# Pollar News (remote · mcp.pollar.news)

Independent European news from Pollar: search, brief, threads, markets. Read-only, no login.

- Trust score: 70/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +5
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-08-03

## Components

- remote · `mcp.pollar.news`: 70/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/news-pollar-pollar-news/mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/news-pollar-pollar-news/mcp)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://mcp.pollar.news/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- 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 2026-08-03.

- **Endpoint Security**: 66/100
  - 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 16 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.
  - The HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security) header is present.
  - DNSSEC is configured correctly; the domain's records validate against the full chain to the root.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 85/100
  - 100% of prompts and resources have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the item's name).
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 1494 tokens (~87/item across 17 items; 16 tools + 1 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**: 78/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 23% of tool parameters carry a description.
  - Structured output schemas are declared (100% of tools); any adoption earns full credit.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.
  - Supports UI / widget rendering.

## Install

### Claude

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

### Codex

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

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

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

### Hermes

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

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "news-pollar-pollar-news": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.pollar.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 70, +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 69, +2)

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

### 2026-07-30 (score 67, +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.

### 2026-07-28 (score 66, +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 65, +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 64)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (16)

### `search_news` (~102 tokens)

Search Pollar News

Searches Pollar's news archive using semantic and keyword matching. Use for any subject-specific query, including a person, organisation, place, or country (for example, interesting news in Poland). Put the subject or place in query. Locale controls response language, not geographic scope. For current headlines with no subject or place, use list_top_news.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer)
- `locale` (string)
- `query` (string, required): Free-text search query

Output parameters:

- `related` (array)
- `results` (array)

### `list_top_news` (~114 tokens)

List top Pollar news

Lists Pollar's current leading news events, ranked by freshness and editorial momentum. Use for broad requests for current headlines with no named subject, place, or country. For a subject or geographic request, use search_news instead. Optionally filters by a taxonomy dot-path such as 'world.politics'; call list_categories first when the category is unknown.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string): Taxonomy dot-path, e.g. 'world.politics'
- `limit` (integer)
- `locale` (string)

Output parameters:

- `results` (array)

### `get_event` (~82 tokens)

Get a Pollar news event

Fetches the full Pollar coverage of a single event by its slug (get slugs from search_news or list_top_news). Returns title, lead, full summary, source citations, mentioned people, locations, charts, and a canonical pollar.news url to cite.

Input parameters:

- `locale` (string)
- `slug` (string, required): Event slug (per-locale)

Output parameters:

- `categoryPath` (array)
- `charts` (array)
- `id` (string)
- `imageSource` (string)
- `imageUrl` (string)
- `lead` (string)
- `locations` (array)
- `mentionedPeople` (array)
- `modifiedAt` (string)
- `publishedAt` (string)
- `slug` (string)
- `sources` (array)
- `summary` (string)
- `title` (string)
- `url` (string)

### `get_daily_brief` (~96 tokens)

Get Pollar daily brief

Fetches today's fixed, curated Pollar daily brief with a greeting, headline, executive summary, themed sections, related events, and charts. Use only when the user explicitly asks for Pollar's daily brief or curated digest. Do not use it for questions about a subject, person, place, or country; use search_news instead. Locale changes the brief's language, not its editorial scope.

Input parameters:

- `locale` (string)

Output parameters:

- `charts` (array)
- `executiveSummary` (string)
- `greeting` (string)
- `headline` (string)
- `lead` (string)
- `sections` (array)
- `shortHeadline`

### `list_threads` (~57 tokens)

List Pollar story threads

Lists Pollar's active evergreen threads: ongoing storylines tracked over time and grouped by section, with the latest change magnitude. Use to discover long-running topics. Pass a returned id to get_thread for detail.

Input parameters:

- `locale` (string)

Output parameters:

- `sections` (object)
- `threads` (array)

### `get_thread` (~96 tokens)

Get a Pollar thread

Fetches a single Pollar thread by slug (from list_threads): its thesis, current state-of-play, and recent chronicle entries with citations. Set withHistory=true to also include how the thesis evolved over time. Returns the thread detail with a canonical url.

Input parameters:

- `locale` (string)
- `slug` (string, required): Thread slug, e.g. 'demokracje-populizm'
- `withHistory` (boolean)

Output parameters:

- `changeMagnitude`
- `entries` (array)
- `entryCount` (number)
- `history` (array)
- `id` (string)
- `lastTickAt`
- `magnitudeReason`
- `name` (string)
- `section` (string)
- `stateOfPlay`
- `thesis` (string)
- `url` (string)
- `weekHighlights` (array)

### `get_entity` (~73 tokens)

Get a Pollar person or organisation

Fetches Pollar's profile for a person or organisation by slug. Set withTimeline to include recent events that mention the subject. Returns the profile and a canonical Pollar URL.

