News is answering right now. Last checked 7 min ago. It exposes 14 tools.
Cited news briefs and observed-corpus context. Free public reads; archives $0.10 or seven for $0.50.
The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private.
Uptime history
17 days of history · worst day 87%
17 days agonow
94.5%
Uptime 24h
86 of 91 checks
14
Tools
read from the server
467 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http
News does not always answer
Over the last week it answered 98.4% 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 7 min ago.
run in your terminal
claude mcp add news --transport http https://probable.media/mcp~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"news": {
"url": "https://probable.media/mcp"
}
}
}~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.news]
url = "https://probable.media/mcp".cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"news": {
"url": "https://probable.media/mcp"
}
}
}.vscode/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"news": {
"url": "https://probable.media/mcp"
}
}
}Available tools 14
Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on.
If a tool disappears, we record the date.
watch
create_watch
Create a Founding Pro saved watch. Requires watches:write; repeat the same Idempotency-Key to safely replay the same request.
update_watch
Update fields on one owned Founding Pro watch. Requires watches:write and an Idempotency-Key.
acknowledge
acknowledge_watch
Mark all currently unread matches on one owned watch as read. Requires watches:write and an Idempotency-Key.
brief
get_brief
Use for a current news brief or catch-up job. Return a five-story cited brief diversified across category, event class, and publisher by default. Use chronological or all for stable cursor paging. A balanced resumeCursor continues as a complete chronological change stream, even when the client repeats mode=balanced. Follow unreadCursor before saving resumeCursor. Do not use as a general web search or for events Probable did not observe.
classes
list_classes
Return the versioned category and event-class catalog used by score_headline. The editorial index is a legacy comparison weight, not an empirical probability.
context
get_context
Use when a user supplies a headline or a source URL already observed by Probable and wants same-class context. Optional referenceContext adds explicit country, magnitude, industry or aviation scope for primary-source population references; missingFields and conflicts explain withheld matches. Unknown URLs are not fetched and instead request a headline. Do not use this to verify occurrence, compare unrelated event classes, or forecast.
discover
discover_events
Use to rank cited events in the latest completed edition by probable, rare, or overweighted mode. Keep research priors separate from measured current-edition counts. Do not describe the result as a forecast or a probability that an event occurred.
edition
read_edition_by_date
Read a stored edition inside the seven-day public window. Older editions return an access boundary and links; this tool never bypasses membership or payment.
editions
list_editions
List every stored edition with public metadata, free/paid status, exact prices, and the URLs that can unlock paid content.
export
export_edition
Export an edition as source-grounded Markdown or CSV. Requires member authorization with exports:read and an active Founding Pro entitlement.
latest
read_latest_edition
Read the latest source-grounded Probable edition. Every replacement is a different event observed in the same scan and category with a higher editorial comparison index; that index is not a measured occurrence rate.
membership
get_membership
Return Free and Founding Pro terms and available Stripe-hosted checkout URLs. Calling this tool does not open checkout or claim payment success.
score
score_headline
Classify one supplied headline and inspect coverage recurrence. Optional referenceContext adds explicit country, magnitude, industry or aviation scope. When sufficiently scoped, occurrenceReference separately supplies primary-source counts, exposure or published population rates with units and source periods. Missing fields, conflicts and hypothetical/disputed/historical wording are disclosed; news mentions never update source rates. Do not verify a headline, compare incompatible units, predict an outcome, or score a URL.
watches
list_watches
List the member's saved monitors and recent matches. Requires member authorization with watches:read and an active Founding Pro entitlement.
Endpoints
| URL | Transport | State | Latency | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://probable.media/mcp | streamable-http | answering | 477 ms | 7 min ago |
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News — questions
Answers built from our own checks of this server.
What can News do?
It exposes 14 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: acknowledge_watch, create_watch, discover_events, export_edition, get_brief, get_context and 8 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 News working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 86 of 91 checks got a reply (94.5%), average response time 467 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
Is News 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 News?
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 News need an API key?
No. News completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 14 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is News?
It answers our handshake in 467 ms on average, which is faster than 33% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.