Ctc Monitor MCP server

CTC Monitor MCP

Global tech intelligence for any AI agent that speaks MCP. Point Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, Zed, or any other MCP-aware tool at this server and ask what the world's tech press is reporting right now, in any region you care about.

Most AI assistants see the internet through a narrow US-tech-Twitter lens. CTC Monitor pulls stories from 500+ sources across China, South-East Asia, India, MENA, Africa, Latin America, Europe, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and the Pacific, scores them for velocity and geographic novelty, caps western-source dominance, and translates non-English headlines. Your agent gets a genuinely global view of what's moving in tech.

What you get

Seven tools, plain JSON-RPC over stdio. Ask your agent things like:

• "What's breaking in cloud and AI across Asia today?"
• "Summarise the last 24 hours from China, Korea, and Taiwan."
• "Search everything we've indexed for 'post-quantum cryptography'."
• "Which countries have the most stories right now, and what's the top headline in each?"
• "Give me the propagation picture for cluster 4812."

Stories carry their original source, translated title where applicable, region, country, category, a relevance score, a cluster ID, a velocity score, and a propagation tag for how the story is spreading.

Install

npm install -g ctc-monitor-mcp

Or run without installing:

npx ctc-monitor-mcp

Get an API key

The feed is free. You need a key so we can rate-limit fairly and so the digest emails know where to go.

1. Go to https://www.comparethecloud.net/monitor
2. Sign in with a work email. A verification link lands in your inbox.
3. Click it. Your API key is auto-generated and emailed to you. Save it somewhere safe; it isn't shown again in plain text.

Work emails only. Personal inboxes (gmail, outlook, yahoo and the like) are blocked at registration.

Wire it up

Claude Desktop

Edit ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claudedesktopconfig.json (macOS) or the equivalent on your OS:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ctc-monitor": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["ctc-monitor-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "CTC_MONITOR_API_KEY": "nk_your_key_here"
      }
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop. The tools appear in the tool menu.

Cursor / Windsurf / Zed

In the MCP settings panel, add a server entry with:

• Command: npx
• Arguments: ctc-monitor-mcp
• Environment: CTCMONITORAPIKEY=nkyourkeyhere

Anywhere else

If your client takes an MCP stdio command, run:

CTC_MONITOR_API_KEY=nk_your_key_here npx ctc-monitor-mcp

Rate limits

100 requests per minute per key. Plenty for interactive use; if you're building something higher-volume, get in touch via the site and we'll talk.

What the data looks like

A typical get_stories call comes back grouped by region, with featured CTC/Disruptive Live content at the top, then region sections ordered so you see non-western markets before western coverage:

## CTC Monitor — Top Stories

### Europe (8)
- Alibaba Cloud expands Frankfurt region with AI-specific zones (0.87)
  South China Morning Post · Europe · 2h ago · 4 related
  https://...

### China (5)
- ...

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.