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MCP Goodnews

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" MCP Goodnews is a simple Model Context Protocol (MCP) application that features " a server for getting good, positive, and uplifting news. This tool fetches news " articles from the NewsAPI and uses a Cohere LLM to rank " and return the top news articles based on positive sentiment. "

" Read the blog post on Medium! "

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Motivation

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" In a world where negative news often dominates headlines, Goodnews MCP aims to " shine a light on more positive and uplifting news stories. This project was " inspired by an earlier initiative called GoodnewsFirst, which delivered positive " news daily to email subscribers — it was a really awesome project! While GoodnewsFirst " predated recent breakthroughs in Large Language Models (LLMs) and relied on " traditional methods for sentiment ranking, Goodnews MCP leverages modern LLMs to " perform sentiment analysis in a zero-shot setting. "

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Example Usage: MCP Goodnews with Claude Desktop

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Requirements

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• Cohere API Key "
• NewsAPI Key "
• Claude Desktop Application "
• uv Python Project and Package Manager "

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Clone mcp-goodnews

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# Clone the repository
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git clone https://github.com/VectorInstitute/mcp-goodnews.git
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" In the next step, we'll need to provide the absolute path to the location of this " cloned repository. "

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Update Claude Desktop Config to find mcp-goodnews

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For Mac/Linux

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# Navigate to the configuration directory
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cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/config
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# Edit the claude_desktop_config.json file
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nano claude_desktop_config.json
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For Windows

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# Navigate to the configuration directory
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cd %APPDATA%\Claude\config
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# Edit the claude_desktop_config.json file
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notepad claude_desktop_config.json
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" And you'll want to add an entry under mcpServers for Goodnews: "

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{
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  "mcpServers": {
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    "Goodnews": {
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      "command": "<absolute-path-to-bin>/uv",
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      "args": [
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        "--directory",
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        "<absolute-path-to-cloned-repo>/mcp-goodnews/src/mcp_goodnews",
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        "run",
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        "server.py"
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      ],
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      "env": {
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        "NEWS_API_KEY": "<newsapi-api-key>",
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        "COHERE_API_KEY": "<cohere-api-key>"
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      }
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    }
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  }
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}
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Start or Restart Claude Desktop

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" Claude Desktop will use the updated config to build and run the mcp-goodnews server. " If successful, you will see the hammer tool in the bottom-right corner of the chat " dialogue window. "

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" Clicking the hammer tool icon will bring up a modal that lists available MCP tools. " You should see fetch_list_of_goodnews listed there. "

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Ask Claude for Good News

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• "Show me some good news from today." "
• "What positive things happened in the world this week?" "
• "Give me uplifting news stories about science." "

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How It Works

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1. When you request good news, the application queries the NewsAPI for recent articles "
2. The Cohere LLM analyzes the sentiment of each article "
3. Articles are ranked based on positive sentiment score "
4. The top-ranking good news stories are returned to you through Claude "

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License

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" Apache 2.0 "

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" Stay positive with Goodnews MCP! "