Watchboard for AI Agents

Watchboard exposes its full intelligence database to AI agents through three integration paths: a Claude Skill, an MCP server, and a public JSON API. Query casualty figures, KPIs, breaking news, and daily digests — directly from your AI assistant.

Claude Skill

The Watchboard skill teaches Claude how to query trackers, interpret KPIs, and surface contested claims. Install it once and Claude will automatically use it whenever you ask about topics covered by Watchboard.

Claude Code

/skill install watchboard

Manual install — copy SKILL.md to your skills directory

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/watchboard
curl -sL https://watchboard.dev/skill/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/watchboard/SKILL.md

Source

github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/watchboard

What you can ask

"What's the latest on the Iran conflict?"

"Give me the casualty figures for Ukraine"

"What's breaking on Watchboard right now?"

"Summarize the Gaza tracker"

"Show me KPIs for the Sinaloa fragmentation tracker"

"Search for ceasefire events across all trackers"

MCP Server

The Model Context Protocol server exposes Watchboard data as native tools in Claude Desktop, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible client. Includes watchboard_get_tracker_claims for contested claims — exclusive to MCP.

Setup

git clone https://github.com/ArtemioPadilla/watchboard.git
cd watchboard/mcp && npm install

Claude Code

claude mcp add watchboard -- npx tsx /path/to/watchboard/mcp/server.ts

Claude Desktop — add to claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "watchboard": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["tsx", "/path/to/watchboard/mcp/server.ts"]
    }
  }
}

watchboard_list_trackers List all active trackers

watchboard_get_tracker_summary Headline + KPIs + digest

watchboard_get_tracker_events Recent events with sources

watchboard_get_breaking_news All current breaking items

watchboard_search_events Keyword search across trackers

watchboard_get_tracker_kpis Structured KPI data

watchboard_get_tracker_claims Contested claims — sideA vs sideB

Full MCP documentation →

JSON API

Direct access with no authentication, no rate limits, and full CORS support. Static files served from CDN — safe to call from any environment.

Endpoint	Returns
`/api/v1/trackers.json`	All trackers with metadata
`/api/v1/trackers/{slug}.json`	Full tracker: KPIs, events, digest
`/api/v1/breaking.json`	Active breaking news
`/api/v1/kpis/{slug}.json`	KPIs only (lightweight)
`/api/v1/events/{slug}.json`	Last 30 events
`/api/v1/search-index.json`	All event titles for search

 Full API documentation →

  Python CLI
 Zero-dependency script for querying Watchboard from any Python 3.8+ environment.
 python3 scripts/watchboard.py summary iran-conflict
python3 scripts/watchboard.py breaking
python3 scripts/watchboard.py kpis ukraine-war
python3 scripts/watchboard.py events gaza-war --limit 10
python3 scripts/watchboard.py search "ceasefire"
python3 scripts/watchboard.py list --domain conflict
 View script on GitHub →
 
  Data Quality
 Every data point carries a source tier classification. Events are marked confirmed only when backed by a Tier-1 source or two independent Tier-2 sources. KPIs include contested flags with opposing perspectives.
   Tier 1 Official — Pentagon, UN, IAEA, government statements 
  Tier 2 Major outlets — Reuters, AP, BBC, Al Jazeera, AFP 
  Tier 3 Institutional — think tanks, NGOs, academic sources 
  Tier 4 Unverified — social media, anonymous, Telegram