NicheDB
Overview
Description from the maker (original English)
Sources in, feeds out: an open, ever-growing database of real-time public data, enriched.
What you can do with it
We have not written a plain-language summary for this one yet. Below are the facts we read from the registry.
- Connection: Computer or cloud
- Transport: stdio, Streamable HTTP
- Category: Databases & datasets
Install
Pick the AI app you use, then copy the settings.
Passed 5/5 checks · What you ask goes through the maker’s server (nichedb.dev)
First: which AI do you use?
Pick your app and the steps appear below.
Works with Claude · about 2 min
No key, nothing to install · Set it up once on claude.ai or the desktop app, then use it in chat · free accounts can add 1
Open Claude’s Connectors page
CustomizeConnectors
Click “+ Add” → “Add custom connector” and fill in these 2 fields
Copy each value into the field with the same name in Claude, then click Continue
Name · NameNicheDBRemote MCP server URL · Addresshttps://nichedb.dev/mcpLeave Authentication as Claude detected it, then click Add
Turn it on in a chat
+ConnectorsNicheDB
Try it
Use NicheDB and tell me what you can do for me, then show me one thing✓ If Claude says it is using NicheDB or shows a NicheDB tool in the answer, you are connected
Menu names checked against Anthropic’s help page on Nov 11, 2026 · your screen may differ slightly by app version
Works with ChatGPT on business plans only
ChatGPT Business, Enterprise or Edu on the web, added by a workspace admin or owner · On Free, Plus or Pro: your ChatGPT plan cannot connect MCP yet
Open ChatGPT’s add-MCP page on the web
Plugins+Add custom MCP server
Fill in the name and address
Enter a name, paste the address under Connection, tick the risk warning and click Create as a plugin
Name · NameNicheDBConnection · Addresshttps://nichedb.dev/mcpPick NicheDB in a chat
Start a new chat and pick NicheDB from your plugins before typing
Try it
Use NicheDB and tell me what you can do for me, then show me one thing✓ If ChatGPT says it is using NicheDB or shows a NicheDB tool in the answer, you are connected
Menu names checked against OpenAI’s help page on Nov 11, 2026 · your screen may differ slightly by app version
Works with Claude Code · about 2 min
No key, nothing to install
Open Terminal
Mac: press Command+Space and type Terminal · Windows: open PowerShell
Paste this command and press Enter
claude mcp add --transport http nichedb https://nichedb.dev/mcpType /mcp in Claude Code
You should see NicheDB listed as connected
Try it
Use NicheDB and tell me what you can do for me, then show me one thing✓ If Claude Code says it is using NicheDB or shows a NicheDB tool in the answer, you are connected
Menu names checked against Anthropic’s help page on Nov 11, 2026 · your screen may differ slightly by app version
Works with Cursor · about 2 min
No key, nothing to install
Open the AI chat in Cursor in Agent mode
Try it
Use NicheDB and tell me what you can do for me, then show me one thing✓ If Cursor says it is using NicheDB or shows a NicheDB tool in the answer, you are connected
Menu names checked against Cursor’s help page on Nov 11, 2026 · your screen may differ slightly by app version
Works with VS Code · about 2 min
No key, nothing to install
Open the AI chat in VS Code in Agent mode
Try it
Use NicheDB and tell me what you can do for me, then show me one thing✓ If VS Code says it is using NicheDB or shows a NicheDB tool in the answer, you are connected
Menu names checked against VS Code’s help page on Nov 11, 2026 · your screen may differ slightly by app version
Other apps that use MCP, such as Windsurf, Zed or Gemini CLI, each add servers differently. See how in the app list.
Address for apps that connect over the web
https://nichedb.dev/mcpJSON settings are under “For developers” below
For developers: Terminal commands and JSON settings
Over the web
Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http nichedb https://nichedb.dev/mcpCursor (~/.cursor/mcp.json)
{
"mcpServers": {
"nichedb": {
"url": "https://nichedb.dev/mcp"
}
}
}VS Code (mcp.json)
{
"servers": {
"nichedb": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://nichedb.dev/mcp"
}
}
}Installed on your computer
Claude Code
claude mcp add nichedb -- npx -y @profullstack/nichedb mcp --api https://nichedb.devClaude Desktop (claude_desktop_config.json)
{
"mcpServers": {
"nichedb": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@profullstack/nichedb",
"mcp",
"--api",
"https://nichedb.dev"
]
}
}
}Cursor (~/.cursor/mcp.json)
{
"mcpServers": {
"nichedb": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@profullstack/nichedb",
"mcp",
"--api",
"https://nichedb.dev"
]
}
}
}VS Code (mcp.json)
{
"servers": {
"nichedb": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@profullstack/nichedb",
"mcp",
"--api",
"https://nichedb.dev"
]
}
}
}These settings are generated from the maker’s registry entry. If the README says otherwise, follow the README.
