AI News MCP

Local MCP server and ingestion pipeline for AI, tech, business, and research signals. The V2 goal is to:

• ingest recent items from newsletters, feeds, blogs, community streams, and research feeds

• normalize them into a shared canonical schema

• enrich them into editorial post candidates

• support recency-first queries for "latest" workflows

• expose MCP tools that let a media agent pull ideas on demand

Current V2 Sources

Enabled now:

• TLDR AI

• Superhuman AI

• TheSequence

• TechCrunch AI

• Lenny's Newsletter

• Hugging Face Blog

• Hacker News AI query feed

• LessWrong

• arXiv cs.AI

• arXiv cs.LG

Configured but currently second-wave / disabled:

• The Neuron

• Turing Post

• The Batch

• The Pragmatic Engineer

• a16z AI

• Benedict Evans

Related MCP server: afpnews-mcp-server

Quick start

Install dependencies:

py -3 -m pip install -e .

Refresh the source database:

py -3 scripts\refresh.py

See top stories:

py -3 scripts\demo_top_stories.py

Inspect canonical items:

py -3 -c "from pathlib import Path; from ai_news_mcp.service import AiNewsService; s=AiNewsService(Path('.')); print(s.get_canonical_items(10))"

Inspect a full cached article with clean text, markdown, and top images:

py -3 -c "from pathlib import Path; from ai_news_mcp.service import AiNewsService; s=AiNewsService(Path('.')); story=s.get_latest_items(limit=1)[0]; print(s.get_article(article_id=story['article_id'], include_images=True, include_markdown=True))"

Run the MCP server in the recommended ChatGPT-compatible mode:

py -3 scripts\run_server.py

Default runtime behavior:

• transport: streamable-http

• bind: 0.0.0.0:8081

• ChatGPT app URL: https://<your-public-host>/mcp

Optional overrides:

$env:MCP_TRANSPORT = "sse"
$env:MCP_HOST = "0.0.0.0"
$env:MCP_PORT = "8081"
py -3 scripts\run_server.py

Notes:

• For ChatGPT Apps / Developer Mode, prefer a public /mcp endpoint over Streamable HTTP.

• Use /sse only for older SSE clients or debugging.

Notes

• V2 prefers RSS/Atom feeds first, then source-specific HTML adapters where needed.

• Storage is local SQLite in data\ai_news.db.

• Facts are stored in canonical_items; editorial outputs are stored in post_candidates.

• Rich article cache now stores full HTML, clean text, markdown, top-ranked images, content status, and extraction warnings in article_cache.

• refresh.py currently rebuilds the source pool on each run so old source generations do not pollute newer results.

• Query tools now support recency, topic, and category filters for latest-mode workflows.

• MCP now exposes get_article(...) so downstream agents can retrieve the full scraped article body and reference images without doing a separate web fetch.