news.asha/asha-news

Measured conclusion: Deep-tested. L2 outcome: tools_ok.

Evidence-first news archive: briefs, breaking news, search, Palestine claims, conflict monitor.

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Copy this into your MCP client config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "asha-news": {
      "url": "https://asha.news/api/v1/mcp",
      "transport": "streamable-http"
    }
  }
}

Measured tools (25)

• asha_feed

  Latest source-backed news from the Asha News archive. Returns items with publish time, source, and citation links.

  Parameters:

  • q — string — Keyword to search within recent coverage.
  • limit — integer — Max items (default 10).
  • category — string — Canonical category filter: world, politics, markets, tech, ai, science, health, sport, or entertainment.
  • timeframe — string — e.g. 24h, 72h. Default 24h.

  Hints: read-only not declared · destructive not declared · idempotent not declared · open-world not declared

• asha_search

  Unified search across Asha News articles, active story clusters, and published generated briefs. Use this before choosing a narrower endpoint.

  Parameters:

  • q (required) — string — Search term, e.g. "palestine", "gold", "OpenAI".
  • limit — integer — Max mixed results (default 10).
  • types — string — Comma-separated result families: articles, stories, generated, or all.

  Hints: read-only not declared · destructive not declared · idempotent not declared · open-world not declared

• asha_search_articles

  Keyword search across recent Asha News articles. Cite source URLs and Asha article/story URLs when present.

  Parameters:

  • q (required) — string — Search term, e.g. "palestine", "iran".
  • limit — integer — Max results (default 10).

  Hints: read-only not declared · destructive not declared · idempotent not declared · open-world not declared

• asha_digest

  Clustered public news digest. format=markdown returns prose; otherwise JSON clusters.

  Parameters:

  • limit — integer
  • format — string — Default markdown.

  Hints: read-only not declared · destructive not declared · idempotent not declared · open-world not declared

• asha_share_pack

  Share-ready package for a published, cited Asha brief/story. Returns found=false when no final share pack is available.

  Parameters:

  • q — string — Search query, slug, or generated-article id. Omit for latest published pack.
  • url — string — Exact asha.news /article/{slug}, /story/{id}, or /s/{key} URL; resolves to that content only (matched_by=url) or found=false — never a different article. Takes precedence over q.

  Hints: read-only not declared · destructive not declared · idempotent not declared · open-world not declared

• asha_blindspot

  Persisted Asha Blindspots / coverage gaps from posture analysis. Use only when status=available; do not infer gaps from empty or unavailable responses.

  Parameters:

  • limit — integer — Max flagged clusters (default 10).
  • topic — string — Optional topic/title/summary substring, e.g. palestine.
  • min_mci — number — Minimum persisted Manufactured Consensus Index.
  • posture — string — Require this posture key in posture_distribution.by_posture.

  Hints: read-only not declared · destructive not declared · idempotent not declared · open-world not declared

• asha_palestine

  Palestine desk timeline (evidence-classed events) with a freshness indicator, plus the desk section map (Now / The Record / Israel Exposed wings with canonical page URLs).

  Parameters:

  • limit — integer
  • status — string

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• palestine_check_claim

  Check one claim about Palestine against the desk's claim library and evidence archive. Returns the matched claim family, verdict, a short evidence-backed answer, and citation URLs. Rate-limited — send a single clear claim per call and relay the citations with the answer.

  Parameters:

  • claim (required) — string — The claim to check, as one plain-language sentence.

  Hints: read-only not declared · destructive not declared · idempotent not declared · open-world not declared

• palestine_genocide_case

  The full genocide-case record from the Asha News Palestine desk: what each court, UN body, rights organization, and study found — precisely characterized (provisional measures are not merits rulings; warrants are charges, not convictions) — plus attributed casualty figures, a case timeline, and an FAQ. Relay characterizations exactly and keep citation URLs.

  Hints: read-only not declared · destructive not declared · idempotent not declared · open-world not declared

• palestine_search_archive

  Search the Palestine evidence archive: 140,000+ upstream media records, the Killed in Gaza victims memorial, and the curated claim library. Results carry stable IDs and canonical URLs — cite those instead of scraping.

  Parameters:

  • q (required) — string — Search term — Arabic or English both match (e.g. "Deir al-Balah", "مستشفى").
  • page — integer — Page number (default 1).
  • type — string — Result family (default all).
  • page_size — integer — Results per family per page (default 10).

  Hints: read-only not declared · destructive not declared · idempotent not declared · open-world not declared

• palestine_evidence_search

  Search the Palestine evidence graph: reviewer-approved records with dates, places, assigned categories, and the source that documented each one. Returns facet counts (region, category, year, source, trust states) alongside results, so you can see the shape of the corpus before narrowing. Every record separates the upstream source's own wording (upstream.classification) from Asha's review (asha.finding) — quote the first with attribution, never relay it as an Asha finding. bot_can_cite is true only for editorially verified records; everything else is citable strictly as "this source says". Asha holds metadata and links only; media opens on the upstream record.

  Parameters:

  • q — string — Free text over upstream titles, place names and Asha findings. Arabic and English both match.
  • to — string — Latest event date, YYYY-MM-DD.
  • from — string — Earliest event date, YYYY-MM-DD.
  • page — integer
  • region — string
  • source — string — Source slug, e.g. genocide-live.
  • category — string — Category slug from palestine_evidence_taxonomy, e.g. hospitals-health, airstrike, journalists.
  • page_size — integer

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• palestine_evidence_record

  One Palestine evidence record by its stable ref (e.g. gl-2810), with its assigned categories, editor-asserted incident links, related records, and ranked external media candidates carrying observed link health. Media candidates are third-party destinations — Asha never hosts them, and anything graphic or ungraded requires explicit consent before it loads. A ref that is not found may simply not have cleared editorial review; treat 404 as "not published", not as "does not exist".

