Asha News is answering right now. Last checked 11 min ago. It exposes 25 tools.
Evidence-first news archive: briefs, breaking news, search, Palestine claims, conflict monitor.
Uptime history
31 days of history · worst day 73%
31 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
25
Tools
read from the server
275 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http
What changed 4
Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 27 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.
27 Aug
4 tools appeared
palestine_evidence_health, palestine_evidence_record, palestine_evidence_search and 1 more
Asha News does not always answer
Over the last week it answered 96.1% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.
Connect this server
Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 11 min ago.
run in your terminal
claude mcp add asha-news --transport http https://asha.news/api/v1/mcp~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"asha-news": {
"url": "https://asha.news/api/v1/mcp"
}
}
}~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.asha-news]
url = "https://asha.news/api/v1/mcp".cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"asha-news": {
"url": "https://asha.news/api/v1/mcp"
}
}
}.vscode/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"asha-news": {
"url": "https://asha.news/api/v1/mcp"
}
}
}Available tools 25
Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on.
If a tool disappears, we record the date.
asha
asha_blindspot
Persisted Asha Blindspots / coverage gaps from posture analysis. Use only when status=available; do not infer gaps from empty or unavailable responses.
asha_breaking
Breaking news: active alerts plus breaking-flagged articles with age and expiry. Poll every 60s with since={last generated_at} for deltas; notify your user on new items.
asha_clusters_search
Search story clusters by topic. Returns grouped multi-source coverage.
asha_daily_brief
Server-rendered daily brief: categorized sections with publish time + age per item, Palestine desk leading. format=markdown for chat relay, html for a styled self-contained page, json for structured data. Relay as-is.
asha_digest
Clustered public news digest. format=markdown returns prose; otherwise JSON clusters.
asha_editorial_guidelines
Asha News editorial voice contract: evidence-first, openly pro-Palestine, citations preserved. Read before generating derived briefs, titles, or social posts.
asha_feed
Latest source-backed news from the Asha News archive. Returns items with publish time, source, and citation links.
asha_market_context
Public market price context for supported instruments. Returns quote source, timestamp, and instrument rows.
asha_mint_share_link
Mint the stable asha.news/s/<code> short link for an article, generated brief, story cluster, or allowlisted route. Idempotent — the same target always returns the same code. Use this instead of pasting long URLs; the short link carries social preview metadata.
asha_palestine
Palestine desk timeline (evidence-classed events) with a freshness indicator, plus the desk section map (Now / The Record / Israel Exposed wings with canonical page URLs).
asha_search
Unified search across Asha News articles, active story clusters, and published generated briefs. Use this before choosing a narrower endpoint.
asha_search_articles
Keyword search across recent Asha News articles. Cite source URLs and Asha article/story URLs when present.
asha_share_pack
Share-ready package for a published, cited Asha brief/story. Returns found=false when no final share pack is available.
asha_share_payload
Ready-to-post social share payloads for an article (x, bluesky, threads, mastodon, telegram, whatsapp, facebook, linkedin): text within platform limits, hashtags, image, and intent URL. Post verbatim; keep attribution.
asha_sources
Asha News public source directory with provenance and trust metadata.
asha_subscribe_newsletter
Start a DOUBLE OPT-IN newsletter signup for an email address. Asha emails a confirmation link; nothing is delivered until the person clicks it. Only submit an address the person gave you in this conversation, and tell them to check their inbox — you cannot confirm on their behalf.
palestine
palestine_check_claim
Check one claim about Palestine against the desk's claim library and evidence archive. Returns the matched claim family, verdict, a short evidence-backed answer, and citation URLs. Rate-limited — send a single clear claim per call and relay the citations with the answer.
palestine_evidence_health
Operational state of the Palestine evidence pipeline: which sources are collecting and when they last succeeded, how deep the review queue is, how many records are actually published, and how reachable the external media pointers were at their last check. Aggregate counts only — it never names an unreviewed record. Use it to answer "is this archive current?" honestly before citing it, and read degraded_reasons rather than the status alone. A source with ingest_enabled:false is configured off, not broken.
palestine_evidence_record
One Palestine evidence record by its stable ref (e.g. gl-2810), with its assigned categories, editor-asserted incident links, related records, and ranked external media candidates carrying observed link health. Media candidates are third-party destinations — Asha never hosts them, and anything graphic or ungraded requires explicit consent before it loads. A ref that is not found may simply not have cleared editorial review; treat 404 as "not published", not as "does not exist".
palestine_evidence_search
Search the Palestine evidence graph: reviewer-approved records with dates, places, assigned categories, and the source that documented each one. Returns facet counts (region, category, year, source, trust states) alongside results, so you can see the shape of the corpus before narrowing. Every record separates the upstream source's own wording (upstream.classification) from Asha's review (asha.finding) — quote the first with attribution, never relay it as an Asha finding. bot_can_cite is true only for editorially verified records; everything else is citable strictly as "this source says". Asha holds metadata and links only; media opens on the upstream record.
palestine_evidence_taxonomy
The controlled vocabulary behind the Palestine evidence graph: incident_type (what happened), theme (what was hit), affected_group (who), and legal_category (what a named body says it amounts to). Call this before filtering so you use real slugs. legal_category terms are editorial-only — they are never derived from text, and record that a named authority made that characterization.
palestine_genocide_case
The full genocide-case record from the Asha News Palestine desk: what each court, UN body, rights organization, and study found — precisely characterized (provisional measures are not merits rulings; warrants are charges, not convictions) — plus attributed casualty figures, a case timeline, and an FAQ. Relay characterizations exactly and keep citation URLs.
palestine_search_archive
Search the Palestine evidence archive: 140,000+ upstream media records, the Killed in Gaza victims memorial, and the curated claim library. Results carry stable IDs and canonical URLs — cite those instead of scraping.
conflict
conflict_events
Geolocated Conflict Monitor events (strike, explosion, intercept, movement, statement, thermal_confirmation) with severity, verification status, and EN/AR summaries. Filter with bbox=w,s,e,n; pass since={seq} for deltas.
conflict_state
Live Middle East Conflict Monitor snapshot: official alerts, geolocated OSINT events, active story clusters, EN/AR theater brief, and per-tier freshness (degraded flag). Pass since={seq} for envelope deltas. Streaming clients can use SSE at https://asha.news/api/conflict/stream instead.
Endpoints
| URL | Transport | State | Latency | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://asha.news/api/v1/mcp | streamable-http | answering | 321 ms | 11 min ago |
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Asha News — questions
Answers built from our own checks of this server.
What can Asha News do?
It exposes 25 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: asha_blindspot, asha_breaking, asha_clusters_search, asha_daily_brief, asha_digest, asha_editorial_guidelines and 19 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README.
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What is Asha News mostly used for?
Its tools cluster around asha, palestine and conflict. That is what this server is built to work with — the grouping comes from the actual tool names, not from a category we assigned.
Is Asha News working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 275 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Asha News?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Asha News need an API key?
No. Asha News completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 25 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Asha News?
It answers our handshake in 275 ms on average, which is faster than 54% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.