# Newsline (remote · news.heyitsmejosh.com)

News from 17 outlets with left/center/right bias tags and one-sided blindspot detection

- Trust score: 63/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +4
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-08-20

## Components

- remote · `news.heyitsmejosh.com`: 63/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/nulljosh-newsline/news.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/nulljosh-newsline/news)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://news.heyitsmejosh.com/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `0.3.0`

## 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 2026-08-20.

- **Endpoint Security**: 46/100
  - 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 2 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 enforcement could not be verified: the plaintext port answered with HTTP 405, which proves neither a plaintext path nor enforcement.
  - 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**: 71/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 243 tokens (~121/item across 2 items; 2 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 33/100
  - Stability observed for 10 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.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http nulljosh-newsline https://news.heyitsmejosh.com/mcp
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.nulljosh-newsline]
url = "https://news.heyitsmejosh.com/mcp"
```

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add nulljosh-newsline --url https://news.heyitsmejosh.com/mcp --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  nulljosh-newsline:
    url: "https://news.heyitsmejosh.com/mcp"
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nulljosh-newsline": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://news.heyitsmejosh.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.

### 2026-08-20 (score 63, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 30 to 33. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 9 days of observed history at the previous scan, 10 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-08-18 (score 62, +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.

### 2026-08-16 (score 61, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 17 to 20. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 5 days of observed history at the previous scan, 6 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-08-14 (score 60, +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.

### 2026-08-12 (score 59, +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.

### 2026-08-11 (score 58, −1)

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

### 2026-08-10 (score 59)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (2)

### `get_news` (~151 tokens)

Current headlines from 22 news outlets across the political spectrum. Each source carries a bias score from -2 (left) to +2 (right); 0 is center or non-political. Use view=latest for a flat reverse-chronological feed, or view=stories to group the same event as covered by different outlets.

Input parameters:

- `bias` (string): Restrict to outlets of one political lean.
- `limit` (integer): Max results, up to 200.
- `outlet` (string): Restrict to a single outlet.
- `q` (string): Case-insensitive substring match on headline text.
- `view` (string): Flat feed, clustered by story, or both. Default both.

### `get_blindspots` (~92 tokens)

Stories covered by only one side of the political spectrum — reported by left-leaning outlets but not right-leaning, or vice versa. Each source carries a bias score from -2 (left) to +2 (right); 0 is center or non-political. Useful for finding what a given audience is not being told.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer): Max stories, up to 200.

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-08-20: 63
- 2026-08-19: 62
- 2026-08-18: 62
- 2026-08-17: 61
- 2026-08-16: 61
- 2026-08-15: 60
- 2026-08-14: 60
- 2026-08-13: 59
- 2026-08-12: 59
- 2026-08-11: 58
- 2026-08-10: 59

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://news.heyitsmejosh.com/mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/nulljosh/newsline
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/nulljosh-newsline/news.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/nulljosh-newsline/news.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/nulljosh-newsline/news