Input parameters:

- `locale` (string)
- `slug` (string, required)
- `type` (string, required)
- `withTimeline` (boolean)

Output parameters:

- `desc` (string)
- `imageUrl` (string)
- `mentionCount` (number)
- `name` (string)
- `slug` (string)
- `timeline` (array)
- `type` (string)
- `url` (string)
- `wikipedia` (string)

### `get_markets` (~92 tokens)

Get market data

Returns market data tracked by Pollar, including European and global indices, currencies, crypto, commodities, and bonds. With no arguments, returns the quote catalogue. Pass an exact catalogue symbol for detail and an optional range for history.

Input parameters:

- `range` (string)
- `symbol` (string): Exact symbol from the catalog, e.g. '^GDAXI'. Call with no args first to list valid symbols.

Output parameters:

- `change` (number)
- `changePercent` (number)
- `currency`
- `dayHigh`
- `dayLow`
- `exchangeName`
- `fiftyTwoWeekHigh`
- `fiftyTwoWeekLow`
- `history` (object)
- `marketState` (string)
- `name` (string)
- `open`
- `previousClose` (number)
- `price` (number)
- `section` (string)
- `sections` (object)
- `sparkline`
- `symbol` (string)
- `topMovers` (object)
- `updatedAt` (string)
- `volume`

### `list_live_moments` (~95 tokens)

List Pollar breaking-news moments

Lists Pollar's live and recently ended breaking-news moments. Use to discover what is breaking now or what ended within the past 24 hours. Each moment carries story metadata (storyId, chapterIndex) when it belongs to a multi-chapter story — chapters of the same continuing narrative are returned in chapter order. Pass a returned id to get_live_moment for the current snapshot.

Input parameters:

- `locale` (string)

Output parameters:

- `moments` (array)

### `list_live_stories` (~103 tokens)

List Pollar breaking-news stories (with chapters)

Lists Pollar's active and developing breaking-news stories. Each story has an umbrella title and one or more chapters ordered by chapter index. Use this when you want to surface the narrative arc — e.g. 'this strike has had three chapters over 48 hours' — rather than each moment in isolation. Pass a returned story id to get_live_moment for the current snapshot (it accepts both story ids and individual moment ids).

Input parameters:

- `locale` (string)

Output parameters:

- `stories` (array)

### `get_live_moment` (~88 tokens)

Get a breaking-news moment snapshot

Fetches the current snapshot of a breaking-news moment by id, including ordered updates and a source summary. Accepts either a moment id or a story id; story ids resolve to the latest chapter of that story. This is a point-in-time read rather than a stream. Wait at least 30 seconds before refreshing.

Input parameters:

- `id` (string, required)
- `locale` (string)

Output parameters:

- `moment` (object)
- `sourcesSummary` (object)
- `states` (array)

### `get_live_story` (~82 tokens)

Get a breaking-news story snapshot (chapters umbrella)

Fetches the current snapshot of a story by id, including its title, status (active/developing/concluded/dormant) and ordered chapters. Use this when you want the multi-chapter arc, not the latest chapter alone. For a single chapter, use get_live_moment.

Input parameters:

- `id` (string, required)
- `locale` (string)

Output parameters:

- `story` (object)

### `list_categories` (~37 tokens)

List Pollar categories

Returns Pollar's category taxonomy with mention counts. Use it to discover valid category dot-paths before filtering list_top_news. Takes no arguments.

Output parameters:

- `total` (number)
- `tree` (object)

### `search` (~90 tokens)

Search Pollar News

Searches Pollar's published news and returns a ranked list of matching articles as {id, title, url}. Use for queries about a subject, person, organisation, place, or country; put that subject or place in query. Locale controls response language, not geographic scope. Pass an id to fetch to read the article.

Input parameters:

- `locale` (string)
- `query` (string, required): Free-text search query

Output parameters:

- `results` (array)

### `fetch` (~61 tokens)

Fetch a Pollar News article

Fetches the full text of one Pollar article by the id returned from the search tool. Returns {id, title, text, url, metadata} with the article's summary and source citations.

Input parameters:

- `id` (string, required): An id returned by the search tool

Output parameters:

- `id` (string)
- `metadata` (object)
- `text` (string)
- `title` (string)
- `url` (string)

### `render_news_list` (~63 tokens)

Show a Pollar news list

Renders selected stories already returned by search_news, list_top_news, or search. Call one of those tools first, then pass up to 10 relevant results without changing their titles or canonical URLs.

Input parameters:

- `heading` (string)
- `items` (array, required)

Output parameters:

- `heading` (string)
- `items` (array)

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-08-03: 70
- 2026-08-02: 70
- 2026-08-01: 69
- 2026-07-31: 69
- 2026-07-30: 67
- 2026-07-29: 66
- 2026-07-28: 66
- 2026-07-27: 65
- 2026-07-26: 64

## Links

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