pages and get_page_dossier. - [The Companies screen: who competes with you for search](https://www.varynforge.com/docs/companies.md): The Companies list and company detail: competition type, relevance, importance and what it changes, adding a competitor by domain, and the matching MCP tools. - [Research History: every research run on a project, past and live](https://www.varynforge.com/docs/research-history.md): What a row on Research History shows, how a live run is tracked, what happens to a failed run and its credit, how to start another, and the MCP calls that do the same. - [Settings: your account, billing, notifications and organization](https://www.varynforge.com/docs/settings.md): The account half of Settings in the web app: your profile and sign-in email, the Billing screen and Stripe, the Notifications screen, and where organization members live. - [Project settings: niche, competitors, destinations and indexing](https://www.varynforge.com/docs/project-settings.md): The Project half of Settings: the niche and posting cadence, important and ignored competitors, where you publish, IndexNow pings and the read-only Search Console grant. ## Reference - [MCP tools: every tool the VarynForge server exposes, by category](https://www.varynforge.com/docs/mcp-tools.md): The full VarynForge MCP tool list by category, which calls are free, capped or spend a credit, and the habits that keep your agent fast and cheap. - [Entitlement walls: what a blocked tool returns and why](https://www.varynforge.com/docs/entitlement-walls.md): Every wall the VarynForge MCP server can return, the entitlement payload field by field, and how your agent should handle one without retrying. - [Suggestion statuses: the eight stages and what moves each](https://www.varynforge.com/docs/suggestion-statuses.md): Every article suggestion status, what moves a suggestion into it, who sets it, how the gate and publish detect move it, and which board column shows it. - [Account and data: what VarynForge keeps, and who sees it](https://www.varynforge.com/docs/account-and-data.md): What VarynForge stores for your account, your organization and each project, who can open a project, what leaves during a run or a connection, and how deletion works.