Palimpsest — censorship, China economy and model-eval observatory

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claude mcp add --transport http palimpsest https://api.seiche.info/palimpsest/mcp

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "palimpsest": {
      "url": "https://api.seiche.info/palimpsest/mcp"
    }
  }
}

{
  "servers": {
    "palimpsest": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.seiche.info/palimpsest/mcp"
    }
  }
}

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URL: https://api.seiche.info/palimpsest/mcp

Tools 7 found in our last check

• 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 clocks, rights and access states. Includes the Seiche research_network handoff for f…

• 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, Censored Planet, IODA outages, circumvention demand, takedown and redaction pressure,…

• 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. Call list_signals first to discover valid names. Use this for the AI-model-eva…

• 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 the currently restricted China economic pulse, 'machine-analysis' for the curre…

• inspect_economic_publication_rights

  Inspect publication-rights metadata for China economic evidence. Returns the policy digest, UTC evaluation clocks, per-source decisions and published-record status. Takes no arguments and never reads or returns observation rows, derived signals or replacement values. A denied pu…

• 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 coverage confounds flagged as measurement artifacts, never findings. Takes no argum…

• 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-layer censorship from the Generative Firewall Index over Chinese LLMs. Takes no arg…

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