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Chronicling America MCP — full-text search of ~150 years of digitized U.S. newspapers…

v0.1.5 · active · repository · website · descriptor JSON · versions

An agent can connect right now, no human step.Remote endpoint, no authentication, reachable on the last probe.
Quality–not scored
Trust97of 100
Uptime, 30 days98%
Latency p5029 ms

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8 clients · secrets stay placeholders
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "chronicling-america": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/chronicling-america/mcp"
    }
  }
}
claude mcp add --transport http chronicling-america https://gateway.pipeworx.io/chronicling-america/mcp
[mcp_servers.chronicling-america]
url = "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/chronicling-america/mcp"
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "chronicling-america": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/chronicling-america/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "chronicling-america": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/chronicling-america/mcp"
    }
  },
  "deeplink": "cursor://anysphere.cursor-deeplink/mcp/install?name=chronicling-america&config=eyJ0eXBlIjoiaHR0cCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vZ2F0ZXdheS5waXBld29yeC5pby9jaHJvbmljbGluZy1hbWVyaWNhL21jcCJ9"
}
{
  "servers": {
    "chronicling-america": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/chronicling-america/mcp"
    }
  }
}
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "chronicling-america": {
      "httpUrl": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/chronicling-america/mcp"
    }
  }
}
extensions:
  "chronicling-america":
    enabled: true
    name: "chronicling-america"
    type: streamable_http
    uri: "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/chronicling-america/mcp"
    timeout: 300

Quality – / 100not scored

Not scored: fewer than three checks apply, usually because no remote answered a credential-free probe or the server is a local package.

protocol75 · weight 25
  • warn
    protocol.modernnewest supported version is 2025-03-26; 2026-07-28 not supported, older versions are deprecated until 2027-07-28
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    protocol.statelessonly applies to 2026-07-28 servers
  • pass
    protocol.transportstreamable HTTP
  • n/a
    protocol.list_ttlonly applies to 2026-07-28 servers
authorizationn/a · weight 15
  • n/a
    auth.prm, auth.as_metadata, auth.cimdno remote uses OAuth
  • n/a
    auth.secret_in_urlno templated URL
tool hygienen/a · weight 30
  • n/a
    tools.descriptions, tools.description_length, tools.schemas, tools.annotations, tools.directory_hints, tools.token_cost, tools.api_dumptool list unknown (behind auth, not probed, or empty)
stabilityn/a · weight 15
  • n/a
    stability.changes, stability.rug_pulltool list unknown
dependenciesn/a · weight 15
  • n/a
    deps.known_vulns, deps.mcp_sdk_version, deps.resolvableno npm or PyPI package

Tool list unknown · tools last changed 2026-10-20 · checked 2026-10-21 00:32 UTC

Tool changes

  • search_newspapersremoved

    Full-text search of digitized historical U.S. newspapers (~1690s–present) from the Library of Congress "Chronicling America" collection. Find primary-source newspaper coverage of any person, event, place, or topic in history — returns the total match count, then for each page the newspaper, publication date, city/state and a link to the digitized page (plus an OCR text excerpt of the matching page for covered states such as Montana). Filter by date range and U.S. state; every response carries data_as_of. Example: search_newspapers({ query: "influenza epidemic", date_from: "1918", date_to: "1919", state: "oklahoma" }).

  • archive_compareremoved

    What changed on a web page between two dates? Resolves the archived capture nearest each date (Internet Archive Wayback Machine, Common Crawl, Arquivo.pt), extracts the readable text of both, and returns a text-level diff: the segments removed and added, a similarity score, and both capture timestamps with their gaps from the requested dates. It diffs readable text, not markup, so a restyled page with the same words reads changed:false. Identical captures answer changed:false with the reason (same capture, identical content digest, or identical text), never an empty diff. A date with no capture within max_gap_days (default 30) answers status "no_capture", naming which side is missing and the nearest captures to it. Typical uses: how a privacy policy, terms of service, pricing or product page changed; whether a statement was on a page at a given time.

  • list_subscriptionsremoved

    List the caller's active subscriptions. Returns id, type, params, created_at, last_fired_at, fire_count for each. Use this to review what you're monitoring before adding more or to find an id to cancel.

  • discover_toolsremoved

    Find tools by describing the data or task. Use when you need to browse, search, look up, or discover what tools exist for: SEC filings, financials, revenue, profit, FDA drugs, adverse events, FRED economic data, Census demographics, BLS jobs/unemployment/inflation, ATTOM real estate, ClinicalTrials, USPTO patents, weather, news, crypto, stocks. Returns the top-N most relevant tools with names, descriptions, and full input schemas (with curated examples) — each result is ready to call directly, no second schema lookup needed. Call this FIRST when you have many tools available and want to see the option set (not just one answer).

