# Polymath News

> Curated news search and deep research reports for your reader: tech, AI, business, policy, media.

- name: news.polymath/polymath-news
- version: 1.3.0
- connection class: R0 (autonomous)
- trust: 83/100 flags: no-repository
- quality: 85/100 (new)
- owner: not claimed
- descriptor: https://api.protogrid.dev/v1/servers/news.polymath%2Fpolymath-news
- tools: https://api.protogrid.dev/v1/servers/news.polymath%2Fpolymath-news/tools

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

## Connection (mcpServers)

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "polymath-news": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.polymath.news/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer ${api_key}"
      }
    }
  }
}
```

Placeholders to fill: `${api_key}`.

## Trust

- hygiene: 80
- liveness: 100
- freshness: 100
- provenance: 55
- drivers: +dns-namespace +website +reachable +uptime-100% +updated-2d-ago -no-repository
- Derived from observable signals (official registry feed and our own credential-free probes); no code audit performed.

## Quality 85/100 (new)

### protocol: 75 (weight 25)

- warn `protocol.modern`: newest supported version is 2025-11-25; 2026-07-28 not supported, older versions are deprecated until 2027-07-28
- n/a `protocol.stateless`: only applies to 2026-07-28 servers
- pass `protocol.transport`: streamable HTTP
- n/a `protocol.list_ttl`: only applies to 2026-07-28 servers

### 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: 94 (weight 30)

- pass `tools.descriptions`: every tool has a description
- warn `tools.description_length`: 1 tools have descriptions over 1,024 characters, which crowds the context
- pass `tools.schemas`: every tool has an object input schema
- pass `tools.annotations`: 1 of 1 tools declare readOnlyHint or destructiveHint
- pass `tools.directory_hints`: every tool declares readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint and openWorldHint
- pass `tools.token_cost`: about 807 tokens to load every tool
- pass `tools.api_dump`: tools are not a one-to-one API dump
- pass `tools.hidden_text`: no hidden text in tool names, descriptions, schemas or annotations

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

- n/a `stability.changes`, `stability.rug_pull`, `stability.new_links`: tool history recorded for 2 of the 7 days needed

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

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

- tools: 1, about 807 tokens to load them all
- tool set hash: e58a4f7e8dd9f1db7cd4fd335e9fd15b
- badge: [![protogrid quality](https://protogrid.dev/badge/news.polymath/polymath-news.svg)](https://protogrid.dev/servers/news.polymath/polymath-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://mcp.polymath.news/mcp (streamable-http, auth none, reachable true, uptime30d 1)

## Packages

_none_

## Tools (1)

- `search_news`: Search current news for a specific reader. Covers technology, AI, business, policy, and media and entertainment (about 500 curated sources, not all news). Returns one list of stories, best match first: events, each grouped across the outlets covering it, with every article (publisher, date, link), the lead article's excerpt, the names in it, and which of your terms it matches and how well (0 to 1). Then Polymath reports, with title, insight and link. Put topics in "interests": 3 to 8 specific topics, named the way a news desk would ("AI regulation", "data centers"). The name of a person or a company works as an interest too ("Nvidia"). Each interest gets its fair share of the list, and the reply says what each one found, including nothing. "query" is for keywords. "profile" says who you work for: it tailors reports and rarely selects stories by itself. "since" returns only what is new or updated after a time; every reply gives next_since, the value to pass next time. With no arguments it returns the top stories right now. No API key was sent, so this is a trial: 1 searches a day, up to 3 stories per search, report titles and links only.