SIP News MCP
Server Configuration
Describes the environment variables required to run the server.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCP_HOST | No | Host for HTTP transport. | 0.0.0.0 |
| MCP_PORT | No | Port for HTTP transport. | 8000 |
| QDRANT_URL | No | URL for Qdrant server (required if backend is qdrant). | |
| MCP_TRANSPORT | No | Transport protocol: stdio or http. | stdio |
| QDRANT_API_KEY | No | API key for Qdrant server (optional). | |
| OPENROUTER_API_KEY | No | API key for OpenRouter, required for semantic search/indexing. | |
| SIP_NEWS_CHROMA_DIR | No | Directory for local ChromaDB index (local disk only). | %LOCALAPPDATA% |
| SIP_NEWS_EMBED_MODEL | No | Embedding model id for semantic search. | nvidia/llama-nemotron-embed-vl-1b-v2:free |
| SIP_NEWS_VECTOR_BACKEND | No | Vector backend: chroma or qdrant. | chroma |
Capabilities
Features and capabilities supported by this server
| Capability | Details |
|---|---|
| tools | {
"listChanged": false
} |
| prompts | {
"listChanged": false
} |
| resources | {
"subscribe": false,
"listChanged": false
} |
| experimental | {} |
Tools
Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| search_newsA | Full-text search across the entire SIP news archive (back to ~2012). |
| browse_latest_newsA | Browse the latest SIP news, newest first (no search query needed). |
| get_articleA | Fetch and return the full, cleaned text of a single SIP article. Returns the title, an optional summary, the body text (whitespace cleaned, markup removed), a word count, the category and the content language. |
| list_categoriesA | List the content categories and interface languages understood by the SIP site. |
| semantic_searchA | Meaning-based search over the SIP news index (vector similarity). |
| build_semantic_indexA | Build or update the local vector index that powers semantic_search. |
| semantic_index_statusA | Report the size and coverage of the semantic (vector) index. Returns how many items are indexed, the date range and content languages covered, the embedding model, the on-disk location, and whether an OpenRouter API key is configured. |
Prompts
Interactive templates invoked by user choice
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
No prompts | |
Resources
Contextual data attached and managed by the client
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
No resources | |
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