NewsMCP

Live world news deduplicated into story events, with corroboration counts and source links.

Install

Remote server: your requests and data go to mcp.newsmcp.com. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http newsmcp https://mcp.newsmcp.com/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.

• news — Search already-synthesized news events — pre-built story digests — or fetch one by id. Each story comes with a generated headline, one-liner
• get_story — Expand one story: full summary, classification, actors, and source links. Use this after any search, when the user wants more than the diges
• check_coverage — Judge how widely and how independently a claim has been reported. Answers "is this real?" rather than returning a list. Reports the number o
• check_limits — Report what this caller may do right now — and never spend any of it to find out. Answers the questions the `news` tool descriptions cannot:
• check_health — Check whether the NewsMCP REST API is reachable and healthy. Does not require an API token. Use when diagnosing connectivity, not for search

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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