Search the Entra.news newsletter archive — a weekly digest of Microsoft Entra news
Most developer tooling work still happens through a UI a human drives. Entra MCP server moves it into the conversation instead. Search the Entra.news newsletter archive — a weekly digest of Microsoft Entra news.
This MCP server exposes the full historical archive as a natural language search interface. Ask questions and get sourced answers directly from past issues — including issue number, date, and canonical URL.
package. on npm is all you need. Most clients run it directly, so configuration is a few lines and a restart.
The server publishes 5 tools. What each one is for:
search_entra_news — Semantic + keyword hybrid search over all issues. Returns sourced excerptsget_issue — Retrieve the full content of a specific issue by number or datelist_issues — Browse the archive with optional year/month filteringfind_tool_mentions — Discover community tools and GitHub projects mentioned in the archivePrerequisites — The Prerequisites tool exposed by this serverConfiguration is passed through the environment: OPENAI_API_KEY. Treat anything key-shaped as a real credential — scope it to the minimum the server needs, and rotate it if it ever lands in a shared config.
text-embedding-3-small access)Plenty of developer tooling servers cover similar ground. The differences that matter in practice are scope of access and how much setup stands between you and a working tool call. Entra's toolset — search_entra_news, get_issue, list_issues and 2 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by darrenjrobinson; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
SyncDev reviews every entry in this directory against the project's own documentation before publishing, and revisits them as servers change.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| search_entra_news | Semantic + keyword hybrid search over all issues. Returns sourced excerpts. |
| get_issue | Retrieve the full content of a specific issue by number or date. |
| list_issues | Browse the archive with optional year/month filtering. |
| find_tool_mentions | Discover community tools and GitHub projects mentioned in the archive. |
| Prerequisites | The Prerequisites tool exposed by this server. |
{
"mcpServers": {
"entra-news-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["entra-news-mcp"]
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
text-embedding-3-small access)| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| OPENAI_API_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
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