# media.probable/news

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

- name: media.probable/news
- version: 1.7.0
- connection class: R0 (autonomous)
- trust: 89/100
- quality: 96/100 (strong)
- owner: not claimed
- descriptor: https://api.protogrid.dev/v1/servers/media.probable%2Fnews
- tools: https://api.protogrid.dev/v1/servers/media.probable%2Fnews/tools

**An agent can connect right now, no human step.** Remote endpoint, no authentication, reachable on the last probe.

## Connection (mcpServers)

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


## Trust

- hygiene: 100
- liveness: 99
- freshness: 85
- provenance: 75
- drivers: +repository +dns-namespace +reachable +uptime-98% ~updated-44d-ago
- Derived from observable signals (official registry feed and our own credential-free probes); no code audit performed.

## Quality 96/100 (strong)

### protocol: 88 (weight 25)

- pass `protocol.modern`: supports 2026-07-28 (server/discover)
- pass `protocol.stateless`: answers without a session
- pass `protocol.transport`: streamable HTTP
- warn `protocol.list_ttl`: tools/list declares ttlMs 0, so clients re-fetch it on every use

### authorization: n/a (weight 15)

- n/a `auth.prm`, `auth.as_metadata`, `auth.cimd`: no remote uses OAuth
- n/a `auth.secret_in_url`: no templated URL

### tool hygiene: 100 (weight 30)

- pass `tools.descriptions`: every tool has a description
- pass `tools.description_length`: descriptions are concise
- pass `tools.schemas`: every tool has an object input schema
- pass `tools.annotations`: 14 of 14 tools declare readOnlyHint or destructiveHint
- pass `tools.directory_hints`: every tool declares readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint and openWorldHint
- pass `tools.token_cost`: about 2,676 tokens to load every tool
- pass `tools.api_dump`: tools are not a one-to-one API dump

### stability: 100 (weight 15)

- pass `stability.changes`: no tool changes in 30 days
- pass `stability.rug_pull`: no tool changed its meaning under the same name

### dependencies: n/a (weight 15)

- n/a `deps.known_vulns`, `deps.mcp_sdk_version`, `deps.resolvable`: no npm or PyPI package

- tools: 14, about 2,676 tokens to load them all
- tool set hash: be32ed969141f11049712ca70b322b2f
- badge: [![protogrid quality](https://protogrid.dev/badge/media.probable/news.svg)](https://protogrid.dev/servers/media.probable/news)
- Checks run on what our credential-free, read-only probes observe; tools are never called and no code audit is performed.

### Tool changes

_No tool definition changes recorded._

## Remotes

- https://probable.media/mcp (streamable-http, auth none, reachable true, uptime30d 0.9830508)

## Packages

_none_

## Tools (14)

- `acknowledge_watch`: Mark all currently unread matches on one owned watch as read. Requires watches:write and an Idempotency-Key.
- `create_watch`: Create a Founding Pro saved watch. Requires watches:write; repeat the same Idempotency-Key to safely replay the same request.
- `discover_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.
- `export_edition`: Export an edition as source-grounded Markdown or CSV. Requires member authorization with exports:read and an active Founding Pro entitlement.
- `get_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.
- `get_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.
- `get_membership`: Return Free and Founding Pro terms and available Stripe-hosted checkout URLs. Calling this tool does not open checkout or claim payment success.
- `list_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.
- `list_editions`: List every stored edition with public metadata, free/paid status, exact prices, and the URLs that can unlock paid content.
- `list_watches`: List the member's saved monitors and recent matches. Requires member authorization with watches:read and an active Founding Pro entitlement.
- `read_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.
- `read_latest_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.
- `score_headline`: 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.
- `update_watch`: Update fields on one owned Founding Pro watch. Requires watches:write and an Idempotency-Key.