# The Aftermath (remote · theaftermath.news)

Read-only search of The Aftermath's essays on what AI means for how we live and work.

- Trust score: 69/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

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

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://theaftermath.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 2026-11-05.

- **Endpoint Security**: 77/100
  - 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 is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent.
  - 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**: 69/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 270 tokens (~67/item across 4 items; 4 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 3/100
  - Stability observed for 1 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 86/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 57% 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 4 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 5 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 60/100
  - Spec-recency check failed: implements MCP spec 2025-06-18; the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the The Aftermath MCP server?

The Aftermath is a hosted endpoint at https://theaftermath.news/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 news-theaftermath-news 'https://theaftermath.news/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "news-theaftermath-news": {
      "url": "https://theaftermath.news/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "news-theaftermath-news": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://theaftermath.news/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

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

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

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

### Hermes

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

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "news-theaftermath-news": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://theaftermath.news/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add news-theaftermath-news -t streamable-http -u 'https://theaftermath.news/mcp'
```

### Other

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

### 2026-11-05 (score 69, 0)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-11-04 (score 69)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (4)

### `about_site` (~33 tokens)

About this site

Describes The Aftermath (theaftermath.news): its mission, topics, post count, feeds and podcast shows.

### `latest_news` (~65 tokens)

Latest news

Lists the newest posts on theaftermath.news, newest first. Optional topic filters posts by tag (episodes are omitted when a topic is given).

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer): Maximum items (capped at 20).
- `topic` (string): Only posts carrying this tag.

### `search_news` (~76 tokens)

Search news

Searches theaftermath.news posts. Every query word of 3+ letters must match; title hits score 3, tag hits 2, excerpt and body hits 1 per word.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer)
- `query` (string, required)
- `since` (string): Only results dated on or after this day.

### `get_post` (~72 tokens)

Get a post

Returns one theaftermath.news post with its metadata and full text, looked up by slug or by URL. Bodies over 100,000 characters are truncated with a note.

Input parameters:

- `slug` (string)
- `url` (string): Post URL on this site, with or without trailing slash or .md.

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 69
- 2026-11-04: 69

## Common questions

### What is the The Aftermath MCP server?

The Aftermath is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as news.theaftermath/news. Read-only search of The Aftermath's essays on what AI means for how we live and work. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://theaftermath.news/mcp).

### Is the The Aftermath MCP server safe to use?

The Aftermath 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 The Aftermath MCP server expose?

The Aftermath exposes 4 tools: about_site, latest_news, search_news, get_post. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 246 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the The Aftermath MCP server require authentication?

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

### Is the The Aftermath MCP server still maintained?

The Aftermath 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://theaftermath.news/mcp
- Website: https://theaftermath.news/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/news-theaftermath-news/theaftermath.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/news-theaftermath-news/theaftermath.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/news-theaftermath-news/theaftermath