# Country News (npm · @pipeworx/mcp-country-news)

Country News MCP — ranked top headlines for any country, via Google News RSS.

- Trust score: 80/100 (high trust)
- Change this week: +3
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `gateway.pipeworx.io`: 80/100, [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-country-news/country-news-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-country-news/country-news-mcp)
- npm · `@pipeworx/mcp-country-news`: 80/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-country-news/pipeworx-mcp-country-news.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-country-news/pipeworx-mcp-country-news)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `npm`
- Package: `@pipeworx/mcp-country-news`
- Version: `0.2.1`
- Transport: `stdio`

## Trust breakdown

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. 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.

- **Supply Chain Security**: 100/100
  - No malware found by supply-chain analysis.
  - No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.
  - No install/post-install scripts declared.
  - No production dependencies, so there is no dependency health to assess.
- **Provenance & Transparency**: 97/100
  - Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL.
  - Cryptographically verified build provenance (signed, bound to pipeworx-io/mcp-country-news).
  - Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).
  - Actively maintained (last published 4 days ago).
  - Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 54/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 457 tokens (~457/item across 1 items; 1 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 23/100
  - Stability observed for 7 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.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 1 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 2 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the Country News MCP server?

Country News runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-country-news. 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 pipeworx-io-country-news -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-country-news
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx-io-country-news": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-country-news"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "pipeworx-io-country-news": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-country-news"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add pipeworx-io-country-news -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-country-news
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "pipeworx-io-country-news": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "npx",
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-country-news"
      ],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add pipeworx-io-country-news --command npx --arg -y --arg @pipeworx/mcp-country-news
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  pipeworx-io-country-news:
    command: "npx"
    args: ["-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-country-news"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "pipeworx-io-country-news": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "npx",
      "Arguments": [
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-country-news"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add pipeworx-io-country-news -t stdio -c npx -a -y @pipeworx/mcp-country-news
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx-io-country-news": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-country-news"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## 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.

### 2026-11-03 (score 80, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 13 to 17. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 4 days of observed history at the previous scan, 5 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-01 (score 79, +27)

- [security improvement] Malware scan: unverified → pass
- [security improvement] Known CVEs: unverified → pass
- [functional improvement] Dependency health: unverified → pass

### 2026-10-31 (score 52, −26)

- [security regression] Malware scan: pass → unverified
- [security regression] Known CVEs: pass → unverified
- [functional regression] Dependency health: pass → unverified
- [functional] Package version: 0.2.0 → 0.2.1

### 2026-10-30 (score 78, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 0 to 3. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 0 days of observed history at the previous scan, 1 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-29 (score 77)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (1)

### `country_news` (~405 tokens)

The latest news about a country today, ranked by prominence (Google News): top current stories about China, India, Germany, Brazil or any other country, newest window first — not an unranked firehose. Optionally add a keyword query ("election", "floods") with a trailing day window, or read a section of the country's local Google News edition (WORLD, NATION, BUSINESS, TECHNOLOGY, ENTERTAINMENT, SPORTS, SCIENCE, HEALTH). Returns ranked items with title, source publication, link and publish time.

Input parameters:

- `country` (string, required): Country name or ISO-2 code, e.g. "China", "DE", "Brazil".
- `days` (number): Search window: only items from the last N days (default 2).
- `language` (string): Optional, topic mode only: force the edition language as a primary language code ("fr", "de", "en", "zh"). Needed for multilingual countries where the derived default is only one of several: Switzerl…
- `limit` (number): Max items (1-50, default 20).
- `query` (string): Optional keyword combined with the country in the search, e.g. "election", "floods".
- `topic` (string): Optional: read this section of the country's LOCAL Google News edition (news for readers there): WORLD | NATION | BUSINESS | TECHNOLOGY | ENTERTAINMENT | SPORTS | SCIENCE | HEALTH. The edition is ser…

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-country-news/pipeworx-mcp-country-news#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 80
- 2026-11-04: 80
- 2026-11-03: 80
- 2026-11-02: 79
- 2026-11-01: 79
- 2026-10-31: 52
- 2026-10-30: 78
- 2026-10-29: 77

## Common questions

### What is the Country News MCP server?

Country News is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.pipeworx-io/country-news. Country News MCP, ranked top headlines for any country, via Google News RSS. This page covers its npm package (@pipeworx/mcp-country-news).

### Is the Country News MCP server safe to use?

Country News scores 80 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 5 November 2026. It declares no install or post-install scripts. Its build provenance is signed and verified. 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 Country News MCP server expose?

Country News exposes 1 tool: country_news. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 405 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the Country News MCP server still maintained?

Country News 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.

### What licence is the Country News MCP server under?

Country News declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.

## Links

- npm package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@pipeworx/mcp-country-news
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/npm/package/@pipeworx/mcp-country-news
- Repository: https://github.com/pipeworx-io/mcp-country-news
- Website: https://pipeworx.io/packs/country-news
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-country-news/pipeworx-mcp-country-news.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-country-news/pipeworx-mcp-country-news.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-country-news/pipeworx-mcp-country-news