ai-news-mcp

Keeping up with AI trends is exhausting.

Claude doesn't know what happened after its training cutoff. Ask it "what's hot in AI right now?" and you get stale answers. Tell it to scrape the web for you and you wait forever.

We scrape 12 sources every 6 hours, Sonnet summarizes the content, then Opus curates the top 30 items for vibe coders and AI builders. Connect via MCP and Claude pulls fresh, curated data instantly.

Real-time AI/tech news aggregator MCP server for vibe coders & AI builders — runs on Supabase Edge Functions, free, no auth required.

Sources: HackerNews · Reddit (ClaudeAI/vibecoding/codex/claudecode/openclaw/artificial/ArtificialInteligence) · GitHub Trending · HuggingFace Spaces Trending · Lobsters · GeekNews

Cache updated every 6 hours. Curated by Opus every 6 hours.

Quick Start — no install, no login

Claude Code CLI (one command)

claude mcp add --transport http ai-news https://iiwkkrvyhktnwolsfndx.supabase.co/functions/v1/mcp

Run this once. The tools are available in every Claude Code session from that point on.

Manual config — Claude Code (~/.claude.json)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ai-news": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://iiwkkrvyhktnwolsfndx.supabase.co/functions/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Manual config — Claude Desktop (claude_desktop_config.json)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ai-news": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://iiwkkrvyhktnwolsfndx.supabase.co/functions/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Any MCP client (HTTP transport)

https://iiwkkrvyhktnwolsfndx.supabase.co/functions/v1/mcp

What problem does this solve?

How it works

Every 6 hours:
  1. Sonnet scrapes 12 sources → ~150 items
  2. Sonnet picks top 10 per source → WebFetches each URL → writes 1-line summary
  3. Opus curates top 30 from ~100 summarized items (judges by content, not score)
  4. Saves to news_curated table

When you call get_top_picks:
  → Returns Opus-curated items with summaries
  → Falls back to algorithmic selection if curation unavailable

Tools

Example calls

# Top 10 curated items right now
curl -s -X POST "https://iiwkkrvyhktnwolsfndx.supabase.co/functions/v1/mcp" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"get_top_picks","arguments":{"n":10}}}'

# Search for agent-related news
curl -s -X POST "https://iiwkkrvyhktnwolsfndx.supabase.co/functions/v1/mcp" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search_today","arguments":{"query":"agent"}}}'

# r/vibecoding only
curl -s -X POST "https://iiwkkrvyhktnwolsfndx.supabase.co/functions/v1/mcp" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":3,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"get_trending_news","arguments":{"source":"reddit_vibecoding"}}}'

Data Sources & Transparency

We only collect publicly available content — no auth, no private data, no personal information.

What we store

• Cached snapshots of the above public data, refreshed every 6 hours
• Opus-curated top 30 items with content summaries in news_curated table
• Stored in Supabase, auto-deleted after 48 hours
• No user data, no personal information, no private content

What we don't do

• No paywalled or login-required content
• No full article bodies — title, URL, score, and summary only
• No selling or sharing of data

Self-hosting

git clone https://github.com/treesoop/ai-news-mcp
cd ai-news-mcp

Deploy the Edge Function in supabase/functions/mcp/ to your own Supabase project. Use news_fetcher_prompt.md + news_curate_prompt.md as Claude Code cron jobs to populate the cache.