Ctc Monitor Mcp

io.github.danielctcPublished by GitHub account danielctcv1.0.4Updated Oct 24, 2026

Global tech news from 500+ sources — China, SEA, India, MENA, Africa, LatAm, Europe.

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Overview

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Local MCP server that gives an assistant a global tech-news feed from 500+ sources, with story search, regional digests, stats and cluster views.

What you can do
  • Retrieve top-scored tech stories, optionally filtered by region or category, with western sources capped
  • Full-text search across indexed stories, including translated non-English titles
  • Get a seven-day rolling overview of story counts, regions, categories, top sources and highest scorers
  • See geographic distribution with hot countries, story counts and a top headline per country
  • Inspect a story cluster for related items, blast radius, velocity and propagation tag
  • List supported region keys and categories, or request a summarised digest for several regions in one call
When to use it
Useful when you want an assistant to report on tech news beyond US-centric coverage, for example breaking cloud and AI stories across Asia, Europe, MENA, Africa or Latin America, or to search and summarise recent regional coverage.
Requirements
Runs locally over stdio via the npm package ctc-monitor-mcp (npx or global install), so Node.js is needed. Requires a free API key in the CTC_MONITOR_API_KEY environment variable, obtained by registering with a work email; personal inboxes are blocked. Rate limit is 100 requests per minute per key.
Before you install
The API key is a secret passed in the environment; it is emailed once and not shown again, so store it safely. Registration requires a work email address and ties the key to that identity, and the service also sends digest emails based on region preferences. The feed is read-only, but queries and region preferences go to the third-party provider.

Installation

In SourceWeft

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

Desktop only via STDIO. STDIO servers start a local process, so they need the SourceWeft desktop host.

Other MCP clients

Follow the launch instructions in the repository.

README

CTC Monitor MCP

Global tech intelligence for any AI agent that speaks MCP. Point Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, Zed, or any other MCP-aware tool at this server and ask what the world's tech press is reporting right now, in any region you care about.

Most AI assistants see the internet through a narrow US-tech-Twitter lens. CTC Monitor pulls stories from 500+ sources across China, South-East Asia, India, MENA, Africa, Latin America, Europe, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and the Pacific, scores them for velocity and geographic novelty, caps western-source dominance, and translates non-English headlines. Your agent gets a genuinely global view of what's moving in tech.

What you get

Seven tools, plain JSON-RPC over stdio. Ask your agent things like:

  • "What's breaking in cloud and AI across Asia today?"
  • "Summarise the last 24 hours from China, Korea, and Taiwan."
  • "Search everything we've indexed for 'post-quantum cryptography'."
  • "Which countries have the most stories right now, and what's the top headline in each?"
  • "Give me the propagation picture for cluster 4812."
ToolDoes what
get_storiesTop-scored stories, optionally filtered by region or category. Western sources capped so you don't get a US-only feed.
search_storiesFull-text search across every indexed story, including translated titles.
get_statsSeven-day rolling overview: story counts, regions, categories, top sources, highest scorers.
get_mapGeographic distribution: which countries are hot, story counts, top headline per country.
get_clusterDetailed view of a story cluster — related items, blast radius, velocity, propagation tag.
get_regionsLists every region key and category the feed supports.
get_digestPass an array of regions, get a summarised digest per region in one call.

Stories carry their original source, translated title where applicable, region, country, category, a relevance score, a cluster ID, a velocity score, and a propagation tag for how the story is spreading.

Install

bash
npm install -g ctc-monitor-mcp

Or run without installing:

bash
npx ctc-monitor-mcp

Get an API key

The feed is free. You need a key so we can rate-limit fairly and so the digest emails know where to go.

  1. Go to https://www.comparethecloud.net/monitor
  2. Sign in with a work email. A verification link lands in your inbox.
  3. Click it. Your API key is auto-generated and emailed to you. Save it somewhere safe; it isn't shown again in plain text.

Work emails only. Personal inboxes (gmail, outlook, yahoo and the like) are blocked at registration.

Wire it up

Claude Desktop

Edit ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (macOS) or the equivalent on your OS:

json
{  "mcpServers": {    "ctc-monitor": {      "command": "npx",      "args": ["ctc-monitor-mcp"],      "env": {        "CTC_MONITOR_API_KEY": "nk_your_key_here"      }    }  }}

Restart Claude Desktop. The tools appear in the tool menu.

Cursor / Windsurf / Zed

In the MCP settings panel, add a server entry with:

  • Command: npx
  • Arguments: ctc-monitor-mcp
  • Environment: CTC_MONITOR_API_KEY=nk_your_key_here

Anywhere else

If your client takes an MCP stdio command, run:

bash
CTC_MONITOR_API_KEY=nk_your_key_here npx ctc-monitor-mcp

Rate limits

100 requests per minute per key. Plenty for interactive use; if you're building something higher-volume, get in touch via the site and we'll talk.

What the data looks like

A typical get_stories call comes back grouped by region, with featured CTC/Disruptive Live content at the top, then region sections ordered so you see non-western markets before western coverage:

## CTC Monitor — Top Stories
### Europe (8)- Alibaba Cloud expands Frankfurt region with AI-specific zones (0.87)  South China Morning Post · Europe · 2h ago · 4 related  https://...
### China (5)- ...
### South-East Asia (4)- ...
### Western (3)  ← capped to prevent US dominance- ...

Clusters group related stories so a single headline doesn't drown out the rest of the news. Velocity scores and propagation tags surface stories that are spreading fast across languages and regions.

What this is built on

CTC Monitor ingests from ~500 global tech sources including state-backed outlets, regional trade press, specialist analyst sites, and official feeds from every major cloud, chip, and AI vendor. Stories are de-duplicated, clustered across languages, scored for relevance and geographic novelty, and translated where needed. The dataset refreshes continuously.

Compare the Cloud has run enterprise tech coverage since 2013 and Disruptive Live produces the video layer. The Monitor is our editorial feed, exposed as an MCP so your agent can read the same intelligence our analysts do.

Digest emails

Set your region preferences at https://www.comparethecloud.net/monitor/preferences and we'll send a daily or weekly digest matching your picks. Unsubscribe from any email.

Support

Licence

MIT.

Source: README.md at commit e21d27e

Tools

0
SourceWeft has not started this package in its sandbox yet, so its tools are not known.

Version history

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  1. v1.0.4LatestSep 16, 2026

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