Faceabot Latest news
REMOTE · FACEABOT.COM
Today's headlines and news search from 17 public sources in 7 languages. Free, no key.
Available components
Last scanned (15 hours ago)
Scores higher than 61% of remote servers
Reachable. Last reached 24 Oct 2026.
Category News and Social
How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. How we score → Why this is hard to score →
Endpoint Security80
- The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key. View diagnostics → Pass
- No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Partial
- HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path. View diagnostics → Pass
- The HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security) header is present. View diagnostics → Pass
- DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Fail
Transport & Reachability100
- Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake. View diagnostics → Pass
Schema Quality & AI Usability59
- AI-judged instruction clarity (good).Pass
- Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 543 tokens (~271/item across 2 items; 2 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params. See how to fix → Fail
- Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management10
- Stability observed for 3 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.Partial
Tool Coverage92
- 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
- 75% of tool parameters carry a description.Partial
Tool Safety100
- No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
- We read all 2 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
- An AI judge read all 3 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.Pass
Capabilities100
- Implements a current MCP spec version (2026-07-28).Pass
Every change we have recorded for this component, newest first. Security-relevant changes are always shown. ▲ marks a change for the better, ▼ a change for the worse; unmarked changes are neutral.
- 24 Oct 26 0
- The server rewrote its instructions, which are the text every model session reads security
- Tool “news_headlines” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads security
- Schema quality: 203 → 271 ▼ functional
- Tool coverage: 67% → 75% ▲ functional
- “news_headlines” added an optional parameter “country” cosmetic
- “news_search” added an optional parameter “country” cosmetic
- 22 Oct 26 +1
- Stability: unverified → 0.03 ▲ functional
- 21 Oct 26 70
First indexed and scored.
Diagnostic detail from the automated scan of this channel: what the scanner observed at each step, so you can see exactly where a check passed or failed. It is informational only and never changes the trust score.
Captured 24 Oct 2026 · Probed https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/news
TLS valid
Negotiated TLS 1.3 with TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 .
| Subject | Issuer | Valid from | Valid until | Key | Signature | Serial |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN=faceabot.com | CN=WE1,O=Google Trust Services,C=US | 20 Oct 2026 | 18 Jan 2027 | ECDSA 256 | ECDSA-SHA256 | b96eb267c3395c5a0ead98aac821cf95 |
| SANs: faceabot.com, social.faceabot.com, *.social.faceabot.com | ||||||
| CN=WE1,O=Google Trust Services,C=US (CA) | CN=GTS Root R4,O=Google Trust Services LLC,C=US | 13 Dec 2023 | 20 Feb 2029 | ECDSA 256 | ECDSA-SHA384 | 7ff31977972c224a76155d13b6d685e3 |
| CN=GTS Root R4,O=Google Trust Services LLC,C=US (CA) | CN=GlobalSign Root CA,OU=Root CA,O=GlobalSign nv-sa,C=BE | 15 Nov 2023 | 28 Jan 2028 | ECDSA 384 | SHA256-RSA | 7fe530bf331343bedd821610493d8a1b |
Background: What to check on a remote MCP endpoint →
DNSSEC insecure
Validation of faceabot.com. — Not signed
| Zone | DS | Keys | Algorithms | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| . | trust_anchor | 20326, 38696 | 8, 8 | Verified |
| com. | present | 19718 | 13 | Verified |
| faceabot.com. | absent | Unsigned (proven) parent-signed NSEC/NSEC3 proves an unsigned delegation |
Authentication No authorisation required
The endpoint answered without asking for a token. Anyone who knows the URL can reach it.
| Result | No authorisation required |
|---|---|
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Header | Value |
|---|---|
| strict-transport-security | max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains |
| x-content-type-options | nosniff |
| referrer-policy | strict-origin-when-cross-origin |
| permissions-policy | camera=(), microphone=(), geolocation=() |
Background: How OAuth 2.1 works in the 2026 MCP spec →
Transports 2 probes
| Transport | URL | Outcome | Status | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| streamable-http | https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/news | Verified | 200 | |
| http (plaintext) | http://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/news | HTTPS enforced | 301 | https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/news |
The tools this component advertises to a client, with an estimated token cost for each. Expand a tool to see its parameters and schema. The per-tool counts are indicative and are not scored directly; the schema's total context footprint is one signal in Schema Quality & AI Usability. A tool's description is untrusted text the model reads on every call, which is what makes this list a security surface and not just an inventory: how tool poisoning works →
news_headlines Latest news headlines ~221
Today's latest news headlines from public broadcasters and newspapers, newest first: title, source, time, short excerpt and link. Use when: you need current events, "what's in the news today", or the latest headlines on a topic. Topics (English): world, business, technology, science, health, sport, asia, africa, americas, middle_east. Languages (22): en, fr, nl, de, es, it, pt, ja, zh, ko, ar, hi, ru, tr, pl, id, sw, fa, uk, vi, ur, bn. Example: {"topic":"technology","lang":"en","results":10}
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| country | string | – | Optional two-letter country code (BR, JP, US, IN…): national publishers of that country first; also sets the language when lang is omitted |
| lang | string | – | Language of the news sources |
| results | integer | – | – |
| topic | string | – | News section. Sections other than world exist in English only. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
news_search Search today's news ~125
Searches the latest news (roughly the last one or two days) from public broadcasters and newspapers for words such as a name, place or event. Not an archive. Use when: you need recent news about a specific subject. Example: {"query":"Belgium elections","lang":"en"}
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| country | string | – | Optional two-letter country code: search that country's national publishers first |
| lang | string | – | Language of the news sources |
| query | string | yes | Words to look for (all must appear in the headline or excerpt) |
| results | integer | – | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
How do I install the Faceabot Latest news MCP server?
Faceabot Latest news is a hosted endpoint at https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/news, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.
remote · faceabot.com
claude mcp add --transport http com-faceabot-news 'https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/news'
What is the Faceabot Latest news MCP server?
Faceabot Latest news is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as com.faceabot/news. Today's headlines and news search from 17 public sources in 7 languages. Free, no key. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/news).
Is the Faceabot Latest news MCP server safe to use?
Faceabot Latest news scores 71 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.
What tools does the Faceabot Latest news MCP server expose?
Faceabot Latest news exposes 2 tools: news_headlines, news_search. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 346 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Does the Faceabot Latest news MCP server require authentication?
No. We connected to Faceabot Latest news without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.
Is the Faceabot Latest news MCP server still maintained?
Faceabot Latest news is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 24 October 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.