com.skimnews/news

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SkimNews

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Free AI-curated news summaries from 100+ sources across seven beats, plus entity dossiers.

Summary by lookupd

Retrieves AI-generated news summaries, story details, and entity dossiers, and semantically searches an archive of news stories by topic.

Install

Claude Code, remote (streamable-http)

claude mcp add --transport http news https://skimnews.com/mcp

Codex, remote (streamable-http)

codex mcp add news --url https://skimnews.com/mcp

Cursor, remote (streamable-http) → .cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "news": {
      "url": "https://skimnews.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Other clients: docs. Or tell your agent: Set up lookupd for me: read https://lookupd.com/agent.md and follow it.

Publisher-provided text

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 sum
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
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
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-da

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