Claude News — MCP server

A hosted Model Context Protocol server over a continuously-updated corpus of Claude & Anthropic news (models, Claude Code, research, safety, business). Give your own Claude the tools to search the news and answer with cited sources — free, no API key.

• Homepage: https://claudenews.online
• MCP endpoint (Streamable HTTP): https://claudenews.online/api/mcp
• Auth: none
• Tools: search_news(query, limit), recent_news(limit)

Add it to your client

Claude Desktop / Claude Code (claude_desktop_config.json or .mcp.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "claude-news": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://claudenews.online/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Code (CLI):

claude mcp add --transport http claude-news https://claudenews.online/api/mcp

claude.ai → Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector → URL: https://claudenews.online/api/mcp

Tools

Tool	Arguments	Returns
search_news	query (string), limit (int, optional)	Matching news items with title, source URL and summary
recent_news	limit (int, optional)	The most recent items from the feed

Ask your Claude things like "what's new with Claude Opus this week?" and it will query the corpus and cite the original sources.

Also free

• Public JSON API: https://claudenews.online/api/search?q=Claude+Opus&limit=8
• RSS: https://claudenews.online/feed.xml
• Embeddable widget: https://claudenews.online/widget

About

Claude News is an independent media outlet published by Héra SASU, not affiliated with Anthropic. "Claude" and "Anthropic" belong to their respective owners.

Run locally (stdio)

If your MCP client doesn't support remote (Streamable HTTP) servers, this repo is also a runnable stdio bridge to the same corpus:

npx -y claude-news-mcp        # once published to npm, or:
git clone https://github.com/Popy21/claude-news-mcp && cd claude-news-mcp
npm install && node src/index.js

Claude Desktop / Claude Code (claude_desktop_config.json or .mcp.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "claude-news": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "claude-news-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Docker:

docker build -t claude-news-mcp . && docker run -i --rm claude-news-mcp