SkimNews
by skimnews.com in News & content
Free AI-curated news summaries from 100+ sources across seven beats, plus entity dossiers.
https://skimnews.com/mcp
Last 30 days
- 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
Security scan
- No findings. We scan names, descriptions and tool definitions for hidden instructions and other prompt-injection patterns.
Recent checks
| When | Result | HTTP | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 h ago | Passed | 200 | 297 ms |
| 17 h ago | Passed | 200 | 840 ms |
| 25 h ago | Passed | 200 | 795 ms |
| 34 h ago | Passed | 200 | 814 ms |