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The Observatory MCP Server

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The Observatory is answering right now. Last checked 1 min ago. It exposes 5 tools.

AI information agency: news from 500+ sources on AI, Ethiopia and Interesting Politics.

Uptime history 25 days of history · worst day 97%
25 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
92 of 92 checks
5
Tools
read from the server
350 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check The Observatory every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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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 1 min ago.

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

Available tools 5

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

book
search_book
Search the Book: every note the Observatory's desks have written since late September 2026, each a story read, checked and summarized from one or more sources, many of which never reached an issue. Returns the matching notes, best first: headline, summary, type, tags, desk, source, the original's address, the date, and the credibility label when the check gave one. Same query syntax as search_news.
issue
get_issue
One issue in full, as Markdown, with each of its stories' addresses on the Observatory's site and at the source.
latest
latest_issues
The Observatory's latest issues, newest first: title, date, the lead story, and the addresses of the issue's page and of its Markdown.
news
search_news
Search the stories in the Observatory's published issues (daily and weekly, the last year). Returns the matching stories, best first: headline, summary, source, the original's address, and the story's own address on the Observatory's site. The query takes web-search syntax: words, "a phrase", -word, or.
publications
list_publications
What the Observatory publishes, by product group: each publication, what it covers, its days and hour, and the feeds. Readers subscribe at the address given.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://observatory.mgorsky.net/mcp streamable-http answering 329 ms 1 min ago

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The Observatory — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can The Observatory do?
It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_issue, latest_issues, list_publications, search_book, search_news. 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 Observatory 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 350 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect The Observatory?
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 Observatory need an API key?
No. The Observatory completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is The Observatory?
It answers our handshake in 350 ms on average, which is faster than 38% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.