newsapi-mcp: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

newsapi-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from EventRegistry/newsapi-mcp. It costs 625 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A repository instruction document for an MCP server that searches news through NewsAPI.ai, also known as Event Registry. It describes commands, request flow, architecture, and key source files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when working on this repository's TypeScript code, news-search tools, formatting, tests, builds, or publishing process.
Why use it?
It gives coding agents the project-specific context needed to build, test, and change the repository consistently.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

This is EventRegistry/newsapi-mcp's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on newsapi-mcp itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything newsapi-mcp configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to EventRegistry/newsapi-mcp. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/EventRegistry/newsapi-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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Security

Grade A, and why

newsapi-mcp CLAUDE.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.

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None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

CLAUDE.md · 57 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 57 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

Commands

npm run build          # TypeScript compilation (tsc)
npm run build:bundle   # Production single-file bundle (esbuild → dist/index.js)
npm run dev            # Dev mode with tsx hot reload
npm test               # Run all tests (vitest)
npm run test:watch     # Tests in watch mode
npx vitest run tests/formatters.test.ts  # Run single test file

CI runs on [ubuntu, windows, macos] × [node 20, 22]. Publishing uses npm publish --provenance triggered by GitHub releases.

Architecture

MCP server for NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry). Provides 8 tools for searching news articles, events, and sources.

Request Flow

MCP Client → McpServer (SDK) → ToolRegistry handler → apiPost() → NewsAPI.ai
                                      ↓
                              Response Filter (strip fields)
                                      ↓
                              Formatter (JSON → text, optional)
                                      ↓
                              MCP Response back to client

Key Modules

  • src/client.ts — HTTP client. apiPost() for main API. Auto-injects API key.
  • src/tools/registry.tsToolRegistry class. Registers all tools at startup. buildZodShape() converts JSON Schema → Zod for MCP SDK registration.
  • src/response-filter.ts — Token optimization. includeFields param maps to API include params + post-response field stripping. filterResponse() preserves pagination metadata.
  • src/formatters.ts — Converts JSON responses to compact text. All tools with formatters output human-readable numbered text.
  • src/tools/*.ts — Tool definitions as ToolDef objects with name, description, schema (JSON Schema), handler, and optional formatter.

Default Values

Search tools use these defaults when params are not explicitly set: articlesCount=100, eventsCount=50, articleBodyLen=1000. Set articleBodyLen: -1 for full text, 0 to exclude body.

Read the full file on GitHub · 57 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 57 lines · 625 tokens per session scan A b38b323e6f58

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newsapi-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository EventRegistry/newsapi-mcp (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 625 tokens to every session, about $0.0031 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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