# Clarity Today (remote · theclarity.today)

Clarity Today's briefing, latest stories by desk, search and full source-linked stories.

- Trust score: 23/100 (low)
- Change this week: 0
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `theclarity.today`: 23/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/today-theclarity-clarity-today/theclarity.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/today-theclarity-clarity-today/theclarity)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://theclarity.today/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**: 57/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - Authorisation not yet verified: we couldn't confirm whether this endpoint requires it.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 0/100
  - Transport check failed: declared streamable-http, but the endpoint returned HTTP 405.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 0/100
  - Schema not yet verified: we couldn't read the endpoint's schema, or could read only part of its tool list.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 0/100
  - Stability not yet verified: not enough scan history yet (needs a 30-day window).
- **Tool Coverage**: 0/100
  - Tool coverage not yet verified: we couldn't read the endpoint's tools, or could read only part of the list.
- **Tool Safety**: 0/100
  - Tool safety not yet verified: we couldn't read the endpoint's tools, or could read only part of the list.
- **Capabilities**: 0/100
  - Capabilities not yet verified: we couldn't read the endpoint's capabilities.

**Unverified: 5 categories.** Categories scored 0 because we could not verify them: authentication we do not have, an unreachable endpoint, or not enough scan history. We only credit what we can confirm.

## Install

### How do I install the Clarity Today MCP server?

Clarity Today is a hosted endpoint at https://theclarity.today/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 today-theclarity-clarity-today 'https://theclarity.today/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "today-theclarity-clarity-today": {
      "url": "https://theclarity.today/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "today-theclarity-clarity-today": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://theclarity.today/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.today-theclarity-clarity-today]
url = "https://theclarity.today/mcp"
```

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add today-theclarity-clarity-today --url 'https://theclarity.today/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  today-theclarity-clarity-today:
    url: "https://theclarity.today/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "today-theclarity-clarity-today": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://theclarity.today/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add today-theclarity-clarity-today -t streamable-http -u 'https://theclarity.today/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "today-theclarity-clarity-today": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://theclarity.today/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.

### 2026-10-17 (score 23, −54)

- [security regression] Endpoint reachability: reachable → not serving MCP
- [security regression] Stability: 0.13 → unverified
- [security regression] Authorization: partial → unverified
- [security regression] Tool safety: pass → unverified
- [security regression] Transport: pass → fail
- [security regression] HSTS header: pass → fail
- [functional regression] Schema quality: 100 → unverified
- [functional regression] Capabilities: pass → unverified
- [functional regression] Tool coverage: 100 → unverified

### 2026-10-16 (score 77, 0)

- [security] Tool “get_todays_briefing” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads

### 2026-10-15 (score 77, +1)

- [security] The server rewrote its instructions, which are the text every model session reads

### 2026-10-13 (score 76, +1)

- [security] The server rewrote its instructions, which are the text every model session reads
- [functional regression] Schema quality: 534 → 688
- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03
- [functional] New resource “Clarity Today evidence card”
- [functional] New tool “get_story”

### 2026-10-12 (score 75)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (5)

### `search` (~82 tokens)

Search Clarity Today

Find Clarity Today stories about a subject. Returns up to 12 matching stories, newest first, each with its URL and how many independent publishers back it. Pass a result’s id to fetch to read the whole story.

Input parameters:

- `query` (string, required): 1–4 distinctive keywords: a company, product, person, vulnerability or technology. Matches story headlines and summaries.

Output parameters:

- `results` (array)

### `fetch` (~81 tokens)

Read a Clarity Today story

