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daily_briefing

Today’s Daily Edition: the AI-written "Takeaway" column plus the day’s top stories.

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LIVE ENDPOINT

https://urgent.news/mcp

No auth detected

Connect to this endpoint to inspect the live schema for daily_briefing and invoke it with your own arguments.

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Inferred read-only · medium confidence · heuristic, not a guarantee.

No write-capable action terms were found; this is not proof that invocation has no side effects.

CONNECT WITH APPROVAL

Review this server and its permissions before adding it. Secret placeholders must be set locally.

Codex

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.urgent-news]
url = "https://urgent.news/mcp"
enabled = true

Claude Code

.mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "urgent-news": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector

Name: urgent-news
Remote MCP URL: https://urgent.news/mcp

Add this remote URL as a custom connector in Claude Desktop. Availability depends on the user plan and workspace policy.

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "urgent-news": {
      "url": "https://urgent.news/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Visual Studio Code

.vscode/mcp.json

Add to Visual Studio Code

{
  "servers": {
    "urgent-news": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Generic MCP

Client-specific MCP configuration

{
  "name": "urgent-news",
  "transport": "streamable-http",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/mcp"
}

MCP Inspector

Run the official MCP Inspector locally and enter the indexed Streamable HTTP endpoint.

search_news — Full-text search the archive of AI-written news summaries.
latest_headlines — The most recent stories, newest first.
get_story — Full detail for one story by id: the AI-written account, key points, the editor's take, and the list of every outlet that covered the same event.
who_covered — For a story id, the cross-source coverage: how many outlets reported the same event and which ones — the aggregator's core signal.