At a glance
- Downloads per weeki
- 494/wk
- Verified domain
- ✓ nichedb.dev
- Connection
- Computer or cloud
- Transport
- stdio, streamable-http
- Latest versioni
- 0.1.0
- Categoryi
- Databases & datasets
- Published to registryi
- Sep 6, 2026
- Code last changedi
- Nov 9, 2026
- Maker
- profullstack
- Packages
npm: @profullstack/nichedb- Website
- nichedb.dev
- Registry status
- Active
Which apps can use it
Based on how this server connects and on each app’s own docs, checked Nov 10, 2026.
Connect over the internet in
ClaudeChatGPTGooseLM StudioMsty StudioCherry StudioCursorVS Code + GitHub CopilotVisual StudioWindsurf (Devin Desktop)ZedKiroClineContinueJetBrains AI AssistantClaude CodeCodex CLIGemini CLIOpenCodenodecodeWarpLibreChatOpen WebUIRaycast
Run on your computer in
ClaudeGooseLM StudioMsty StudioCherry StudioCursorVS Code + GitHub CopilotVisual StudioWindsurf (Devin Desktop)ZedKiroClineContinueJetBrains AI AssistantClaude CodeCodex CLIGemini CLIOpenCodenodecodeWarpLibreChatRaycast
Related guides
What it can do
Tool names and descriptions exactly as the server reported them on Nov 9, 2026. The maker wrote them, not us; we show them as plain text.
statsWhat this deployment holds: collections, sources, items, items added today, feeds.
list_collectionsThe collections (niches) with their source, feed and item counts.
list_adaptersEvery adapter this deployment can run, with the config fields each takes. Use before add_source.
list_enrichersEvery enricher (YouTube videos, Wikipedia, repo stats, downloads, company profiles, TL;DRs) and which collections turn it on by default. Items carry their results under `enrichment`.
list_sourcesSources with status, last run and item counts. Optionally one collection.
list_feedsPublic feeds, most followed first. Optionally one collection.
feed_itemsWhat a feed selects, newest first. Page with before_id.
recent_itemsNewest items, optionally narrowed to a collection, source or kind.
upcomingItems dated in the future (releases, launches, deadlines), soonest first.
search_itemsFull-text search over titles, summaries and tags. Use this first when you know a name.
match_itemsWhich title, channel or fixture is this name? Give a file name, a release name or a playlist entry ("Top.Gun.Maverick.2022.1080p.mkv", "US: ESPN2 HD"); it is cleaned (year, season and episode, quality tags, playlist decorations) and matched by similarity. A matchup ("NFL: Chiefs
get_itemOne item with its full adapter payload.
populationPopulation and demography, drilled down from the world to the ZIP code. Give a `key` (us, us-ca, us-ca-los-angeles, gb, gb-england-london), a US `zip`, or a place name in `q`; no argument is the world. Answers with the area (population, year, measures: age, income, home value, re
where_to_buy_bookWhere to buy a book. Give an `isbn` (10 or 13 digits, hyphens fine), or a `title` and `author`, or `item` (a books-collection item id). Answers with the edition from Open Library (title, authors, publisher, pages, cover), `online`: links at Amazon, Bookshop.org, Barnes & Noble, B
create_feedSave a query as a feed (needs a key). Sources, kinds and tags narrow; q is a text match; upcoming keeps only future-dated items.
follow_feedFollow a feed as the key owner (needs a key). Channels: webpush, email, webhook.
list_webhooksThe key owner's account webhook endpoints (never their secrets) and the event types this site emits. Needs a key.
create_webhookAdd an account webhook: signed POSTs (Standard Webhooks + CloudEvents) to an https URL for events such as feed.item.published (new items in feeds you follow), feed.followed, feed.created, submission.approved. Patterns like feed.* work; omit events for all. Returns the signing sec
update_webhookChange an account webhook: url, events, description, or enabled (true turns it back on and clears its failure count). Needs a key.
