SkimNews

com.skimnewsv1.0.0Updated Oct 6, 2026

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

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Overview

AI-generated overview

SkimNews gives an assistant free AI-curated news summaries from over 100 sources across seven beats, plus entity dossiers.

What it does
SkimNews is a remote MCP server that supplies AI-curated news summaries drawn from more than 100 sources, organized into seven beats. It also provides entity dossiers, so an assistant can pull background on a person, organization, or topic. The manifest lists no tools, so the exact tool names and parameters are not documented here.
When to use it
Use it when an assistant needs current news coverage or quick background on an entity without building its own news pipeline. It suits summarization, briefing, and research tasks where curated coverage across several topic areas is enough.
Requirements
A remote MCP client that supports streamable HTTP, connecting to the provider's hosted endpoint. No package, runtime, environment variable, or header is declared, and no authentication is declared. Network access to the provider is required.
Before you install
The manifest declares no authentication, so requests may be unauthenticated and the provider can see what is queried. Summaries are AI-curated third-party content and may be incomplete or wrong; verify anything important against the original sources. No tools are listed, so review the actual tool behavior after connecting.

Installation

In SourceWeft

  1. Open SkimNews in the dashboard and add it to a workspace.
  2. Enable the server for the chats that should use its tools.

Web executable via Streamable HTTP. Remote servers run from the web runtime once configured in a workspace.

Other MCP clients

Add this to your client's mcpServers config.

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

Tools

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Version history

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  1. v1.0.0LatestOct 6, 2026