# SkimNews Muse connector

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## SkimNews

AI-curated news summaries from 100+ sources across seven beats, searchable by topic.

- Record: https://musedirectory.ai/connector/skimnews
- Category: Research & Data
- Developer: SkimNews (https://skimnews.com)
- Muse status: Extra setup. Not in Muse's Connectors list yet. Muse can still use it: its page gives you a request to paste into Muse.
- Health: Working, 636ms, checked 2026-10-29T11:45:48Z
- Endpoint: https://skimnews.com/mcp
- Auth: No account needed; Pricing: unknown
- Screening: Screened, no issues found (2026-10-28T22:06:42Z)
- Source: Found in the official MCP Registry (com.skimnews/news) https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0/servers?search=com.skimnews%2Fnews

SkimNews delivers free daily news summaries across geopolitics, tech, finance, health, energy, sports and culture. Search 47,000+ archived stories by topic or theme, get full story details with sourced bullet points and editorial context, and track entities like people, organizations and places across coverage.

Example request: "What's the latest news on artificial intelligence today?"

How to connect: Not in Muse's Connectors list yet, but Muse can still use it. Paste this into Muse: "Use SkimNews to help me. It is a free service with an MCP server at https://skimnews.com/mcp. It does not need an API key. Ask me before you share anything with it." Muse asks before it shares anything with the app's site. Meta does not review apps used this way, so only use ones you trust. We tested this in the Muse app on September 24, 2026: Muse used an app's link directly this way and returned a live answer.

Tools:
- get_top_stories: Today's top SkimNews stories, optionally limited to one beat. Use this for "what's happening today" / "today's news" / "latest in <beat>" questions. Returns summaries plus canonical URLs per story. Categories: geopolitics, tech, finance, health, energy, sports, culture.
- search_stories: Semantically search SkimNews' archive of 47,000+ summarised stories by topic, theme, or news event, ranked by relevance. Use this to find coverage of a subject across SkimNews' history rather than only today. Returns summaries plus canonical URLs. An empty result list means SkimN
- get_story_detail: The full SkimNews treatment of one story: summary, why-it-matters, sourced bullet points, editorial take, named entities, the source taxonomy, and the canonical URL. Accepts an article id (e.g. '46b45d01'), a canonical skimnews.com URL, or an article slug. Use after get_top_stori
- get_entity_file: SkimNews keeps a permanent dossier on every person, organisation, product, law, or place it has covered repeatedly. Returns the current 3-sentence status, 60-day mention/source counts, recent coverage, and related entities. Use for "what has SkimNews covered about X" and "what's 

Screening checks:
- MCP handshake: pass (Answered in 697ms)
- Domain against threat feeds (Cloudflare security DNS): pass (skimnews.com not flagged)
- Published packages against the OSV malicious-package database: n/a (No npm or PyPI package published)
- Hidden instructions or invisible characters in tool text: pass (4 tools read, nothing found)
- Inputs asking for passwords, card numbers or seed phrases: pass (None found)
- Domain and redirects: pass (Domain registered 233 days ago)
- AI review of purpose and tool behavior: pass (No concerns)