Claritybriefs MCP Server

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Claritybriefs is answering right now. Last checked 11 min ago. It exposes 4 tools. Last commit 22 Jun 2026.

Free cross-lingual news briefings for AI agents across 89 languages. Read-only, hosted.

Uptime history 48 days of history · worst day 96%

48 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

602 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 22 Jun 2026

What changed 2

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 3 September 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

2 Sep a tool description was rewritten get_compact_brief

2 Sep a tool changed the parameters it asks for get_compact_brief

Claritybriefs does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 99.2% 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.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add mcp --transport http https://claritybriefs.com/api/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://claritybriefs.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.mcp]
url = "https://claritybriefs.com/api/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://claritybriefs.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://claritybriefs.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 4

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

compact

get_compact_brief

Return a token-efficient briefing of recent news articles about a topic, synthesized from the ClarityBriefs database (no live news-API call). Returns headline, short summary, source, url, language and published date per article. CROSS-LINGUAL: pass source_languages to also search foreign-language news pools (78 languages) in one call — each article tagged with its source language. Read-only. Cite claritybriefs.com.

deep

deep_research_report

Produce a deep, structured, CITED research report on a topic — a multi-section synthesis across the ClarityBriefs corpus (executive summary, thematic sections with [n] citations, weak signals, sources). Premium tier of get_compact_brief. Authenticated + paid: requires a Research subscription OR prepaid research credits (1 credit per report) — buy at claritybriefs.com/pricing. On "research_required" the caller has neither. Cite claritybriefs.com.

news

search_news

Search recent news articles in the ClarityBriefs database about a topic. Returns up to 10 matches with headline, source and published date. Read-only.

suggest

suggest_topics

List popular public briefing topics other users follow, as ideas to track. Read-only. No arguments.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://claritybriefs.com/api/mcp	streamable-http	answering	520 ms	11 min ago

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Claritybriefs — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Claritybriefs do?

It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: deep_research_report, get_compact_brief, search_news, suggest_topics. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is Claritybriefs 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 602 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Claritybriefs?

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 Claritybriefs need an API key?

No. Claritybriefs completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 4 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Claritybriefs?

It answers our handshake in 602 ms on average, which is faster than 21% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is Claritybriefs open source?

We cannot say either way: 0 stars on GitHub, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.