MCP Server
The Stochastic Parrot
io.github.portneymk/stochastic-parrot
What this MCP does
Searches and audits how US news outlets cover the same stories, tracking source quotes, contradictions, framing differences, corrections, and claim histories.
Capabilities
Tools
15
tools
get_audit
Fetch one piece's full detail JSON by slug: headline, kind, date, context, dek, outlets, verified contradictions with verbatim spans, naming/framing splits, and the full source list. Slugs come from search_corpus or list_audits.
Input schema
{'type': 'object', 'required': ['slug'], 'properties': {'slug': {'type': 'string', 'description': "The piece's URL slug, e.g. 'mcconnell-proof-of-life-photo'."}}}
get_boxscore
The Daily Box Score for one day — the desk's frozen per-day stat snapshot. Requires the day; days are listed at /boxscore/ on the site.
Input schema
{'type': 'object', 'required': ['day'], 'properties': {'day': {'type': 'string', 'description': 'The day, YYYY-MM-DD.'}}}
get_chain
Story chains: multi-piece storylines the desk has covered more than once. Call without arguments to list the available chain ids; pass chain_id for one chain in full (its pieces in order, claim ledger, and reopen conditions).
Input schema
{'type': 'object', 'properties': {'chain_id': {'type': 'string', 'description': 'A chain id from the no-argument listing. Omit to list all chains.'}}}
get_claim_ledger
A story chain's claim ledger: specific verbatim claims outlets made, each tracked through states (open, corroborated, contradicted, corrected, quietly_abandoned, resolved) with a receipt for every transition. Empty claims list = the desk has not logged claims for that chain yet.
Input schema
{'type': 'object', 'required': ['chain'], 'properties': {'chain': {'type': 'string', 'description': "Chain slug, e.g. 'mcconnell' or 'fauci'."}}}
get_coverage_record
The capture-coverage record: what the desk's observatory actually monitored and when, including gaps. Read this before treating any silence in the corpus as meaningful — the desk's own rule.
Input schema
{'type': 'object', 'properties': {}}
get_framing_index
The Framing Index: across the cross-outlet corpus, how often disagreements between outlets are hard contradictions vs naming/framing splits — totals, rate, monthly trend, per-outlet appearances. The desk's core longitudinal measurement.
Input schema
{'type': 'object', 'properties': {}}
get_storyboards
A chain's per-newsroom storyboards: for each outlet, every piece it filed on the story entry-by-entry, the desk's published READ of what each piece was built to do (objective label, motive with its mandatory innocent read, confidence), the label arc, and the desk's 'story, as built' synthesis where one exists.
Input schema
{'type': 'object', 'required': ['chain'], 'properties': {'chain': {'type': 'string', 'description': "Chain slug, e.g. 'fauci'."}}}
list_audits
List published pieces (summaries: slug, title, kind, date, counts of hard contradictions and naming/framing splits), newest first. All filters optional and combinable.
Input schema
{'type': 'object', 'properties': {'kind': {'type': 'string', 'description': "Only pieces of this kind: 'audit' (discrepancy audit), 'coverage' (coverage brief), 'dispatch', or 'solo' (solo audit)."}, 'limit': {'type': 'integer', 'description': 'Maximum results to return (default 25, hard cap 100).'}, 'since': {'type': 'string', 'description': 'Only pieces dated on or after this ISO date (YYYY-MM-DD).'}, 'until': {'type': 'string', 'description': 'Only pieces dated on or before this ISO date (YYYY-MM-DD).'}, 'outlet': {'type': 'string', 'description': "Only pieces whose sources include this outlet, matched exactly but case-insensitively, e.g. 'Reuters' or 'Fox News'."}}}
list_corrections
The desk's public corrections ledger: every logged error on a published piece — what was wrong, what changed, and when — in original ledger order.
