Snotel Mcp

io.github.mrfentmenPublished by GitHub account mrfentmenv1.0.3Updated Nov 3, 2026

USDA SNOTEL and SCAN stations: snow water equivalent, snow depth and temperature readings - keyless.

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Overview

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Keyless MCP server for USDA SNOTEL and SCAN snow and soil stations, giving an assistant snow water equivalent, snow depth, precipitation and temperature data.

What you can do
  • List snow and soil stations in a state, with elevation and coordinates
  • Read recent daily readings for a station: snow water equivalent, snow depth, precipitation, temperature
  • Look up metadata for an AWDB station
  • Get peak and latest snow water equivalent for a station in a water year
  • Rank stations in a state by latest snow water equivalent
When to use it
Useful when you want an assistant to answer questions about mountain snowpack, snow water equivalent or station-level weather records in the United States, for example comparing stations in a state or checking a season's peak snow water equivalent.
Requirements
Runs as a local stdio process installed from the npm package @mrfentmen/snotel-mcp, so Node.js and npm are needed. No API key, environment variable or header is declared; it reads public USDA data, so network access to the upstream feed is required.
Before you install
The data comes from a third-party public feed, so readings can be delayed, revised or unavailable, and the README notes that some packages in the same repository still ship tools that answer "Not yet implemented". The tools are read-only lookups; no credentials or payments are involved.

Installation

In SourceWeft

  1. Open Snotel Mcp in the dashboard and add it to a workspace.
  2. Enable the server for the chats that should use its tools.

Desktop only via STDIO. STDIO servers start a local process, so they need the SourceWeft desktop host.

Other MCP clients

Follow the launch instructions in the repository.

README

awesome-servers

One repo for three families of servers, each subtree keeping its own layout and tooling so it can still be built, run and published on its own.

SubtreeWhat it holdsRun one
mcp/338 TypeScript MCP servers, plus 1107 published packages in published/cd mcp/servers/<slug> && npm install && npm run build
acp/79 Python ACP agentspython3 acp/agents/<name>/agent.py
a2a/37 Python A2A servers plus the shared a2a_kitpython3 a2a/servers/<name>/server.py
watchd/a threshold watcher that runs the feeds between editor sessionspython3 watchd/watchd.py --config conditions.json --loop
site/the published site: registry with search, the public-feed atlas, watchd planshttps://mrfentmen.github.io/awesome-servers/

Most servers read public data with no key of their own; the ones wrapping a vendor API take that vendor's key. Nothing in this repo asks a caller to pay. On 2026-10-17 the licence machinery was removed for good: the per-tool src/license.ts gates are gone from the MCP servers, and the A2A and ACP trees no longer carry the hosted licence-gateway half — the skills that used it now answer with an explicit not-implemented stub. Nothing here asks a caller to pay, and nothing they run is refused with a buy link.

Nothing here is generated: each subtree's README says what its servers read, and every server has its own unit tests (mcp/servers/<slug>/tests, acp/agents/<name>/tests, a2a/servers/<name>/tests) plus a live smoke check (tools/smoke*.py, a2a/tools/smoke_all.py).

Novel and original

Nearly all of this is first-of-its-kind work, not a port of an existing catalogue. Before each server or agent was built, it was checked against the official tool lists (the MCP registries, agentclientprotocol.com's agent list and registry) and a live GitHub search for the same domain, and the research logs record what was found and why it still counted as missing — see mcp/MISSING.md, acp/MISSING.md and a2a/docs/. Highlights:

  • The MCP side holds TypeScript servers, one npm package each, and 1039 published packages under published/; mcp/MISSING.md documents the check that preceded every build: what was searched, what was skipped and why the domain still counted as uncovered.
  • On the ACP side there were zero domain agents before this repo — every agent on the official list was a coding agent. These 79 Python agents are the first non-coding ACP agents, and several use protocol surfaces no other agent uses in production (session/request_permission for dataset reads, fs/write_text_file for a briefing file, session/cancel for a conditional watch, image content blocks, a live SSE push feed), each proved-unused in the wild by search at build time. Two more firsts carry their own proof: the orchestrator is an agent whose feeds are agents — it spawns sibling repo agents as real ACP child processes and merges their answers — and the nyc pack is the first multi-agency city surface.
  • acp/MISSING.md doubles as the public-feed atlas: every keyless feed probed live, with its date, what it answered and whether it still works. The published site renders that table at https://mrfentmen.github.io/awesome-servers/atlas.html.
  • The pattern across all three subtrees is the same thesis: wrap one real, keyless public dataset, answer honestly about what the feed did and did not say, and keep the whole thing small, tested and self-contained.