  Parameters:

  • ref (required) — string — Stable public ref, e.g. gl-2810.

  Hints: read-only not declared · destructive not declared · idempotent not declared · open-world not declared

• palestine_evidence_health

  Operational state of the Palestine evidence pipeline: which sources are collecting and when they last succeeded, how deep the review queue is, how many records are actually published, and how reachable the external media pointers were at their last check. Aggregate counts only — it never names an unreviewed record. Use it to answer "is this archive current?" honestly before citing it, and read degraded_reasons rather than the status alone. A source with ingest_enabled:false is configured off, not broken.

  Hints: read-only not declared · destructive not declared · idempotent not declared · open-world not declared

• palestine_evidence_taxonomy

  The controlled vocabulary behind the Palestine evidence graph: incident_type (what happened), theme (what was hit), affected_group (who), and legal_category (what a named body says it amounts to). Call this before filtering so you use real slugs. legal_category terms are editorial-only — they are never derived from text, and record that a named authority made that characterization.

  Parameters:

  • vocabulary — string

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• asha_sources

  Asha News public source directory with provenance and trust metadata.

  Parameters:

  • limit — integer

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• asha_clusters_search

  Search story clusters by topic. Returns grouped multi-source coverage.

  Parameters:

  • q (required) — string
  • limit — integer

  Hints: read-only not declared · destructive not declared · idempotent not declared · open-world not declared

• asha_market_context

  Public market price context for supported instruments. Returns quote source, timestamp, and instrument rows.

  Parameters:

  • symbols — Comma-separated symbols or string array, e.g. BTCUSD,ETHUSD,XAUUSD,OIL. Defaults to supported core instruments.

  Hints: read-only not declared · destructive not declared · idempotent not declared · open-world not declared

• asha_breaking

  Breaking news: active alerts plus breaking-flagged articles with age and expiry. Poll every 60s with since={last generated_at} for deltas; notify your user on new items.

  Parameters:

  • limit — integer
  • since — string — ISO timestamp; only items published after this are returned.

  Hints: read-only not declared · destructive not declared · idempotent not declared · open-world not declared

• asha_daily_brief

  Server-rendered daily brief: categorized sections with publish time + age per item, Palestine desk leading. format=markdown for chat relay, html for a styled self-contained page, json for structured data. Relay as-is.

  Parameters:

  • format — string — Default markdown.
  • per_section — integer

  Hints: read-only not declared · destructive not declared · idempotent not declared · open-world not declared

• asha_share_payload

  Ready-to-post social share payloads for an article (x, bluesky, threads, mastodon, telegram, whatsapp, facebook, linkedin): text within platform limits, hashtags, image, and intent URL. Post verbatim; keep attribution.

  Parameters:

  • article_id (required) — string — Asha article id (from asha_feed / asha_search_articles results).
  • platform — string — Optional single platform filter, e.g. x or telegram.

  Hints: read-only not declared · destructive not declared · idempotent not declared · open-world not declared

• conflict_state

  Live Middle East Conflict Monitor snapshot: official alerts, geolocated OSINT events, active story clusters, EN/AR theater brief, and per-tier freshness (degraded flag). Pass since={seq} for envelope deltas. Streaming clients can use SSE at https://asha.news/api/conflict/stream instead.

  Parameters:

  • since — integer — Envelope sequence cursor; returns only envelopes with seq greater than this.

  Hints: read-only not declared · destructive not declared · idempotent not declared · open-world not declared

• conflict_events

  Geolocated Conflict Monitor events (strike, explosion, intercept, movement, statement, thermal_confirmation) with severity, verification status, and EN/AR summaries. Filter with bbox=w,s,e,n; pass since={seq} for deltas.

  Parameters:

  • bbox — string — Bounding box "w,s,e,n" (lon/lat degrees), e.g. 34,29,36,34.
  • limit — integer — Max events (default 50).
  • since — integer — Envelope sequence cursor for delta polls.

  Hints: read-only not declared · destructive not declared · idempotent not declared · open-world not declared

• asha_editorial_guidelines

  Asha News editorial voice contract: evidence-first, openly pro-Palestine, citations preserved. Read before generating derived briefs, titles, or social posts.

  Hints: read-only not declared · destructive not declared · idempotent not declared · open-world not declared

• asha_mint_share_link

  Mint the stable asha.news/s/<code> short link for an article, generated brief, story cluster, or allowlisted route. Idempotent — the same target always returns the same code. Use this instead of pasting long URLs; the short link carries social preview metadata.

  Parameters:

  • target_type (required) — string — What is being shared.
  • target_id (required) — string — Article/brief/cluster id, or an allowlisted site path for target_type=route.

  Hints: read-only not declared · destructive not declared · idempotent not declared · open-world not declared

• asha_subscribe_newsletter

  Start a DOUBLE OPT-IN newsletter signup for an email address. Asha emails a confirmation link; nothing is delivered until the person clicks it. Only submit an address the person gave you in this conversation, and tell them to check their inbox — you cannot confirm on their behalf.

  Parameters:

  • email (required) — string — The subscriber's own email address.
  • lang — string — Issue language (default en).
  • options — array — Which sends to request. Default ["daily"].

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