Best for
- Researchers and analysts who need live global intelligence
- Geopolitical, financial, energy, or infrastructure monitoring
- Agents and scripts that can use a remote HTTP MCP service
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World Monitor
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Real-time global intelligence and situational awareness.
- Category
- Other #106 of 230
- Stars
- ★ 88.7k Very popular
- Transport
- Streamable HTTP
- Runtime
- Hosted (no local runtime)
- Credentials
- Optional API key
- License
- AGPL-3.0
- Last commit
55FMRS · C
The source describes World Monitor as a remote Streamable HTTP MCP service for agents and scripts, aggregating news, geopolitical, financial, energy, and infrastructure intelligence. Specific tool identifiers and client compatibility are not provided.
Strongest · Maintenance 14/20 Weakest · Reliability 8/20
Why each score
- Reliability 8/20
- The manifest declares a Streamable HTTP MCP endpoint, and the README says that tools/list is public while authenticated tools/call is supported; it also claims 42 tools, making the basic happy path plausible. However, the supplied material contains no server implementation, tool definitions, tests, or CI evidence, so initialization, tool behavior, error handling, and dependency control cannot be verified. The score is reduced under the static-review rule and remains at or below 12.
- Security and permissions 9/20
- The README documents authentication through an X-WorldMonitor-Key header or OAuth, while allowing public tool discovery, which shows a basic authentication boundary. However, the service aggregates 65+ external providers and APIs through a remote endpoint, with no supplied evidence of tool-level permissions, data-flow boundaries, rate limits, credential handling, or confirmation for potentially dangerous operations. No red-line condition is evidenced, so this is not scored in the 0-4 range, but least-privilege and scoping evidence is incomplete.
- Maintenance 14/20
- The material identifies an unarchived repository, a maintainer, an AGPL-3.0-only license, a shared release process, a security policy, and 2026 security acknowledgments; the manifest version is 1.15.0. Points are deducted because actual commit cadence, release history, issue response, and dependency-update evidence are not provided. The repository metadata also says NOASSERTION, which conflicts with the README's license claim.
- Documentation 13/20
- The README covers features, architecture, data sources, self-hosting, CLI, SDKs, authentication entry points, deployment options, and links to additional documentation, providing reasonably broad layered coverage. Points are deducted because the supplied material lacks MCP tool parameters and return schemas, rate or quota limits, costs, a complete OAuth flow, troubleshooting guidance, and client-specific configuration examples. The claimed 42 tools are also not backed by a reviewable tool list.
- Setup experience 11/20
- The README provides clone, npm install, development-start, and self-hosting instructions, plus a public Streamable HTTP URL and CLI/SDK access paths, so several setup routes are identifiable. Points are deducted because no complete configuration example is given for a mainstream MCP client, API-key acquisition and OAuth setup are incomplete, and users must infer how local development setup relates to connecting to the remote MCP server.
Static review · not runListed 2026-07-29
Read the FMRS scoring method →Fit and risk
What it can accessUses the network
Not for
- Users requiring fully local operation without a remote service
- Integrations requiring tool names or capabilities not provided in the source
- Tool-calling workflows that cannot configure an API key or OAuth
Required permissions
- Network access to the remote MCP endpoint at https://worldmonitor.app/mcp
- An X-WorldMonitor-Key header or OAuth authentication for tool calls
- Additional credentials may be required by feature-specific data sources
Risks and side effects
- The service aggregates data from more than 65 external providers and APIs, so availability and freshness may vary by source
- AI-synthesized news briefs should be checked against original sources
- Remote calls require network access and may involve account credentials or an API key
Setup
Before you start
Runtime：Hosted (no local runtime)
Other optional settings (1)
DEV_PORT
Only used in local development to override the default port 3000 via .env.local; feature-specific data source credentials are listed in the repo's .env.example and are not needed for the remote MCP endpoint.
Add https://worldmonitor.app/mcp to an MCP client that supports Streamable HTTP. Authenticate tool calls with the X-WorldMonitor-Key header or OAuth; tools/list is publicly available. API keys are available from worldmonitor.app/pro.
Check that it works
Connect the client to https://worldmonitor.app/mcp and run tools/list (no key needed) — 42 tools should appear; alternatively run `npx worldmonitor tools` to confirm the public tool listing works.
Troubleshooting
- Confirm that the client supports Streamable HTTP
- Verify that the endpoint is https://worldmonitor.app/mcp
- If tools/list works but tool calls fail, check the X-WorldMonitor-Key or OAuth configuration
- For unavailable features, check credentials required by their external data sources
- Check for temporary outages affecting the service or external providers
Things to try
Once connected, you can ask your AI assistant things like:
- List all World Monitor MCP tools
- Get the country risk score for Iran (IR) via World Monitor
- What conflict escalation signals are active right now on World Monitor?
- Show current market quotes across major stock exchanges
Use cases
Monitor geopolitical and conflict developments
Review market, energy, and infrastructure intelligence
Retrieve aggregated news and AI-synthesized briefs
Support agents and scripts performing global situational analysis
Overview
World Monitor is an MCP server for live global intelligence covering markets, conflicts, country risk, chokepoints, energy, and China decision signals. The manifest states that it provides 42 tools, but the source does not list their identifiers.
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Source revision e28f9c924e1f Data synced 2026-10-19 Read the FMRS scoring method