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intel_news_feed

Get aggregated intelligence news from 119 RSS feeds across 24 categories. Covers geopolitics, security, tech, finance, military, science, think tanks, regional, energy, space, nuclear, climate, maritime, arctic, and more.

How to control intel_news_feed ↓

What intel_news_feed does on Threat Intelligence MCP Server

AI agents call intel_news_feed to retrieve information from Threat Intelligence MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.

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Why intel_news_feed needs a policy

This tool retrieves and aggregates publicly available news from RSS feeds. It has no capability to modify data, execute code, delete information, or perform financial transactions. The blast radius of misuse is minimal — an agent could at most be fed false or irrelevant news data, which does not affect system integrity, data security, or operations. This is a straightforward read operation.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'intel_news_feed' and description 'Get aggregated intelligence news from 119 RSS feeds' — the verb 'Get' indicates data retrieval with no modification or execution.

Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access intel_news_feed gives an agent:

How to control intel_news_feed

PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Threat Intelligence MCP Server, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for intel_news_feed:

policy.json
{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "intel_news_feed": {}
  }
}

intel_news_feed is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.

  1. Create a free account and register Threat Intelligence MCP Server — nothing to install.
  2. Add this policy — paste it, or build it visually.
  3. Point your MCP client (Claude, Cursor, anything) at your gateway URL.
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Questions about intel_news_feed

What does the intel_news_feed tool do? +

Get aggregated intelligence news from 119 RSS feeds across 24 categories. Covers geopolitics, security, tech, finance, military, science, think tanks, regional, energy, space, nuclear, climate, maritime, arctic, and more. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Threat Intelligence MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.

How do I enforce a policy on intel_news_feed? +

Register the Threat Intelligence MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for intel_news_feed: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Threat Intelligence MCP Server. Nothing to install.

What risk level is intel_news_feed? +

intel_news_feed is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.

Can I rate-limit intel_news_feed? +

Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the intel_news_feed rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.

How do I block intel_news_feed completely? +

Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for intel_news_feed. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.

What MCP server provides intel_news_feed? +

intel_news_feed is provided by the Threat Intelligence MCP Server MCP server (marc-shade/world-intel-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.

Enforce policy on every Threat Intelligence MCP Server tool call.

Start from Threat Intelligence MCP Server, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.

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