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News Intelligence runs a daily pipeline that monitors healthcare news sources, scores each article for relevance to your coverage universe, groups related stories into events, and writes a concise intelligence brief for each event. You interact with the results through four MCP tools: news_pipeline, news_branches, news_events, and news_articles.

What the pipeline produces

Events

Clusters of related articles grouped around a single real-world occurrence — an earnings release, a regulatory action, an M&A deal. Each event has a label, a structured summary, and an article count.

Articles

Individual news items with a relevance score (1–10) and a bucket classification. Articles scored above the relevance threshold are bucketed as relevant; the rest go to discard.

Branches

Every pipeline run operates against a branch — a named configuration that controls what gets fetched, how articles are scored, and when the pipeline runs automatically.

Production branch

The production branch runs on a schedule automatically. Its results are what you see by default in news_events and news_articles. You cannot delete it.

Custom branches

Create your own branch to experiment with different fetch sources (fetch_config) or a custom scoring prompt (extraction_prompt). Results stay isolated from production until you are satisfied.
When you call news_events or news_articles without specifying a branch_id, results come from the production branch.

MCP tools at a glance

Event types

The pipeline classifies each article into one of the following event types during the extraction step:

Next steps

Running the pipeline

Run the full pipeline or individual steps, and check run status.

Managing branches

Create and configure custom branches with your own fetch sources and scoring prompts.