{"slug": "show-hn-starwell-give-ai-agents-real-statistics-instead-of-made-up-numbers", "title": "Show HN: Starwell – give AI agents real statistics instead of made-up numbers", "summary": "Starwell, a new API and MCP server, launches to provide AI agents with real, cited official statistics instead of hallucinated numbers, offering a free tier without a credit card. The service harmonizes data from sources such as the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Statistics Canada, the European Central Bank, and the UK Office for National Statistics, with each value citing its official table.", "body_md": "# The world's data, one question away.\n\nAI agents hallucinate numbers. Starwell fixes that: the world's official statistics, harmonized into one REST API and one MCP server. Every value cites the official table it came from.\n\nFree tier, no card required.\n\n[United StatesU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · 12-mo change of CPI-U, computed 3.3%Jul 2026](/sources/bls/CUSR0000SA0)[CanadaStatistics Canada · 12-mo change of all-items CPI, computed 3.0%Jul 2026](/sources/statcan/v41690973)[Euro areaEuropean Central Bank · HICP annual rate, as published 2.9%Jul 2026](/sources/ecb/HICP.M.U2.N.000000.4D0.ANR)[United KingdomUK Office for National Statistics · CPI annual rate, as published 2.9%Jul 2026](/sources/ons-api/D7G7)\n\n[Ask one](/chat).\n\n`POST /api/starwell/v1/answer`\n\n[docs →](/docs)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-starwell-give-ai-agents-real-statistics-instead-of-made-up-numbers", "canonical_source": "https://starwell.dev/", "published_at": "2026-08-19 12:33:29+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-19 12:43:39.663501+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Starwell", "U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics", "Statistics Canada", "European Central Bank", "UK Office for National Statistics"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-starwell-give-ai-agents-real-statistics-instead-of-made-up-numbers", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-starwell-give-ai-agents-real-statistics-instead-of-made-up-numbers.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-starwell-give-ai-agents-real-statistics-instead-of-made-up-numbers.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-starwell-give-ai-agents-real-statistics-instead-of-made-up-numbers.jsonld"}}