io.github.jshelley/briefings
MCPB · BRIEFING-MCP-0.1.0.MCPB · 2 COMPONENTS · SCANNED SEP 21
Hourly ranked news (AI, markets, sports, world): JSON, e-ink pages, Morning Paper PDF; 25 free/day
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How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically from public evidence about the published package, including repeated runs of it in an isolated sandbox, and we only credit what we can confirm. How we score → Why this is hard to score →
Supply Chain Security23
- Malware scan not yet available for this package.Unverified
- Known CVEs were checked across the 96 of 96 dependencies we could resolve, so this covers what we could see, not the whole tree.Partial
- No install/post-install scripts declared.Pass
- 31 of 96 dependencies flagged as unhealthy. View diagnostics → Partial
Provenance & Transparency45
- Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL. View diagnostics → Pass
- Provenance check failed: no build-provenance attestation is published. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Fail
- Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).Pass
- Actively maintained (last published 8 days ago).Pass
- Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository. See how to fix → Fail
Schema Quality & AI Usability77
- AI-judged instruction clarity (good).Pass
- Tool/resource definitions use about 489 tokens (~81/item across 6 items; 6 tools + 0 resources), lean.Pass
- Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management27
- Stability observed for 8 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.Partial
Tool Coverage79
- 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
- 38% 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 6 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
- An AI judge read all 7 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.Pass
Capabilities100
- Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.Pass
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mcpb · briefing-mcp-0.1.0.mcpb
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- 20 Sept 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 23 to 27. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 7 days of observed history at the previous scan, 8 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 19 Sept 26 +3
- Stability: unverified → 0.23 ▲ functional
- 12 Sept 26 46
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 20 Sept 2026 · Analysed mcpb/https://github.com/jshelley/briefing-mcp/releases/download/v0.1.0/briefing-mcp-0.1.0.mcpb@0.1.0
Provenance No attestation
The registry publishes no build provenance for this version, so there is nothing to verify.
| Result | No attestation |
|---|---|
| Ecosystem | mcpb |
Background: How many MCP packages publish verified provenance →
Dependencies 96 packages
| Packages resolved | 96 |
|---|---|
| Stale | 31 |
| Tree resolution | Complete |
Background: SBOMs and build attestations, explained →
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 →
get_briefing ~62
One briefing as structured JSON: lead story, ranked stories and research items with summaries, why-it-matters and key points, plus when it was ranked.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| key | string | yes | briefing key from list_briefings, e.g. 'ai' |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
get_candidates ~72
Free provenance dump: every candidate the editor saw this hour with canonical_link, published time, feed weight, the other outlets that ran the story (also_in), a selected flag, and collapsed duplicates (duplicate_of, dup_rule, dup_score).
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| key | string | yes | briefing key, e.g. 'ai' |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
get_page ~79
One rendered page of a briefing as a 480x800 1-bit PNG (page 0 is the front page; story pages follow). Made for e-ink and small displays. wide=true returns the 800x480 landscape front page.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| key | string | yes | – |
| page | integer | – | – |
| wide | boolean | – | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
get_summary ~42
Free, small: headlines and one-line summaries of a briefing (for widgets and quick reads).
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| key | string | yes | briefing key, e.g. 'world' |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
list_briefings ~24
List the hourly briefings available (key and name), with prices.
Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
render_briefing ~63
Rank and render a briefing from your own feeds and persona (one editor run; needs a Reader key with render credits, or use x402 on the remote endpoint). Returns JSON and page URLs.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| feeds | array | yes | – |
| persona | string | yes | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
What is the io.github.jshelley/briefings MCP server?
io.github.jshelley/briefings is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.jshelley/briefings. Hourly ranked news (AI, markets, sports, world): JSON, e-ink pages, Morning Paper PDF; 25 free/day. This page covers its MCPB bundle (https://github.com/jshelley/briefing-mcp/releases/download/v0.1.0/briefing-mcp-0.1.0.mcpb).
Is the io.github.jshelley/briefings MCP server safe to use?
io.github.jshelley/briefings scores 50 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. It declares no install or post-install scripts. 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 io.github.jshelley/briefings MCP server expose?
io.github.jshelley/briefings exposes 6 tools: list_briefings, get_briefing, get_summary, get_candidates, get_page, render_briefing. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 342 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
What licence is the io.github.jshelley/briefings MCP server under?
io.github.jshelley/briefings declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.