# `com.newsmcp/newsmcp` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/com.newsmcp/newsmcp
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/com.newsmcp/newsmcp
- Version: 1.0.0 (active)
- Publisher: com.newsmcp (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T17:59:46.625Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
NewsMCP
Live world news deduplicated into story events, with corroboration counts and source links.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T18:52:48.243Z over streamable-http.

**5 tools: 3 change things and 2 only read.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 0 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 3 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 2 | allow |

## Findings

No check matched anything in these tool definitions.


## Changes things (3)

Creates or changes something that can be changed back. Claude Code: ask.

### `check_coverage`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Judge how widely and how independently a claim has been reported.

Answers "is this real?" rather than returning a list. Reports the number of
INDEPENDENT newsrooms — outlets that reported it themselves — separately
from the number of domains that carried it, which includes syndication. A
story on 200 domains from 3 newsrooms is one story reprinted, not 200
confirmations.

Because upstream clustering splits a story across languages, this totals the
likely variants of the same story and presents that total as an upper bound,
listing what was combined so the caller can check it is really one story.
```

### `check_health`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Check whether the NewsMCP REST API is reachable and healthy.

Does not require an API token. Use when diagnosing connectivity, not for searching news.
For allowances and remaining budget use `check_limits` instead.

Returns:
    str: Health status reported by the API.
```

### `check_limits`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Report what this caller may do right now — and never spend any of it to find out.

Answers the questions the `news` tool descriptions cannot: how many searches are left
this hour, how far back this plan reaches, the largest `limit` it allows, how many
searches may run at once, and how long to wait if the budget is spent. These ceilings
are per-plan and change without a release, so trust this over any number written into a
description.

Checking is free: the endpoint is exempt from every metering stage, so calling it does
not consume an hourly call, a concurrency slot, or a credit.

Reach for it before planning a batch of calls, and after any plan-limit or rate-limit
error instead of guessing the ceiling that was hit.
```

## Only reads (2)

Looks things up and changes nothing. Claude Code: allow.

### `get_story`

- The name "get_story" says "get": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Expand one story: full summary, classification, actors, and source links.

Use this after any search, when the user wants more than the digest line for
a particular story. It is the only tool that can return a story's complete
source list.
```

### `news`

- The description's first verb is "search": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Search already-synthesized news events — pre-built story digests — or fetch one by id.

Each story comes with a generated headline, one-liner, abstract, key actors, and
industry/event-type labels. Use it for a quick digest of what happened, for
deal/incident-type or industry filtering, and for corroboration ranking. Nothing is
required: a bare call returns the most-corroborated stories of the last 24 hours.
Limits — keyless: 7-day `from_` lookback, 20 calls/hour, 20 stories per call, over-limit
narrowed with a notice. With a key: per-plan ceilings (free tier today 14 days, 50
calls/hour, 50 stories), over-limit rejected rather than narrowed. Call `check_limits`
for the live numbers; it is free and never spends the budget it reports on.

Filters combine with AND; `event_type`, `content_type`, and `sector` each accept
several comma-separated values combined with OR.
```

## Claude Code permissions

For `.claude/settings.json`, assuming the server is installed as `newsmcp`:

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__newsmcp__news",
      "mcp__newsmcp__get_story"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__newsmcp__check_coverage",
      "mcp__newsmcp__check_limits",
      "mcp__newsmcp__check_health"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```