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nwsppr: today's top stories is answering right now. Last checked moments ago. It exposes 3 tools.

Free, no sign-in: today's most important industry news, ranked, with sources and why each matters.

Uptime history 37 hours of history
37 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
92 of 92 checks
3
Tools
read from the server
157 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

What changed 2

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 8 November 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

7 Nov 2 tool descriptions were rewritten start_signup, todays_top_stories

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check nwsppr: today's top stories every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Three servers free · no card

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 0 min ago.

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

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.

plans
list_plans
The plan and its add-ons, what each includes, the price when it's public, the industries nwsppr covers, and how buying works.
start
start_signup
Starts nwsppr for the person's company with their own work email, once they have asked for it or agreed to it (person_agreed). Nothing is charged: the reply has a message and usually a link (Stripe checkout or sign-in) for the person to open, or says they're on the waitlist.
todays
todays_top_stories
The day's top news stories for an industry, picked and ranked by nwsppr, each with why it matters, the original source link, and how soon a company should act. No sign-in. Leave industry out for a front page with the lead story from each industry. Every story includes its original source.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://mcp.nwsppr.ai/signup streamable-http answering 154 ms 0 min ago

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nwsppr: today's top stories — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can nwsppr: today's top stories do?
It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: list_plans, start_signup, todays_top_stories. 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 nwsppr: today's top stories 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 157 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect nwsppr: today's top stories?
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 nwsppr: today's top stories need an API key?
No. nwsppr: today's top stories 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 nwsppr: today's top stories?
It answers our handshake in 157 ms on average, which is faster than 80% 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.