# UK Data: News and feeds (remote · ukdata.reliness.co.uk)

Worldwide news search by keyword and date, Hacker News, and any RSS or Atom feed as JSON

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

## Components

- remote · `ukdata.reliness.co.uk`: 69/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/uk-co-reliness-news-feeds/mcp-news-feeds.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/uk-co-reliness-news-feeds/mcp-news-feeds)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/news-feeds`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.4.0`

## 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**: 69/100
  - 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 check failed: the endpoint is reachable over plaintext HTTP.
  - The HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security) header is present.
  - 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**: 70/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 228 tokens (~76/item across 3 items; 3 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**: 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 3 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 3 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 UK Data: News and feeds MCP server?

UK Data: News and feeds is a hosted endpoint at https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/news-feeds, 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 uk-co-reliness-news-feeds 'https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/news-feeds'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "uk-co-reliness-news-feeds": {
      "url": "https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/news-feeds"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "uk-co-reliness-news-feeds": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/news-feeds"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.uk-co-reliness-news-feeds]
url = "https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/news-feeds"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "uk-co-reliness-news-feeds": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/news-feeds",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add uk-co-reliness-news-feeds --url 'https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/news-feeds' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  uk-co-reliness-news-feeds:
    url: "https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/news-feeds"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "uk-co-reliness-news-feeds": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/news-feeds"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add uk-co-reliness-news-feeds -t streamable-http -u 'https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/news-feeds'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "uk-co-reliness-news-feeds": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/news-feeds"
    }
  }
}
```

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, +10)

- [security improvement] Authorization: unverified → partial
- [security improvement] HSTS header: fail → pass
- [security] Tool “news_search” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [functional regression] Schema quality: 64 → 76
- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03
- [cosmetic] “news_search” reworded the description of “country”
- [cosmetic] “news_search” reworded the description of “hours”
- [cosmetic] “news_search” reworded the description of “limit”

### 2026-11-04 (score 59)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (3)

### `news_search` (~117 tokens)

Latest news articles on any topic, newest first, with source, date, link and summary (Bing News, GDELT as backup). For current events, company news and what is happening now. (cost: 1 credit)

Input parameters:

- `country` (string): market, e.g. UK (default), US, IE, AU
- `hours` (number|string): number 1-720, default 72
- `limit` (number|string): number 1-100
- `query` (string): string, required

### `hacker_news` (~63 tokens)

Top, new or best Hacker News stories, or search stories by keyword. (cost: 1 credit)

Input parameters:

- `kind` (string): top|new|best
- `limit` (number|string): number 1-50
- `query` (string): string

### `rss_read` (~48 tokens)

Read an RSS or Atom feed as JSON items. (cost: 1 credit)

Input parameters:

- `limit` (number|string): number 1-100
- `url` (string): string, required

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 69
- 2026-11-04: 59

## Common questions

### What is the UK Data: News and feeds MCP server?

UK Data: News and feeds is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as uk.co.reliness/news-feeds. Worldwide news search by keyword and date, Hacker News, and any RSS or Atom feed as JSON. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/news-feeds).

### Is the UK Data: News and feeds MCP server safe to use?

UK Data: News and feeds 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 UK Data: News and feeds MCP server expose?

UK Data: News and feeds exposes 3 tools: news_search, hacker_news, rss_read. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 228 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the UK Data: News and feeds MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to UK Data: News and feeds without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the UK Data: News and feeds MCP server still maintained?

UK Data: News and feeds 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://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/news-feeds
- Website: https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/uk-co-reliness-news-feeds/mcp-news-feeds.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/uk-co-reliness-news-feeds/mcp-news-feeds.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/uk-co-reliness-news-feeds/mcp-news-feeds