# baba News by baba Hebrew (remote · news.itsbaba.com)

Israeli news in Hebrew and English: stories, sources, comparisons, coverage gaps, people and trends.

- Trust score: 69/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-09-28

## Components

- remote · `news.itsbaba.com`: 69/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/isaachorowitz-baba-news/news.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/isaachorowitz-baba-news/news)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://news.itsbaba.com/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `required`
- 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 2026-09-28.

- **Endpoint Security**: 69/100
  - 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.
  - 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**: 69/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 2134 tokens (~133/item across 16 items; 16 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 7/100
  - Stability observed for 2 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 96/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 88% 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.
  - We read all 16 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 17 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 baba News by baba Hebrew MCP server?

baba News by baba Hebrew is a hosted endpoint at https://news.itsbaba.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 isaachorowitz-baba-news 'https://news.itsbaba.com/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "isaachorowitz-baba-news": {
      "url": "https://news.itsbaba.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "isaachorowitz-baba-news": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://news.itsbaba.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.isaachorowitz-baba-news]
url = "https://news.itsbaba.com/mcp"
```

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add isaachorowitz-baba-news --url 'https://news.itsbaba.com/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  isaachorowitz-baba-news:
    url: "https://news.itsbaba.com/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "isaachorowitz-baba-news": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://news.itsbaba.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add isaachorowitz-baba-news -t streamable-http -u 'https://news.itsbaba.com/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "isaachorowitz-baba-news": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://news.itsbaba.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.

### 2026-09-28 (score 69, +1)

- [functional] We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server

### 2026-09-27 (score 68, 0)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-09-26 (score 68)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (16)

### `stories_list` (~187 tokens)

List stories

List stories.  Requires the stories API scope. English is the fallback for untranslated fields.

Input parameters:

- `cursor` (string): Opaque keyset cursor from a previous page nextCursor. Malformed values are 400.
- `lang` (string): Output language. Hebrew falls back to English per field when a row is missing.
- `limit` (integer): Page size. Non-integer or negative values are 400; values above 100 are clamped to 100 and echoed as page.limit.
- `since` (integer): Jerusalem calendar dates back, 0-30, today inclusive. Non-integer or negative values are 400; values above 30 are clamped to 30.
- `source` (string): Newsroom key. Repeatable.
- `state` (string): Cluster state. Unknown values are ignored.
- `topic` (string): Desk id. Repeatable.

### `stories_get` (~62 tokens)

Story detail: members, timeline, framing

Story detail: members, timeline, framing.  Requires the stories API scope. English is the fallback for untranslated fields.

Input parameters:

- `ckey` (integer, required)
- `lang` (string): Output language. Hebrew falls back to English per field when a row is missing.

### `sources_list` (~49 tokens)

List newsrooms

List newsrooms.  Requires the sources API scope. English is the fallback for untranslated fields.

Input parameters:

- `lang` (string): Output language. Hebrew falls back to English per field when a row is missing.

### `sources_get` (~38 tokens)

One newsroom, with profile when computed

One newsroom, with profile when computed.  Requires the sources API scope. English is the fallback for untranslated fields.

Input parameters:

- `key` (string, required)

### `brief_get` (~49 tokens)

Today in Brief

Today in Brief.  Requires the brief API scope. English is the fallback for untranslated fields.

Input parameters:

- `lang` (string): Output language. Hebrew falls back to English per field when a row is missing.

### `search_list` (~214 tokens)

Search stories

Search stories.  Requires the search API scope. English is the fallback for untranslated fields.

Input parameters:

- `cursor` (string): Opaque keyset cursor from a previous page nextCursor. Malformed values are 400.
- `lang` (string): Output language. Hebrew falls back to English per field when a row is missing.
- `limit` (integer): Page size. Non-integer or negative values are 400; values above 100 are clamped to 100 and echoed as page.limit.
- `q` (string, required): 2-120 characters. Matches title, summary, and entities. Search lives on /search only.
- `since` (integer): Jerusalem calendar dates back, 0-30, today inclusive. Non-integer or negative values are 400; values above 30 are clamped to 30.
- `source` (string): Newsroom key. Repeatable.
- `state` (string): Cluster state. Unknown values are ignored.
- `topic` (string): Desk id. Repeatable.

### `people_list` (~60 tokens)

People in the last 24 hours

People in the last 24 hours.  Requires the people API scope. English is the fallback for untranslated fields.

Input parameters:

- `lang` (string): Output language. Hebrew falls back to English per field when a row is missing.
- `limit` (integer)

### `threads_list` (~148 tokens)

List running stories

List running stories.  Requires the stories API scope. English is the fallback for untranslated fields.

Input parameters:

- `cursor` (string): Opaque keyset cursor from a previous page nextCursor. Malformed values are 400.
- `lang` (string): Output language. Hebrew falls back to English per field when a row is missing.
- `limit` (integer): Page size. Non-integer or negative values are 400; values above 100 are clamped to 100 and echoed as page.limit.
- `minNodes` (integer): Smallest number of instalments a thread must have, 1-50. One cluster is not yet a running story, so the default is 2.

### `threads_get` (~123 tokens)

One running story and its whole arc

One running story and its whole arc. Every instalment we still hold, newest first, in the same shape as a story on /v1/stories. The arc is bounded by limit and returned whole rather than paged. Requires the stories API scope. English is the fallback for untranslated fields.

