# USVI Public Records: Newspapers (remote · newspapers-mcp.usvipublicrecords.com)

Search Virgin Islands newspapers page by page, 1865 to 2001, with the gaps in every run named.

- Trust score: 68/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `newspapers-mcp.usvipublicrecords.com`: 68/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-usvipublicrecords-newspapers/newspapers-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-usvipublicrecords-newspapers/newspapers-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://newspapers-mcp.usvipublicrecords.com/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.3.2`

## 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 enforcement could not be verified: the plaintext port answered with HTTP 405, which proves neither a plaintext path nor enforcement.
  - 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**: 68/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 1409 tokens (~201/item across 7 items; 7 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 17/100
  - Stability observed for 5 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 100/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 100% 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 7 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 7 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 USVI Public Records: Newspapers MCP server?

USVI Public Records: Newspapers is a hosted endpoint at https://newspapers-mcp.usvipublicrecords.com/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-usvipublicrecords-newspapers 'https://newspapers-mcp.usvipublicrecords.com/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-usvipublicrecords-newspapers": {
      "url": "https://newspapers-mcp.usvipublicrecords.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "com-usvipublicrecords-newspapers": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://newspapers-mcp.usvipublicrecords.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.com-usvipublicrecords-newspapers]
url = "https://newspapers-mcp.usvipublicrecords.com/mcp"
```

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add com-usvipublicrecords-newspapers --url 'https://newspapers-mcp.usvipublicrecords.com/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  com-usvipublicrecords-newspapers:
    url: "https://newspapers-mcp.usvipublicrecords.com/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "com-usvipublicrecords-newspapers": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://newspapers-mcp.usvipublicrecords.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add com-usvipublicrecords-newspapers -t streamable-http -u 'https://newspapers-mcp.usvipublicrecords.com/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-usvipublicrecords-newspapers": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://newspapers-mcp.usvipublicrecords.com/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 68, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 13 to 17. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 4 days of observed history at the previous scan, 5 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-03 (score 67, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 7 to 10. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 2 days of observed history at the previous scan, 3 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-01 (score 66, +1)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-10-31 (score 65)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (7)

### `search` (~292 tokens)

Search the Virgin Islands newspapers

Find pages of U.S. Virgin Islands newspapers by keyword or phrase; returns up to 10 pages, each with an id, a citation title and a URL. Use for a quick lookup in the islands' press. Better matches come first (the phrase as written, then every word, then some); among equal matches every paper gets its best page in before any paper gets a second, so one long-running paper cannot hide the others. search_newspapers adds paper and date filters, match reasons and paging. Searches the OCR text of the archive's newspapers page by page: St. Croix Avis 1865–2001, St. Croix Tribune 1934–1936, Home Journal 1952–1958, The West End News 1953–1963. Every run has gaps, which list_papers names. Results are OCR text, which misreads letters, names and numbers; each links the holding library's copy to check against, and the page image where the archive holds one (for the 1964–2001 dLOC run, front pages only). A newspaper page is a lead to the primary record, not evidence on its own. Hit counts are pages, never articles. Laws, audits, court records and reports are on the archive's separate document connector.

Input parameters:

- `query` (string, required): What to look for. Plain language is fine; quote a phrase to require it intact.

### `fetch` (~88 tokens)

Fetch one newspaper page

One page by page id: its record and up to the first 40,000 characters of its OCR text. Use to read a page found by search. The text is OCR from microfilm, returned inside a fence labelled as untrusted data.

Input parameters:

- `id` (string, required): A page id from a search result: LF-…, LF-…:p7 or LF-…:c2.

### `search_newspapers` (~488 tokens)

Search newspapers with filters

