SkimNews

com.skimnews/newsVersion 1.0.0

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

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Hosting: Hosted outside the EU (detected)
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Streamable HTTP

https://skimnews.com/mcpResponds754 msNov 14, 2026, 14:16 UTC

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Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http news https://skimnews.com/mcp

Claude Desktop and claude.ai

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Settings > Connectors > Add custom connector
Name: news
Remote MCP server URL: https://skimnews.com/mcp

Cursor

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "news": {
      "url": "https://skimnews.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

VS Code

code --add-mcp '{"name":"news","type":"http","url":"https://skimnews.com/mcp"}'

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Tools

4 tools

Tools of SkimNews
	Description		Read-only	Idempotent	Open world
`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" where X is a trackable entity. Slug form, e.g. 'trump', 'openai', 'iran'.	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" where X is a trackable entity. Slug form, e.g. 'trump', 'openai', 'iran'.	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
`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 when a story needs detail or accurate citation.	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 when a story needs detail or accurate citation.	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
`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.	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.	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
`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 that topic — say so rather than substituting unrelated 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 that topic — say so rather than substituting unrelated stories.	No	Yes	Yes	Yes

Details

Registry status: Active
Published: Oct 6, 2026
Updated: Oct 6, 2026
Website: https://skimnews.com/⁠ (opens in a new tab)
Repository: Not given
Categories (suggested): Search and webSuggested categories are assigned automatically from the registry text and may be wrong. Verified operators can correct them.
GDPR: Not declared

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