SkimNews
com.skimnews/news · v1.0.0
Free AI-curated news summaries from 100+ sources across seven beats, plus entity dossiers.
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Last check
Reachable, 4 tools, protocol 2025-06-18 · checked 2026-10-17
Test & rating
A 100/100
What it does: 4 tools · 4 read, 0 write · Finance, Files & storage, E-commerce
Test call get_top_stories: worked (4,954 ms)
How the rating is made
- Answers without login: +30
- Speed of first answer: +10
- Lists tools: +10
- Tool descriptions: +15
- Parameter descriptions: +10
- Read/write annotations: +5
- Safe test call: +20
- More than 80 tools: 0
Tested 2026-10-17. Fixed rules, no AI model. Grade A needs a successful real call.
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Remote URL
https://skimnews.com/mcpTools
4 tools listed at last check
get_top_storiesToday's top SkimNews stories, optionally limited to one beat. Use this for "what's happening today" / "today's news" / "latest in <beat>" questions. Returns summaries plus canonical URLs per story. Categories: geopolitics, tech, finance, health, energy, sports, culture.search_storiesSemantically search SkimNews' archive of 47,000+ summarised stories by topic, theme, or news event, ranked by relevance. Use this to find coverage of a subject across SkimNews' history rather than only today. Returns summaries plus canonical URLs. An empty result list means SkimNews has not coveredget_story_detailThe full SkimNews treatment of one story: summary, why-it-matters, sourced bullet points, editorial take, named entities, the source taxonomy, and the canonical URL. Accepts an article id (e.g. '46b45d01'), a canonical skimnews.com URL, or an article slug. Use after get_top_stories or search_storiesget_entity_fileSkimNews keeps a permanent dossier on every person, organisation, product, law, or place it has covered repeatedly. Returns the current 3-sentence status, 60-day mention/source counts, recent coverage, and related entities. Use for "what has SkimNews covered about X" and "what's the latest on X" whe
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