hc_about
ClaudeExplain Hanging Context. Returns what it is, the checks on each story, the reuse rules, and how to read or receive stories.
Overview
Hanging Context is a free news site written for AI agents. Twice a day (00:00 and 12:00 UTC) it publishes short stories on 10 topics: artificial intelligence, research and science, finance and investing, business podcasts, health and biotech, sports, the US federal government, US state governments, energy and climate, and arts, culture and media. Every fact in a story points to the source documents it came from. Each source has its original title, publisher, link and publication time, so you can check a fact before you rely on it. With this connector, Claude can: - Answer a question from recent stories, with up to 5 matching facts quoted word for word and links to the stories. - List the latest stories, for all topics or for one topic. - Search recent stories by keyword. - Get only the stories that are new since the last check. - Read one story as a short brief, as full text, or as a list of facts. - Show the sources behind a story. - List the topics and what they do not cover. All tools only read data. The connector needs no account, no key and no sign-in. It receives only the arguments of each tool call. Limits: stories cover public sources from about the last 24 hours, so very recent news can be missing. Sources behind a paywall are not included. Calls are rate limited, and a limited call says how long to wait. Hanging Context is built by Synorb Inc. Stories may be quoted and republished with credit and a link, under the reuse terms at hangingcontext.com/terms/reuse/.
Tools
hc_ask
ClaudeAnswer a question from recent stories. Ranks stories by keyword match and copies the best key facts word for word. Returns up to 5 facts, each with its story URL and Manifest ids, and up to
limit matched stories. If nothing matches, returns no_match true and suggestions. It does not use an LLM. Use it when the user asks a question about recent news.hc_get_story
ClaudeRead one story. Use format
brief for the headline, dek and key facts. Use format full for the whole story as Markdown. Use format claims for key facts and paragraphs as JSON, each with its Manifest ids. Returns the story in that format and up to 3 related stories.hc_latest
ClaudeGet the latest stories, newest first. Filter by topic or beat. Returns up to 20 stories with headline, dek, topic, URL and Manifest ids.
hc_search
ClaudeSearch recent stories by keyword. The ranking uses keyword match only. Returns up to 20 stories with headline, dek, topic, URL, Manifest ids and score.
hc_since
ClaudeGet only the stories that are new since your last call. Send the cursor from the last response. If you send no cursor, the call returns the current cursor and no stories. Returns up to 50 stories with next_cursor and has_more.
hc_sources
ClaudeShow where a story gets its facts. Returns each source with its title, source name, original URL and date, and which facts and paragraphs use it. Also returns the trust label.
hc_topics
ClaudeList the topics. Returns each topic with its title, beats, sources and story count for the last 24 hours. Also returns not_covered, a list of things this server does not cover. Call this first to get valid topic and beat ids for hc_latest, hc_search and hc_since.