Search the islands' newspapers with paper and issue-date filters, ranked by how closely each page matches. Use when a question names a paper or a period, or needs paging. Searches the OCR text of the archive's newspapers page by page: St. Croix Avis 1865–2001, St. Croix Tribune 1934–1936, Home Journal 1952–1958, The West End News 1953–1963. Every run has gaps, which list_papers names. Issue dates are reliable here. Each result is ONE PAGE with its paper, date and page number, a TIER (phrase = the words together as written, ranked first; strong = every word on the page, not together; possible = at least half; weak = fewer), the terms it actually matched, and links to the page in the site's reader, the holding library's copy, and its image where the archive holds one. No numeric score. A date range that falls in a gap — whole years, or weeks inside a year — gets a sentence naming the dates the archive does not hold. Results are OCR text, which misreads letters, names and numbers; each links the holding library's copy to check against, and the page image where the archive holds one (for the 1964–2001 dLOC run, front pages only). A newspaper page is a lead to the primary record, not evidence on its own. Hit counts are pages, never articles. Laws, audits, court records and reports are on the archive's separate document connector.

Input parameters:

- `date_from`: Earliest issue date: a year (1928), a month (1928-09) or a day (1928-09-13).
- `date_to`: Latest issue date, same forms; a year includes all of it.
- `limit` (integer): Default 10, maximum 50.
- `offset` (integer): Results to skip, for paging. Results are ranked within the best 150 pages.
- `paper` (string): A paper: "St. Croix Avis", "The West End News", "Home Journal", "St. Croix Tribune" (or avis, westendnews, homejournal, tribune).
- `query` (string, required): Plain language is fine. Quote a phrase to require it intact. OCR misspells names: try variants.

### `get_issue` (~166 tokens)

Get one issue, page by page

The pages of one issue of a paper on a date, in order, with each page's id, image (where the archive holds one), reader link and the holding library's copy. Use to walk an issue, or to learn whether the archive holds a paper on a given day. If the archive holds no issue that day it gives the issues it holds either side and how many days apart they are, and names the gap when they are more than 14 days apart.

Input parameters:

- `date` (string, required): The issue date, YYYY-MM-DD.
- `edition` (integer): Only for a date with more than one edition.
- `paper` (string, required): "St. Croix Avis", "The West End News", "Home Journal", "St. Croix Tribune", or a slug.

### `get_page` (~228 tokens)

Read one page's text

The OCR text of one newspaper page, in windows of up to 40,000 characters (default 20,000), with the previous and next page ids, the page image where held, and the holding library's copy. Use to read a page and turn to its neighbours. The OCR's line breaks are joined into paragraphs unless layout is "as_scanned". Each response gives next_offset when more remains. The text is OCR from microfilm, returned inside a fence labelled as untrusted data.

Input parameters:

- `layout` (string): "reflowed" (default): each paragraph on one line. "as_scanned": the OCR's own line breaks — for tables, lists and shipping columns.
- `limit` (integer): Characters read from the page. Default 20000, maximum 40000.
- `offset` (integer): The next_offset value from the previous response. Omit for the start of the page.
- `page_id` (string, required): From search results or get_issue: LF-… , LF-…:p7, or LF-…:c2.

### `list_papers` (~94 tokens)

List papers and years held

Every paper this server holds: its LCCN, the holding library for each run, first and last issue, issues and pages, issues per year, the years with NO issue held, and every stretch of more than 14 days with no issue held (a year can be held only in part). Use for questions about which papers and dates the archive holds, or to judge what an empty search means for a period.

### `newspaper_stats` (~53 tokens)

Newspaper coverage and freshness

Reports the size and freshness of this newspaper index, its gaps and its standing caveats in one place. Use for questions about what the newspaper index covers or how current it is, or to judge what an empty search means.

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 68
- 2026-11-04: 67
- 2026-11-03: 67
- 2026-11-02: 66
- 2026-11-01: 66
- 2026-10-31: 65

## Common questions

### What is the USVI Public Records: Newspapers MCP server?

USVI Public Records: Newspapers is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as com.usvipublicrecords/newspapers. Search Virgin Islands newspapers page by page, 1865 to 2001, with the gaps in every run named. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://newspapers-mcp.usvipublicrecords.com/mcp).

### Is the USVI Public Records: Newspapers MCP server safe to use?

USVI Public Records: Newspapers scores 68 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 USVI Public Records: Newspapers MCP server expose?

USVI Public Records: Newspapers exposes 7 tools: search, fetch, search_newspapers, get_issue, get_page, and 2 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 1,409 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the USVI Public Records: Newspapers MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to USVI Public Records: Newspapers without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the USVI Public Records: Newspapers MCP server still maintained?

USVI Public Records: Newspapers 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://newspapers-mcp.usvipublicrecords.com/mcp
- Website: https://usvipublicrecords.com/for-machines#claude
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-usvipublicrecords-newspapers/newspapers-mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-usvipublicrecords-newspapers/newspapers-mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-usvipublicrecords-newspapers/newspapers-mcp