2b2t Atlas / MCP

2b2t Atlas MCP server

The Atlas MCP server gives AI assistants, research agents, bots, and developer tools deterministic read-only access to the same structured catalog used by the public Atlas. It covers canonical locations, groups and their builds, highways, Archive warps, render provenance, downloadable partial WDL metadata, nearby-place searches, historical date ranges, and live dataset statistics.

Endpoint: https://api.blackportal.cloud/mcp
Transport: Streamable HTTP
Access: public, stateless, bounded, and read-only

Official MCP Registry: io.github.bobymicjohn/2b2t-atlas

Connect an MCP client

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "2b2t-atlas": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.blackportal.cloud/mcp"
    }
  }
}

The server returns metadata and public download URLs rather than transferring render images or WDL ZIP bytes through MCP. Prefer interactiveUrl for links shown to humans. Location, group and highway recordUrl values remain stable provenance identifiers; their HTML URLs permanently redirect (HTTP 301) to the complete interactive record. Follow redirects when retrieving HTML, or use apiUrl and the JSONL catalogs for JSON. Retain original source links.

All machine interfaces, citations and freshness | Tool schemas

Available tools

• find_highways_near_location
• find_locations_by_time_range
• find_locations_near
• find_nocom_portals
• find_nocom_storage
• find_preserved_builds
• find_recently_added_or_modified
• get_dataset_stats
• get_group
• get_group_builds
• get_highway
• get_location
• get_nocom_dataset
• get_nocom_highway_activity
• get_nocom_periods
• get_render_metadata
• get_warps
• get_world_downloads
• research_area
• research_location
• research_nocom_area
• search_groups
• search_highways
• search_locations
• search_nocom_signs

Resources

Clients can read stable resources at 2b2tatlas://location/{id}, 2b2tatlas://group/{id}, 2b2tatlas://highway/{id}, and 2b2tatlas://dataset.

Full API and MCP documentation | Official MCP Registry listing | About the preservation project | Examples on GitHub