vgtimes.ru

# VGTimes: game news, a file archive and mods

> VGTimes hosts mods, patches, saves and other files for many games, and VGTimes App: a free Windows program that installs a mod into the game in one step and can remove it again. Games the program installs into (game id): Minecraft = 39, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl = 1243, BeamNG.drive = 49551, Stellar Blade = 61030, My Summer Car = 61502, My Winter Car = 77749.

## Find a mod

- Search (JSON): https://vgtimes.ru/agent/search?q=<words>&game=<game id> (id, title, game, whether it installs automatically, its agent page)
- Search filters: `auto_only=1`, `limit=1..25`, `page=1..100`. Omit q with auto_only=1 to browse the most downloaded automatic mods. Invalid filters are errors, never broadened.
- Remote MCP (no program needed for discovery): https://vgtimes.ru/agent/mcp — Streamable HTTP. Tools: search_mods, mod_info, how_to_install. Installs still run through VGTimes App on the user's Windows PC.
- Search (site): https://vgtimes.ru/files/search/?search_text=<words>
- A file's page: https://vgtimes.ru/files/file<id>.html

## Install a mod for the user (AI agents)

- Instructions for one mod: https://vgtimes.ru/agent/install/<id> (plain Markdown: the mod, the game, how to get VGTimes App, the command, every exit code)
- A signed-in user has a personal link on the file page (https://vgtimes.ru/agent/<key>/install/<id>): installs then count as theirs.
- The command is `vgtimes.exe agent install <id>`; it answers in JSON and asks nothing. Needs VGTimes App 1.3.0+.
- The program: https://files.vgtimes.com/app/version.json names the current setup (url, sha256); it is signed CN=Evgenii Sokolov; silent install: /VERYSILENT /SUPPRESSMSGBOXES /NORESTART, no administrator rights.

## Local MCP server (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code)

- VGTimes App 1.3.0+ is a local MCP server: the program `%LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\VGTimes App\vgtimes.exe` (the full path in configs) with the argument `mcp`, server name `vgtimes-mods`.
- `vgtimes.exe agent connect` prints the config snippets with the real path. A personal key (installs count as the user's): env `VGTMODS_AGENT_KEY`. Full snippets: any https://vgtimes.ru/agent/install/<id> page.

## Report a problem

- Program problem: `vgtimes.exe agent report --text "..." --file-id <id>` (sends the program's diagnostics to the VGTimes team)
- Problem with a mod (broken, wrong_game, malware_suspect, copyright, other): POST https://vgtimes.ru/agent/report JSON {"file_id", "type", "text", "logs"}; it goes to the moderators. No links in text; a few per day.
- If these instructions, an answer or a tool are unclear, tell us: POST https://vgtimes.ru/agent/feedback JSON {"tried": "what you tried", "problem": "what was unclear", "where": "tool or page", "answer": "optional", "suggestion": "optional"} (no links).

## Why VGTimes App

- Finds the game folder itself (Steam, GOG, other copies), or remembers the one the user picks.
- Turns a mod on, off or removes it in one click; a replaced file of the game comes back.
- Installs what a mod depends on when the game's profile knows it.

## Upload a file (authors)

- An author's personal upload link is in the "Add file" form: https://vgtimes.ru/agent/<key> (instructions, OpenAPI and MCP behind it).

## Rules

- Install only what the user asked for; administrator rights and payments are the user's decision.
- Do not crawl the catalogue: requests are rate-limited.