Hermes — Air Quality Intelligence

com.southlondonscientificPublished by southlondonscientific.comOfficial publisherv0.2.0Updated Oct 24, 2026

UK air quality MCP: live readings, historical trends, LAQM stats, WHO checks, knowledge base.

The publisher's own server: Clara — Personal Clean Air Planner

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Overview

AI-generated overview

UK air quality intelligence server: live readings, historical trends, regulatory statistics, WHO checks and reference guidance for a location.

What you can do
Assess air quality at a location, with current readings, DAQI bands and plain-English health advice for general and at-risk groups, and compare several locations side by side. Retrieve historical readings and run long-term trend analysis, time-of-day and seasonal pattern analysis, and generate trend charts as images. Produce LAQM Annual Status Report-style statistics such as annual means, percentiles, exceedance counts and data capture against UK limits and WHO guidelines. List nearby monitoring sites with their status and type. Look up reference material on WHO, UK and EU guidelines, pollutant health effects by population group, local area context, practical protective advice and how air,ty
When to use it
Useful when answering questions about air quality in the UK, for example checking conditions at a postcode, comparing candidate sites such as schools or development plots, or preparing regulatory-style summaries and trend evidence.
Requirements
Remote streamable HTTP endpoint; no package, account, API key or environment variable is declared. Location arguments accept postcodes, place names or latitude/longitude, and the knowledge base is oriented to UK frameworks and London areas.
Before you install
Read-only lookups and chart generation; no writes, payments or credentials are requested. Results are advisory and depend on nearby monitor coverage, so readings may not represent a specific address; health guidance is generic, not personalised medical advice.

Installation

In SourceWeft

  1. Open Hermes — Air Quality Intelligence in the dashboard and add it to a workspace.
  2. Enable the server for the chats that should use its tools.

Web executable via Streamable HTTP. Remote servers run from the web runtime once configured in a workspace.

Use with an agent

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Other MCP clients

Add this to your client's mcpServers config.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hermes-air-quality-intelligence": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://hermes.southlondonscientific.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Tools

15

assess_location_aq

Comprehensive air quality assessment for a location in one call. Combines nearby monitor discovery and current readings with DAQI into a single response. Use this as the first tool call for any air quality question about a location. For long-term trend analysis, use the dedicated `trend_analysis` tool. Returns a structured 'summary' dict with purpose-appropriate sections. Present the summary description to users first. Args: location: Postcode, place name, or "lat,lon". purpose: What the user needs — "general" (default), "health" (safety/worry), "exercise" (outdoor activity), or "planning" (homebuying/school assessment/long-term).

Parameterspurposelocationrequired

get_current_aq

Get the most recent air quality readings near a location, with health context. Returns a 'summary' with a plain-English health assessment and advice for general and at-risk populations. Present the summary to users first. Also returns individual 'readings' from nearby monitors and 'metadata' about data freshness and sources. Args: location: Postcode, place name, or "lat,lon". radius_km: Search radius in kilometres (default 2.0). pollutants: Optional filter, e.g. ["NO2", "PM2.5"]. sources: Optional filter, e.g. ["AURN", "BREATHE_LONDON"].

Parameterssourceslocationrequiredradius_kmpollutants

get_historical_aq

Get historical air quality data for a site or location, with health context. Returns a 'narrative' with plain-English interpretation of trends, WHO guideline exceedances, and guideline comparisons. Present the narrative to users first. Also returns raw 'data' and 'summary' statistics. Args: start_date: Start date (ISO format, e.g. "2025-01-01"). end_date: End date (ISO format). location: Postcode, place name, or "lat,lon". Provide this or site_code. site_code: Direct site code. Provide this or location. pollutants: Optional filter, e.g. ["NO2", "PM2.5"]. frequency: "hourly", "daily", or "monthly" (default "daily").

Parametersend_daterequiredlocationfrequencysite_codepollutantsstart_daterequired

get_aqi_summary

Get an AQI assessment with health advice and WHO compliance check. Returns a 'summary' with a plain-English health assessment, advice for general and at-risk populations, and WHO guideline context. Present the summary to users first. Also returns raw 'aqi' and 'who_compliance' data. Args: location: Postcode, place name, or "lat,lon". index: AQI system — "UK_DAQI" (default), "WHO", or "US_EPA". period: "current", "today", "this_week", or "this_month".

Parametersindexperiodlocationrequired

list_monitors

List air quality monitoring sites near a location, with context. Returns a 'summary' explaining how many monitors were found, their operational status, and what each monitor type represents. Present the summary to users first. Also returns a 'monitors' list with full metadata. Args: location: Postcode, place name, or "lat,lon". radius_km: Search radius in kilometres (default 5.0). sources: Optional filter, e.g. ["AURN", "BREATHE_LONDON"].

