Entra News MCP Server
Server Configuration
Describes the environment variables required to run the server.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| OPENAI_API_KEY | No | Optional API key for OpenAI. If provided, the server uses semantic search (OpenAI text-embedding-3-small) for significantly better result quality. If omitted, the server defaults to keyword search (BM25 via FTS5). |
Instructions
Guidance the server publishes about itself, which clients place ahead of the tool catalog so the model reads it before choosing anything.
This server publishes no instructions, or was last inspected before Glama recorded them.
Capabilities
Features and capabilities supported by this server
Protocol revision2025-11-25
| Capability | Details |
|---|---|
| tools | {} |
Tools
Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| search_entra_newsA | Search the full Entra.news archive using natural language or keywords. Returns sourced excerpts from past issues with issue number, date, and URL. Supports hybrid semantic + keyword search (semantic requires OPENAI_API_KEY). Covers all Entra.news issues from mid-2023 to present. |
| get_issueA | Retrieve the full content of a specific Entra.news issue by issue number or publication date. Returns the complete text of the newsletter with section headings preserved. |
| list_issuesA | Browse the Entra.news archive with optional year/month filtering. Returns a list of issues with title, date, and URL. Use this to discover what issues exist before using get_issue or search_entra_news. |
| find_tool_mentionsA | Find community tools, GitHub projects, and open-source resources mentioned in Entra.news. Returns tool names, descriptions, GitHub URLs, and the issue context where they appeared. Optionally filter by keyword to find tools related to a specific technology or capability. |
Prompts
Interactive templates invoked by user choice
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
No prompts | |
Resources
Contextual data attached and managed by the client
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
No resources | |
TDQS
Scored across 4 tools
Each tool has a clearly distinct purpose: find_tool_mentions for community tool discovery, get_issue for full content retrieval, list_issues for browsing archive, and search_entra_news for full-text search. No overlap in functionality.
All tool names use snake_case with a consistent verb_noun pattern (find_tool_mentions, get_issue, list_issues, search_entra_news), making the set predictable and easy to understand.
With 4 tools covering browsing, retrieval, search, and specialized tool mention discovery, the set is appropriately scoped for a newsletter archive without being too sparse or bloated.
The core workflows (browse, read, search, and find tools) are well covered. A minor gap is the lack of a direct 'latest issue' shortcut, but this can be achieved via list_issues with date filtering.