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Pollar News

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Independent European news from Pollar: search, explainers, brief, threads, audio, films. Read-only.

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Scanned Oct 21, 2026

No check matched anything in the tool definitions. No finding is not a safety guarantee. How the checks work.

claude mcp add --transport http pollar-news https://mcp.pollar.news/mcp

Tools

Open a tool for its reasons and full description. Descriptions are the publisher's own words, shown as they are.

24 tools

Only reads 24Claude Code: allow
  • fetchFetches the full text of one Pollar article by the id returned from the search tool.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "fetch" says "fetch": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Fetches the full text of one Pollar article by the id returned from the search tool. Returns {id, title, text, url, metadata} with the article's summary and source citations.

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • destructiveHint: false
    • openWorldHint: false
    • title: Fetch a Pollar News article
  • get_daily_briefFetches today's fixed, curated Pollar daily brief with a greeting, headline, executive summary, themed sections, related events, and charts.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "get_daily_brief" says "get": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Fetches today's fixed, curated Pollar daily brief with a greeting, headline, executive summary, themed sections, related events, and charts. Intended only for explicit requests for Pollar's daily brief or curated digest; questions about a subject, person, place, or country belong to search_news. Locale changes the brief's language, not its editorial scope.

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • destructiveHint: false
    • openWorldHint: false
    • title: Get Pollar daily brief
  • get_entityFetches Pollar's profile for a person or organisation by slug (slugs come from list_trending_entities).No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "get_entity" says "get": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Fetches Pollar's profile for a person or organisation by slug (slugs come from list_trending_entities). With withTimeline, it also lists recent events that mention the subject. Returns the profile and a canonical Pollar URL.

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • destructiveHint: false
    • openWorldHint: false
    • title: Get a Pollar person or organisation
  • get_eventFetches the full Pollar coverage of a single event by its slug (get slugs from search_news or list_top_news).No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "get_event" says "get": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Fetches the full Pollar coverage of a single event by its slug (get slugs from search_news or list_top_news). Returns title, lead, full summary, source citations, mentioned people, locations, charts, links to the same story in other languages, and a canonical pollar.news url. When explainer is set, get_explainer returns a narrated walk-through of the story; when film is set, get_film returns the film's transcript.

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • destructiveHint: false
    • openWorldHint: false
    • title: Get a Pollar news event
  • get_explainerFetches the explainer for one news event by its event slug (from list_explainers, or get_event when its explainer field is set).No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "get_explainer" says "get": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Fetches the explainer for one news event by its event slug (from list_explainers, or get_event when its explainer field is set). Returns the question it answers, the narration beat by beat, and each beat's visual data: a map with places and coordinates, a dated timeline (entries marked next are what comes next), a key figure with its source, a bar chart, or a quote. Suited to questions about why a story matters. Returns a canonical pollar.news url.

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • destructiveHint: false
    • openWorldHint: false
    • title: Get a Pollar explainer
  • get_filmFetches one Pollar film by slug (from list_films, or the film field of get_event) with its full transcript in the requested language, taken from the reviewed captions.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "get_film" says "get": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Fetches one Pollar film by slug (from list_films, or the film field of get_event) with its full transcript in the requested language, taken from the reviewed captions. Returns a canonical pollar.news url.

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • destructiveHint: false
    • openWorldHint: false
    • title: Get a Pollar film
  • get_live_momentFetches the current snapshot of a breaking-news moment by id, including ordered updates and a source summary.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "get_live_moment" says "get": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Fetches the current snapshot of a breaking-news moment by id, including ordered updates and a source summary. Accepts a moment id or a story id; a story id resolves to that story's latest chapter. The result is a point-in-time read, not a stream.

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • destructiveHint: false
    • openWorldHint: false
    • title: Get a breaking-news moment snapshot
  • get_live_storyFetches the current snapshot of a story by id, including its title, status (active, developing, concluded or dormant) and ordered chapters.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "get_live_story" says "get": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Fetches the current snapshot of a story by id, including its title, status (active, developing, concluded or dormant) and ordered chapters. Returns the whole multi-chapter arc; a single chapter comes from get_live_moment.

