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Sidewise MCP Server

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Sidewise is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 4 tools.

News from 17 outlets with left/center/right bias tags and one-sided blindspot detection

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

Uptime history 90 days of history · worst day 0%
90 days agonow
0.0%
Uptime 24h
0 of 91 checks
4
Tools
read from the server
4452 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

What changed 7

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 13 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

12 Oct a tool changed the parameters it asks for get_news
24 Aug 2 tools appeared compare_coverage, get_feed_health
24 Aug a tool description was rewritten get_news
24 Aug a tool changed the parameters it asks for get_news
24 Aug a tool changed version
13 Aug a tool changed the parameters it asks for get_news

Sidewise does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 0.0% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not 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 10 min ago.

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

blindspots
get_blindspots
Stories covered by only one side of the political spectrum — reported by left-leaning outlets but not right-leaning, or vice versa. Each source carries a bias score from -2 (left) to +2 (right); 0 is center or non-political. Useful for finding what a given audience is not being told.
compare
compare_coverage
Side-by-side wording of one story as left, center and right outlets headline it, plus the words each side uses that the others do not. Give a topic in `q` and the best-covered matching story is compared. Each source carries a bias score from -2 (left) to +2 (right); 0 is center or non-political.
feed
get_feed_health
Which of the underlying news feeds answered on the last pull, and whether the data currently being served is complete or a stale fallback. Check this before treating an empty or one-sided result as real.
news
get_news
Current headlines from 17 feeds from 15 newsrooms across the political spectrum. Each source carries a bias score from -2 (left) to +2 (right); 0 is center or non-political. Use view=latest for a flat reverse-chronological feed, or view=stories to group the same event as covered by different outlets.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://news.heyitsmejosh.com/mcp streamable-http answering 4452 ms 10 min ago

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Sidewise — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Sidewise do?
It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: compare_coverage, get_blindspots, get_feed_health, get_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 Sidewise working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 0 of 91 checks got a reply (0.0%), average response time 4452 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
Is Sidewise 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.
The registry lists Sidewise as active — why does it not respond?
The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.
How do I connect Sidewise?
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 Sidewise need an API key?
No. Sidewise 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.