Brainer: Your Centralized AI Reasoning Engine

Brainer is a next-generation "AI Brain" deployed on Apify, powered by the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and NVIDIA NIM.

It is designed to give your local applications, chatbots, and AI agents instant, zero-configuration access to world-class reasoning models (like meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct) without exposing your private API keys.

---

🌟 The Value of Brainer

1. Centralized Intelligence: Stop managing API keys across multiple local environments, agents, and apps. Brainer securely hosts your NVIDIA API credentials in the cloud.
2. Universal Compatibility: Built on the standardized Model Context Protocol (MCP), Brainer instantly plugs into any MCP-compatible environment (like Cursor, OpenCode, or Claude Desktop).
3. High-Performance Reasoning: Tap directly into NVIDIA's optimized NIM architecture for blazing-fast inference and complex task delegation.
4. Agentic Delegation: Transform your standard applications into autonomous systems by giving them a dedicated "sub-agent" tool to offload heavy reasoning tasks.

---

⚙️ How It Works

Brainer operates via Apify's Standby Mode, creating a persistent, always-on Server-Sent Events (SSE) connection.

When your application needs to "think", it sends a prompt through the MCP protocol to your Brainer endpoint. Brainer securely proxies this request to NVIDIA, processes the reasoning, and returns the result back to your application—all in milliseconds.

---

🔗 Connection URL

https://YOUR_APIFY_USERNAME--nvidia-nim-mcp.apify.actor/mcp?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN

Replace YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN with your Apify API token, and YOUR_APIFY_USERNAME with the username of the account hosting the Actor.

---

🚀 Setup Guide

Step 1 — Get Your Apify Token

1. Go to your Apify Account Settings.
2. Copy your Personal API Token.

Step 2 — Connect Your AI Assistant

🖱️ Cursor

Add the following to your ~/.cursor/mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "brainer": {
      "url": "https://YOUR_APIFY_USERNAME--nvidia-nim-mcp.apify.actor/mcp?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN"
    }
  }
}

🤖 Claude Desktop

macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "brainer": {
      "url": "https://YOUR_APIFY_USERNAME--nvidia-nim-mcp.apify.actor/mcp?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN"
    }
  }
}

---

💡 Example Prompts

Try these once connected to your AI assistant:

Say this...	Tool(s) Used
"Use your reasoning engine to explain quantum computing simply."	ask_nvidia_model
"Analyze this code snippet using the NVIDIA NIM model."	ask_nvidia_model
"Act as a strategic advisor. Draft a roadmap based on this data."	ask_nvidia_model

---

💰 Pricing

This Actor uses the Pay per event pricing model. You only pay for the exact queries you make:

Event	Price per call
Session Connection	$0.00
list-request (Discover tools)	$0.00
tool-request (NVIDIA reasoning query)	$0.05

Plus standard Apify platform usage costs.

---

Built with ❤️ by MuLIAICHI