Parameterssourceslocationrequiredradius_km

chart_aq_trend

Generate a time series chart of air quality data. Returns a PNG chart image with a brief text summary. Use this when users ask about trends, patterns, or want to visualise air quality over time. Args: start_date: Start date (ISO format, e.g. "2025-01-01"). end_date: End date (ISO format). location: Postcode, place name, or "lat,lon". Provide this or site_code. site_code: Direct site code. Provide this or location. pollutants: Optional filter, e.g. ["NO2", "PM2.5"]. Defaults to NO2, PM2.5, PM10, O3 if not specified. frequency: "hourly", "daily", or "monthly" (default "daily"). show_who_guidelines: Show WHO guideline reference lines (default True). show_daqi_bands: Show DAQI band background shading (default True).

Parametersend_daterequiredlocationfrequencysite_codepollutantsstart_daterequiredshow_daqi_bandsshow_who_guidelines

trend_analysis

Analyse the long-term trend in a pollutant near a location. Uses Theil-Sen slope estimation with Mann-Kendall significance testing to determine whether air quality is improving, worsening, or stable. Robust to outliers and missing data. Returns a 'summary' with plain-English trend description and statistical details. Present the summary to users first. Args: location: Postcode, place name, or "lat,lon". pollutant: Pollutant to analyse — "NO2", "PM2.5", "PM10", "O3" (default "NO2"). years: Number of years of data to analyse (default 5, range 2–5). Requests outside this range are clamped; the response includes ``metadata.years_clamped`` and a note in ``summary`` when so.

Parametersyearslocationrequiredpollutant

compare_locations

Compare current air quality across multiple locations side-by-side. Returns a ranked comparison by pollutant with DAQI bands and distance to nearest monitor. Useful for comparing development sites, school locations, or residential options. Args: locations: List of 2–6 locations (postcodes, place names, or "lat,lon"). pollutants: Optional filter, e.g. ["NO2", "PM2.5"]. Default: all available.

Parameterslocationsrequiredpollutants

regulatory_stats

Get LAQM Annual Status Report-style statistics for a location. Returns annual means, percentiles, exceedance counts, data capture percentages, and compliance assessment against UK legal limits and WHO guidelines. Args: location: Postcode, place name, or "lat,lon". year: Calendar year to report on (default: most recent complete year). pollutants: Optional filter, e.g. ["NO2", "PM2.5"]. Default: all available.

Parametersyearlocationrequiredpollutants

time_patterns

Analyse when pollution is highest — hour of day, day of week, and month. Returns temporal profiles showing typical patterns. Useful for advising on best times for outdoor exercise, school runs, or commuting. Args: location: Postcode, place name, or "lat,lon". pollutant: Pollutant to analyse — "NO2", "PM2.5", "PM10", "O3" (default "NO2"). period: Time window — "last_month", "last_3_months", "last_6_months", or "last_year" (default).

Parametersperiodlocationrequiredpollutant

kb_get_guidelines

Get current air quality guideline and target values. Args: framework: "WHO", "UK", "EU", or "all" (default). pollutant: Optional filter for a specific pollutant. Returns the full guidelines document (markdown).

Parametersframeworkpollutant

kb_get_health_effects

Get health evidence summaries for a pollutant and population group. Args: pollutant: "NO2", "PM2.5", "PM10", or "O3". population_group: "general", "children", "elderly", "respiratory", "cardiovascular", or "pregnant" (default "general"). Returns health effects document (markdown).

Parameterspollutantrequiredpopulation_group

kb_get_local_context

Get area-specific contextual information. Args: area: "southwark", "london", or a specific neighbourhood. Returns local context document (markdown).

Parametersarea

kb_get_practical_advice

Generic protective-action guidance for a category of situation (NOT keyed to an individual user's context). For *personalised* advice that takes the user's specific health situation into account (asthma, pregnancy, gas cooker, tube commute, indoor sources), prefer the Clara MCP server's `contextual_advice` tool — it composes Hermes live readings with personal context to give an answer keyed to *this* user, *now*. Use this KB tool only as a fallback or when Clara is not available. Args: situation: One of "high_pollution_day", "commuting", "exercise", "school_run", "indoor_air", "planning_objection", "pregnancy", "child_asthma". Returns practical advice document (markdown).

Parameterssituationrequired

kb_get_monitoring_explainer

Get plain-language explanations of monitoring methods and limitations. Args: topic: One of "how_monitors_work", "regulatory_vs_lowcost", "what_readings_mean", "why_numbers_differ", "representativeness", "data_quality", "what_monitors_measure". Returns monitoring explainer document (markdown).

Parameterstopicrequired

Version history

1
  1. v0.2.0LatestSep 16, 2026

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