  • kalshi_weather_edgeremoved

    Prices Kalshi daily high-temperature markets against the NWS forecast for the market's OWN settlement station, and measures whether that forecast actually beats the market. Two modes. LIVE (default): returns the full strike ladder for one city and settlement date with market_prob (mid), forecast_prob, and edge_pp per strike, plus the settlement clause verbatim. BACKTEST (`backtest_days: N`): scores an archived gridded forecast against the market on settled days and returns brier_market vs brier_forecast with a plain-English `verdict`, so the edge is MEASURED rather than asserted. READ THE WARNINGS — they are not boilerplate. (1) These markets DO NOT settle on the NWS. They settle on The Weather Company (weather.com) at a Kalshi station code such as CLINYC, which the response quotes verbatim; so part of every edge_pp is NWS-vs-Weather-Company disagreement about the same day at the same station, which is not mispricing and not tradeable. `settlement_vs_forecast_basis_f` from backtest mode is that part as a number. (2) The station is DERIVED from the settlement clause, never from the city name: Chicago settles at MIDWAY and New York at CENTRAL PARK, so a city-centre forecast would misprice a whole ladder. A station that cannot be resolved yields rows with no forecast and a reason, never a guessed coordinate. (3) forecast_prob assumes a normal distribution around the NWS high whose width is ASSUMED, not fitted (stated in `distribution_assumption`) — run backtest mode to see whether it is calibrated. (4) edge_pp is gross: no Kalshi fees, no bid-ask. MEASURED RESULT, AND IT IS NOT THE FLATTERING ONE: on the first backtest (KXHIGHNY, 13 settled days to 2026-09-11, 58 market observations) the MARKET beat the forecast — Brier 0.1008 for the market against 0.1594 for the archived gridded forecast, lower being better. So on that sample there is NO forecast edge to sell, and a large edge_pp is more likely to be the model disagreeing with a better-informed market than an opportunity. The measured settlement-vs-forecast basis was 1.7F mean absolute over 8 pinnable days, slightly warm-biased, which is a big share of a typical edge_pp on a 2-degree bracket. Re-run backtest_days before believing any edge; if a later sample reverses this, the numbers say so. NWS is US-only, so the ~30 international Kalshi weather series (London, Paris, Tokyo) return market prices with forecast_unavailable rather than a forecast. Precipitation series are listed but not yet priced. Cities: nyc, chicago, los angeles, miami, austin, houston, denver, philadelphia — or pass `series_ticker` for any other (e.g. "KXHIGHTBOS").

  • ask_pipeworx_betaremoved

    Beta version of ask_pipeworx: identical universal router (same 7,013 tools, same arguments, same response shape) with candidate routing improvements enabled live whenever one is under test. No candidate is active right now (the last was retired on outcome evidence 2026-07-26), so this currently matches ask_pipeworx exactly. Use it exactly like ask_pipeworx when you want the newest routing; results are compared against the stable router to decide what merges. Falls back to nothing — this IS a full working router, just the experimental edge.

  • bet_researchremoved

    Research a Polymarket bet by pulling the relevant Pipeworx data for it in one call. Pass a market slug ("will-kristi-noem-win-the-2028-republican-presidential-nomination"), a polymarket.com URL, or a question text. Prefer an UNDATED slug: a dated one ("...-by-june-30-2026") stops resolving the day it settles, because Polymarket de-indexes resolved markets. The tool resolves the market, classifies the bet, fans out to category-specific data packs in parallel, and returns an evidence packet + simple market-vs-model comparison. Use for "should I bet on X", "what does the data say about Y", or "is there edge in Z". CLASSIFIERS: crypto_price, fed_rate, geopolitical, sports, sports_championship, drug_approval, election_candidate, tech_launch, space_launch, corporate, corporate_earnings, corporate_event, public_figure_speech, weather, other. FAN-OUT EXAMPLES: BTC bet → coingecko + fred + gdelt+gnews; Fed bet → fred (DFEDTARU + EFFR + CPIAUCSL) + kalshi_macro (KXFED implied probs) + recent_fed_actions (federal-register rules, last 365d); Hormuz bet → imf_portwatch + airspace + gdelt; Yankees WS → mlb_stats_standings + parent_event partition + news; hottest-year bet → climate_projection_nyc + gistemp_latest (NASA global anomaly, rank since 1880) + news; NVDA-vs-AAPL → finnhub get_quote + edgar shares-outstanding (derived market cap) + edgar filings + news. RESPONSE SHAPES: result.market carries best_bid/best_ask/spread_pp/liquidity/price_change_1h/1d/1w; result.analysis carries model_probability/edge_pp/kelly_fraction_half when a closed-form model fires PLUS a 24h-move warning ("Market moved X.Xpp in 24h, comparable to model edge — your edge may already be priced in") when relevant; result.evidence is keyed by source. RESOLVER CONTRACT: result.market_match_confidence ∈ {high, medium, low, none}, market_match_score (0-1 token-overlap), market_match_alternatives[] (other candidate markets the resolver considered), and suggestions[] (explicit re-query hints when the match is fuzzy) — ALWAYS inspect these before trusting the analysis block, because medium/low matches can still surface other fields. PARENT_EVENT EXTRACTOR: when the bet is one leg of a partition (Yankees WS, Romania election), result.parent_event{matched_candidate, top_legs_by_price[], partition_size, placeholders_filtered} gives you the peer prices in one place — that's the headline for elections/championships. NEWS FIELDS: news entries carry _fallback_attempted / _fallback_failed_reason / retry_after_sec when GDELT 429s and GNews backfill ran or failed. SAFETY: low-confidence resolutions short-circuit with status:"low_confidence_match" and suppress analysis fields so agents can't accidentally size on phantom matches. Closed/dead markets that ARE still indexed by Polymarket (yes_price≈0, no volume, no liquidity) return status:"market_closed_or_inactive" and skip fan-out. A market whose own deadline has already passed returns status:"market_expired_or_resolved" + expired_deadline (the date), which is deliberately NOT the same answer as low_confidence_match: your slug was right and is merely settled, so the useful retry is the successor market for the same question, not a corrected spelling. In practice resolved markets are usually de-indexed and instead surface via one of those two paths — both routes are BLOCKING, just different mechanisms. Wide-spread markets (>10pp) carry tradeability:"illiquid_wide_spread" + an explanatory note. RESOLUTION-RULE RISK: market.cancellation_rule parses the void/postponement settlement out of the resolution text — refund_50_50 (shares settle flat 50¢ on void; EV-material for any entry away from 50¢, with ev_impact quantified), resolves_no_on_cancel, resolves_yes_on_cancel, carries_to_reschedule, or mentioned_unclear. null means the description never mentions cancellation. Check this before sizing sports/esports/event-occurrence bets — audited arb-bot ledgers show flat-50¢ void settlements are a recurring pure-rules loss.

