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news.asha/asha-news

MCP serverVerified domain · asha.newsRemote● LiveFree to try

Evidence-first news archive: briefs, breaking news, search, Palestine claims, conflict monitor.

Install

Remote server: your requests and data go to asha.news. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http asha-news https://asha.news/api/v1/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.

What it can do

The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.

  • asha_feed — Latest source-backed news from the Asha News archive. Returns items with publish time, source, and citation links.
  • asha_search — Unified search across Asha News articles, active story clusters, and published generated briefs. Use this before choosing a narrower endpoin
  • asha_search_articles — Keyword search across recent Asha News articles. Cite source URLs and Asha article/story URLs when present.
  • asha_digest — Clustered public news digest. format=markdown returns prose; otherwise JSON clusters.
  • asha_share_pack — Share-ready package for a published, cited Asha brief/story. Returns found=false when no final share pack is available.
  • asha_blindspot — Persisted Asha Blindspots / coverage gaps from posture analysis. Use only when status=available; do not infer gaps from empty or unavailable
  • asha_palestine — Palestine desk timeline (evidence-classed events) with a freshness indicator, plus the desk section map (Now / The Record / Israel Exposed w
  • palestine_check_claim — Check one claim about Palestine against the desk's claim library and evidence archive. Returns the matched claim family, verdict, a short ev
  • palestine_genocide_case — The full genocide-case record from the Asha News Palestine desk: what each court, UN body, rights organization, and study found — precisely
  • palestine_search_archive — Search the Palestine evidence archive: 140,000+ upstream media records, the Killed in Gaza victims memorial, and the curated claim library.
  • palestine_evidence_search — Search the Palestine evidence graph: reviewer-approved records with dates, places, assigned categories, and the source that documented each
  • palestine_evidence_record — One Palestine evidence record by its stable ref (e.g. gl-2810), with its assigned categories, editor-asserted incident links, related record
  • palestine_evidence_health — Operational state of the Palestine evidence pipeline: which sources are collecting and when they last succeeded, how deep the review queue i
  • palestine_evidence_taxonomy — The controlled vocabulary behind the Palestine evidence graph: incident_type (what happened), theme (what was hit), affected_group (who), an
  • asha_sources — Asha News public source directory with provenance and trust metadata.
  • asha_clusters_search — Search story clusters by topic. Returns grouped multi-source coverage.
  • asha_market_context — Public market price context for supported instruments. Returns quote source, timestamp, and instrument rows.
  • asha_breaking — Breaking news: active alerts plus breaking-flagged articles with age and expiry. Poll every 60s with since={last generated_at} for deltas; n
  • asha_daily_brief — Server-rendered daily brief: categorized sections with publish time + age per item, Palestine desk leading. format=markdown for chat relay,
  • asha_share_payload — Ready-to-post social share payloads for an article (x, bluesky, threads, mastodon, telegram, whatsapp, facebook, linkedin): text within plat
  • conflict_state — Live Middle East Conflict Monitor snapshot: official alerts, geolocated OSINT events, active story clusters, EN/AR theater brief, and per-ti
  • conflict_events — Geolocated Conflict Monitor events (strike, explosion, intercept, movement, statement, thermal_confirmation) with severity, verification sta
  • asha_editorial_guidelines — Asha News editorial voice contract: evidence-first, openly pro-Palestine, citations preserved. Read before generating derived briefs, titles
  • asha_mint_share_link — Mint the stable asha.news/s/<code> short link for an article, generated brief, story cluster, or allowlisted route. Idempotent — the same ta
  • asha_subscribe_newsletter — Start a DOUBLE OPT-IN newsletter signup for an email address. Asha emails a confirmation link; nothing is delivered until the person clicks

KitScout test notes

Not tested by KitScout yet. When our harness runs it, pros, cons and the tasks we tried appear here, with the date and evidence.

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