Take the brief with you

Chrome new tab

Every new tab shows today's ten stories, what developers are discussing and the best company blog posts, with a search box that uses your usual search engine. It works offline with the last brief it saw, and it reads only ReadKernel's public news: no account, no tracking.

Coming to the Chrome Web Store. Until then, developers can load it from the extension/ folder of the source code: open chrome://extensions, turn on Developer mode, click Load unpacked and pick that folder.

In your AI assistant (MCP)

ReadKernel is an MCP server, the standard way AI assistants plug into outside tools. Add it once and ask your assistant things like “what's the biggest AI news today?” or “what has Nvidia announced this month?”. It answers from ReadKernel's coverage, with links. Free, no key needed.

Server address

https://readkernel.in/mcp

Claude (claude.ai and the desktop app)

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector → name it ReadKernel and paste the address above.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http readkernel https://readkernel.in/mcp

Cursor, VS Code and others

Add this to the app's MCP settings file (for Cursor, mcp.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "readkernel": { "url": "https://readkernel.in/mcp" }
  }
}

What your assistant can do

• get_today_news

  Today's ReadKernel brief: the 10 most important tech and AI stories, ranked, each with a summary, why it matters and links to every source. Use scope 'feed' for all ~30 stories of the day, and topic to narrow it.

• get_brief_by_date

  The ReadKernel brief for one past day (YYYY-MM-DD): its top 10 stories with summaries and sources.

• search_news

  Search every story ReadKernel has covered, plus company engineering blog posts. Plain words, "exact phrases" and -excluded words work. Every word must match, so use 1-3 keywords (a company, product or person), not sentences. Newest first.

• get_story

  One story by its story_key (from another tool), with all its sources and its timeline: how the same ongoing story was covered on earlier days.

• get_top_articles

  Today's most-upvoted posts on Hacker News, with points, comment counts and a one-line summary.

• get_company_posts

  Recent engineering and data science write-ups from company blogs (Netflix, Uber, Meta, Airbnb, Stripe and about 25 more), each summarised. Filter by company name or subject.