Entra News Podcast MCP server

Entra.Chat Podcast MCP Server

An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for searching transcripts of Entra.Chat — Merill Fernando's Microsoft Entra podcast on YouTube. Ask your AI assistant about Entra ID features, community tools, and identity topics discussed on the show, and get answers with timestamped YouTube links that jump straight to the relevant moment.

Companion to entra-news-mcp (the written Entra.News newsletter archive) and microsoft-ai-roundup-mcp.

How it works

• Zero per-user infrastructure. Install via NPX; the transcript database (SQLite) is downloaded automatically from this repo's GitHub Releases on first run and cached locally (~/.entra-news-podcast-mcp/). Updates are checked weekly.
• Hybrid retrieval. BM25 keyword search (in-memory inverted index with Porter stemming — ideal for exact names like "PIM for Groups" or "Maester" in messy spoken-word transcripts) fused with OpenAI semantic vector search via Reciprocal Rank Fusion. No API key? Keyword search works out of the box.
• Timestamped deep links. Every search result links to youtube.com/watch?v=...&t=... so you can hear the discussion in context.
• Guest knowledge. Guests are extracted per episode with their profile links (LinkedIn, Twitter/X, GitHub, Bluesky) — ask "which episodes was X on?" or "who has been on the show?".
• Fresh weekly. A GitHub Action re-ingests the playlist every week and publishes an updated database release.

Installation

Requires Node.js 22+ (uses the built-in node:sqlite — no native dependencies).

Claude Desktop

Add to claudedesktopconfig.json:

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

The OPENAIAPIKEY is optional — it enables semantic/hybrid search (embedding the query costs a fraction of a cent). Without it, BM25 keyword search is used.

Claude Code

claude mcp add entra-podcasts -- npx -y entra-news-podcast-mcp

VS Code (GitHub Copilot)

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

Cursor

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

Tools

Example prompts

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.