{"name":"cpetoday","description":"Read-only access to the CPE Today catalog (NASBA-sponsored CPE courses and events) and published articles.","version":"2026.09.03+57edee1","protocolVersion":"2025-06-18","instructions":"CPE Today provides NASBA-sponsored continuing professional education for CPAs and other professionals. Use search_courses to find live webinars, on-demand replays, and events; get_course for full detail including credit hours, fields of study, learning objectives, and the enrollment URL; check_credit_requirements to find courses that supply a given kind of credit (e.g. Ethics, Taxes, Accounting); and search_articles / get_article for instructor-written guidance. All results are the live public catalog — retired courses and finished events are already excluded.","transport":{"type":"streamable-http","endpoint":"https://www.cpetoday.com/mcp"},"capabilities":{"tools":{"listChanged":false}},"tools":[{"name":"search_courses","description":"Search the live CPE Today catalog of courses and events. Returns matching items with slug, title, URL, credit hours, credit types, fields of study, format, price, and (for events) the next date. Use get_course for full detail."},{"name":"get_course","description":"Full detail for one course or event by its slug: description, credit hours and types, fields of study, program level, learning objectives, major topics, prerequisites, NASBA sponsor and IRS program number, price, upcoming dates, and the enrollment URL. Also what's included with the course (handout, slides, demonstration/sample files), the attendee rating breakdown, and real attendee reviews. For an event, the full day-by-day agenda. Returned as clean markdown plus structured fields."},{"name":"check_credit_requirements","description":"Find courses that supply a specific kind of CPE credit — useful for building a compliance plan (e.g. 'I need 4 hours of Ethics'). Maps a credit type / field of study to qualifying live courses and their credit hours. Note: this reports what our catalog grants, not a jurisdiction's legal requirement — always confirm state board rules."},{"name":"search_articles","description":"Search CPE Today's published articles (instructor-written technology and practice guidance). Returns title, slug, URL, excerpt, topics, author, and publish date."},{"name":"get_article","description":"Read one published article by slug, returned as clean markdown with byline, publish date, topics, and any attachments."},{"name":"search_sessions","description":"Semantic search across CPE Today's recorded session transcripts — by meaning, not keywords. Returns the exact moments where a topic is taught (session, chapter, timestamp, excerpt) and the course to enroll in for CPE credit, plus an optional short answer grounded ONLY in those excerpts. Best for how-to and 'what did the instructor recommend about X' questions."},{"name":"search_policy_templates","description":"Search CPE Today's free, editable policy templates for firms (WISP, BYOD, AI use, wire authorization, records retention, incident response, and more). Returns title, slug, URL, category, summary, and the regulations each maps to. Only published templates are returned. These are starting points, not legal advice."},{"name":"get_policy_template","description":"Read one free policy template by slug: the full editable text as markdown (with [bracketed] fill-ins), its category, summary, the fields to complete, the regulations it maps to, guidance on what to customize, its version and CC BY 4.0 license, and the page URL for the Word/PDF download. Use it to help a firm ADAPT the policy — always keep the 'starting point, not legal advice, have counsel review' framing."},{"name":"search_prompts","description":"Search CPE Today's free AI Prompt Library — ready-to-run prompts for accounting/tax firms (client emails, tax research, firm SOPs, study coaching, and more). Returns title, slug, URL, category, kind (user/system), and summary. Published only."},{"name":"get_prompt","description":"Read one prompt from the library by slug: the full prompt text (with [bracketed] fill-ins), its kind (user/system), category, the variables to fill, tags, and how-to. Reminder to keep in the prompt: don't paste real client data into public AI tools; verify tax/accounting output."}],"documentation":"https://www.cpetoday.com/agents"}