delete_webhookRemove an account webhook and its delivery log. Needs a key.
test_webhookSend a webhook.test event to one of your endpoints now and report the HTTP status. Needs a key.
rotate_webhook_secretReplace a webhook signing secret; the old one stops working at once. Returns the new secret. Needs a key.
webhook_deliveriesRecent webhook deliveries with status, attempts, last error and payload: for one endpoint, or all of yours. Needs a key.
submit_feedSuggest an RSS or Atom feed for the index. No key needed. An admin reviews every suggestion before anything is fetched; approved podcast feeds are handed to rssamplifier, everything else becomes a source here.
search_profilesPeople: one entry per person assembled from every app that serves their OpenProfile.md (podcasters from p0dcasters, public profiles from OutreachGraph). Search by name, headline or anything in the document; newest change first. Each answer carries the page, the openprofile.md URL
find_profile_by_linkedinThe public profile a LinkedIn profile or company URL belongs to (linkedin.com/in/… or /company/…), or null. LinkedIn only: profiles are never looked up by email.
get_profileOne person by id, ` - ` or handle: the parsed view and the OpenProfile.md as served.
claim_profileClaim a profile as the key owner (needs a key). Proven when the key owner’s email is one the profile lists, or when the person’s site or show page links back to the profile’s nichedb page. An admin may claim on behalf of an email.
update_profileEdit a profile you own (needs a key). Send `markdown`, a whole OpenProfile.md that replaces what you wrote before, or any of `name`, `headline`, `emoji`, `pronouns`, `web`, `identity` (key: value, null removes), `sections` (name: body, `none` removes), `handle`, `public`. What yo
add_sourceAdd a source: an adapter with a config, fetched on a schedule (needs a key; admins and Pro). Call list_adapters first for the fields.
run_sourceFetch a source now instead of waiting for its schedule (needs a key; owner or admin).
search_tldsTop-level domains: every label in IANA's root, with type, registry, RDAP server and each registrar's one-year register/renew/transfer price (Porkbun, Dynadot, Cloudflare, OVHcloud). Sorted by renewal by default, because the first year is a promotion. `best` is the cheapest USD pr
get_tldOne top-level domain: type, registry, RDAP server, when it entered or left the root, every registrar price (register, renew, transfer, restore, promotions, privacy, restrictions) and its change history.
tld_changesTop-level domains added to or removed from IANA's root, newest first, with the IANA list version each happened in. Nobody else publishes this diff.
check_domainIs a domain name registered? Asks each registry over RDAP. Give `name` as a full name (foo.watches), or a bare word with `tlds` (foo + com,dev,io), or several names comma separated. Each answer is registered (with registrar and expiry), not_registered, or unknown. not_registered
business_standingIs a business on anybody's list? Give its `name`, and any of `domain`, `state` (two letters), `number` (state entity number) and `ein`. Answers with `standing` (flagged, incomplete or clear; clear only when every list was checked and found nothing), the `findings` behind it, and
reputation_lookupIs an IP address or a domain on a blocklist? Give `indicator` (an IPv4/IPv6 address or a domain; a URL is reduced to its host). Answers `listed`, a rough 0-100 `score` with the `reasons` behind it, the nichedb /traffic record (addresses our own servers banned and a person approve
vuln_lookupEverything known about one vulnerability, as an OpenVuln record (a valid OSV record). Give `id`: a CVE (CVE-2026-12537), GHSA, OSV, PYSEC, GO, RUSTSEC, MAL (malicious package) or NDB (nichedb.dev write-up) id. Answers OSV fields (`aliases`, `summary`, `details`, `affected` with v
traffic_listThe nichedb /traffic blocklist: IP addresses our own servers banned for exploit attempts, scanning, brute force or spam, each published only after a reviewer (a person, or riotcoder applying published rules) read the evidence and approved it. Newest approvals first. Optional `day
redeem_codeRedeem a credit code (CR-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX) for the key owner. A code is worth days of Premium, added after any term already held. Needs a key.
list_invitesThe key owner's invites: how many are left of the quota, and each invite with its status (open, used, expired, revoked). Needs a key.
create_inviteMake one invite link as the key owner. Invites are scarce (a few per account); when the invited person signs up, both get days of Premium. The link is returned once. Needs a key.
