# Alchemylab Horizon Briefing MCP server

Source: https://glimind.com/server/mcp-registry%2Fsh.alchemylab.horizon%2Fbriefing
Registry id: `mcp-registry/sh.alchemylab.horizon/briefing`
Status: live (checked 2026-10-27T00:52:03.163Z)

## Verdict

Alchemylab Horizon Briefing MCP server answered 99.91% of Glimind's liveness checks over 30 days, better than 30% of MCP servers, with 776 ms median handshake and 9 outages in 90 days. Its agent-readiness grade is A (100/100) across 11 tools, costing an agent about 1,673 tokens to load. Checked every few minutes; no tool is ever called.

## Measurements (30 days)

| Metric | Value | Better than |
|---|---|---|
| Uptime, 30 days | 99.91% | 30% of MCP servers |
| Median handshake latency | 776 ms | 31% of MCP servers |
| p95 handshake latency | 2594 ms | — |
| Checks in 30 days | 4,944 | — |
| Outages, 90 days | 9 | — |
| Median recovery | 6 min | — |
| Agent-readiness score | 100/100 (A) | 94% of MCP servers |
| Tools | 11 | — |
| Tool-list size for an agent | ~1,673 tokens | 56% of MCP servers |
| Days observed | 29 | — |

## Install

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "alchemylab-horizon-briefing-mcp-server": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://horizon.alchemylab.sh/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

Claude Code:

```sh
claude mcp add --transport http alchemylab-horizon-briefing-mcp-server https://horizon.alchemylab.sh/api/mcp
```

## Tools (11)

- `get_blind_spots`: Coverage blind spots: companies, models, and people that regional press (Chinese/East-Asian, European, Latin-American) is covering while Western/global feeds ar
- `get_china_signal`: Shortcut for get_region_signal with region "china": the current China & East-Asia AI signal (Qwen, DeepSeek, Zhipu, Moonshot, ModelScope, and more) that Western
- `get_daily_briefing`: Today's AI briefing, or any past day's: top stories with their sources and corroboration labels, emerging signals, new entrants, and regulation updates. Drawn f
- `get_entity_provenance`: For one company, model, or person: how much of the claim activity Horizon holds provenance data for is self-reported by that entity versus independently evaluat
- `get_new_since`: Incremental poll: raw item-level AI news added since a cursor, oldest→newest, with a nextCursor for your next call — use this for "what's new since I last check
- `get_region_signal`: The current AI signal for a region (china, korea, japan, or eu) — recent, relevance-scored items on that region's models, labs, and analysis, ranked by momentum
- `get_regulation_updates`: Current AI legislation headlines across the US Congress and federal agencies, US state legislatures, the UK Parliament, and the EU, with each item's legislative
- `get_related`: Semantic 'more like this': given an item id (from get_new_since, search_news, or the feed), returns the most similar recent items by embedding similarity. Title
- `get_topic_signal`: The current AI signal for a topic — recent, relevance-scored items tagged with that topic, ranked by momentum. Like get_region_signal but sliced by subject inst
- `list_sources`: Describe what Horizon covers: ingestion sources with their source= filter values, the regional lenses (region= / dedicated tools), and how to filter. Call this 
- `search_news`: Quick title search over the last 14 days of AI news: returns the top 3 matches by momentum, with links and item ids (pass one to get_related).

Measured by Glimind (https://glimind.com): MCP handshake + tool list only, no tool is ever called. CC BY 4.0.