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Palimpsest — censorship, China economy and model-eval observatory

io.github.beepboop2025/palimpsest

Rights-aware censorship, China-economic status, and tamper-evident AI evaluation tools.

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Get before/after evidence when observed tools, schemas, authentication access, availability or the endpoint changes.

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Uptime
100.0%
5 direct probes · 30d
Response
368ms
last probe
Tools
7
callable
Resources
1
readable
Prompts
4
available
Primary URL
https://api.seiche.info/palimpsest/mcp
Score: 100/100
Handshake verified by our own probe.
why this score
pass Answers the MCP handshake 50/50
The handshake and the list calls succeeded on the primary URL.
pass Lists tools, resources or prompts 30/30
7 tools, 1 resources, 4 prompts returned.
pass 3 or more catalogue items 10/10
12 items in total; 3 or more earns these points.
pass Describes itself 10/10
87 characters; more than 30 earns these points.

Tools · 7

research_catalog

Discover every Palimpsest dataset, including the latest China economic histories, external trade, regional research, information controls and model evaluations. Paginated metadata retains source clock…

list_signals

List every published signal Palimpsest exposes across its three applications: name, one-line description and source URL for each. Censorship and information control — OONI Great Firewall probes, Censo…

get_signal

Read one named signal. Permitted signals return their bounded latest payload; China-economic signals in the denied lineage closure return explicit restricted/unavailable rights metadata and no values.…

get_newsroom

Read one evidence-first reporting surface without scraping a page or guessing a filename. Views: 'newsroom' for prioritized deterministic stories, 'wire' for normalized source dossiers, 'economy' for …

query_economic_observations

Inspect the native publication-rights status for the China-economic observation surface. The reviewed default-deny policy does not authorize redistribution of current CFETS/ChinaMoney values, so this …

whats_happening

Judge whether anything is happening in Chinese censorship right now, across every signal at once: the board's own cross-signal verdict with the multiplicity paid for (false-discovery control) and cove…

gfw_reading

Read the Great Firewall's current state at both layers in one call: live network blocking measured inside China via OONI (website, messenger and circumvention-tool reachability) joined with model-laye…

Resources · 1

china-economic-publication-rights

Metadata-only status for denied, unavailable and allowed-but-empty China-economic source families; contains no observations or derivatives.

palimpsest://china-economic/publication-rights

Prompts · 4

evidence_desk_briefing

Lead stories and investigations with publication state, evidence and counterevidence kept distinct.

censorship_briefing

The observatory's cross-signal read: what moved, what it means, with uncertainty stated before any verdict.

gfw_status_check

The Great Firewall reading for the services the observatory watches, both measurement layers, vantage limits stated.

signal_deep_dive

A single signal's complete reading: method, vantage, uncertainty, history, and what would falsify it.

How to use

Add to your Claude Desktop / Cursor / Cline MCP config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "palimpsest_\u2014_censorship,_china_economy_and_model-eval_observatory": {
      "url": "https://api.seiche.info/palimpsest/mcp",
      "transport": "streamable-http"
    }
  }
}