Publishing

  • MCP servers publish from mcp/servers/<slug> (its own package.json, version and README).
  • ACP and A2A servers are repo-run today (Python, no packaging step).

Built on top of it

Creatures that use this corpus as their world live in the sibling repo mrfentmen/superagents (public, with its own claim-check in MISSING.md):

  • polymath — routes your question to the most fitting agents of this repo, spawns each as a real ACP child process, and merges the answers into one brief with per-row citations; a sibling that fails appears as a named row, never silence. Its registry is a data file and its ranking is deterministic word-scoring, not a model opinion.
  • sentry — one plain sentence ("watch air quality in Denver over 150") becomes a tracked watch: a permission-asked protocol write produces the conditions file this repo's watchd/ obeys unchanged, plus the activation lines. Checks it can author today: air thresholds, quake magnitudes within a radius, river gauges at flood stage.
  • fedora hat guy — the persona agent in his own repo mrfentmen/fedora-hat: says "never miss" and means it — one sentence installs the full crown of watches (air + quakes, gauge-named flood) in one permissioned write, and your other questions are forwarded to the siblings above with every row cited.
  • instink — the instinct agent in his own repo mrfentmen/instink: compiles a skill into a reflex — a matcher plus the answer it fires, with hit/miss counters and honest promotion/demotion. The skill doc stays one step away, never deleted.
  • contextink — the context agent in his own repo mrfentmen/contextink: you say "do this" and it acquires the context from the repo, git, and recent files so you don't have to explain it; asks only the minimal high-information-gain questions when acquisition fails.
  • rewind — the replay agent in his own repo mrfentmen/rewind: replays agent runs and mutates one variable to see what would have happened. Replay + mutate + diff for agent traces.
  • scopink — the scope agent in his own repo mrfentmen/scopink: checks if an action is within the scope of what was asked. Detects scope creep in agent plans.
  • curious — the curiosity agent in his own repo mrfentmen/curious: proactively seeks information it doesn't have. Scans for knowledge gaps, seeks answers, learns facts.
  • bored — the idle agent in his own repo mrfentmen/bored: uses idle time productively. Consolidates memories, explores areas, prepares for tasks.

Point the polymath at a checkout of this repo with AWESOME_SERVERS_HOME=$PWD/awesome-servers and it federates across the two repos live.

Published snapshot (published/)

published/ holds one directory per npm package, byte-for-byte what the registry serves: 1039 packages, every version matching npm latest.

  • published/INDEX.md is generated from the tree by python3 scripts/index-published.py.
  • scripts/sync-published-snapshot.py re-downloads every package from npm; run it only when every local fix has been published, because it overwrites dist/ from the tarballs.
  • One package carries a licence gate (MCP_LICENSE_KEY): @mrfentmen/vg-resource-mcp. Another 495 still ship tools that answer Not yet implemented; published/INDEX.md lists every one of them.
  • Every package links to this repo (mrfentmen/awesome-servers) as its source.

servers/ holds the older per-server source that predates the snapshot. Where the two disagree, published/ is what users actually install.

Source: README.md at commit ee04f93

Tools

5

stations_in_state

Snow and soil stations in one state, with elevation and coordinates.

Parameterslimitstaterequirednetwork

station_readings

Recent daily readings for one station: snow water equivalent, snow depth, precipitation, temperature.

ParametersdayselementsstationTripletrequired

station_metadata

Metadata for one AWDB station.

ParametersstationTripletrequired

peak_snow_water_equivalent

Peak and latest snow water equivalent for a station in a water year.

ParametersyearrequiredstationTripletrequired

snow_summary

Rank stations in a state by latest snow water equivalent.

Parameterslimitstaterequirednetwork

Version history

1
  1. v1.0.3LatestOct 29, 2026

Score

80% of the applicable checks met

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  • Reached in the last 30 days25 pts
  • Auth declared10 pts

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  • Tools listedRequired15 pts
  • DescriptionRequired15 pts
  • Logo10 pts
  • Documentation15 pts
  • License10 pts

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