Can a CAO agent show its evidence? Yes, with one profile and no code
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Can a CAO agent answer a research question with real evidence, meaning a citation count for every paper and a publication date for every news claim, without you writing any code? Yes. It takes one agent profile with a six-line mcpServers entry that points at a remote MCP server and passes an API key in a header. CAO resolves the key from its managed environment at launch, the provider connects to the server, and the agent gets fourteen search tools it did not have before. This post shows the result first, then how the wiring works, then the parts that did not go smoothly.