com.skimnews/news · v1.0.0 · search-and-web
SkimNews is healthy: it completed an MCP handshake in 3411 ms and exposes 4 tools.
Free AI-curated news summaries from 100+ sources across seven beats, plus entity dossiers.
Endpoint: https://skimnews.com/mcp (streamable-http)
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| Users (last 30 days) | 0 |
| Handshake | Healthy |
| Auth needed | None |
| Tool count | 4 |
| Latency | 3411 ms |
| Last checked (UTC) | 2026-10-16T00:15:12.494Z |
| Checked (UTC) | Status | Latency | Error |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-16T00:15:12.494Z | Healthy | 3411 | |
| 2026-10-14T21:55:47.040Z | Healthy | 2225 |
get_top_stories | Today'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_stories | Semantically 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 covered |
get_story_detail | The 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_stories |
get_entity_file | SkimNews 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 |