The Stochastic Parrot

Name: The Stochastic Parrot
Author: portneymk

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Span-grounded audits of how US outlets covered the same story, quotes checkable at the source.

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search_corpus — Full-text search over every published piece (titles, deks, context lines, outlet names, and source headlines). Returns matching pieces with slug, title, URL, an
get_audit — Fetch one piece's full detail JSON by slug: headline, kind, date, context, dek, outlets, verified contradictions with verbatim spans, naming/framing splits, and
list_audits — List published pieces (summaries: slug, title, kind, date, counts of hard contradictions and naming/framing splits), newest first. All filters optional and comb
list_corrections — The desk's public corrections ledger: every logged error on a published piece — what was wrong, what changed, and when — in original ledger order.
get_chain — Story chains: multi-piece storylines the desk has covered more than once. Call without arguments to list the available chain ids; pass chain_id for one chain in
verify_piece — Provenance record for one piece: SHA-256 hashes of its canonical JSON and published HTML as of the last corpus sync. Re-hash the live artifacts at the piece's U
get_framing_index — The Framing Index: across the cross-outlet corpus, how often disagreements between outlets are hard contradictions vs naming/framing splits — totals, rate, mont
get_coverage_record — The capture-coverage record: what the desk's observatory actually monitored and when, including gaps. Read this before treating any silence in the corpus as mea
get_claim_ledger — A story chain's claim ledger: specific verbatim claims outlets made, each tracked through states (open, corroborated, contradicted, corrected, quietly_abandoned
get_storyboards — A chain's per-newsroom storyboards: for each outlet, every piece it filed on the story entry-by-entry, the desk's published READ of what each piece was built to
list_letters — Letters to the Desk: reader mail, excerpted and initialed, with the desk's replies in its own voice. The desk's only interactive surface with its readership.
get_boxscore — The Daily Box Score for one day — the desk's frozen per-day stat snapshot. Requires the day; days are listed at /boxscore/ on the site.
submit_letter — Submit a letter to the desk. If the desk answers, the exchange may be published on the Letters page (excerpted, initialed) — through the desk's normal editorial
report_error — Report a suspected error in a published piece (a miscount, a quote that reads wrong, a broken claim). Verified catches are fixed and logged on the public correc
propose_development — Tip the desk that a story moved — a development on an existing chain or a story worth auditing. Lands in the same proposed-developments queue the observatory's

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28 h ago · declared · summary → "Span-grounded audits of how US outlets covered the same story, quotes checkable at the source."
28 h ago · declared · description → "Span-grounded audits of how US outlets covered the same story, quotes checkable at the source."
28 h ago · declared · publisherName → "portneymk"
28 h ago · declared · homepageUrl → "https://thestochasticparrot.com/connect/"
28 h ago · declared · version → "1.1.0"
28 h ago · declared · protocols → ["mcp"]

when	check	result	http	latency	detail
6 h ago	mcp initialize	ok	200	80 ms	server stochastic-parrot 1.1.0 · protocol 2025-06-18 · 15 tools
13 h ago	mcp initialize	ok	200	103 ms	server stochastic-parrot 1.1.0 · protocol 2025-06-18 · 15 tools
20 h ago	mcp initialize	ok	200	107 ms	server stochastic-parrot 1.1.0 · protocol 2025-06-18 · 15 tools
27 h ago	mcp initialize	ok	200	108 ms	server stochastic-parrot 1.1.0 · protocol 2025-06-18 · 15 tools

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