Provides news capabilities through a typed MCP contract.
mcp-news
Global news and market intelligence MCP server — 20 tools covering breaking news, tech (Hacker News), finance (Yahoo Finance), crypto (CoinGecko), science (ArXiv), cybersecurity (CVE/CISA), sports (BBC), and climate…
What it gives an agent
A purpose-built capability behind one MCP connection.
The server owns its domain logic and publishes a tool contract an MCP client can discover. ADK-Rust can load that contract into an agent, normalize each schema for the chosen model provider, and keep the connection lifecycle outside the agent’s business logic.
Architecture
How mcp-news fits into an agent system.
The model never needs the implementation details or credentials of the system behind the server. It sees reviewed tool definitions. The MCP client handles discovery and calls, while the server keeps ownership of validation, policy, and communication with its domain system.
ADK-Rust agent
Chooses a capability from the reviewed tool catalog.
MCP client
Discovers schemas, sends calls, and receives typed content.
mcp-news
Validates the request and owns 20 documented tool contracts.
Domain system
Keeps the API, data, credentials, and business rules behind the server.
This repository does not currently publish a dedicated architecture SVG. The integration diagram above is generated from its documented transport and server boundary; use the official README for implementation-specific details.
Tool catalog
What can an agent ask mcp-news to do?
Each tool has a stable name, a human-readable purpose, and a JSON input contract discovered during MCP initialization. Risk classes come from the project’s registry manifest when one is available.
6 named tools shown from 20 documented tools
search_newsSearch global news articles by keyword, topic, or entity (free, via GDELT)
read onlyget_country_newsGet latest news for a specific country
read onlyget_trending_topicsGet trending news themes and topics globally or by country
read onlyget_news_timelineGet news volume timeline for a topic
read onlyget_news_sentimentGet tone/sentiment analysis for news about a topic
read onlynewsapi_searchSearch news via NewsAPI (requires NEWSAPI_KEY)
read onlyGovernance
Understand the effect of every tool.
A server connection inherits the authority of its credentials and deployment environment. The declarations below come from this project’s README and MCP registry manifest; your application still decides which tools an agent receives and where approval is required.
- The registry manifest declares read only tool risk classes.
MCP surface
What the current documentation declares.
MCP can carry tools, resources, prompts, structured results, progress, cancellation, and long-running work. This record highlights the modern protocol features explicitly mentioned by this repository.
Install and connect
Follow the project’s documented starting point.
Install the server in the environment that owns its credentials and domain access. Add it to your MCP host, verify the discovered tools, and narrow the toolset before giving it to a production agent.
cargo install mcp-news{
"mcpServers": {
"news": {
"command": "mcp-news",
"env": {
"GNEWS_API_KEY": "optional",
"NEWSAPI_KEY": "optional"
}
}
}
}Commands and configuration are extracted from the public README. Confirm prerequisites, environment variables, and release-specific options in the official documentation before deployment.
Official documentation
Continue with the project maintainers’ source of truth.
This page provides an approachable map of the server. The repository remains authoritative for exact schemas, prerequisites, configuration, examples, tests, releases, and security updates.
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Source record
Release and repository metadata for this catalog entry.
- Version
- 1.5.1
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Tools
- 20
- Revision
- b68a5ec0bd81
- Updated
- May 27, 2026