# The Moorish Times (remote · mcp.moorish.cloud)

Search, read and cite The Moorish Times: Moroccan history, culture and news, in French and English.

- Trust score: 64/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `mcp.moorish.cloud`: 64/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-moorishtimes-moorish-times/mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-moorishtimes-moorish-times/mcp)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://mcp.moorish.cloud/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `2.4.0`

## 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 2026-11-05.

- **Endpoint Security**: 63/100
  - 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 check failed: the endpoint is reachable over plaintext HTTP.
  - HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent.
  - 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**: 52/100
  - 24% of prompts and resources have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the item's name).
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 1681 tokens (~57/item across 29 items; 12 tools + 17 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 13/100
  - Stability observed for 4 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 93/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 74% of tool parameters carry a description.
  - Structured output schemas are declared (100% of tools); any adoption earns full credit.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - All 1 tool(s) whose name or description implies an irreversible operation declare an MCP destructiveHint annotation.
  - An AI judge read all 14 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 The Moorish Times MCP server?

The Moorish Times is a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.moorish.cloud/mcp, 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-moorishtimes-moorish-times 'https://mcp.moorish.cloud/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-moorishtimes-moorish-times": {
      "url": "https://mcp.moorish.cloud/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "com-moorishtimes-moorish-times": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.moorish.cloud/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.com-moorishtimes-moorish-times]
url = "https://mcp.moorish.cloud/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "com-moorishtimes-moorish-times": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://mcp.moorish.cloud/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add com-moorishtimes-moorish-times --url 'https://mcp.moorish.cloud/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  com-moorishtimes-moorish-times:
    url: "https://mcp.moorish.cloud/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "com-moorishtimes-moorish-times": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://mcp.moorish.cloud/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add com-moorishtimes-moorish-times -t streamable-http -u 'https://mcp.moorish.cloud/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-moorishtimes-moorish-times": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.moorish.cloud/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

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.

### 2026-11-05 (score 64, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 10 to 13. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 3 days of observed history at the previous scan, 4 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-04 (score 63, 0)

- [functional regression] Resource “Mazighan Daily” was removed
- [functional regression] Resource “Moroccan Royal Archives” was removed
- [functional regression] Resource “News / Actualité” was removed
- [functional regression] Resource “The Riffian Museum” was removed
- [functional] New resource “Mazighan Daily et Amerruki”
- [functional] New resource “Moroccan Royal Archives et Amerruki”
- [functional] New resource “Society / Société”
- [functional] New resource “The Riffian Museum et Amerruki”

### 2026-11-03 (score 63, +1)

- [functional regression] Resource “Moorish Movement” was removed

### 2026-11-02 (score 62, 0)

- [security regression] HTTPS: unverified → fail
- [security] The server rewrote its instructions, which are the text every model session reads
- [security] Tool “list_tags” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [security] Tool “report_missing” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [security] Tool “search” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [security] Tool “send_to_newsroom” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [security] Tool “site_map” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03
- [cosmetic] “compare_editions” reworded the description of “id”
- [cosmetic] “fetch” reworded the description of “id”
- [cosmetic] “get_sources” reworded the description of “id”
- [cosmetic] “related” reworded the description of “id”
- [cosmetic] “search” reworded the description of “author”
- [cosmetic] “search” reworded the description of “tags”
- [cosmetic] “send_to_newsroom” reworded the description of “kind”
- [cosmetic] “series” reworded the description of “slug”
- [cosmetic] “timeline” reworded the description of “tag”

### 2026-11-01 (score 62)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (12)

### `search` (~278 tokens)

Search articles and news

Search every article and news brief by words, section, tags, author and date range, in French or English. Accent-insensitive keyword match first, then pieces close in meaning (match: semantic) when keywords find few. An empty query lists the newest pieces first. Returns JSON {results: [{id, title, url, summary, published, ...}], next, total}; next is the cursor for the following page.

Input parameters:

- `author` (string): An author's slug or name, e.g. amerruki.
- `category` (string): Section: hist history, cult culture, pol politics, actu current affairs, sport, eco economy.
- `cursor` (string)
- `limit` (integer)
- `locale` (string): Edition: fr (primary) or en.
- `query` (string): Words to look for, e.g. zellige, Tanger Med, Guerre des Sables.
- `since` (string): today, week, month, year, or a date (2026-09-01).
- `sort` (string)
- `tags` (array): Every tag must be present, in French or English, e.g. ["Casablanca", "Finance"].
- `type` (string): article for long-form features, news for briefs.
- `until` (string): A date, inclusive.

Output parameters:

- `next` (string|null): Cursor for the next page, absent at the end.
- `results` (array)
- `total` (integer): Matches across all pages.

### `fetch` (~147 tokens)

Read one piece

The full text of one article or news brief, as Markdown with front matter (title, url, date, author, tags, translation link) and its references. format summary gives the front matter and summary only; outline gives the section headings. Falls back to French when the piece has no English edition, and says so. Returns JSON {id, title, text, url, metadata}.

Input parameters:

- `format` (string)
- `id` (string, required): A piece id (news/<slug> or articles/<slug>) or a moorishtimes.com page URL in either language.
- `locale` (string): Edition: fr or en. Defaults to the reference's own edition, else fr.

Output parameters:

- `id` (string)
- `metadata` (object)
- `text` (string): Markdown with front matter.
- `title` (string)
- `url` (string): Page URL on moorishtimes.com.