Read one Clarity Today story in full, as Markdown: what happened, why it matters, what to watch, the claim ledger tying each claim to its source, and every publisher the story draws on.

Input parameters:

- `id` (string, required): A story id from search, the briefing or the latest stories, or a https://theclarity.today/story/<slug> URL.

Output parameters:

- `id` (string)
- `metadata` (object)
- `text` (string): The story as Markdown, ending with the URL to cite.
- `title` (string)
- `url` (string)

### `get_story` (~108 tokens)

Show a Clarity Today story’s evidence

Show one Clarity Today story as its evidence card: what changed and why it matters, the story’s own figure, each claim with the verifier’s verdict and its source, and the publishers behind it. Use it when the reader wants to see a story or check it; use fetch to read a story’s text for an answer.

Input parameters:

- `id` (string, required): A story id from search, the briefing or the latest stories, or a https://theclarity.today/story/<slug> URL.

Output parameters:

- `claim_count` (integer): Claims in the story’s full ledger.
- `claims` (array): The ledger in the story page’s order, up to 60 claims.
- `confirmation` (string): What the story’s record is worth, in the story page’s own words (“Widely confirmed”, “Not yet confirmed elsewhere”). Lead with it; publishers is the proof.
- `confirmation_kind` (string)
- `correction`
- `corroboration` (string): single-source below two independent publishers: present it as a report, not a confirmed fact.
- `desk` (string)
- `desk_name` (string)
- `id` (string): The story id (its slug). Pass it to fetch for the full story.
- `published_at` (string): ISO 8601.
- `publishers` (integer): Independent publishers whose reporting the story is built from.
- `source_count` (integer)
- `sources` (array): Up to 30 of the publishers the story draws on.
- `summary` (string)
- `title` (string)
- `updated_at` (string): ISO 8601.
- `url` (string): The story page. Link it whenever you use the story.
- `visual`: The story’s stored evidence visual (the publication’s story-visual catalog), exactly as published; null when it has none.
- `watch_next` (array): Open questions the story says to watch.
- `what_happened` (array)
- `why_it_matters` (array)

### `get_todays_briefing` (~39 tokens)

Today’s Briefing

Today’s Briefing: the handful of stories Clarity’s desks ranked most important right now, each with its key sourced points.

Output parameters:

- `built_at` (string): When the briefing was assembled, ISO 8601.
- `stories` (array)
- `url` (string)

### `list_latest_stories` (~166 tokens)

Latest Clarity Today stories

The newest Clarity Today stories, newest first: across every desk, or from one desk.

Input parameters:

- `desk` (string): One desk; omit for every desk. security — Security desk (security): Reads the advisories so you don't have to. build — Build desk (engineering): What changed in the platforms and tools you ship on. i…
- `limit` (integer): How many stories, 1–25. Default 10.

Output parameters:

- `desk`
- `stories` (array)
- `url` (string): The page listing these stories.

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 23
- 2026-11-04: 23
- 2026-11-03: 23
- 2026-11-02: 23
- 2026-11-01: 23
- 2026-10-31: 23
- 2026-10-30: 23
- 2026-10-29: 23
- 2026-10-28: 23
- 2026-10-27: 23
- 2026-10-26: 23
- 2026-10-25: 23
- 2026-10-24: 23
- 2026-10-23: 23
- 2026-10-22: 23
- 2026-10-21: 23
- 2026-10-20: 23
- 2026-10-19: 23
- 2026-10-18: 23
- 2026-10-17: 23
- 2026-10-16: 77
- 2026-10-15: 77
- 2026-10-14: 76
- 2026-10-13: 76
- 2026-10-12: 75

## Common questions

### What is the Clarity Today MCP server?

Clarity Today is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as today.theclarity/clarity-today. Clarity Today's briefing, latest stories by desk, search and full source-linked stories. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://theclarity.today/mcp).

### Is the Clarity Today MCP server safe to use?

Clarity Today scores 23 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 Clarity Today MCP server expose?

Clarity Today exposes 5 tools: search, fetch, get_story, get_todays_briefing, list_latest_stories. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 476 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Clarity Today MCP server require authentication?

Its publisher declares no required credentials for Clarity Today. We have not been able to confirm that against the live endpoint, and a server can require authorisation without declaring it here.

### Is the Clarity Today MCP server still maintained?

Clarity Today 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://theclarity.today/mcp
- Website: https://theclarity.today/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/today-theclarity-clarity-today/theclarity.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/today-theclarity-clarity-today/theclarity.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/today-theclarity-clarity-today/theclarity