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • destructiveHint: false
    • openWorldHint: false
    • title: Get a breaking-news story snapshot (chapters umbrella)
  • get_marketsReturns market data tracked by Pollar, including European and global indices, currencies, crypto, commodities, and bonds.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "get_markets" says "get": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Returns market data tracked by Pollar, including European and global indices, currencies, crypto, commodities, and bonds. Without arguments it returns the quote catalogue; with an exact catalogue symbol, that quote's detail, and with a range, its price history.

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • destructiveHint: false
    • openWorldHint: false
    • title: Get market data
  • get_sound_episodeFetches one Pollar Sounds episode by slug (from list_sounds): description, the people and outlets whose recordings are heard, and the full transcript in the requested language with…No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "get_sound_episode" says "get": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Fetches one Pollar Sounds episode by slug (from list_sounds): description, the people and outlets whose recordings are heard, and the full transcript in the requested language with each speaker named. Episodes still in the members-only window come without a transcript. Returns a canonical pollar.news url.

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • destructiveHint: false
    • openWorldHint: false
    • title: Get a Pollar Sounds episode
  • get_threadFetches a single Pollar thread by slug (from list_threads): its thesis, current state-of-play, and the most recent chronicle entries with citations (15 by default, up to 100 with l…No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "get_thread" says "get": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Fetches a single Pollar thread by slug (from list_threads): its thesis, current state-of-play, and the most recent chronicle entries with citations (15 by default, up to 100 with limit). With withHistory, it also includes the last ten changes to the thesis. Returns the thread detail with a canonical url.

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • destructiveHint: false
    • openWorldHint: false
    • title: Get a Pollar thread
  • list_categoriesReturns Pollar's category taxonomy with mention counts: the valid dot-paths for filtering list_top_news.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "list_categories" says "list": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Returns Pollar's category taxonomy with mention counts: the valid dot-paths for filtering list_top_news. Takes no arguments.

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • destructiveHint: false
    • openWorldHint: false
    • title: List Pollar categories
  • list_explainersLists Pollar's latest explainers, newest first.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "list_explainers" says "list": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Lists Pollar's latest explainers, newest first. An explainer is a short narrated walk-through of one news event that answers the question behind it, with maps, timelines, key figures, charts and quotes. get_explainer takes a returned eventSlug for the content.

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • destructiveHint: false
    • openWorldHint: false
    • title: List Pollar explainers
  • list_filmsLists Pollar films, newest first: short videos in which a Pollar journalist answers one question about a news story.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "list_films" says "list": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Lists Pollar films, newest first: short videos in which a Pollar journalist answers one question about a news story. Each film links its event when one is attached. get_film takes a returned slug for the transcript.

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • destructiveHint: false
    • openWorldHint: false
    • title: List Pollar films
  • list_live_momentsLists Pollar's live and recently ended breaking-news moments: what is breaking now and what ended within the past 24 hours.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "list_live_moments" says "list": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Lists Pollar's live and recently ended breaking-news moments: what is breaking now and what ended within the past 24 hours. A moment that belongs to a multi-chapter story carries its storyId and chapterIndex, and chapters of one story come in chapter order. get_live_moment takes a returned id for the current snapshot.

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • destructiveHint: false
    • openWorldHint: false
    • title: List Pollar breaking-news moments
  • list_live_storiesLists Pollar's active and developing breaking-news stories, each with an umbrella title and its chapters in order.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "list_live_stories" says "list": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Lists Pollar's active and developing breaking-news stories, each with an umbrella title and its chapters in order. Suited to showing how a story has unfolded (for example, a strike with three chapters over 48 hours) rather than single moments. get_live_moment takes a returned story id for the current snapshot; it accepts story ids and moment ids.

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • destructiveHint: false
    • openWorldHint: false
    • title: List Pollar breaking-news stories (with chapters)
  • list_soundsLists episodes of Pollar Sounds, Pollar's narrative audio series that takes one story back to its roots, newest first.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "list_sounds" says "list": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Lists episodes of Pollar Sounds, Pollar's narrative audio series that takes one story back to its roots, newest first. Episodes with access 'early' are for Pollar members until publicAt. get_sound_episode takes a returned slug for the transcript and sources.

