ai-news-mcp (treesoop/ai-news-mcp) is an MCP server listed on the M8ven Trust Index. It scores 74 out of 100, grade C. It declares 8 tools. No publisher has claimed this listing.

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ai-news-mcp

Aggregates and curates AI/tech news from 12 sources every 6 hours, providing pre-summarized and Opus-curated top picks for vibe coders and AI builders via MCP tools.

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Emerging. No concerning findings. Grades remain capped until the project builds reputation through adoption. Grades reflect the full trust pyramid: code, verification depth, and reputation. New projects cap at C until adoption is earned.

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The grade above is for the source repository. Registries can serve a different version, so we mark the ones we were not able to read.

// key findings
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Secret credentials may flow to a network call
3 flows detected: SUPABASE_SERVICE_ROLE_KEY. We can’t prove the destination matches the brand the credential belongs to.
// tools this server exposes8 tools

These names and descriptions are the publisher's own, read from the source code. We print them as written. Our assessment is the findings above, not this list.

get_trending_news

Aggregates real-time AI/tech news from multiple sources (HackerNews, Dev.to, Reddit, ArXiv, GitHub Trending, GeekNews, Lobsters) with 1-hour caching. Reads from Supabase cache when available, falls back to local file cache.

get_top_picks

Returns top N most relevant items for AI engineers, scored by source reputation (HN/Reddit > ArXiv > others) plus item score. Each item includes a one-liner 'why it matters' and optional try_url.

search_today

Search today's cached news by keyword query. Matches against title and summary, scores by word match count × item score. Returns top results.

get_new_since

Queries Supabase for all cache rows created after a given ISO timestamp. Returns deduplicated news items sorted newest first. Requires Supabase connection.

get_repo_quickstart

Fetches a GitHub repo's metadata (stars, description, language, topics) and extracts install commands and a quickstart code block from its README.

get_paper_brief

Fetches an ArXiv paper's title, authors, abstract, and submission date. Searches Papers With Code and GitHub for associated code repositories.

check_cache

Check the current state of the news cache — Supabase connection status, whether local/Supabase cache exists, how old it is, and how many items per source.

get_topic_suggestions

Suggests blog topic ideas based on trending news, tailored per project (potenlab, treesoop, hanguljobs) and filtered against already-used topics.

// known CVEs in dependencies1 low

Disclosed vulnerabilities in this server's declared npm dependencies (via OSV). Whether each is reachable depends on the installed versions.

lowfast-xml-parser@4.5.5GHSA-gh4j-gqv2-49f6

fast-xml-parser XMLBuilder: XML Comment and CDATA Injection via Unescaped Delimiters

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// environment variables
Deployment configuration, supplied by whoever hosts the server. Users are not asked for these.
deployPORT
deploySUPABASE_SERVICE_ROLE_KEY
deploySUPABASE_URL
// quality suggestions

Tool annotations

No tools have read-only/destructive annotations

Add readOnlyHint or destructiveHint annotations to every tool so hosts can warn users before invoking.

All four hints declared on every tool

8/8 tools missing one or more hints — get_trending_news (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); get_top_picks (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); search_today (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint), +5 more. OpenAI's directory rejects tools where any of the four hints are missing or non-boolean.

For every tool, set all four hints (readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint) to explicit true/false values that match the handler’s actual behaviour.

Tests exist

No test files found

Add tests that exercise each declared tool.

Secrets stay with their owner

2 secrets sent to a request target we could not resolve (SUPABASE_SERVICE_ROLE_KEY → dynamic, SUPABASE_SERVICE_ROLE_KEY → dynamic) — often a configured endpoint, not necessarily third-party

Audit where credentials are sent. A NOTION_TOKEN should only reach api.notion.com — never a third-party host.

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The findings above are the summary. The full trail, every check we ran, each deduction, the network hosts observed and the dependency advisories, goes to verified publishers, along with an alert whenever a new one lands. Verified publishers can also review each finding and dispute it in one click. Publisher corrections have sharpened several of our checks this month, because the maintainer knows the codebase better than any scanner.
// improvement guidance — verified publishers only
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