News

media.probablePublished by probable.mediaOfficial publisherv1.7.0Updated Oct 25, 2026

Cited news briefs and observed-corpus context. Free public reads; archives $0.10 or seven for $0.50.

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Overview

AI-generated overview

A remote news service that lets an assistant read cited, source-grounded editions, briefs and event context, with optional paid membership features.

What you can do
Read the latest edition and stored editions by date, and list editions with prices and access links, within the public window or behind an access boundary for older ones. Get a cited five-story brief diversified across category, event class and publisher, with cursor paging. Get same-class context for a headline or source URL, and score a supplied headline against a versioned category and event-class catalog. Rank cited events in the latest edition by probable, rare or overweighted mode. Manage Founding Pro saved watches: list, create, update and acknowledge matches. Export an edition as Markdown or CSV, and check Free and Founding Pro terms and checkout links.
When to use it
Use it when you want current news summarized with citations, a quick catch-up brief, or context on a headline you already have. It also suits tracking recurring topics through saved watches, which requires a paid membership.
Requirements
A remote endpoint at probable.media over streamable HTTP; no package or local runtime. Public reads need no credentials. Export, watch listing and watch management require member authorization with the exports:read or watches:read/watches:write scopes and an active Founding Pro entitlement.
Before you install
Some editions are paid: archives cost $0.10 or seven for $0.50, and the membership tool returns Stripe checkout links, though calling it does not open checkout or claim payment. Watch tools write and change saved data and need an Idempotency-Key. Editorial comparison indexes are not measured occurrence rates or forecasts. Older editions are not bypassed by the tools.

Installation

In SourceWeft

  1. Open News 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.

Use with an agent

Paste this prompt into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or another agent — or into SourceWeft chat. The agent reads this server's install guide, shows you its publisher, endpoint and sign-in, and adds it to your client once you agree. Keys never go into a command.

Read https://sourceweft.com/mcp/media.probable%2Fnews/install.md and connect the MCP server it describes to my client. Before changing any config, show me its publisher, endpoint and sign-in method and wait for my OK. Never put an API key in a command or in a file I would commit; ask me where it should come from.

Read the install guide the agent follows

Other MCP clients

Add this to your client's mcpServers config.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "news": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://probable.media/mcp"
    }
  }
}

README

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Tools

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read_latest_edition

Read the latest Probable edition

Read the latest source-grounded Probable edition. Every replacement is a different event observed in the same scan and category with a higher editorial comparison index; that index is not a measured occurrence rate.

Parameterscategory

get_brief

Get a compact source-grounded brief

Use for a current news brief or catch-up job. Return a five-story cited brief diversified across category, event class, and publisher by default. Use chronological or all for stable cursor paging. A balanced resumeCursor continues as a complete chronological change stream, even when the client repeats mode=balanced. Follow unreadCursor before saving resumeCursor. Do not use as a general web search or for events Probable did not observe.

Parametersmodelimitsincetopiccursorcategory

get_context

Put a headline or known source URL in context

Use when a user supplies a headline or a source URL already observed by Probable and wants same-class context. Optional referenceContext adds explicit country, magnitude, industry or aviation scope for primary-source population references; missingFields and conflicts explain withheld matches. Unknown URLs are not fetched and instead request a headline. Do not use this to verify occurrence, compare unrelated event classes, or forecast.

Takes no parameters.

list_editions

List Probable editions and access terms

List every stored edition with public metadata, free/paid status, exact prices, and the URLs that can unlock paid content.

Takes no parameters.

read_edition_by_date

Read a public Probable edition by date

Read a stored edition inside the seven-day public window. Older editions return an access boundary and links; this tool never bypasses membership or payment.

Parametersdaterequiredcategory

export_edition

Export a Founding Pro edition

Export an edition as source-grounded Markdown or CSV. Requires member authorization with exports:read and an active Founding Pro entitlement.

Parametersdateformatcategory

list_watches

List Founding Pro saved watches

List the member's saved monitors and recent matches. Requires member authorization with watches:read and an active Founding Pro entitlement.

Takes no parameters.

create_watch

Create a saved watch

Create a Founding Pro saved watch. Requires watches:write; repeat the same Idempotency-Key to safely replay the same request.

ParametersmoderequirednamerequiredactivecategorythresholdeventClassidempotencyKeyrequired

update_watch

Update a saved watch

Update fields on one owned Founding Pro watch. Requires watches:write and an Idempotency-Key.

ParametersmodenameactivewatchIdrequiredcategorythresholdeventClassidempotencyKeyrequired

acknowledge_watch

Acknowledge saved-watch matches

Mark all currently unread matches on one owned watch as read. Requires watches:write and an Idempotency-Key.

ParameterswatchIdrequiredidempotencyKeyrequired

discover_events

Discover probable, rare, or overweighted events

Use to rank cited events in the latest completed edition by probable, rare, or overweighted mode. Keep research priors separate from measured current-edition counts. Do not describe the result as a forecast or a probability that an event occurred.

Parametersmoderequiredlimitcategory

score_headline

Score a headline against Probable's observed base rates

Classify one supplied headline and inspect coverage recurrence. Optional referenceContext adds explicit country, magnitude, industry or aviation scope. When sufficiently scoped, occurrenceReference separately supplies primary-source counts, exposure or published population rates with units and source periods. Missing fields, conflicts and hypothetical/disputed/historical wording are disclosed; news mentions never update source rates. Do not verify a headline, compare incompatible units, predict an outcome, or score a URL.

ParameterstitlerequiredreferenceContext

list_classes

List Probable taxonomy classes

Return the versioned category and event-class catalog used by score_headline. The editorial index is a legacy comparison weight, not an empirical probability.

Takes no parameters.

get_membership

Get Probable membership terms

Return Free and Founding Pro terms and available Stripe-hosted checkout URLs. Calling this tool does not open checkout or claim payment success.

Takes no parameters.

Version history

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  1. v1.7.0LatestSep 16, 2026

Score

75% of the applicable checks met

How complete this listing is, computed from the registry entry, the endpoint and public sources. Not a rating of the server and not a statement that it is safe or working today: reachability is a dated check, and no installs or reviews go into the score.

  • Reached in the last 30 daysRequired25 pts
  • Auth declaredRequired10 pts
  • Tools listedRequired15 pts
  • DescriptionRequired15 pts
  • Logo10 pts
  • Documentation15 pts

    Declare a GitHub repository with a README, or serve resource_documentation in the OAuth protected-resource metadata.

  • License10 pts

    Declare a license in the repository or the registry entry.