Briefings MCP Server

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answering

Briefings is answering right now. Last checked 6 min ago. It exposes 3 tools.

Hourly ranked news (AI, markets, sports, world): JSON, e-ink pages, Morning Paper PDF; 25 free/day

The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private.

Uptime history 15 days of history · worst day 90%

15 days agonow

93.4%

Uptime 24h

85 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

437 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 11 September 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

17 Sep a tool disappeared render_briefing

15 Sep a tool description was rewritten list_briefings

12 Sep a tool changed the parameters it asks for render_briefing

11 Sep a tool changed version

Briefings does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 97.7% 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 6 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add briefings --transport http https://briefing-service.wholemind.workers.dev/mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "briefings": {
      "url": "https://briefing-service.wholemind.workers.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.briefings]
url = "https://briefing-service.wholemind.workers.dev/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "briefings": {
      "url": "https://briefing-service.wholemind.workers.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "briefings": {
      "url": "https://briefing-service.wholemind.workers.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.

briefing

get_briefing

One briefing as structured JSON: lead story, ranked stories and research items with summaries, why-it-matters and key points, plus when it was ranked.

briefings

list_briefings

List the briefings available (AI, Frontier Labs, Markets, US Sports, European Football, US News, World News, Crypto & Onchain hourly; Grants & Funding and Noticias Lentas (simple Spanish, B1) daily).

page

get_page

One rendered page of a briefing as a 480x800 1-bit PNG (page 0 is the front page; story pages follow). Made for e-ink and small displays.

Tools removed

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

render_briefing

removed 17 Sep 2026

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://briefing-service.wholemind.workers.dev/mcp	streamable-http	answering	783 ms	6 min ago

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Briefings — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Briefings do?

It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_briefing, get_page, list_briefings. 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 Briefings working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 85 of 91 checks got a reply (93.4%), average response time 437 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

Did Briefings ever remove tools?

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

Is Briefings still maintained?

The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private. We show this because it changes what you can expect: an unmaintained server may keep answering for months and then stop without warning.

How do I connect Briefings?

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 Briefings need an API key?

No. Briefings 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 Briefings?

It answers our handshake in 437 ms on average, which is faster than 36% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.