Briefings

Name: Briefings
Author: jshelley

by jshelleyversion 0.3.0i★ –iComputer or cloud

Registry nameio.github.jshelley/briefings

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Overview

Description from the maker (original English)

Hourly ranked news (AI, markets, sports, world): JSON, e-ink pages, Morning Paper PDF; 25 free/day

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What you can do with it

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Connection: Computer or cloud
Transport: stdio, Streamable HTTP
Category: Games, sports, food & learning
You need to fill in: BRIEFING_KEY, Authorization

Install

Pick the AI app you use, then copy the settings.

Before you install

Basic checks: 1 of 1 passed
Runs on the maker’s server: what you ask it goes through their server.
You fill in yourself: BRIEFING_KEY, Authorization

Values marked secret are keys to your account. Never share them or paste them into a chat.

You need

Runs in the cloudNothing to install; it connects over the internet

Which app do you use?

ClaudeClaude CodeCursorVS CodeChatGPT

Pick your app above. We remember it, so next time the button says “Install in …”.

This address needs a key in a request header, which the add-connector menu cannot set. Use Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code instead.

Download the maker’s .mcpb file

The link goes to the maker’s own file; we do not host or repackage it. Open the file and Claude Desktop installs it.

Run this in your terminal

claude mcp add --transport http briefings https://briefing-service.wholemind.workers.dev/mcp --header 'Authorization: your-value'

Fill in the empty values before running it.

Open in Cursor

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, or ~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "briefings": {
      "url": "https://briefing-service.wholemind.workers.dev/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.

Open in VS Code

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .vscode/mcp.json in your project

{
  "servers": {
    "briefings": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://briefing-service.wholemind.workers.dev/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.

This address needs a key in a request header, which the add-connector menu cannot set. Use Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code instead.

Your choice stays on this device in a cookie; no account needed.

Values you fill in

BRIEFING_KEY secret env
Optional Reader key ($9/month) sent as a bearer token; leave empty for the free tier (25 calls/IP/day)
Authorization secret HTTP header
Bearer from /billing/checkout; omit to pay per call with x402

These settings are generated from the maker’s registry entry. If the README says otherwise, follow the README.

What it can do

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Basic checksi

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Compared with others in Games, sports, food & learningi

More stars than 0% of the other 1283 servers in this category
Published to the registry more recently than 31% of the other 1283 servers in this category
Basic checks equal to or better than 100% of the other 1283 servers in this category

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Common questions

Is Briefings safe?

It passed 1 of 1 applicable basic checks. We have not read the code. Before adding a key or token, see what access the server asks for and use a key with only the permissions you need.

What keys or codes does it need?

You need to fill in: BRIEFING_KEY, Authorization

Does it run on my computer or in the cloud?

Either way works: install it on your computer or connect to the cloud version.

Is it still maintained?

The GitHub repo last changed –, and the latest version (0.3.0) reached the registry 2 months ago.

Which apps can use it?

Apps that support MCP, such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code. It connects by URL, so apps that accept remote MCP servers work too, such as ChatGPT in developer mode.

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README from the maker

Open the README

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briefing-mcp

MCP server for Briefing Service: every hour an LLM editor ranks ~100 feeds per topic (AI news, AI research, frontier labs, markets, US sports, European football, US news, world, crypto & onchain) plus two daily editions (Grants & Funding: newly posted federal funding notices with Deadline / Amount / Eligible on every item; Noticias Lentas: the day's news in simple Spanish at CEFR B1 with a glossary) and publishes the result as structured JSON, a rendered 480x800 e-ink page, a multi-page Morning Paper PDF, and a free provenance dump of every candidate it saw.

This package runs locally over stdio and calls the public REST API. The same tools are served remotely (streamable HTTP, no install) at https://briefing-service.wholemind.workers.dev/mcp.

Install

Claude Desktop / Claude Code / Cursor / any stdio client:

"mcpServers": { "briefings": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "briefing-mcp"], "env": { "BRIEFING_KEY": "" } } } }

Claude Code one-liner:

claude mcp add briefings -- npx -y briefing-mcp

Claude Desktop, one click: download briefing-mcp-0.1.0.mcpb and open it (MCP bundle; it asks for the optional Reader key).

Tools

tool	what it returns	cost
`list_briefings`	the 11 keys (`ai`, `research`, `labs`, `finance`, `sports`, `soccer`, `us`, `world`, `crypto`, `grants`, `slow-es-b1`), names and prices	free
`get_briefing(key)`	lead, ranked stories, research, why-it-matters, key points	25 free/IP/day, then key or x402
`get_summary(key)`	headlines and one-liners	free
`get_candidates(key)`	every candidate this hour: canonical link, outlets, `selected`, collapsed duplicates with `duplicate_of`	free
`get_page(key, page, wide)`	480x800 1-bit PNG (or 800x480 wide front page)	25 free/IP/day

Pricing

Free: 25 JSON/page/tool calls per IP per day, plus the summary and candidates endpoints.
Reader key: $9/month, unlimited reads and Morning Paper delivery. Set it as BRIEFING_KEY. Buy at https://briefing-service.wholemind.workers.dev/billing/checkout
Per call: x402 (USDC on Base) against the remote endpoint.

Docs for agents: https://briefing-service.wholemind.workers.dev/llms.txt

How it works

index.js is the whole server: it registers five tools with @modelcontextprotocol/sdk and answers each by calling the public Briefing Service REST API over HTTPS (GET /v1/briefings/...). It stores nothing, runs no shell commands, and reads only two environment variables (BRIEFING_KEY, BRIEFING_BASE_URL). The Dockerfile builds the same thing; docker run -i speaks MCP over stdio.

Run the smoke test locally:

npm install

node client-test.mjs # lists tools and calls list_briefings, get_summary, get_candidates, get_page, get_briefing

Write-up of the pipeline (collect, entity-overlap dedupe, LLM editor, 1-bit render) and what the first week taught: https://dev.to/jshelley/i-built-an-hourly-newspaper-for-e-ink-and-turned-the-pipeline-into-an-mcp-server-1ebg. Each briefing also has an Atom feed at /v1/briefings/{key}/feed.xml; the Morning Paper PDF carries an outline per story, front-page go-to links and a clickable source URL on every story page.

Environment

BRIEFING_KEY: optional Reader key (sent as Authorization: Bearer).
BRIEFING_BASE_URL: override the API base (default: the public service).

License

MIT

Briefings

Overview

PopNx MCP’s three pillars

What you can do with it

Install

Before you install

Values you fill in

What it can do

Basic checksi

Maker matches the repo

Still maintained

Has a licence

Endpoint responds

Sign-in with OAuth

No hidden instructions in tool descriptions

Compared with others in Games, sports, food & learningi

Common questions

Alternatives

Neural Cosmology

slopped.site

Artsonia MCP

README from the maker

briefing-mcp

Install

Tools

Pricing

How it works

Environment

License