Hanging Context: News For Agents MCP Server

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Hanging Context: News For Agents is answering right now. Last checked 1 min ago. It exposes 8 tools. Last commit 26 Oct 2026.

Fresh context for agents. Ask, search or follow stories. Each fact cites a Synorb Manifest.

Uptime history 26 days of history · worst day 99%

26 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

437 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 26 Oct 2026

What changed 9

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 16 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

20 Oct 3 tool descriptions were rewritten hc_ask, hc_sources, hc_topics

17 Oct 4 tools changed the parameters they ask for hc_about, hc_latest, hc_since and 1 more

16 Oct 2 tools disappeared hc_subscribe, hc_unsubscribe

Tools have disappeared from this server

A tool that vanishes takes a piece of your agent with it, and the change arrives silently. Watch this server and every such change lands in your inbox.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 1 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add mcp --transport http https://hangingcontext.com/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://hangingcontext.com/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

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

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://hangingcontext.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://hangingcontext.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 8

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

about

hc_about

Explain Hanging Context. Returns what it is, the checks on each story, the reuse rules, and how to read or receive stories.

ask

hc_ask

Answer a question from recent stories. Ranks stories by keyword match and copies the best key facts word for word. Returns up to 5 facts, each with its story URL and Manifest ids, and up to `limit` matched stories. If nothing matches, returns no_match true and suggestions. It does not use an LLM. Use it when the user asks a question about recent news.

hc_search

Search recent stories by keyword. The ranking uses keyword match only. Returns up to 20 stories with headline, dek, topic, URL, Manifest ids and score.

latest

hc_latest

Get the latest stories, newest first. Filter by topic or beat. Returns up to 20 stories with headline, dek, topic, URL and Manifest ids.

since

hc_since

Get only the stories that are new since your last call. Send the cursor from the last response. If you send no cursor, the call returns the current cursor and no stories. Returns up to 50 stories with next_cursor and has_more.

sources

hc_sources

Show where a story gets its facts. Returns each source with its title, source name, original URL and date, and which facts and paragraphs use it. Also returns the trust label.

story

hc_get_story

Read one story. Use format `brief` for the headline, dek and key facts. Use format `full` for the whole story as Markdown. Use format `claims` for key facts and paragraphs as JSON, each with its Manifest ids. Returns the story in that format and up to 3 related stories.

topics

hc_topics

List the topics. Returns each topic with its title, beats, sources and story count for the last 24 hours. Also returns not_covered, a list of things this server does not cover. Call this first to get valid topic and beat ids for hc_latest, hc_search and hc_since.

Tools removed

Tools this server used to expose. Anything built against them stopped working on the day they went.

hc_subscribe

removed 16 Oct 2026

hc_unsubscribe

removed 16 Oct 2026

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://hangingcontext.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	439 ms	1 min ago

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Hanging Context: News For Agents — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Hanging Context: News For Agents do?

It exposes 8 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: hc_about, hc_ask, hc_get_story, hc_latest, hc_search, hc_since and 2 more. 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 Hanging Context: News For Agents working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 437 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

Did Hanging Context: News For Agents ever remove tools?

Yes. hc_subscribe, hc_unsubscribe are no longer exposed — we recorded the date each one disappeared. A tool vanishing usually means a breaking change for anything that depended on it.

How do I connect Hanging Context: News For Agents?

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 Hanging Context: News For Agents need an API key?

No. Hanging Context: News For Agents completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 8 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Hanging Context: News For Agents?

It answers our handshake in 437 ms on average, which is faster than 28% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is Hanging Context: News For Agents open source?

The code is open source: it is published under the MIT licence, written in Python and 0 stars on GitHub. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at hangingcontext.com, which runs on its operator's own terms.