Basic checksi
We check information anyone can see; we have not read the code. Checks that do not apply are left out of the count. · Checked Nov 11, 2026
- ✓ Pass
Maker matches the repo
The registry name was verified against the domain nichedb.dev (the registry checks domain ownership)
- ✓ Pass
Still maintained
Code last changed 2 days ago
- ✓ Pass
Has a licence
Uses MIT
- ✓ Pass
Endpoint responds
Responded in 444 ms (HTTP 200)
- – Not applicable
Sign-in with OAuth
No sign-in needed
- ✓ Pass
No hidden instructions in tool descriptions
Read 42 tool descriptions and found no hidden instructions to the AI
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Compared with others in Databases & datasetsi
- More stars than 79% of the other 1164 servers in this category
- Published to the registry more recently than 28% of the other 1164 servers in this category
- Basic checks equal to or better than 100% of the other 1164 servers in this category
Compared with every active server in this category in the registry. Stars count only when the publisher owns the repo.
Common questions
Is NicheDB safe?
It passed 5 of 5 applicable basic checks. We have not read the code. Before adding a key or token, see what access the server asks for and use a key with only the permissions you need.
What keys or codes does it need?
The registry does not list a required key, though some servers ask you to sign in on first use.
Does it run on my computer or in the cloud?
Either way works: install it on your computer or connect to the cloud version.
Is it still maintained?
The GitHub repo last changed 2 days ago, and the latest version (0.1.0) reached the registry 2 months ago.
Which apps can use it?
Apps that support MCP, such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code. It connects by URL, so apps that accept remote MCP servers work too, such as ChatGPT Business and above.
What can I use instead?
In the same category: Dbx, MCP Toolbox for Databases, MCP Toolbox for Databases
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NicheDB
Sources in, feeds out. An open platform for databases that only ever grow: game releases, package registries, government filings, and any other public data with a big seed and daily growth. One Postgres, one Redis, and every row reachable by web, RSS, JSON, API, CLI and MCP.
The first deployment is nichedb.dev. Run your own on anything that has Postgres and Redis.
The model
| Thing | What it is |
|---|---|
| collection | A niche: games, packages, filings. |
| source | One adapter pointed at one upstream, fetched on its own cadence. Steam's new-releases list. The npm changes feed. EDGAR Form D filings. |
| item | One row a source produced. Title, URL, when (with time_known and precision), tags, and the adapter's payload in data. |
| feed | A saved query over a collection. Has a page, RSS and JSON Feed renderings, an API endpoint, and followers who are told when it changes by push, email or signed webhook. |
Adapters are one file each in packages/adapters/src. One hundred and sixty-one ship today across forty-six collections:
| Collection | Adapters | Key needed |
|---|---|---|
| games | steam, steam-news, igdb, igdb-catalog (every game IGDB knows, walked by id then kept current from updated_at), wikidata-games, steam-catalog | IGDB only (Twitch client) |
| packages | npm, pypi, crates, go-modules, huggingface, github-releases (runtimes and frameworks, and NIST's own software under usnistgov as github-releases-nist) | no (GitHub token optional) |
| filings | edgar, federal-register | no |
| law | courtlistener (the newest opinions from the Atom feeds: all courts plus each court's own feed in rotation, or one court), courtlistener-oral-arguments (the podcast, with the MP3), courtlistener-api (dockets, judges and financial disclosures, one request a run inside the free tier's 125 a day), courtlistener-catalog (every court, judge with education and party, disclosure with what it reports, oral argument, opinion cluster with its reporter citations as tags, and the FJC database, from the quarterly bulk dumps; dockets opt-in) | COURTLISTENER_TOKEN for the API sources only; the feeds and the dumps are keyless and public domain |
| music | musicbrainz, musicbrainz-catalog, discogs-catalog | no |
| books | openlibrary, gutenberg-catalog, librivox-catalog, openlibrary-catalog | no |
| tabletop | scryfall-sets, scryfall-cards | no |
