{
  "name": "The War On News",
  "description": "How governments have limited journalists, 1900 to today: a dated, sourced record by country, tactic and era. Every fact carries a verbatim quote, source URL, method and check date. Dataset under CC BY 4.0.",
  "url": "https://thewaronnews.com",
  "provider": {
    "organization": "Peter Benes",
    "url": "https://thewaronnews.com/about"
  },
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "capabilities": {
    "streaming": false,
    "pushNotifications": false
  },
  "defaultInputModes": [
    "text/plain",
    "application/json"
  ],
  "defaultOutputModes": [
    "text/plain",
    "application/json",
    "text/markdown"
  ],
  "skills": [
    {
      "id": "search_incidents",
      "name": "Search incidents",
      "description": "Search recorded incidents where governments or officials limited journalists' ability to report, with the same facets as /incidents. Returns date, country, tactic, head of government, outcome, summary and URL, newest first (best match first with a query).",
      "tags": [
        "mcp",
        "read"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "get_incident",
      "name": "Get an incident",
      "description": "One incident: what happened, quoted justification, effect on reporting, status, timeline, actors, outlets, cases, claims and archived sources.",
      "tags": [
        "mcp",
        "read"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "get_timeline",
      "name": "Get the timeline",
      "description": "Dated timeline entries, oldest first.",
      "tags": [
        "mcp",
        "read"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "get_actor",
      "name": "Get an actor",
      "description": "An official or body: role, office, jurisdiction, and every incident with the actor's role.",
      "tags": [
        "mcp",
        "read"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "get_case",
      "name": "Get a court case",
      "description": "A court case: caption, court, docket, dates, quoted holding, status, parties, documents, incidents.",
      "tags": [
        "mcp",
        "read"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "get_country",
      "name": "Get a country",
      "description": "One country's record: incidents by year, tactics used, heads of government at the time, and the latest RSF World Press Freedom Index rank where recorded.",
      "tags": [
        "mcp",
        "read"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "get_tactic",
      "name": "Get a tactic",
      "description": "One tactic: plain definition and every recorded incident using it, by country and year.",
      "tags": [
        "mcp",
        "read"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "ladder",
      "name": "A tactic's ladder",
      "description": "Where one tactic has led: its recorded incidents grouped by escalation stage (restrict, pressure, punish, silence, eliminate), then by date, with country and RSF 2026 rank, head of government, what was done, outcome, ladder note and number of sources. United States rows are marked as the focal case and come first within their stage. Entry counts reflect the depth of the record, not the severity of a country's conduct.",
      "tags": [
        "mcp",
        "read"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "get_united_states_chapter",
      "name": "The United States chapter",
      "description": "The focal chapter as JSON: the United States' RSF 2026 rank; incidents dated 2025 and 2026 in date order with events; the earlier record from 1917 by decade; for each tactic in use now, the United States rows, the furthest stage the tactic has reached elsewhere and its ladder; United States court cases; sources.",
      "tags": [
        "mcp",
        "read"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "recent_coverage",
      "name": "Recent coverage",
      "description": "Links to recent reporting (last 60 days) on government actions against journalists worldwide, newest first, with publisher and date. Headlines belong to their publishers.",
      "tags": [
        "mcp",
        "read"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "get_sources_for",
      "name": "Get sources for an incident",
      "description": "Every source an incident cites, with link state and Wayback snapshot URL.",
      "tags": [
        "mcp",
        "read"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "suggest_correction",
      "name": "Suggest a correction",
      "description": "Suggest a correction. Requires a client token from the publisher. Stored as pending; an editor reviews every suggestion.",
      "tags": [
        "mcp",
        "write"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "mcp": {
    "endpoint": "https://thewaronnews.com/mcp",
    "transport": "streamable-http",
    "serverManifest": "https://thewaronnews.com/.well-known/mcp/server.json"
  },
  "links": {
    "data": "https://thewaronnews.com/data",
    "datapackage": "https://thewaronnews.com/data/datapackage.json",
    "incidents_csv": "https://thewaronnews.com/incidents.csv",
    "changes": "https://thewaronnews.com/changes.xml",
    "coverage": "https://thewaronnews.com/coverage/feed.json",
    "sitemap": "https://thewaronnews.com/sitemap.xml",
    "llms": "https://thewaronnews.com/llms.txt",
    "feeds": "https://thewaronnews.com/feeds"
  }
}