# Maldives Independent

Independent news, analysis, and investigative journalism from the Maldives. Reporting since 2004.

The English edition lives at <https://maldivesindependent.com/>; the Dhivehi edition at <https://maldivesindependent.com/dv>.

## How to read this site as an agent

The full integration guide lives at <https://maldivesindependent.com/for-agents>.

Every public page supports `Accept: text/markdown` content negotiation. Sending that header returns a clean markdown rendering of the same content; without it you get HTML.

```
curl -H "Accept: text/markdown" https://maldivesindependent.com/politics/some-article-7110
```

Responses include:
- `Content-Type: text/markdown; charset=utf-8`
- `X-Markdown-Tokens: <estimate>`
- `Last-Modified: ...` (use with `If-Modified-Since` for cheap polling)
- `Vary: Accept` (CDN keeps separate caches per content type)

## What's where

- Homepage (latest top stories): <https://maldivesindependent.com/>
- Dhivehi homepage: <https://maldivesindependent.com/dv>
- News in Brief (daily summaries): <https://maldivesindependent.com/news-in-brief>
- Authors: <https://maldivesindependent.com/authors>
- Search: <https://maldivesindependent.com/search?q=>

## Feeds

- Sitemap index: <https://maldivesindependent.com/sitemap.xml>
- Recent news (RSS, last 50): <https://maldivesindependent.com/api/rss>
- Latest news (RSS, news-namespace, last 48h): <https://maldivesindependent.com/api/rss/news>

## For MCP-aware agents

Read-only MCP server at `https://api.maldivesindependent.com/mcp` (JSON-RPC 2.0 over Streamable HTTP).

Tools:

- `search_articles({ query, language?, fromDate?, toDate?, page? })`
- `get_article({ permalink })`
- `list_recent_articles({ limit?, language? })`
- `list_news_in_brief({ limit? })`
- `list_sections()`
- `get_section_articles({ slug, language?, page? })`
- `list_authors()`
- `get_author({ slug, language? })`
- `list_comments({ permalink, limit? })` — privacy-filtered (no PII, only public alias display name + body + score)

Discovery:

- Server card: <https://maldivesindependent.com/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json>
- Skills index: <https://maldivesindependent.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json>
- API catalog: <https://maldivesindependent.com/.well-known/api-catalog>

## For browser agents (WebMCP)

Tools registered via `navigator.modelContext.provideContext()` on every page. Useful for in-browser AI assistants:

- `search_articles({ query, language?, limit? })`
- `get_recent_articles({ limit? })`
- `get_current_page_context()` — metadata about the page the user is viewing
- `navigate_to_article({ permalink })`
- `fetch_article_markdown({ permalink })`

## Editorial standards

- About us: <https://maldivesindependent.com/about-us>
- Editorial conduct & corrections policy: <https://maldivesindependent.com/editorial-conduct>
- Copyright policy: <https://maldivesindependent.com/copyright-policy>
- Use of AI policy: <https://maldivesindependent.com/use-of-ai-policy>

## Content signals

We allow search indexing, AI-search citation, and AI training. See `/robots.txt` for the explicit `Content-Signal` directive and per-bot allow list.