| space | launch-library | no |
| chess | lichess-broadcasts | no |
| alerts | usgs-earthquakes, gdacs | no |
| weather | nws-alerts, nhc-cyclones, swpc-space-weather, eonet-events | no |
| outages | statuspage (any Statuspage host) | no |
| extensions | firefox-addons, vscode-extensions | no |
| health | openfda-recalls, clinical-trials | no |
| research | arxiv, crossref, openalex (works newest first under a topic or a search; openalex-algorithms seeded), nist-datasets (every dataset on data.nist.gov, by last revision), nist-csrc-drafts (NIST security drafts open for comment, marked closed in place) | no |
| automotive | fueleconomy-catalog, nhtsa-recalls, nhtsa-complaints, nhtsa-safety-ratings | no |
| markets | iso-mic-exchanges, alpaca-corporate-actions, alpaca-news, alpaca-assets, equity-history, nasdaq-halts, ecb-fx-rates, sec-fundamentals | Alpaca (APCA_API_KEY_ID, APCA_API_SECRET_KEY, APCA_FEED iex or sip); SEC wants CONTACT_EMAIL in the user agent |
| crypto | coingecko-assets, crypto-pairs | keyless (COINGECKO_API_KEY optional; CRYPTO_PROXY_URL for Binance.US from a datacenter) |
| blockchain | blockchain-providers: a reviewed directory of free public APIs, with chains, capabilities, endpoints, documentation and access limits; /blockchain and /c/blockchain | no; upstream limits and production suitability are recorded per provider |
| crime | socrata-crime, uk-police-crime, fbi-crime-estimates, police-updates (39 California police feeds; source coverage) | FBI only (free api.data.gov key) |
| public-money | usaspending-awards, ocds-tenders, ted-notices | no |
| housing | uk-land-registry, freddie-mac-rates, building-permits, ruuster (agent saved searches) | no |
| jobs | bls-series, eurostat, warn-layoffs, agenticjobs | no |
| population | worldbank-population (every country, World Bank WDI, CC BY 4.0), census-acs (every US state, city and ZIP code from the ACS 5-year Summary File, public domain), geonames-cities (cities of 15,000+ everywhere else and their regions, CC BY 4.0); browse the tree at /population, or /api/v1/population/{key} | no |
| events | musicbrainz-events (about 126,000 concerts, festivals and shows from the MusicBrainz JSON dumps: performers by role, venue with coordinates, date and local start time, setlist, ticketing and setlist.fm links; CC0), wikidata-festivals (every music festival on Wikidata with website, place, genres and its MusicBrainz series; CC0). No ticket prices: Ticketmaster and SeatGeek terms forbid storing their data, and StubHub and Vivid Seats offer only affiliate programmes | no |
| radio | radiobrowser (about 67,000 internet radio stations from radio-browser.info, 60,000 playing: stream and homepage, country, language, genres, codec and bitrate, last stream check, votes and last-day listens, coordinates where known; free to use, swept daily) | no |
| ai-incidents | rogue-ai-incidents, rogue-ai-research, aiid-reports | no |
| news | newsfeed (newsroom desks, and NIST's 28 topic, event and blog feeds as nist-news), gdelt, rssamplifier, brisk, news-channels | no |
| domains | ntld-totals, ntld-tlds, ntld-launches, ntld-changes | no |
| podcasts | podcasts, p0dcasters, podcastindex-catalog | no |
| aviation | faa-nas-status, aviation-hazards, aviation-metar, ntsb-accidents, adsb-flights | no (NTSB needs mdbtools + unzip, in the Dockerfile) |
| water | nwps-river-gauges, coops-water-levels, drought-monitor, ndbc-buoys, nws-surf-zone | no |
| consumer-finance | cfpb-complaints, fdic-institutions, fdic-structure-changes | no |
| deals | slickdeals, dealnews, dealcatcher, bensbargains, reddit-deals | no |
| sports | espn-catalogue, espn-schedule, espn-live, espn-plays, livetennis, sportsdb-tv, sportsdb-leagues, sportsdb-teams, sportsdb-live, sportsdb-schedule | Live Tennis; TheSportsDB (SPORTSDB_API_KEY: on the shared key 3 every list answers one row and there is no live feed at all, on a subscriber key the catalogues are walked from lists and sportsdb-live and sportsdb-schedule turn on); ESPN is keyless (SPORTS_PROXY_URL for cloud egress) |
| screen | tmdb-releases, tvmaze-schedule, tvmaze-catalog (every show TVmaze knows, CC BY-SA, walked once then kept current from /updates/shows), anilist-airing, imdb-ratings, wikidata-films, kitsu-anime, thetvdb-catalog (every series on TheTVDB, THETVDB_API_KEY, attribution link required) | TMDB only |
| channels | iptv-org-channels | no |
