get_active_fires joined FIRMS acq_date and the unpadded acq_time, so a
detection at 00:45 UTC came back as "2026-01-01 45". The row now uses
acquisitionMsUtc, which pads the time, and reports an ISO UTC timestamp
like the other tool times.
Tool answers with something to show now include data.view: the view with
the matching layers on, the area framed from above or a single aircraft or
satellite followed, and the link that opens it. Area framing moves to
src/tools/views.js so links and answers frame alike.
get_weather dropped the proxy's stale status and get_active_fires dropped
FIRMS staleness and failed satellite sources, so answers and the HUD caption
read them as current. Both now report them, and the caption context marks
such sections stale or degraded.
Define tools that answer questions from the app's data once, independent
of the surface that exposes them. A tool declares its arguments and the
services it reads; applications compose tools with their own services and
optional call interceptors. Queries reuse the layers' portable source
factories, so they run wherever an application routes /api requests.
The first queries are get_earthquakes, get_active_fires and
get_recent_launches, with a shared area argument (place name, bounding
box, or point and radius) and capped lists.
gods-eye-view/tools/mcp adapts a catalog to the Model Context Protocol
with a small JSON-RPC handler and a stateless HTTP transport, adding no
dependencies. npm run mcp serves Core's tools over stdio to local clients
such as Claude Code, reading from a running app. Both exports are
portable and checked by check:boundaries; the app does not import them.
Sameh Khamis