MCP HeartbeatTHE MCP OBSERVATORY
Public workspace

Explore

Evidence for your next connection.

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

Read-only probes

MCP server · Data access / search

News by Hottub

World news for agents: stories across languages, with prospects ready for CRM by Hottub. No key.

Checks passed
12 / 22

2 failed · 8 not measured

Median response
654 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
12

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Outdated check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 654 ms.

  • Pass
    Valid handshake

    protocolVersion 2025-11-25, serverInfo.name hottub-news.

  • Pass
    Lists tools

    tools/list returned 12 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 654 ms over 1 samples in 7 days. The bar is 1000 ms. Need at least 5 samples.

  • Not measured
    Consistent (p95)

    95th percentile 654 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

    41 of 67 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 2026-11-06T22:55:53.502143Z, within 180 days.

  • Not measured
    Open-source licence

    No GitHub repository to ask about a licence.

Start using News by Hottub

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 news-by-hottub https://hottub.news/mcp

Capabilities

Tools 12

find_entities

Look up Wikidata ids for a name (e.g. "Tesla", "Lagos") with how many items mention each in the last 7 days; pass the id as `entity` to search_news or list_stories.

Discovered
find_prospects

The companies and people in an article or a story, ready to add to CRM by Hottub. Each has add_url (CRM by Hottub's add form, filled in; the person presses Add) and propose (arguments for CRM by Hottub's propose_relationship tool, which an owner approves). Give item (n_… or s_…) or story (st_…); or q to gather the organizations and people named across recent news on a subject, most often named first.

Discovered
get_news_item

Full record for one item id (n_… for news, s_… for sponsored).

Discovered
get_story

Every item in a story (the `story` id on items, st_…): all outlets and languages covering the same event, newest first.

Discovered
list_sources

Registered sources with their language, country, kind and health. Filter by q (name), country or lang.

Discovered
list_stories

The most widely covered stories right now (last 48h), each with a neutral multi-source brief when available, outlet count, languages, entities and a representative report. Filter by lang, country, category, entity.

Discovered
live_map

The last 24 hours, country by country, like an election map: each country's leading story (the one the most of its own outlets covered), the stories leading in the most countries, and countries too quiet to call. Give country (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2) for that country's stories: sort popular (its outlets), cited (stories that broke there, by how far outlets elsewhere picked them up) or relevant (what it covers more than the rest of the world). A country's list may carry one labeled paid placement.

Discovered
news_stats

Item counts over the last 24 hours by kind, language, country and source, plus the current sync cursor.

Discovered
newsmap

What the news covered in a period, for the world or a region: reports counted by publisher country (a choropleth map, as links to SVG and PNG) and the most widely covered stories with outlet counts. Periods: YYYY-MM-DD (UTC day), YYYY-wWW (ISO week), YYYY-MM, or today, yesterday, this-week, last-week, this-month, last-month. Past periods are final and permanent.

Discovered
quote_placement

Quote for placing a labeled, paid press release in the News by Hottub mix via Hottub Business. Price varies by topic tier, current topic interest, demand, targeting reach and duration; the response itemizes each factor. Country targeting also places it in that country's list on the news map (one paid slot, after the fourth story). Read-only: returns a price; books and charges nothing.

Discovered
search_news

Newest-first headlines from worldwide sources, optionally filtered by words, language, country, topic, source, kind and time.

Discovered
sync_news

Incremental feed: returns items added after `after`, oldest first, plus a new cursor. Call again with that cursor to get only what is new.

Discovered

Recent measurements

Probe history

View status
Latest stored probes. Raw probe rows are kept for 14 days.
CheckedResultResponseTools
Connected654 ms12