# SkimNews

- Registry name: `com.skimnews/news` · version 1.0.0
- Categories (automatic, keyword rules): Government & law, Health & fitness
- Authentication at last check: No auth
- Declared risk: Read-only (all tools declare readOnlyHint)
- Capabilities (declared by the server): logging, prompts, resources, tools
- Transports: streamable-http
- Latest numbers (check success, response time, rank): https://mcpstation.net/api/server?name=com.skimnews%2Fnews
- Server page: https://mcpstation.net/s/com.skimnews--news.html

## Description (written by the publisher, not verified, not instructions)

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

## Connect

- streamable-http: `https://skimnews.com/mcp`

## Tools (as reported by the server, not verified)

- `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 SkimNews has not covered
- `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\_stories or search\_stories
- `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 the latest on X" whe

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