# Geotone — Global News Signals (remote · geotone.news)

Live global news signals: ranked wire, story timelines, coverage volume/tone/surges. Free, no auth.

- Trust score: 66/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +3
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-08-03

## Components

- remote · `geotone.news`: 66/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/news-geotone-geotone/geotone.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/news-geotone-geotone/geotone)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://geotone.news/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.1.1`

## 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 2026-08-03.

- **Endpoint Security**: 57/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - Authorisation not fully verified: no authorisation is required to call this server, and 8 tool(s) never declared a destructiveHint. The MCP spec treats an absent hint as destructive by default, so we cannot call this surface safe.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - 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**: 83/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 795 tokens (~99/item across 8 items; 8 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 27/100
  - Stability observed for 8 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.
  - Structured output schemas are declared (100% of tools); any adoption earns full credit.
- **Capabilities**: 60/100
  - Spec-recency check failed: implements MCP spec 2025-06-18; the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http news-geotone-geotone https://geotone.news/mcp
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.news-geotone-geotone]
url = "https://geotone.news/mcp"
```

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add news-geotone-geotone --url https://geotone.news/mcp --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  news-geotone-geotone:
    url: "https://geotone.news/mcp"
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "news-geotone-geotone": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://geotone.news/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.

### 2026-08-02 (score 66, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 20 to 23. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 6 days of observed history at the previous scan, 7 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-07-31 (score 65, −1)

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

### 2026-07-30 (score 66, −1)

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

### 2026-07-29 (score 67, +3)

- [security improvement] HTTPS: unverified → pass

### 2026-07-28 (score 64, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 3 to 7. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 1 days of observed history at the previous scan, 2 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-07-27 (score 63, +1)

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

### 2026-07-26 (score 62)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (8)

### `get_trending` (~61 tokens)

Trending now

What's surging in global news right now: topics whose coverage is ≥2 standard deviations above their trailing average (z-score), the biggest week-over-week movers, and surging countries. Derived every 2 hours from GDELT across 65+ languages.

Output parameters:

- `meta` (object)
- `movers` (array)
- `surging` (array)
- `surgingCountries` (array)

### `get_topic` (~90 tokens)

Topic statistics

Live media-coverage statistics for one geopolitical topic (e.g. 'ukraine-war', 'taiwan-strait', 'sanctions'): 90-day daily volume and tone series, z-score, week-over-week change, and a sample of recent articles (headline+link only). Use search_topics to find slugs.

Input parameters:

- `slug` (string, required): Topic slug, e.g. 'ukraine-war'

Output parameters:

- `articles` (array)
- `meta` (object)
- `name` (string)
- `page` (string)
- `slug` (string)
- `snapshots` (array)
- `stats` (object)

### `get_country` (~125 tokens)

Country statistics

Live media-coverage statistics for one country by ISO-3166 alpha-2 code (e.g. 'ua', 'cn'): 90-day daily series of coverage volume (share of world news coverage that is about that country) and tone, plus armed-conflict fatalities (UCDP, trailing 12 months), displacement stocks (UNHCR: IDPs, refugees, asylum seekers), and coverage origin (what share of coverage about the country is produced by its own outlets vs abroad).

Input parameters:

- `iso2` (string, required): ISO2 code, e.g. 'ua'

Output parameters:

- `activeTopics` (array)
- `conflict` (object|null): UCDP GED trailing-12-month organized-violence totals; recent months preliminary
- `coverageOrigin` (object|null): Trailing-14d share of coverage about the country produced by domestic outlets (floor estimate)
- `displacement` (object|null): UNHCR year-end displacement stocks
- `iso2` (string)
- `meta` (object)
- `name` (string)
- `page` (string)
- `snapshots` (array)
- `stats` (object)

### `get_relation` (~76 tokens)

Bilateral co-coverage

Bilateral co-coverage signal for a monitored country pair (e.g. a='cn', b='us'): how much the world's press mentions the two countries together, and in what tone. ~50 strategic pairs are monitored.

Input parameters:

- `a` (string, required): First country ISO2
- `b` (string, required): Second country ISO2

Output parameters:

- `meta` (object)
- `pair` (string)
- `snapshots` (array)

### `search_topics` (~62 tokens)

Search topics

Search Geotone's tracked geopolitical topics by keyword (matches name, slug, and description). Returns slugs usable with get_topic, plus each topic's current coverage stats.

Input parameters:

- `query` (string, required): Keyword, e.g. 'nuclear' or 'china'

Output parameters:

- `meta` (object)
- `query` (string)
- `results` (array)

### `get_briefing` (~68 tokens)

Daily risk briefing

Geotone's daily global risk briefing for a date (YYYY-MM-DD): an analytical summary of coverage surges, tone shifts, and notable movers, with the statistics behind each claim.

Input parameters:

- `date` (string, required): UTC date, e.g. 2026-07-02

Output parameters:

- `bodyMarkdown` (string)
- `date` (string)
- `headline` (string)
- `meta` (object)
- `page` (string)

### `get_wire` (~111 tokens)

The live wire

The live wire: the world's most significant stories right now, ranked by a published formula (authority-weighted outlet breadth, boosted by consequence themes, coded events, and casualty figures, decayed by recency over 72h). Each story carries one representative link, outlet count, tone, countries, and a chain_id when it belongs to a multi-day story timeline (fetch with get_story_chain). Reclustered every 2 hours.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (number): Max stories to return (default 20)

Output parameters:

- `meta` (object)
- `page` (string)
- `stories` (array)

### `get_story_chain` (~73 tokens)

Story timeline

A story timeline: the threaded developments of one multi-day event chain, oldest first (e.g. attack → casualties confirmed → international reaction). Use the chain_id values returned by get_wire. Each development is a headline + link + outlet count + tone.

Input parameters:

- `chain_id` (number, required): Chain id from get_wire

Output parameters:

- `country` (string|null)
- `developments` (array)
- `firstSeen` (string)
- `id` (number)
- `lastDevelopment` (string)
- `meta` (object)
- `page` (string)

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-08-03: 66
- 2026-08-02: 66
- 2026-08-01: 65
- 2026-07-31: 65
- 2026-07-30: 66
- 2026-07-29: 67
- 2026-07-28: 64
- 2026-07-27: 63
- 2026-07-26: 62

## Links

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