How to Use the News MCP in Google ADK

Q: How do I restrict which News tools Google ADK can access?

Use the optional toolnames parameter in your toolset definition. This explicitly limits the agent to specific operations, preventing it from executing heavy historical searches if you only want live updates.

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Connect News MCP to Google ADK

Create your Vinkius account to connect News to Google ADK and route execution through our secure gateway. The platform manages server hosting, runtime updates, and security layers. Configuration requires no manual server provisioning.

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Load Global Articles into Google ADK

The `search_everything` tool executes complex boolean searches across millions of published articles. Your Gemini agent uses +, -, AND, OR, and NOT operators to isolate specific events from the noise. Google ADK passes these massive text payloads directly into Gemini's 1M+ token context window. Your agent digests thousands of articles simultaneously to extract timelines and entity relationships.

Monitor Live Feeds via MCP Server

The `get_top_headlines` tool fetches breaking stories as they happen. Your agent queries this endpoint to track current events, keeping country and category parameters strictly separate from source lists. You can pipe these live updates straight into BigQuery. The agent pulls the headline, structures the metadata, and writes the record to your Google Cloud infrastructure for downstream analytics.

Audit Publisher Networks

The `list_sources` tool outputs the full directory of publishers available for breaking updates. Your agent checks this list to verify outlet credibility before trusting a headline. Filtering exposed tools in Google ADK is straightforward. Pass tool_names=["get_top_headlines"] if you only want your agent reading the wire, blocking it from pulling the entire publisher index.

Setup guide

Set up News MCP in Google ADK

Prerequisites

Python 3.10+ installed
google-adk package (pip install google-adk)
Active Vinkius subscription with a valid endpoint token

1

Install Google ADK

Run pip install google-adk to install the Agent Development Kit. MCP support is included via the McpToolset class.
2

Connect via SSE transport

Use McpToolset.from_server() with SseServerParams pointing to your Vinkius endpoint. Replace [YOUR_TOKEN_HERE] with your token from cloud.vinkius.com.
3

Create an LlmAgent

Pass the returned mcp_tools list directly to LlmAgent(tools=mcp_tools). The ADK maps each MCP tool to a native Gemini function call — no manual schema definitions required.
4

Run with any Gemini model

The agent works with any Gemini model (gemini-2.0-flash, gemini-2.5-pro, etc.). Copy the full example on the right to get started with News tools in your ADK agent.

agent.py

from google.adk.agents import LlmAgent
from google.adk.tools.mcp_tool.mcp_toolset import McpToolset
from google.adk.tools.mcp_tool.mcp_session_manager import SseServerParams

# Connect to the MCP via SSE
mcp_tools, exit_stack = await McpToolset.from_server(
    connection_params=SseServerParams(
        url="https://edge.vinkius.com/[YOUR_TOKEN_HERE]/mcp"
    )
)

# Create your agent with auto-discovered tools
agent = LlmAgent(
    name="News_agent",
    model="gemini-2.0-flash",
    instruction="You have access to News tools via MCP.",
    tools=mcp_tools,
)

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Common questions about News MCP in Google ADK

Create a McpToolset using StreamableHttpServerParameters with your Vinkius URL. Assign this toolset to the tools array when initializing your LlmAgent.

They can filter by category or country, but never in the same request as a specific source list. The API throws an error if these parameters overlap.

It returns structured JSON containing titles, descriptions, and URLs. Gemini's massive context window absorbs the bulk data easily, allowing your agent to summarize hundreds of search results in one pass.

Use the optional tool_names parameter in your toolset definition. This explicitly limits the agent to specific operations, preventing it from executing heavy historical searches if you only want live updates.

The system only sees the boolean queries, country codes, and publisher lists you request. Vinkius isolates this traffic inside a zero-trust environment. None of your agent's search parameters touch a permanent disk.

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