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newsflash

sh.newsflash/newsflash

Real-time corroborated news events + 5-year archive, for agents. Free tier, no key.

— the operator's own registry description reported

Publisher sh.newsflash · first seen 2026-08-12 · endpoint https://newsflash.sh/mcp

allow
verdict
mid-solo
cluster
ok_tools
answers
5
tools served

Dependency rating derived

allow — mid-solo — safe to depend on

Cluster mid-solo · distinctiveness 0.216 (typical). Every figure is a percentile or class within the 11,094-server censussee the whole spectrum.

Reach — can an agent get to it?
answersalive_tools
latency112 ms
vs populationtypical
protocolcurrent
authopen
Use — can it use it?
tools5
vs populationmid
capabilities1
harnessA
Trust — can it rely on it?
identitysolo
servers on its host1
verifiabilityunassessed
duplicate inventoryno
drift events0
answers trueno primary

🔏 Signed receipt rr_e32a8a073845c5cd1b61d4bc · ed25519 · key rs-rcpt-2026-08 — this rating is tamper-evident; an agent gets the full signature from check_server and can verify it against the published key.

Tools last seen

corpus_stats get_event get_events list_sources search_articles

Harness readiness observed

Can an agent's harness pick this tool and call it correctly? Graded on the three things an agent reads — name, description, typed parameters. Band A — an agent can pick and call these reliably.

legibility checktools passingok
name is clear & specific5/5
has a description5/5
description is substantive5/5
parameters are typed5/5
parameters are described5/5

5 of 5 tools graded · 5 with a captured input schema. RS-008, Tier-1 — no domain knowledge, applies to any tool. “Alive” is not the same as “usable”.

Truth checks observed

Not in the Tier-2 trade lane, or not yet checked. Tier-2 re-derives a server's answers against published primary sources — see truth checks.

Protocol conformance observed

2025-06-18
protocol version
session model
1.0.1
server version newsflash

Capabilities: tools

Drift

No confirmed drift on record. Baseline set 2026-08-14; changes appear here after human review.

History observed

Every probe we made, oldest → newest (2 shown, 2026-08-12 → 2026-08-14). Green answered · amber answered-but-walled · red no useful answer. A gap in our cadence is a gap in coverage, not evidence about the server.

changelog (1 events)
datetypewhat changed
2026-08-12outcomefirst probe: ok_tools
raw probe records
probed (UTC) outcomehttpmsprotocol
2026-08-14T20:00:43Zok_tools2001122025-06-18
2026-08-12T05:35:57Zok_tools200632025-06-18

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Depend on it? Subscribe to its change feed — outcome changes and confirmed drift, no account needed. Building on it? The full dossier as JSON — verdict, rating, truth checks, history — stable enough to gate CI on.

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