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The Daily Markdown MCP Server

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The Daily Markdown is answering right now. Last checked 3 min ago. It exposes 3 tools.

Free AI news, ranked stories by section, and trending topics. No authentication required.

Uptime history 23 days of history · worst day 99%
23 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
3
Tools
read from the server
125 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

What changed 1

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 20 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

20 Oct a tool description was rewritten section

The Daily Markdown missed one check this week

Everything else answered, so this is steady rather than shaky. We check every 15 minutes, which is how a one-off gets told apart from the start of a pattern, and how you hear about the next one within the hour instead of from your users.

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 3 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add dailymd --transport http https://dailymd.cowerx.dev/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://dailymd.cowerx.dev/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.dailymd]
url = "https://dailymd.cowerx.dev/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dailymd": {
      "url": "https://dailymd.cowerx.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "dailymd": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://dailymd.cowerx.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 3

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

front
front_page
The Daily Markdown: what is hottest in AI right now, ranked across X, Hacker News, Hugging Face, GitHub, lab blogs, newsletters and energy news. Returns the top stories for a time window plus trending topics.
section
section
The ranked stories of one Daily Markdown section: x (X posts linked from Hacker News, then Bluesky and Mastodon posts), github, infrastructure (data centers, power, chips and what tokens cost), models.
trending
trending_topics
Names rising fastest against their own weekly pace across all sources.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://dailymd.cowerx.dev/mcp streamable-http answering 85 ms 3 min ago

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The Daily Markdown — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can The Daily Markdown do?
It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: front_page, section, trending_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 The Daily Markdown 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 125 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect The Daily Markdown?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does The Daily Markdown need an API key?
No. The Daily Markdown completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 3 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is The Daily Markdown?
It answers our handshake in 125 ms on average, which is faster than 88% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.