Is Swift Netnewswire Mcp safe to use?

Swift Netnewswire Mcp has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under MIT.

How do I install Swift Netnewswire Mcp?

Swift Netnewswire Mcp supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.

What can Swift Netnewswire Mcp do?

Swift Netnewswire Mcp provides 7 tools: list_accounts, list_feeds, list_starred_articles, list_recent_articles, get_article and 2 more. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.

What AI clients work with Swift Netnewswire Mcp?

Swift Netnewswire Mcp is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio transport.

Is Swift Netnewswire Mcp actively maintained?

Swift Netnewswire Mcp is less actively maintained — last commit was 160 days ago. It has 3 GitHub stars.

Swift Netnewswire Mcp

Name: Swift Netnewswire Mcp
Author: jonathanspiva

by jonathanspiva

Read-only MCP server for NetNewsWire

3 7 tools GitHub

No known CVEs

MIT license

Maintained

Last commit 160d ago

Works with most clients

Transport: stdio

7 tools · ~431 tok

Grade A · 0.2% of 200K ctx

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Step 1

Install in your client

Config is the same across clients — only the file and path differ.

Supported in Claude Desktopstdio · Node 18+

Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "netnewswire": {
      "command": "/path/to/netnewswire-mcp"
    }
  }
}

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What Swift Netnewswire Mcp does

A read-only Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for NetNewsWire, the open-source RSS reader for Mac.

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No automated test available for this server. Check the GitHub README for setup instructions.

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Is Swift Netnewswire Mcp safe to use?: Swift Netnewswire Mcp has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under MIT.
How do I install Swift Netnewswire Mcp?: Swift Netnewswire Mcp supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.
What can Swift Netnewswire Mcp do?: Swift Netnewswire Mcp provides 7 tools: list_accounts, list_feeds, list_starred_articles, list_recent_articles, get_article and 2 more. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.
What AI clients work with Swift Netnewswire Mcp?: Swift Netnewswire Mcp is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio transport.
Is Swift Netnewswire Mcp actively maintained?: Swift Netnewswire Mcp is less actively maintained — last commit was 160 days ago. It has 3 GitHub stars.

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Step 1

Install in your client

Config is the same across clients — only the file and path differ.

Supported in Claude Desktopstdio · Node 18+

Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "netnewswire": {
      "command": "/path/to/netnewswire-mcp"
    }
  }
}

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What Swift Netnewswire Mcp does

A read-only Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for NetNewsWire, the open-source RSS reader for Mac.

Test This Server

No automated test available for this server. Check the GitHub README for setup instructions.

README

NetNewsWire MCP Server

A read-only Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for NetNewsWire, the open-source RSS reader for Mac.

Gives AI assistants like Claude access to your NetNewsWire feeds, articles, and search index.

Tools

Tool	Description
`list_accounts`	List available NNW accounts (OnMyMac, iCloud, etc.)
`list_feeds`	List subscribed feeds (parsed from OPML)
`list_starred_articles`	Starred articles with optional feed filter and limit
`list_recent_articles`	Recent articles by arrival date
`get_article`	Full article content by ID; optional `format` (html/text) and `max_content_length` to bound the body
`search_articles`	Full-text search using NNW's FTS4 index
`get_article_count`	Total, starred, and unread counts

All tools are read-only. Nothing is modified. Each tool returns machine-readable structuredContent (with a declared outputSchema) alongside the human-readable markdown.

Requirements

macOS 26+
Swift 6.2+ (builds on the Swift 6.3 toolchain in Xcode 26)
NetNewsWire (Mac App Store or direct download); tested against 7.1.1

Build

swift build -c release

The binary will be at .build/release/netnewswire-mcp.

Configure

Add to your Claude Code MCP config (~/.claude/claude_desktop_config.json or similar):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "netnewswire": {
      "command": "/path/to/netnewswire-mcp"
    }
  }
}

Or, with the Claude Code CLI:

claude mcp add netnewswire /path/to/.build/release/netnewswire-mcp

Full Disk Access

NetNewsWire keeps its databases inside a macOS app container, which the system protects with privacy controls (TCC). The server can only read it if the process that launches it has Full Disk Access — otherwise it exits at startup with Operation not permitted.

Grant FDA to whichever app hosts your MCP client, then restart that app:

Running Claude Code from a terminal → System Settings → Privacy & Security → Full Disk Access → enable Terminal (or iTerm).
Another host (VS Code, the Claude desktop app) → grant FDA to that app instead.

How it works

The server reads NetNewsWire's SQLite databases directly (read-only mode) from:

~/Library/Containers/com.ranchero.NetNewsWire-Evergreen/Data/Library/Application Support/NetNewsWire/Accounts/

It auto-discovers all accounts and their databases on startup. Feed lists are parsed from each account's Subscriptions.opml file. Full-text search uses NNW's built-in FTS4 search index.

Dependencies

swift-sdk 0.12.1+ - MCP protocol implementation for Swift
GRDB.swift 7.x - SQLite toolkit for Swift

Notes

Only tested with Claude Code. It should work with any MCP client, but your mileage may vary.
This depends on NetNewsWire's internal database schema, which is not a public API and could change between versions. NetNewsWire 7.1 moved authors into an inline JSON column on articles (the old authors/authorsLookup tables are gone); this server reads the current layout.
Feed IDs are the XML URLs of the feeds, not UUIDs.
Dates are Unix timestamps (seconds since 1970).

License

MIT

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Scored, not listed

Why this score

Five weighted categories — click any category to see the underlying evidence.

Score breakdown

66/100across 5 weighted dimensions

How we score →

0255075100

−34

Security

Maintenance

Efficiency

Documentation

Compatibility

Categoriesclick a row to see evidence

Security

OSV.dev

No known CVEs.

No package registry to scan.

Inventory

Tools (7)

Click any tool to inspect its schema.

~431 tokens total

Community

Reviews

Be the first to review

Have you used this server?

Share your experience — it helps other developers decide.

How easy was setup?Did it work reliably?How was the documentation?

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Swift Netnewswire Mcp safe to use?: Swift Netnewswire Mcp has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under MIT.
How do I install Swift Netnewswire Mcp?: Swift Netnewswire Mcp supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.
What can Swift Netnewswire Mcp do?: Swift Netnewswire Mcp provides 7 tools: list_accounts, list_feeds, list_starred_articles, list_recent_articles, get_article and 2 more. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.
What AI clients work with Swift Netnewswire Mcp?: Swift Netnewswire Mcp is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio transport.
Is Swift Netnewswire Mcp actively maintained?: Swift Netnewswire Mcp is less actively maintained — last commit was 160 days ago. It has 3 GitHub stars.