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Independent measurements of remote MCP servers. Every observation has a timestamp.

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MCP server · Data access / search

Stable News

One news edition a day, ranked by a published rule, in our own words with links to the outlets.

Checks passed
12 / 22

2 failed · 8 not measured

Median response
548 ms

Median of successful probes over 7 days

30-day uptime
Not measured

Share of countable probes over 30 days, including daily rollups. Auth challenges are excluded.

Discovered tools
13

Tool definitions returned by this server

Independent monitoring

Health & checks

Status history

Outdated check

Last connection measurement is over 24 hours old. Current availability is unknown.

Last checked
Check summary by test group
Test areaPassedFailedUnmeasured
ConnectionCan a client connect and discover tools?
500
Reliability & speedDoes it respond consistently and quickly?
004
Access & authenticationWhat is required to use this server?
102
Tool qualityAre the tool definitions usable by an agent?
310
Publisher identityCan the publisher be traced to its source?
312

Unmeasured means there is not enough evidence to decide. How these checks work

Inspect individual checks 22 recorded

Core

  • Pass
    Reachable

    Latest probe returned HTTP 200 in 548 ms.

  • Pass
    Valid handshake

    protocolVersion 2025-11-25, serverInfo.name Stable News.

  • Pass
    Lists tools

    tools/list returned 13 tools.

  • Pass
    Current protocol

    Negotiated 2025-11-25. The bar is 2025-06-18 or newer.

  • Pass
    HTTPS

    The endpoint URL is https.

Performance

  • Not measured
    Fast (p50)

    Median latency 548 ms over 1 samples in 7 days. The bar is 1000 ms. Need at least 5 samples.

  • Not measured
    Consistent (p95)

    95th percentile 548 ms over 1 samples in 7 days. The bar is 3000 ms. Need at least 20 samples.

  • Not measured
    Reliable (uptime)

    1 of 1 attempts returned a tool list in 30 days (100%). The bar is 99%. Need at least 30 samples.

  • Not measured
    Stable tool list

    Fewer than two successful probes in 30 days, so tool-list stability is not measured.

Access

  • Pass
    Open access

    tools/list succeeded with no credential, and the record declares none.

  • Not measured
    Standard auth

    Auth is not required, so the OAuth metadata check does not apply.

  • Not measured
    Free tier cited

    No publisher quote has been checked.

Tools

  • Pass
    Tools described

    Every tool description is at least 20 characters.

  • Pass
    Valid input schemas

    Every inputSchema is a JSON Schema object.

  • Fail
    Parameters documented

    20 of 33 parameters have a description (61%). The bar is 80%.

  • Pass
    Safety hints

    Every tool sets readOnlyHint or destructiveHint.

Publisher

  • Pass
    Verified namespace

    Listed in the Official MCP Registry.

  • Pass
    Website matches publisher

    The website host matches the reverse-domain namespace.

  • Fail
    Source repo linked

    No repository URL is on file.

  • Not measured
    Repo owner matches

    This namespace is not an io.github login, so the owner comparison does not apply.

  • Pass
    Recently updated

    Updated 2026-11-08T11:13:25.761589Z, within 180 days.

  • Not measured
    Open-source licence

    No GitHub repository to ask about a licence.

Start using Stable News

Connect to this server

Choose your client, copy the configuration, then enable the server in your client’s MCP settings.

Run this command in your terminal, then restart Claude Code.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http stable-news https://stablenews.ai/mcp/news

Capabilities

Tools 13

amend_brief

The whole brief as amended by one sentence of the reader's, compiled as set_brief does, with `changes` against the one they hold. save_brief with the new `confirm` keeps it.

Discovered
answer_brief

The question set_brief asked, answered: the choice put in the record, which is compiled again.

Discovered
forget_brief

The reader's brief dropped, only when they asked for that in words: nothing draws their morning but the world's. Their history stays on the site.

Discovered
morning

The day's edition: the briefing's lines by section, each with its countries, who it is about, its score (the story's main at the edition's home, 0-1) and `mains` (the main at home and at the world), our story page and the outlet, and what was read for it. With no `edition`, the reader's own (made each morning from their interests; its `own` note says whether it is ready), else the World edition. `edition` world, pl or us names a public edition; `date` YYYY-MM-DD (the latest when omitted); `audio` adds the edition read aloud.

Discovered
my_brief

The brief the reader holds, with its plain-language read-back and the `confirm` an amendment saves on; or what stands in its place.

Discovered
my_interests

Every magnet that draws the reader's edition, theirs over the edition's, with the words they gave, and their credits.

Discovered
rehearse_brief

The mornings of the last days the brief would have given, lane by lane: each line a happening with our title and page and the main it was ranked by; a quiet lane says so. From the pool alone; nothing is saved.

Discovered
save_brief

The brief kept, on the reader's yes: their active record, its lanes drawing their own edition from the next morning. Refused when the record changed since its `confirm`.

Discovered
save_interest

Move one of the reader's magnets, what draws their own edition: a `target` and a step (away, low, normal, high) saves at once. For a subject no target names, a `draft` of their own words: without `preview` it answers what the draft would give a day, the pieces it finds, and a `confirm` digest; with preview=<confirm> it saves. Their own words are the cause. The same move again changes nothing.

Discovered
search

The stories of the last `days` whose pieces name the query, one row a story, in our words with its lead piece's outlet and link, our story page, how many pieces it was found in, its outlets and days, its score and its place on today's list: today's list first, then by score, then the newest. Costs one credit (the balance comes back); the same search the same day is paid once. A row's `item_id` asks `why`, and with its title goes into a draft's examples for save_interest.

Discovered
set_brief

The reader's brief compiled from the record you wrote: who they are, their morning, and lanes, each standing on a target (world, country:XX, medtop:N, wd:Qn), an all_of or any_of of them, or what a piece says; a lane may follow a story (storyline:N or thread:N, or its name), with `{up_to: N, when: sizeable}` for only a morning it moved; a plain name in place of an id is resolved (one match taken; several: the first taken and one `question`). Answers the record, `resolved`, `read_back` (a plain-language summary), `confirm` for save_brief; or `problem` with a pointer and a fix per error. Nothing is saved.

Discovered
top

The stories of the last 24 hours in rank order, run again hourly (`as_of`, `window_hours`): each story's rank, our title, its score (0-1: the edition's perspective, its mains pulled by the edition's stakes), `mains` (the main at the edition's home and at the world, the honest pair), its outlets, our story page, and a piece to ask `why` about. With `country`, the stories about it, and a note when we read few of its outlets.

Discovered
why

Why a piece's story is where it is on the list: its rank and score, the mains at the edition's home and at the world, the pulls that lifted it (each stake the edition holds, its step, the main it read and its part of the score, with the arithmetic), the gates that cut a main (no outlet abroad told it, a routine notice), who carried it, who it is about, what is just above and below, and what near it was left out and why.

Discovered

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Probe history

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Latest stored probes. Raw probe rows are kept for 14 days.
CheckedResultResponseTools
Connected548 ms13