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Aligned News

Aligned News is an AI-native intelligence and news platform that synthesizes AI-powered briefings from 63 curated X lists tracking 100,000+ accounts in AI, tech, and science, and publishes Stories, Signals, Reports, and Bundles via web, REST API, and a downloadable MCP server for AI tools like Claude, Cursor, and Windsurf.

agent ready

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Aligned News the way a machine reads it — 52 machine-readable artifacts across 8 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Aligned News scores 56.1/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 56.1/100 · developing
Contract Quality 17.7 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 4.8 / 20
Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Aligned News

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Aligned News. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 8

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Aligned News MCP Server

Reference Model Context Protocol server distributed as a single TypeScript file (mcp-server.ts) that proxies the Aligned News REST API to MCP-compatible AI tools like Claude Cod...

Aligned News Bundles API

Curated groupings of related stories around themes.

Aligned News News Feed API

All current stories grouped by section.

Aligned News Reports API

Trend deep-dives and longer-form analysis.

Aligned News Search API

Full-text search across stories, signals, and reports.

Aligned News Sections API

Topical sections used to organize stories.

Aligned News Signals API

Early pattern detections with editorial badges.

Aligned News Stories API

AI news stories curated and synthesized from monitored accounts.

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Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Aligned News REST API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Aligned News Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Features 14

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

AI-powered intelligence from 63 curated X lists
Tracks 100,000+ accounts across AI, technology, and science
Stories surface breaking AI news with full body content
Signals provide early pattern detection with badges (bullish, caution, critical, signal, interview, vc, action)
Reports deliver trend deep-dives and summaries
Bundles group related stories around themes
Section-organized news feed across all topics
Full-text Search across stories, signals, and reports
REST API gated behind Pro tier with Bearer alnw_ API keys
Downloadable single-file MCP server for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Windsurf
Free tier exposes headlines, summaries, signal badges, and report summaries only
Pro tier unlocks full content + API access
Enterprise tier adds team access, priority support, and custom analysis
Built on Fly.io (edge), Supabase (data), Clerk (auth and billing), Stripe (payments)

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Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Aligned News Context

18 classes · 9 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Aligned News API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 5

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Bundle

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Report

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Section

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Signal

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Story

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 5

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Aligned News Bundle Structure

5 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Aligned News Report Structure

6 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Aligned News Section Structure

3 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Aligned News Signal Structure

8 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Aligned News Story Structure

9 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 11

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

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Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Aligned News Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Aligned News Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Aligned News Agentic Access

11 operations

11 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Aligned News — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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