O'Reilly launches Expert Intelligence, an MCP grounding layer with named-expert knowledge, precise citations and task-specific agent skills

What changed

O'Reilly formally launched Expert Intelligence on October 7 as an organization-wide grounding layer for enterprise AI. Its Expert MCP connects MCP-compatible tools to O'Reilly's practitioner knowledge repository, while job-specific agent skills turn expert frameworks into repeatable workflows. Responses include named authors, publication dates and direct links to the supporting passages. O'Reilly describes the connector as read-only, with customer code, prompts and proprietary data remaining in the customer's environment unless explicitly included in a request. The founding-member offer uses a 12-month organization-wide flat fee with uncapped employee access rather than per-seat licensing. O'Reilly's own 60-question comparison is vendor-run and should not be treated as an independent quality ranking.