Entra News MCP server

entra-news-mcp

A searchable knowledge MCP over Entra.news — Merill Fernando's curated weekly digest of Microsoft Entra news, features, and community tools.

What is this?

Entra.news is a high-signal, curated newsletter covering Microsoft Entra (Azure AD) features, announcements, and community tools — published weekly since mid-2023.

This MCP server exposes the full historical archive as a natural language search interface. Ask questions and get sourced answers directly from past issues — including issue number, date, and canonical URL.

Zero per-user infrastructure. Users install an NPX package. That's it.

Quick Start

Claude Desktop

Add to your Claude Desktop config (~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claudedesktopconfig.json on macOS, %APPDATA%\Claude\claudedesktopconfig.json on Windows):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "entra-news-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["entra-news-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop. The database (~15–20 MB) will be downloaded on first launch and cached in ~/.entra-news-mcp/.

Cursor / Copilot Studio / Any MCP Host

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "entra-news-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "entra-news-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

VS Code

Add to your MCP config (workspace .vscode/mcp.json, or run MCP: Add Server from the Command Palette):

{
  "servers": {
    "entra-news-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "entra-news-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Semantic Search (Optional)

By default the server uses keyword and phrase matching over the SQLite index — no API key needed. For significantly better result quality, set your OpenAI API key to enable semantic + hybrid search:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "entra-news-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["entra-news-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "OPENAI_API_KEY": "sk-..."
      }
    }
  }
}

Local Database Cache

On first launch the server downloads the database (~15–20 MB) from GitHub Releases and caches it locally:

The server checks for a newer database release once per week. If you want to force an immediate re-download (e.g. after a new issue has been ingested), delete the cache folder and restart your MCP host:

Windows (PowerShell):

Remove-Item "$env:USERPROFILE\.entra-news-mcp" -Recurse -Force

macOS / Linux:

rm -rf ~/.entra-news-mcp

Available MCP Tools

Example queries

• "What did Entra.news cover about Conditional Access in 2024?"
• "Show me the issue from March 2025"
• "What PowerShell tools for Entra have been mentioned?"
• "Has there been coverage of Verified ID?"
• "List all issues from 2024"

Architecture

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.