| saas | saasrow, opensaas (nichedb.dev first; any service serving /.well-known/opensaas.json) | no |
| marketplace | d0rz, bl0ggers | no |
| ai-media | aiornot | no |
| forums | tsbb | no |
| coupons | c0upons (what c0upons.com took in on its own: submitted codes and its r/couponcodes listings; rows it copied from deals are not read back) | no |
| dht | bittorrented-dht (adult material left out) | bittorrented.com's Supabase URL and publishable key (BITTORRENTED_SUPABASE_URL, BITTORRENTED_SUPABASE_KEY); paused without them |
| hosting | findhost, buyvps, vultr-plans, linode-types, scaleway-instances, ovh-vps, storefront (WHMCS, Blesta and WooCommerce order forms), lowendbox, openserver; hetzner-plans, digitalocean-sizes, upcloud-plans | no for the first eight (FindHost data is CC BY 4.0: credit FindHost, findhost.app; OBSCURA_MCP_URL optional for JavaScript-only shops); Hetzner (HETZNER_API_TOKEN), DigitalOcean (DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN) and UpCloud (UPCLOUD_USERNAME, UPCLOUD_PASSWORD) each need a read-only credential and stay paused without one |
| threats | openthreat (ThreatCrush first; any reporter serving /.well-known/openthreat.json), nvd (every CVE, by lastModified every 15 minutes; "This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD"), surbl (the SURBL lists as a catalogue, and the domains you name looked up in multi.surbl.org; free DNS lookups under SURBL's usage policy, the whole list is only sold as a feed) | no (NVD_API_KEY optional, ten times the rate) |
| profiles | openprofiles (p0dcasters and OutreachGraph listings first; any app that lists the OpenProfile.md files it serves), sportarr-persons (Sportarr's 111k names, kept only when Wikidata knows the person as a human with a sport, with their socials), sportsdb-players, installmap-yc-people (YC companies that run an MCP server, as organizations with their accounts, and their founders) | no |
The way out (OpenSaaS)
nichedb serves its own OpenSaaS descriptor at /.well-known/opensaas.json: the plans as the checkout sells them (prepaid terms, none renews itself) and the actions that are real here, each as the page a person opens and the endpoint an agent calls with an OpenAccess bearer: subscribe (POST /api/v1/billing/subscribe, answers pending with the checkout page), cancel (POST /api/v1/billing/cancel, one click, today, nothing refunded), unsubscribe (a page: /settings, where the follows that send mail are turned off), export (POST /api/v1/account/export, one JSON document at once), delete (POST /api/v1/account/delete, confirmed by a link to the account email, immediate, nothing kept). The same doors as pages: /account/billing, /account/export, /account/delete. The opensaas adapter reads other services' descriptors into the saas collection, one row per plan with the service's own steps and confirm for the way in and the way out shown beside each other.
People (/c/profiles)
One entry per person, assembled from every app that serves their OpenProfile.md. The openprofiles adapter pages each app's listing (/api/openprofiles?since=…), fetches every document from the host that listed it, and merges documents that share an identity key (the Web URL, any Accounts URL, Email, DID) into one profile; a shared name alone never merges. The page is /c/profiles/ - (the id resolves, the name is cosmetic, a wrong name 301s) or /c/profiles/ once the owner took one, and …/openprofile.md next to it is the file, text/markdown, CORS open, with on the page.
A person claims their entry with This is me (proven by the email the profile lists, or a link back to the page from their site or show; admins may claim for an email) and edits it from the page, PUT /api/v1/profiles/ (JSON overlay or a whole text/markdown file), nichedb profile edit, or the update_profile MCP tool, with a session, an API key, or an OpenAccess token carrying openprofile:edit. What the owner writes is an overlay that wins over every source and survives every re-read; a section written as none is removed. The Broadcast and Guest sections (OpenBroadcast, OpenGuest) are what the podcasters and guests feeds cut on.
The page shows the three identity fields OpenProfile 0.4 makes defaults, read from the Markdown: Emoji (one grapheme or an OpenEmoji :shortcode:) beside the name, Pronouns as written beside the handle (absent is unstated, never inferred), and Web (with Website, Homepage and Site read as the s