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VI Update
Search and fetch local news articles
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answered our call
- State
- Answered
- Protocol
- MCP 2025-06-18
- Tools listed
- 8
How to reach it
- MCP, HTTP
https://mcp.viupdate.com/mcp
What it can do
| Tool | What it says it does |
|---|---|
about | What this server holds: how many published items each publication has, the date range each covers, when the VI Update and Good Day data were last refreshed, how each publication is credited, and what is not included. Use for questions about scope, or before reading an empty search as a gap in… |
claims_of_the_week | The Claim of the Week fact check from Straight Record Sunday editions, newest first: the claim as quoted, who said it and when, the verdict and the analysis, with the edition date, URL and citeAs line. Use for what The Straight Record has fact-checked. Verdicts are the edition's assessment as of… |
fetch | The full text of one published item, by the id search or a list returns (such as "viupdate:<slug>", "goodday:036" or "straightrecord:042") or by its public URL. Use for reading an article or edition before quoting or summarizing it. Returns up to 40,000 characters at a time inside a fence labeled… |
get_good_day_edition | One Good Day, This Week edition in full and in structure, by its number (such as "036" or "36"), or the newest when no number is given. Use for the week's stories with their sources, the tracked weekly items (WAPA, government, federal, infrastructure), By the Numbers and Also This Week. Good Day… |
get_straight_record_edition | One Straight Record edition in full, by its id (such as "042", "42" or "P001", or the edition URL), or the newest when no id is given. Use for reading every story's The Gap, Left Said, Right Said and The Record (or The Record So Far), with sources, verbatim quotes and their attributions, per-story… |
latest | The newest published items: by default the newest VI Update articles, the newest Good Day, This Week edition and the newest Straight Record edition; or the newest items of one publication. Use for "what is new" or for current coverage. Each item has an id for fetch, its date, headlines or an… |
list_items | Published items of one publication, newest first, optionally between two dates, with paging. Use for browsing what a publication ran in a week, month or year. VI Update articles are dated by the date the article shows; Good Day and Straight Record editions by their publication date. |
search | Keyword search across published VI Update articles, Good Day, This Week editions and The Straight Record editions, or one of them. Use for finding coverage of a person, place, agency or event. Each result has an id for fetch, a title, a URL with a story anchor where there is one, a snippet, a… |
In its maker's words
Search and read VI Update and Good Day (U.S. Virgin Islands news) and The Straight Record.
- Website
- viupdate.com/for-machines
- Publisher
- viupdate.com
- Listed from
- the official MCP Registry as
com.viupdate/news - Version
- 1.0.0, updated 8 Nov 2026
- Kinds of work
- Search and research, Documents and files, Writing and translation
The domain it lives on
- viupdate.com
- registered 11 Feb 2025 (1 year ago), at GoDaddy.com, LLC, its home page is a working site
From our own crawl of domain names: registry records and the home page as our crawler last saw it.
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