Overtone News MCP

This MCP server provides AI agents with real-time news analysis including tone distribution, brand safety checks, narrative shift detection, and spike alerts. It allows agents to query global coverage, compare tones across regions, and track emotional trends over time using Overtone's publisher network data.

Package and access

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Community listingLocal stdioSource reviewed; not executedPublished by CKBrennan

You need:Install uv once: curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | shFor a premium key (higher rate and daily limits), set OVERTONE_NEWS_API_KEY in the env block of your MCP config

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What you can do with it

Query global coverage analysis to compare tone across languages and regions
Track tone timeseries to see how a topic's emotional coverage shifts over time
Detect emerging stories that had zero coverage previously
Identify narrative shifts and spikes in anger or fear around specific topics

Source and maintenance

Community listingRegistry 0.1.2

mcp-registry: io.github.CKBrennan/overtone-news-mcp@0.1.2 Source repository

Maintenance checked: Nov 1, 2026, 5:34 AM UTC

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overtone-news-mcp 0.1.2

pypi

overtone-news-mcp package definition

{
  "version": "0.1.2",
  "transport": "stdio",
  "identifier": "overtone-news-mcp",
  "registryType": "pypi",
  "environmentVariables": [
    {
      "name": "OVERTONE_NEWS_API_KEY",
      "format": "string",
      "description": "Overtone API key (auto-registers a free key if not set)"
    }
  ]
}

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Cursor

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Cursor configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "overtone-news-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "overtone-news-mcp==0.1.2"
      ],
      "env": {
        "OVERTONE_NEWS_API_KEY": "<YOUR_OVERTONE_NEWS_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cline

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Cline configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "overtone-news-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "overtone-news-mcp==0.1.2"
      ],
      "env": {
        "OVERTONE_NEWS_API_KEY": "<YOUR_OVERTONE_NEWS_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

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VS Code configuration

{
  "servers": {
    "overtone-news-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "overtone-news-mcp==0.1.2"
      ],
      "env": {
        "OVERTONE_NEWS_API_KEY": "<YOUR_OVERTONE_NEWS_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

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Claude Desktop configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "overtone-news-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "overtone-news-mcp==0.1.2"
      ],
      "env": {
        "OVERTONE_NEWS_API_KEY": "<YOUR_OVERTONE_NEWS_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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