Input parameters:

- `id` (integer, required)
- `lang` (string): Output language. Hebrew falls back to English per field when a row is missing.
- `limit` (integer): Instalments to return, 1-100. Non-integer or negative values are 400.

### `trending_list` (~189 tokens)

Stories picking up speed

Stories picking up speed.  Requires the stories API scope. English is the fallback for untranslated fields.

Input parameters:

- `cursor` (string): Opaque keyset cursor from a previous page nextCursor. Ranked by the same metric, so a cursor is only valid for the metric that produced it. Malformed values are 400.
- `lang` (string): Output language. Hebrew falls back to English per field when a row is missing.
- `limit` (integer): Page size. Non-integer or negative values are 400; values above 100 are clamped to 100 and echoed as page.limit.
- `metric` (string): Which computed signal orders the page. Unknown values are 400.
- `window` (integer): How many minutes back to consider a state row current, 15-10080. Values below 15 are raised to 15; above 10080 are clamped.

### `blindspots_list` (~207 tokens)

Coverage gaps, by camp

Coverage gaps, by camp.  Requires the stories API scope. English is the fallback for untranslated fields.

Input parameters:

- `cursor` (string): Opaque keyset cursor from a previous page nextCursor. Malformed values are 400.
- `lang` (string): Output language. Hebrew falls back to English per field when a row is missing.
- `limit` (integer): Page size. Non-integer or negative values are 400; values above 100 are clamped to 100 and echoed as page.limit.
- `side` (string): Return only stories the named camp did not run. Unknown values are 400.
- `state` (string): Repeatable. Unknown values are 400, unlike on /v1/stories, because this resource is only about these two.
- `window` (integer): How many minutes back to consider a state row current, 15-10080. Values below 15 are raised to 15; above 10080 are clamped.

### `stories_members` (~213 tokens)

Every article in a cluster, paged

Every article in a cluster, paged. The same member records /v1/stories/{ckey} returns, but paged and filterable by side or lean. side and lean come from the source registry rather than the row, so a filtered page can be shorter than its limit while still issuing a cursor. Requires the stories API scope. English is the fallback for untranslated fields.

Input parameters:

- `ckey` (integer, required)
- `cursor` (string): Opaque keyset cursor from a previous page nextCursor. Malformed values are 400.
- `lang` (string): Output language. Hebrew falls back to English per field when a row is missing.
- `lean` (string): Only members with this political lean. Unknown values are 400.
- `limit` (integer): Page size. Non-integer or negative values are 400; values above 100 are clamped to 100 and echoed as page.limit.
- `side` (string): Only members from this camp. Unknown values are 400.

### `changes_list` (~150 tokens)

Incremental change feed

Incremental change feed.  Requires the stories API scope. English is the fallback for untranslated fields.

Input parameters:

- `cursor` (string): Opaque keyset cursor from a previous page nextCursor. Malformed values are 400.
- `lang` (string): Output language. Hebrew falls back to English per field when a row is missing.
- `limit` (integer): Page size, 1-500. Non-integer or negative values are 400; values above 500 are clamped.
- `since` (string, required): ISO 8601 instant. Runs forward in time from here. Values older than seven days are raised to seven days ago, which is as far back as cluster state is kept warm.

### `topics_list` (~84 tokens)

The desk register with live volume

The desk register with live volume.  Requires the sources API scope. English is the fallback for untranslated fields.

Input parameters:

- `days` (integer): Days back, 1-7. Non-integer or negative values are 400; values above 7 are clamped.
- `lang` (string): Output language. Hebrew falls back to English per field when a row is missing.

### `sources_activity` (~133 tokens)

Measured newsroom behaviour

Measured newsroom behaviour. What a newsroom did rather than what its profile says it is: crawl outcomes over the window, and the byline, originality, opinion, press-release and filing-lag rates the profile cron computed over its own 30-day window. successRate is over finished runs only, so a crawl still in flight never reads as a failure. Requires the sources API scope. English is the fallback for untranslated fields.

Input parameters:

- `days` (integer): Days back, 1-30. Non-integer or negative values are 400; values above 30 are clamped.
- `key` (string, required)

### `people_get` (~98 tokens)

One person, with every spelling folded into them

One person, with every spelling folded into them. Identity and aliases. recentCoverage is always null: resolving a person to their stories has no index behind it today, and the field is in the contract so filling it later is additive. Requires the people API scope. English is the fallback for untranslated fields.

Input parameters:

- `id` (integer, required)
- `lang` (string): Output language. Hebrew falls back to English per field when a row is missing.

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-09-28: 69
- 2026-09-27: 68
- 2026-09-26: 68

## Common questions

### What is the baba News by baba Hebrew MCP server?

baba News by baba Hebrew is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.isaachorowitz/baba-news. Israeli news in Hebrew and English: stories, sources, comparisons, coverage gaps, people and trends. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://news.itsbaba.com/mcp).

### Is the baba News by baba Hebrew MCP server safe to use?

baba News by baba Hebrew scores 69 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 baba News by baba Hebrew MCP server expose?

baba News by baba Hebrew exposes 16 tools: stories_list, stories_get, sources_list, sources_get, brief_get, and 11 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 2,004 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the baba News by baba Hebrew MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to baba News by baba Hebrew without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the baba News by baba Hebrew MCP server still maintained?

baba News by baba Hebrew is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 28 September 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://news.itsbaba.com/mcp
- Authorisation metadata: https://news.itsbaba.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/isaachorowitz/baba-news-api
- Website: https://news.itsbaba.com/developers
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/isaachorowitz-baba-news/news.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/isaachorowitz-baba-news/news.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/isaachorowitz-baba-news/news