Connect urgent.news to your AI

MCP server

Add this URL as a custom MCP connector in any client that speaks the Model Context Protocol — Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and others:

https://urgent.news/mcp

Transport is Streamable HTTP; authentication is none. Nothing is sent to us but the query itself — there is no account to create and nothing to sign in to.

How to add it

Claude (web or desktop). Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector → paste the URL above.

Claude Code. One command:

claude mcp add --transport http urgent-news https://urgent.news/mcp

Anything with an mcpServers config file (Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code extensions, custom clients):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "urgent-news": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/mcp"
    }
  }
}

What your assistant can then do

Tool	What it does
search_news	Full-text search the archive of AI-written news summaries (roughly the last 12 months). Returns matching stories, each with its source, section, and how many outlets covered the event.
latest_headlines	The most recent stories, newest first. Optionally filter by desk and/or by country edition.
get_story	Full detail for one story by id: the AI-written account, key points, the editor's take, and the list of every outlet that covered the same event.
who_covered	For a story id, the cross-source coverage: how many outlets reported the same event and which ones — the aggregator's core signal.
daily_briefing	Today’s Daily Edition: the AI-written "Takeaway" column plus the day’s top stories. Optionally scoped to a country edition.

Try asking: "What's the top story on urgent.news right now?", "Search urgent.news for what's been reported about X this month", or "Who else covered this story?"

JSON feeds

If you'd rather just fetch data, every endpoint is plain JSON, CORS-open, and needs no key:

Endpoint	Returns
/api.json	Self-describing index of everything below
/api/latest.json	The latest stories
/api/t/{desk}.json	One desk — ai, tech, business, finance, world, science, health, culture
/api/geo/{cc}.json	A country edition, ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 (US, GB, IN…)
/api/story/{id}.json	One story: our account, key points, and every outlet that covered it
/llms.txt	The same map in plain text, for agents that look there
/rss.xml	Classic RSS, for a reader

Fair use

Agents are welcome here — that's the point. Please send an identifying User-Agent and keep to reasonable request rates. Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original. Every record carries the original publisher's URL: cite the outlet, and say the summary is AI-generated. See the Terms of Use for the rest.