Is Swift Netnewswire Mcp safe to use?

Swift Netnewswire Mcp has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. Authentication requirements were not detected automatically - check the project's documentation before connecting in a shared environment. 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 recently maintained - last commit was 42 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 42d ago

Works with most clients

Transport: stdio

7 tools · ~431 tok

Grade A · 0.2% of 200K ctx

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Swift Netnewswire MCP is an MCP server that read-only MCP server for NetNewsWire. Its tool list has not been published yet over stdio, requires no API key, and scores 69/100 on MCPpedia's security, maintenance and efficiency rubric.

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.

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Why this score

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Score breakdown

69/100across 5 weighted dimensions

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Security

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No known CVEs.

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Tools (7)

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~431 tokens total

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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. Authentication requirements were not detected automatically - check the project's documentation before connecting in a shared environment. 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 recently maintained - last commit was 42 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.

Results are sized to fit comfortably in Claude Code's default tool-output limit: list tools return at most 100 articles (default 50), and get_article returns at most 30,000 characters of body (default 20,000).

If NetNewsWire wrote to the account database in the last minute (an iCloud sync or feed refresh may still be running), the list, search, and count tools add a note to the markdown and a sync_warning field to the structured output, since the results may be missing rows that are still arriving.

Privacy

Your NetNewsWire databases hold your private reading history: subscriptions, articles, and what you've starred and read. This server runs locally and never makes network requests itself, but everything a tool returns is passed to the MCP client you connect it to, and from there to that client's AI model. Only connect it to clients you trust with that data.

Requirements

macOS 26+
Swift 6.4+ (Xcode 27, or the swift.org 6.4 toolchain on macOS 26)
NetNewsWire (Mac App Store or direct download); tested against 7.1.4 (schema unchanged since 7.1.1)

Build

swift build -c release

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

Test

swift test                          # no NetNewsWire install needed
swift test --enable-code-coverage   # ~98% line coverage

Tests run against a fixture database that mirrors NetNewsWire's schema, and drive the real server over the MCP SDK's in-memory transport (initialize handshake, tool listing, and a check that every tool's structuredContent matches its declared outputSchema). If NetNewsWire is installed and the terminal has Full Disk Access, one extra test validates the queries against your live database.

Configure

Claude Code

Install it as a plugin. This repo is its own plugin marketplace:

claude plugin marketplace add jonathanspiva/swift-netnewswire-mcp
claude plugin install netnewswire@netnewswire-mcp

No Swift toolchain is needed. On first launch the plugin downloads the universal binary from the matching GitHub release, checks it against a SHA-256 pinned in plugin/launch.sh, and caches it in the plugin's data directory (~/.claude/plugins/data/). Its tools appear as mcp__plugin_netnewswire_netnewswire__*. If you previously added the server with claude mcp add, remove that one (claude mcp remove netnewswire) so

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Scored, not listed

Why this score

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

Score breakdown

69/100across 5 weighted dimensions

How we score →

0255075100

−31

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. Authentication requirements were not detected automatically - check the project's documentation before connecting in a shared environment. 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 recently maintained - last commit was 42 days ago. It has 3 GitHub stars.