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • destructiveHint: false
    • openWorldHint: false
    • title: List Pollar Sounds episodes
  • list_threadsLists Pollar's active evergreen threads: ongoing storylines tracked over time and grouped by section, with the latest change magnitude.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "list_threads" says "list": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Lists Pollar's active evergreen threads: ongoing storylines tracked over time and grouped by section, with the latest change magnitude. Suited to discovering long-running topics; get_thread takes a returned id for the detail.

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • destructiveHint: false
    • openWorldHint: false
    • title: List Pollar story threads
  • list_top_newsLists Pollar's current leading news events, ranked by freshness and editorial momentum.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "list_top_news" says "list": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Lists Pollar's current leading news events, ranked by freshness and editorial momentum. Suited to broad requests for current headlines with no named subject, place, or country; subject and geographic requests belong to search_news. Can filter by a taxonomy dot-path such as 'world.politics'; valid paths come from list_categories.

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • destructiveHint: false
    • openWorldHint: false
    • title: List top Pollar news
  • news_nearLists recent Pollar events located in or around a named city or town, nearest first, with the distance in km.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The description's first verb is "list": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Lists recent Pollar events located in or around a named city or town, nearest first, with the distance in km. Accepts the place name in English, Polish, German or French, with an optional country for ambiguous names. A whole country, a region or a topic is a job for search_news.

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • destructiveHint: false
    • openWorldHint: false
    • title: Pollar news near a place
  • render_news_listShows up to 10 stories from earlier search_news, list_top_news or search results as a compact linked list.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "render_news_list" says "list": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Shows up to 10 stories from earlier search_news, list_top_news or search results as a compact linked list. Titles and canonical URLs are displayed exactly as given.

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • destructiveHint: false
    • openWorldHint: false
    • title: Show a Pollar news list
  • search_newsSearches Pollar's news archive with semantic and keyword matching.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "search_news" says "search": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Searches Pollar's news archive with semantic and keyword matching. Suited to any question about a subject, person, organisation, place, or country (for example, interesting news in Poland); the subject or place goes in query. Locale controls response language, not geographic scope. Current headlines with no subject or place come from list_top_news.

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • destructiveHint: false
    • openWorldHint: false
    • title: Search Pollar News

This is not a safety rating, and no finding is not a safety guarantee. The groups and findings come from fixed checks of the tool definitions the server returned on the date shown, not from its code or what it does when called. How the checks work.

Install

Pinned to version 1.3.0. Values in angle brackets are yours to fill in.

claude mcp add --transport http pollar-news https://mcp.pollar.news/mcp

Run in a terminal.

Claude Code permissions

Allow the reads, ask before a change, deny the deletes. Paste into .claude/settings.json.

.claude/settings.json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__pollar-news__search_news",
      "mcp__pollar-news__list_top_news",
      "mcp__pollar-news__news_near",
      "mcp__pollar-news__get_event",
      "mcp__pollar-news__get_daily_brief",
      "mcp__pollar-news__list_threads",
      "mcp__pollar-news__get_thread",
      "mcp__pollar-news__get_entity",
      "mcp__pollar-news__list_trending_entities",
      "mcp__pollar-news__get_markets",
      "mcp__pollar-news__list_live_moments",
      "mcp__pollar-news__list_live_stories",
      "mcp__pollar-news__get_live_moment",
      "mcp__pollar-news__get_live_story",
      "mcp__pollar-news__list_categories",
      "mcp__pollar-news__search",
      "mcp__pollar-news__fetch",
      "mcp__pollar-news__list_explainers",
      "mcp__pollar-news__get_explainer",
      "mcp__pollar-news__list_sounds",
      "mcp__pollar-news__get_sound_episode",
      "mcp__pollar-news__list_films",
      "mcp__pollar-news__get_film",
      "mcp__pollar-news__render_news_list"
    ],
    "ask": [],
    "deny": []
  }
}

Tools that only read are allowed, tools that change things ask first, tools that delete or cancel are denied. It assumes the server is installed as pollar-news. Review it before you use it.