# `news.hottub/hottub-news` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/news.hottub/hottub-news
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/news.hottub/hottub-news
- Version: 0.1.0 (active)
- Publisher: news.hottub (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T18:54:01.009Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
Hottub News
Worldwide news for agents: search, sync and story clusters across outlets and languages. No key.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T19:19:10.298Z over streamable-http.

**10 tools: 4 change things and 6 only read.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 0 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 4 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 6 | allow |

## Findings

- **warn** Annotations that disagree with the tool in `sync_news` ([annotation-conflict](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#annotation-conflict))

```untrusted-server-text
The server marks "sync_news" read-only (readOnlyHint: true), and its own name, description or input give the class "write".

annotations: {"readOnlyHint":true,"destructiveHint":false,"idempotentHint":true,"openWorldHint":true}; The name "sync_news" says "sync": a word for a change.
```


## Changes things (4)

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

### `news_stats`

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

### `newsmap`

- 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
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.
```

### `quote_placement`

- 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
Quote for placing a labeled, paid press release in the Hottub News mix via Hottub Business. Price varies by topic tier, current topic interest, demand, targeting reach and duration; the response itemizes each factor. Read-only: returns a price; books and charges nothing.
```

### `sync_news`

- The name "sync_news" says "sync": a word for a change.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.
- Findings: warn annotation-conflict

Description, as the server wrote it:

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

## Only reads (6)

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

### `find_entities`

- The name "find_entities" says "find": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
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.
```

### `get_news_item`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Full record for one item id (n_… for news, s_… for sponsored).
```

### `get_story`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

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

### `list_sources`

- The name "list_sources" says "list": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Registered sources with their language, country, kind and health. Filter by q (name), country or lang.
```

### `list_stories`

- The name "list_stories" says "list": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
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.
```

### `search_news`

- The name "search_news" says "search": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

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

## Claude Code permissions

For `.claude/settings.json`, assuming the server is installed as `hottub-news`:

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__hottub-news__search_news",
      "mcp__hottub-news__list_stories",
      "mcp__hottub-news__find_entities",
      "mcp__hottub-news__get_story",
      "mcp__hottub-news__get_news_item",
      "mcp__hottub-news__list_sources"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__hottub-news__sync_news",
      "mcp__hottub-news__quote_placement",
      "mcp__hottub-news__newsmap",
      "mcp__hottub-news__news_stats"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```