Is news.pollar/pollar-news up? Live MCP status
Yes, it is up. It answered an MCP initialize with no credential and negotiated protocol 2025-11-25.
A stock client connected with no credential and negotiated 2025-11-25. Use it.
| Outcome | usable |
|---|---|
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Protocol version | 2025-11-25 |
| Server says it is | pollar-news 1.3.0 |
| Answered in | 943 ms |
| Endpoint checked | https://mcp.pollar.news/mcp |
| Checked |
One MCP handshake with the listed endpoint (server/discover at 2026-07-28, then initialize for a server on the older revision), with no credential and no retry, identifying itself as agentwares-mcp-liveness/0.1 (+https://agentwares-agentcheck.vercel.app/bot). It runs when this page is requested and the result is reused for 10 minutes, so the time above is when it was taken.
Live status every few hours: Wellknown
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Monthly census, 6 October 2026
The census sends the same request to every remote listing in the official registry once a month. On 6 October 2026 this one answered a stock client with no credential. Every listing’s result: index.ndjson (what the files hold: index.meta.json).
Agent discovery documents at this origin
| A2A agent card | Not published (HTTP 404)./.well-known/agent-card.json |
|---|---|
| MCP server card (SEP-2127) | Not published (HTTP 404).https://mcp.pollar.news/mcp/server-card |
| MCP server card (SEP-1649 location) | Not published (HTTP 404)./.well-known/mcp/server-card.json — SEP-1649, a draft superseded by SEP-2127 on 21 January 2026 |
| Web Bot Auth key directory | Not published (HTTP 404)./.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory |
Read at https://mcp.pollar.news with the monthly census on 9 October 2026: one GET each, no credential, never a signed request. A2A against v1.0.1, the server card against the MCP Server Card schema (SEP-2127), the card at SEP-1649’s location against the shape it has, the key directory against the Web Bot Auth draft of 1 September 2026. Who publishes them.
Tool changes between snapshots
In the 2026-10 snapshot it listed 24 tools: fetch, get_daily_brief, get_entity, get_event, get_explainer, get_film, get_live_moment, get_live_story, get_markets, get_sound_episode, get_thread, list_categories, list_explainers, list_films, list_live_moments, list_live_stories, list_sounds, list_threads, list_top_news, list_trending_entities, news_near, render_news_list, search, search_news.
Its tools changed between 2026-09 and 2026-10:
- Added (8):
get_explainer,get_film,get_sound_episode,list_explainers,list_films,list_sounds,list_trending_entities,news_near get_daily_brief: description changedget_entity: description changedget_event: description, output schema changedget_live_moment: description changedget_live_story: description changedget_markets: description, input schema, output schema changedget_thread: description, input schema, output schema changedlist_categories: description changedlist_live_moments: description changedlist_live_stories: description changedlist_threads: description changedlist_top_news: description changedrender_news_list: description changedsearch: description changedsearch_news: description changed
Which tools were added or removed, and whose description or schemas changed, from content hashes in the monthly snapshots. Per tool, as JSON: /v1/drift.
The listing
| Registry name | news.pollar/pollar-news |
|---|---|
| Title | Pollar News |
| Description | Independent European news from Pollar: search, explainers, brief, threads, audio, films. Read-only. |
| Endpoint | https://mcp.pollar.news/mcp |
| Publisher repository | none listed |
| Version | 1.3.0 |
| Listing updated |
Also
The full check by name, as JSON (on a 401 it also follows the OAuth discovery chain) · Watch it · Check another server · llms.txt