  • company_register_searchremoved

    Search the NATIONAL BUSINESS REGISTERS by company name and get the register's own id back — a Companies House number, a Norwegian organisasjonsnummer, a Finnish business id, a SIREN, a Japanese corporate number, an Estonian registry code, a CNPJ, or an LEI. Use this when you want the OFFICIAL REGISTERED ENTITY and the country is not the US, or when you do not know which country it is. Registers searched: Companies House (GB), Enhetsregisteret (NO), PRH/YTJ (FI), Sirene (FR), 法人番号公表サイト (JP), RIK e-Business Register (EE), and the GLEIF LEI crosswalk, which reaches jurisdictions we have no register pack for (DE, SE, AU, SG...). THIS TOOL REFUSES TO GUESS, and that is its point: when two different companies match a name equally well it answers `match_status: "ambiguous"` with BOTH, rather than naming one. A one-word trading name usually IS ambiguous — "Bolt", "Apple", "Next", "Sea", "DNB" each match a well-known group AND unrelated micro-entities whose registered name is exactly that word — so pass `country` when you know it. Every response names EVERY register it asked under `searched[]`, with that register's own as-of date and row count, and a register that could not be reached carries an `error` there rather than reading as zero rows: "we could not ask Companies House" is never the same answer as "this company is not in Britain". `related[]` holds entities that collapsed INTO the match — the same company seen through another register, or another country's arm sharing its LEI — so a multinational returns one answer rather than tying with itself. NOT A PEOPLE SEARCH: sole traders and other natural persons are excluded on the publisher's own legal-form field, never guessed from the shape of a name. For US public companies prefer resolve_entity (CIK + ticker + FIGI); the two share this same matcher, and resolve_entity returns these register fields too.

  • recallremoved

    Retrieve a value previously saved via remember, or list all saved keys (omit the key argument). Use to look up context the agent stored earlier — the user's target ticker, an address, prior research notes — without re-deriving it from scratch. Scoped to your identifier (anonymous IP, BYO key hash, or account ID). Pair with remember to save, forget to delete.

  • rememberremoved

    Save data the agent will need to reuse later — across this conversation or across sessions. Use when you discover something worth carrying forward (a resolved ticker, a target address, a user preference, a research subject) so you don't have to look it up again. Stored as a key-value pair scoped by your identifier. Authenticated users get persistent memory; anonymous sessions retain memory for 24 hours. Pair with recall to retrieve later, forget to delete.

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Trust 97 / 100

provenance90
liveness99
freshness100
hygiene100

+repository +namespace-matches-repo +website +reachable +uptime-98% +updated-0d-ago

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Endpoints

remoteauthreachableuptime 30dp50protocollast ok
https://gateway.pipeworx.io/chronicling-america/mcp streamable-httpnoneyes98%29 ms2025-03-262026-10-20

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Official server.json
{
  "name": "io.github.pipeworx-io/chronicling-america",
  "title": "Chronicling America",
  "$schema": "https://static.modelcontextprotocol.io/schemas/2025-12-11/server.schema.json",
  "remotes": [
    {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/chronicling-america/mcp",
      "type": "streamable-http"
    }
  ],
  "version": "0.1.5",
  "repository": {
    "url": "https://github.com/pipeworx-io/mcp-chronicling-america",
    "source": "github"
  },
  "websiteUrl": "https://pipeworx.io/packs/chronicling-america",
  "description": "Chronicling America MCP — full-text search of ~150 years of digitized U.S. newspapers…"
}