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Korean News Hub

REMOTE · KOREAN-NEWS-MCP.ONRENDER.COM · SCANNED AUG 3

Korean news aggregator - Naver, Google News, Daum trends in real-time

+45 this week 59 Trust /100
Trust breakdown (6 categories)

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. How we score →

Endpoint Security57
Transport & Reachability100
Schema Quality & AI Usability66
  • AI-judged instruction clarity (good).Pass
  • Tool/resource definitions use about 364 tokens (~60/item across 6 items; 6 tools + 0 resources), lean.Pass
  • Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management7
  • Stability observed for 2 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.Partial
Tool Coverage71
  • 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
  • 0% of tool parameters carry a description.Fail
  • Structured output schemas are declared (100% of tools); any adoption earns full credit.Pass
Capabilities100
  • Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.Pass
Install

Add this component to your MCP client. Where a client-specific snippet is available, pick your client below and copy it straight into your config; otherwise use the connection detail shown.

remote · korean-news-mcp.onrender.com

# add to Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http songt-50-korean-news-mcp https://korean-news-mcp.onrender.com/mcp
# ~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.songt-50-korean-news-mcp]
url = "https://korean-news-mcp.onrender.com/mcp"
// opencode.json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "songt-50-korean-news-mcp": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://korean-news-mcp.onrender.com/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
# add to OpenClaw
openclaw mcp add songt-50-korean-news-mcp --url https://korean-news-mcp.onrender.com/mcp --transport streamable-http
# ~/.hermes/config.yaml
mcp_servers:
  songt-50-korean-news-mcp:
    url: "https://korean-news-mcp.onrender.com/mcp"
// mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "songt-50-korean-news-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://korean-news-mcp.onrender.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

Changelog

Every change we have recorded for this component, newest first. Security-relevant changes are always shown. ▲ marks a change for the better, ▼ a change for the worse; unmarked changes are neutral.

  • 3 Aug 26 0
    • HSTS header: unverified → fail security
    • Authorization: Authorisation not fully verified: no authorisation is required to call this server, and 6 tool(s) never declared a destructiveHint. The MCP spec treats an absent hint as destructive by default, so we cannot call this surface safe. security
  • 2 Aug 26 +8
    • Stability: unverified → 0.03 functional
    • Schema quality: unverified → good functional
  • 1 Aug 26 +28
    • HSTS header: fail → unverified security
    • Transport: fail → pass security
    • Authorization: Authorisation not yet verified: we couldn't confirm whether this endpoint requires it. security
    • MCP protocol: unverified → pass functional
    • Tool coverage: unverified → 100 functional
    • First check of Tool coverage: 0 functional
    • First check of Schema quality: pass functional
    • First check of Schema quality: unverified functional
    • First check of Tool coverage: 100 functional
    • First check of Schema quality: fail functional
  • 31 Jul 26 +9
    • We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server See what changed → functional
  • 27 Jul 26 0
    • We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server See what changed → functional
  • 26 Jul 26 14

    First indexed and scored.

Diagnostics

Diagnostic detail from the automated scan of this channel: what the scanner observed at each step, so you can see exactly where a check passed or failed. It is informational only and never changes the trust score.

Captured 3 Aug 2026 · Probed https://korean-news-mcp.onrender.com/mcp

TLS valid

Negotiated TLS 1.3 with TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 .

Subject Issuer Valid from Valid until Key Signature Serial
CN=onrender.com CN=WE1,O=Google Trust Services,C=US 24 Jul 2026 22 Oct 2026 ECDSA 256 ECDSA-SHA256 756bcb97dcf1455f0ebf70e5dbe07256
SANs: onrender.com, *.onrender.com
CN=WE1,O=Google Trust Services,C=US (CA) CN=GTS Root R4,O=Google Trust Services LLC,C=US 13 Dec 2023 20 Feb 2029 ECDSA 256 ECDSA-SHA384 7ff31977972c224a76155d13b6d685e3
CN=GTS Root R4,O=Google Trust Services LLC,C=US (CA) CN=GlobalSign Root CA,OU=Root CA,O=GlobalSign nv-sa,C=BE 15 Nov 2023 28 Jan 2028 ECDSA 384 SHA256-RSA 7fe530bf331343bedd821610493d8a1b
DNSSEC insecure

Validation of korean-news-mcp.onrender.com. Not signed

Zone DS Keys Algorithms Outcome
. trust_anchor 20326, 38696 8, 8 Verified
com. present 19718 13 Verified
onrender.com. absent Unsigned (proven) parent-signed NSEC/NSEC3 proves an unsigned delegation
Authentication No authorisation required

The endpoint answered without asking for a token. Anyone who knows the URL can reach it.

Result No authorisation required
HTTP status 200
Transports 2 probes
Transport URL Outcome Status Location
streamable-http https://korean-news-mcp.onrender.com/mcp Verified 200
http (plaintext) http://korean-news-mcp.onrender.com/mcp HTTPS enforced 301 https://korean-news-mcp.onrender.com/mcp
MCP tools — 6 exposed · ~364 tokens

The tools this component advertises to a client, with an estimated token cost for each. Expand a tool to see its parameters and schema. The per-tool counts are indicative and are not scored directly; the schema's total context footprint is one signal in Schema Quality & AI Usability.

Tool Tokens
daily_briefing ~35

Generate a comprehensive daily news briefing. Combines Korean headlines + AI/tech news + Claude/Anthropic news.

Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.

NameTypeReqDescription
resultstringyes

No examples provided.

korean_news ~73

Get Korean news by category. Args: category: News category. Options: 속보, 정치, 경제, 사회, IT, 세계, 연예, 스포츠 count: Number of articles (default 10, max 20)

NameTypeReqDescription
categorystring
countinteger
NameTypeReqDescription
resultstringyes

No examples provided.

news_search ~92

Search news by keyword. Args: query: Search keyword (e.g. "Samsung AI", "Claude Code", "MCP server") language: "ko" (Korean) or "en" (English) count: Number of articles (default 10, max 20)

NameTypeReqDescription
countinteger
languagestring
querystringyes
NameTypeReqDescription
resultstringyes

No examples provided.

read_article ~37

Read and extract article content from a URL. Args: url: The article URL to read

NameTypeReqDescription
urlstringyes
NameTypeReqDescription
resultstringyes

No examples provided.

tech_news ~81

Get global AI/tech news by topic. Args: topic: Tech topic. Options: AI, Claude, OpenAI, MCP, OpenClaw, 스타트업, 개발, 클라우드 count: Number of articles (default 10, max 20)

NameTypeReqDescription
countinteger
topicstring
NameTypeReqDescription
resultstringyes

No examples provided.

trending ~46

Get current trending/headline news. Args: scope: "korea" (Korean headlines) or "tech" (global tech trends)

NameTypeReqDescription
scopestring
NameTypeReqDescription
resultstringyes

No examples provided.