# Faceabot Latest news (remote · faceabot.com)

Today's headlines and news search from 17 public sources in 7 languages. Free, no key.

- Trust score: 71/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-10-24

## Components

- remote · `faceabot.com`: 71/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-faceabot-news/tools-mcp-news.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-faceabot-news/tools-mcp-news)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/news`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.0.0`

## Trust breakdown

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. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-10-24.

- **Endpoint Security**: 80/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - The HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security) header is present.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 59/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - 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.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 10/100
  - Stability observed for 3 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 92/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 75% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 2 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 3 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a current MCP spec version (2026-07-28).

## Install

### 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.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http com-faceabot-news 'https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/news'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-faceabot-news": {
      "url": "https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/news"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "com-faceabot-news": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/news"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.com-faceabot-news]
url = "https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/news"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "com-faceabot-news": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/news",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add com-faceabot-news --url 'https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/news' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  com-faceabot-news:
    url: "https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/news"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "com-faceabot-news": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/news"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add com-faceabot-news -t streamable-http -u 'https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/news'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-faceabot-news": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/news"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-10-24 (score 71, 0)

- [security] 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
- [functional regression] Schema quality: 203 → 271
- [functional improvement] Tool coverage: 67% → 75%
- [cosmetic] “news_headlines” added an optional parameter “country”
- [cosmetic] “news_search” added an optional parameter “country”

### 2026-10-22 (score 71, +1)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-10-21 (score 70)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (2)

### `news_headlines` (~221 tokens)

Latest news headlines

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}

Input parameters:

- `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.

### `news_search` (~125 tokens)

Search today's news

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"}

Input parameters:

- `country` (string): Optional two-letter country code: search that country's national publishers first
- `lang` (string): Language of the news sources
- `query` (string, required): Words to look for (all must appear in the headline or excerpt)
- `results` (integer)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-faceabot-news/tools-mcp-news#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-10-24: 71
- 2026-10-23: 71
- 2026-10-22: 71
- 2026-10-21: 70

## Common questions

### 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.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/news
- Website: https://faceabot.com/tools/com.faceabot/news
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-faceabot-news/tools-mcp-news.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-faceabot-news/tools-mcp-news.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-faceabot-news/tools-mcp-news