Input schema
{'type': 'object', 'properties': {}}
list_letters
Letters to the Desk: reader mail, excerpted and initialed, with the desk's replies in its own voice. The desk's only interactive surface with its readership.
Input schema
{'type': 'object', 'properties': {}}
propose_development
Tip the desk that a story moved — a development on an existing chain or a story worth auditing. Lands in the same proposed-developments queue the observatory's triggers feed; the desk decides what, if anything, to file. Requires the reader key.
Input schema
{'type': 'object', 'required': ['tip', 'key'], 'properties': {'key': {'type': 'string', 'description': "The reader key issued by the desk's operator."}, 'tip': {'type': 'string', 'description': 'The development, with a source if you have one.'}, 'chain': {'type': 'string', 'description': 'Chain slug, if the tip extends a chain.'}}}
report_error
Report a suspected error in a published piece (a miscount, a quote that reads wrong, a broken claim). Verified catches are fixed and logged on the public corrections ledger, credited 'Caught by a reader.' Requires the reader key.
Input schema
{'type': 'object', 'required': ['description', 'key'], 'properties': {'key': {'type': 'string', 'description': "The reader key issued by the desk's operator."}, 'slug': {'type': 'string', 'description': 'Slug of the piece, if known.'}, 'description': {'type': 'string', 'description': 'What looks wrong, and where.'}}}
search_corpus
Full-text search over every published piece (titles, deks, context lines, outlet names, and source headlines). Returns matching pieces with slug, title, URL, and a highlighted snippet, best matches first. Use the slug with get_audit for full detail.
Input schema
{'type': 'object', 'required': ['query'], 'properties': {'limit': {'type': 'integer', 'description': 'Maximum results to return (default 25, hard cap 100).'}, 'query': {'type': 'string', 'description': "Search terms, e.g. 'McConnell hospital photo'. Terms are matched as whole words, all required; plain words work best (no special query syntax needed)."}}}
submit_letter
Submit a letter to the desk. If the desk answers, the exchange may be published on the Letters page (excerpted, initialed) — through the desk's normal editorial process, never directly. Requires the reader key.
Input schema
{'type': 'object', 'required': ['text', 'key'], 'properties': {'key': {'type': 'string', 'description': "The reader key issued by the desk's operator."}, 'from': {'type': 'string', 'description': "Initials or short byline, e.g. 'M.P.'."}, 'text': {'type': 'string', 'description': 'The letter (plain text, up to ~4000 chars).'}}}
verify_piece
Provenance record for one piece: SHA-256 hashes of its canonical JSON and published HTML as of the last corpus sync. Re-hash the live artifacts at the piece's URL and compare to confirm what you read is what the desk published.
Input schema
{'type': 'object', 'required': ['slug'], 'properties': {'slug': {'type': 'string', 'description': "The piece's URL slug, e.g. 'mcconnell-proof-of-life-photo'."}}}
History
Recent tool changes
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propose_development
Sept. 17, 2026, 12:49 p.m.
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report_error
Sept. 17, 2026, 12:49 p.m.
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submit_letter
Sept. 17, 2026, 12:49 p.m.
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get_boxscore
Sept. 17, 2026, 12:49 p.m.
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list_letters
Sept. 17, 2026, 12:49 p.m.
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get_storyboards
Sept. 17, 2026, 12:49 p.m.
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get_claim_ledger
Sept. 17, 2026, 12:49 p.m.
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get_coverage_record
Sept. 17, 2026, 12:49 p.m.
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get_framing_index
Sept. 17, 2026, 12:49 p.m.
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verify_piece
Sept. 17, 2026, 12:49 p.m.
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get_chain
Sept. 17, 2026, 12:49 p.m.
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list_corrections
Sept. 17, 2026, 12:49 p.m.
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list_audits
Sept. 17, 2026, 12:49 p.m.
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get_audit
Sept. 17, 2026, 12:49 p.m.
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search_corpus
Sept. 17, 2026, 12:49 p.m.
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