SkimNews for Gemini CLI

com.skimnews/news

Free AI-curated news summaries from 100+ sources across seven beats, plus entity dossiers.

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Install SkimNews in Gemini CLI

~/.gemini/settings.json · windows: %USERPROFILE%\.gemini\settings.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "news": {
      "httpUrl": "https://skimnews.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Gemini expands $VAR and ${VAR} inside env values, so a secret can live in your shell rather than this file. Gemini CLI docs