### `whats_new` (~111 tokens)

What's new

A digest of recent pieces grouped by section, featured pieces first: what happened in Morocco today, this week or this month according to The Moorish Times.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string): Section: hist history, cult culture, pol politics, actu current affairs, sport, eco economy.
- `featured_only` (boolean)
- `locale` (string): Edition: fr (primary) or en.
- `since` (string): today, week, month, or a date.
- `tag` (string)

Output parameters:

- `groups` (array)

### `site_map` (~47 tokens)

Site map

What the magazine covers: sections with counts and URLs, the most used tags, featured pieces, author pages and series.

Input parameters:

- `locale` (string): Edition: fr (primary) or en.

Output parameters:

- `authors` (array)
- `featured` (array)
- `sections` (array)
- `series` (array)
- `site` (object)
- `tags` (array)

### `series` (~87 tokens)

Series

Running stories the desk follows as one series, such as the 2026 elections or the Sahara. Without a slug, lists every series with its count and latest piece; with one, gives every piece in reading order, oldest first.

Input parameters:

- `locale` (string): Edition: fr (primary) or en.
- `slug` (string): A series slug, e.g. elections or sahara.

### `timeline` (~117 tokens)

Follow a story

Every piece on a tag or topic in date order, oldest first, to follow how a story unfolded. Marks the first and latest mention.

Input parameters:

- `locale` (string): Edition: fr (primary) or en.
- `query` (string): Words, e.g. MINURSO or Tanger Med.
- `since` (string)
- `tag` (string): A tag in French or English, e.g. Diplomatie.
- `type` (string): article for long-form features, news for briefs.
- `until` (string)

Output parameters:

- `items` (array): Oldest first.

### `related` (~84 tokens)

Related pieces

Pieces that share tags and section with a given piece, the closest first.

Input parameters:

- `id` (string, required): A piece id (news/<slug> or articles/<slug>) or a moorishtimes.com page URL in either language.
- `limit` (integer)
- `locale` (string): Edition: fr or en. Defaults to the reference's own edition, else fr.

Output parameters:

- `items` (array): Closest first.

### `compare_editions` (~65 tokens)

French and English side by side

Both editions of one piece aligned block by block, with both URLs. For readers comparing the languages or checking a translation.

Input parameters:

- `id` (string, required): A piece id (news/<slug> or articles/<slug>) or a moorishtimes.com page URL in either language.

Output parameters:

- `aligned` (boolean)
- `enBlocks` (integer)
- `frBlocks` (integer)
- `rows` (array)
- `urls` (object)

### `get_sources` (~97 tokens)

Sources and citation

A piece's references, outbound links and image credits, plus a ready citation of the piece itself in APA, MLA or Chicago style.

Input parameters:

- `id` (string, required): A piece id (news/<slug> or articles/<slug>) or a moorishtimes.com page URL in either language.
- `locale` (string): Edition: fr or en. Defaults to the reference's own edition, else fr.
- `style` (string)

Output parameters:

- `citation` (string)
- `credits` (array)
- `links` (array)
- `references` (array)
- `url` (string): Page URL on moorishtimes.com.

### `list_tags` (~116 tokens)

List tags

Tags with the number of pieces carrying each, most used first, named in the asked edition with both names in the data. Both names are accepted wherever a tag filter is.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string): Section: hist history, cult culture, pol politics, actu current affairs, sport, eco economy.
- `locale` (string): Edition: fr (primary) or en.
- `min_count` (integer)
- `prefix` (string): Accent-insensitive start of the tag in either language, e.g. tan for Tanger.

Output parameters:

- `tags` (array)

### `send_to_newsroom` (~164 tokens)

Message the newsroom

Send the newsroom a story tip, a correction, a rights or advertising request, or another message, on the user's behalf and with their consent. message holds the user's own words; reply_to is their email, for when they want an answer. Without a Bearer token (scope newsroom:send) sends are limited per network.

Input parameters:

- `kind` (string, required): story (a tip), correction (an error in a piece, named in page), rights, ads or other.
- `language` (string)
- `message` (string, required): The message, in French or English.
- `page` (string): The moorishtimes.com page it is about, if any.
- `reply_to` (string): The user's email, only if they want a reply.

Output parameters:

- `id` (string): Reference for the message.
- `status` (string)

### `report_missing` (~87 tokens)

Report something you could not do

Tell The Moorish Times about a task a reader wanted that this server, the site or the API could not do. It records the task only, never personal data.

Input parameters:

- `description` (string, required): What was wanted and what was missing. No names, emails or other personal data.
- `task` (string, required): The task in a few words, e.g. Read a piece in Arabic.

Output parameters:

- `status` (string)

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 64
- 2026-11-04: 63
- 2026-11-03: 63
- 2026-11-02: 62
- 2026-11-01: 62

## Common questions

### What is the The Moorish Times MCP server?

The Moorish Times is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as com.moorishtimes/moorish-times. Search, read and cite The Moorish Times: Moroccan history, culture and news, in French and English. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://mcp.moorish.cloud/mcp).

### Is the The Moorish Times MCP server safe to use?

The Moorish Times scores 64 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 The Moorish Times MCP server expose?

The Moorish Times exposes 12 tools: search, fetch, whats_new, site_map, series, and 7 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 1,400 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the The Moorish Times MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to The Moorish Times without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the The Moorish Times MCP server still maintained?

The Moorish Times is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 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://mcp.moorish.cloud/mcp
- Website: https://moorishtimes.com/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-moorishtimes-moorish-times/mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-moorishtimes-moorish-times/mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-moorishtimes-moorish-times/mcp