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SkimNews

by skimnews.com in News & content

MCP serverPassing, checked 8 h ago

Free AI-curated news summaries from 100+ sources across seven beats, plus entity dossiers.

https://skimnews.com/mcp

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Uptime
100%
Response time
795 ms typical, 814 ms slowest 5%
Last check
8 h ago
Next check
any minute now

How to call it

Add it to any MCP client that supports remote servers.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "skimnews": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://skimnews.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

4 tools

  • get_top_stories

    Today's top SkimNews stories, optionally limited to one beat. Use this for "what's happening today" / "today's news" / "latest in <beat>" questions. Returns summaries plus canonical URLs per story. Categories: geopolitics, tech, finance, health, energy, sports, culture.

  • search_stories

    Semantically search SkimNews' archive of 47,000+ summarised stories by topic, theme, or news event, ranked by relevance. Use this to find coverage of a subject across SkimNews' history rather than only today. Returns summaries plus canonical URLs. An empty result list means SkimN

  • get_story_detail

    The full SkimNews treatment of one story: summary, why-it-matters, sourced bullet points, editorial take, named entities, the source taxonomy, and the canonical URL. Accepts an article id (e.g. '46b45d01'), a canonical skimnews.com URL, or an article slug. Use after get_top_stori

  • get_entity_file

    SkimNews keeps a permanent dossier on every person, organisation, product, law, or place it has covered repeatedly. Returns the current 3-sentence status, 60-day mention/source counts, recent coverage, and related entities. Use for "what has SkimNews covered about X" and "what's

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