# newsintel MCP Server

Personalized news intelligence for AI agents — 100+ sources, ranked briefings.

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## Connect

Published as `@stabem/newsintel-mcp` on npm. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**17 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

### Most discussed

### Harden /ops/status access with admin scope or internal mode

## Outcome
Reduce infrastructure metadata exposure from `/ops/status`.

## In scope
- Add admin-only access strategy (key scope, dedicated token, or internal-only mode)
- Preserve useful diagnostics for operators
- Add tests validating non-admin rejection
- Update SECURITY.md + README operational section

## Validation
- [ ] npm run typecheck
- [ ] npm test
- [ ] npm run build

[Read the thread](https://github.com/stabem/newsintel-api/issues/4) · 2026-03-09 · closed · 3 comments

### Add Fastify schema for POST /briefing/feedback (validation + response contract)

## Outcome
Define strict schema validation and response contract for `POST /briefing/feedback`.

## In scope
- Add route-level schema for body and response
- Keep existing degraded behavior (200/202) explicit in contract
- Add/adjust tests for invalid payload and accepted paths
- Document constraints in README

## Validation
- [ ] npm run typecheck
- [ ] npm test
- [ ] npm run build

[Read the thread](https://github.com/stabem/newsintel-api/issues/2) · 2026-03-09 · closed · 3 comments

### Add Fastify schema for GET /sources and include contract assertions

## Outcome
Add request/response schema for `GET /sources` and strengthen E2E assertions against the schema-backed contract.

## In scope
- Add Fastify route schema to `/sources`
- Ensure output shape is explicit and version-safe
- Update E2E tests to assert key contract fields
- Update README/OpenAPI notes if needed

## Validation
- [ ] npm run typecheck
- [ ] npm test
- [ ] npm run build

## Notes
Keep behavior backward-compatible for current consumers.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/stabem/newsintel-api/issues/1) · 2026-03-09 · closed · 3 comments

### Simplify portal to one-click X connect and self-serve API key

## Outcome
Public self-serve UX: user clicks "Connect X", authorizes, gets API key (shown once) with no manual bootstrap token.

## In Scope
- Simplify portal UI to single primary flow (Connect X -> Authorize -> Receive API key)
- Add public self-serve backend flow that does not require user-supplied bearer
- Generate one active key per connected user context (or deterministic per OAuth identity) and return plaintext once
- Keep secure storage (hash only)
- Add anti-abuse guard (basic rate limit

[Read the thread](https://github.com/stabem/newsintel-api/issues/36) · 2026-03-10 · closed · 2 comments

### Implement X.com OAuth PKCE + encrypted token storage

## Outcome
Implement OAuth 2.0 PKCE with X.com and persist encrypted access/refresh tokens for profile sync jobs.

## In Scope
- OAuth start/callback routes and token exchange
- secure token storage with encryption at rest
- token refresh path and expiration handling
- tests for callback success/failure/expired tokens
- docs for env vars and setup

## Out of Scope
- UI frontend
- multi-provider social auth

## Validation
- [ ] npm run typecheck
- [ ] npm test
- [ ] npm run build

## Deliverables

[Read the thread](https://github.com/stabem/newsintel-api/issues/9) · 2026-03-09 · closed · 2 comments

### Most recent

### security: isolate merge credentials from PR-executed CI jobs

## Problem

Sensitive GitHub Actions jobs currently run on internal PR branches with write-scoped permissions and merge-related credentials in the same workflow family.

Fork PRs are blocked, which is good, but internal PRs still represent a meaningful blast radius if a maintainer/collaborator account is compromised.

## Scope
- `.github/workflows/qa-guardian.yml`
- `.github/workflows/qa-autofix.yml`
- possibly split workflows

## Required changes
- Separate review/test execution from auto-merge

[Read the thread](https://github.com/stabem/newsintel-api/issues/280) · 2026-03-25 · closed · 0 comments

### oss: add API deprecation headers and sunset notice mechanism (RFC 8594)

## Problem

The project has a well-defined deprecation policy in `docs/RELEASE_POLICY.md` and legacy route redirects in `src/app.ts:106-126`, but there is no machine-readable deprecation signaling. Clients and integrations cannot programmatically detect deprecated endpoints.

## Impact

- **Silent breakage**: Clients using deprecated routes (e.g., `/briefing` → `/v1/briefing`) receive no warning that the redirect may be removed.
- **Integration reliability**: AI agents and MCP clients relying on

[Read the thread](https://github.com/stabem/newsintel-api/issues/229) · 2026-03-12 · closed · 0 comments

### sec: auth degraded mode silently weakens security guarantees

## Problem

`src/lib/dynamicApiKeys.ts` falls back to an in-memory key store when the database is unreachable. In degraded mode:

1. Only keys created **during the current process lifetime** are validated.
2. Keys created in prior runs (or by other instances) are invisible — potentially allowing revoked keys to work if the DB is restored with different state.
3. The degraded state is exposed via `/readyz` but there is no active alerting, log escalation, or metric to trigger operator attention.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/stabem/newsintel-api/issues/224) · 2026-03-12 · closed · 0 comments

### ops: implement graceful shutdown (SIGTERM handler, connection draining)

## Problem

`src/index.ts` starts the Fastify server, schedulers, and queue workers but registers **no signal handlers**. When the container/process receives SIGTERM (e.g., Kubernetes rolling update, docker stop), the process is force-killed after the grace period, dropping in-flight requests and interrupting background jobs.

Related: #147 (closed but not resolved based on current code).

## Impact

- **Dropped requests**: In-flight HTTP requests receive no response, causing client-side errors.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/stabem/newsintel-api/issues/221) · 2026-03-12 · closed · 0 comments

### Create NewsIntel MCP server (token-per-user, dynamic integration)

Build an MCP server for NewsIntel that works with per-user API tokens, enabling dynamic personalized retrieval for secretaries/agents and third-party AI clients.\n\nScope:\n- standalone MCP server package in repo\n- tools: sync_profile, get_profile, get_news_briefing\n- each tool accepts  (user token) to support multi-tenant integrations\n- configurable API base URL\n- README with integration examples\n\nValidation:\n- server starts via stdio\n- tool calls hit live API and return structured JSON

[Read the thread](https://github.com/stabem/newsintel-api/issues/196) · 2026-03-11 · closed · 0 comments

### Security: /metrics endpoint exposed without authentication

## Problem
`src/routes/metrics.ts:4-9` — The Prometheus `/metrics` endpoint has no authentication.

## Risk Level
high

## Impact
Exposes internal operational metrics (sync failures, request counts, workspace IDs, user keys in labels) to any unauthenticated caller. Leaks infrastructure information useful for reconnaissance.

## Recommended Fix
Add `bearerAuth` or `opsAdminAuth` as a preHandler, or restrict to internal network.

## Change class
hotfix

---
Part of #100

[Read the thread](https://github.com/stabem/newsintel-api/issues/109) · 2026-03-10 · closed · 1 comment

### Security: Workspace ID from untrusted header enables cross-tenant access

## Problem
`src/lib/userKey.ts:5-7` — Workspace ID is derived entirely from client-supplied `X-Workspace-Id` header with no validation against authenticated user's actual workspace membership.

```typescript
export function workspaceIdFromHeaders(headers?: Record<string, any>) {
  const raw = String(headers?.['x-workspace-id'] || headers?.['X-Workspace-Id'] || '').trim();
  return (raw || config.defaultWorkspaceId).toLowerCase();
}
```

## Risk Level
high

## Impact
Any authenticated user can se

[Read the thread](https://github.com/stabem/newsintel-api/issues/108) · 2026-03-10 · closed · 1 comment

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