# AMIRA — Africa Multiple Research Data (io.github.AM-Digital-Research-Environment/amira-mcp-server): tool descriptions scored

- tools/list taken: 2026-11-02 (UTC)
- From: [Official MCP Registry](https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0/servers/io.github.AM-Digital-Research-Environment%2Famira-mcp-server/versions/latest)
- Connected to: https://data.africamultiple.uni-bayreuth.de/mcp
- Homepage: https://github.com/AM-Digital-Research-Environment/amira-mcp-server#readme
- Repository: https://github.com/AM-Digital-Research-Environment/amira-mcp-server
- Scoring rules: v2
- Tools: 35
- Average: 49.8 / 100 (Cloudy)
- Near-identical pairs: 1

This page shows how AMIRA — Africa Multiple Research Data (io.github.AM-Digital-Research-Environment/amira-mcp-server)'s tool descriptions scored, the issues found and the names of its tools and parameters. The descriptions are the server's own: read them where the copy came from.

Forecall asked the URL this server lists in the official MCP Registry for its tools/list once, on the date above, without calling any tool. The server may have changed since.

## Across the server

- Minor: 35 tools. Above 25, models start to tell tools apart less well.

## Tools

- `list_locations`: 31 / 100
  - Major: Says nothing about when to use it, or when not to.
  - Major: Arguments without a description: filters.keyword, filters.subject, filters.location, filters.country, filters.contributor, filters.location_id, filters.project_id, filters.research_section, filters.university, filters.resource_type, filters.genre, filters.collection, filters.language, filters.year_from, filters.year_to, filters.has_media, filters.added_since, filters.modified_since, near.latitude, near.longitude, near.km, offset.
  - Minor: No `required` list, so every argument is optional.
  - Minor: The meaning of the boolean argument filters.has_media is unclear.
  - Minor: Says nothing about what it returns.
- `list_groups`: 37 / 100
  - Major: Says nothing about when to use it, or when not to.
  - Minor: Arguments without a description: offset.
  - Minor: No `required` list, so every argument is optional.
  - Minor: The description mentions none of its 3 or more arguments.
  - Minor: Says nothing about what it returns.
- `list_collections`: 38 / 100
  - Major: Says nothing about when to use it, or when not to.
  - Minor: Arguments without a description: offset.
  - Minor: No `required` list, so every argument is optional.
  - Minor: The description mentions none of its 3 or more arguments.
  - Minor: Says nothing about what it returns.
- `list_journals`: 38 / 100
  - Major: Says nothing about when to use it, or when not to.
  - Minor: Arguments without a description: offset.
  - Minor: No `required` list, so every argument is optional.
  - Minor: The description mentions none of its 3 or more arguments.
  - Minor: Says nothing about what it returns.
- `list_subjects`: 39 / 100
  - Major: Says nothing about when to use it, or when not to.
  - Minor: Arguments without a description: offset.
  - Minor: No `required` list, so every argument is optional.
  - Minor: The description mentions none of its 3 or more arguments.
  - Minor: Says nothing about what it returns.
- `compare_collections`: 42 / 100
  - Major: Says nothing about when to use it, or when not to.
  - Major: Arguments without a description: cohorts, cohorts[].type, cohorts[].id, filters, filters.keyword, filters.subject, filters.location, filters.country, filters.contributor, filters.location_id, filters.project_id, filters.research_section, filters.university, filters.resource_type, filters.genre, filters.collection, filters.language, filters.year_from, filters.year_to, filters.has_media, filters.added_since, filters.modified_since.
  - Minor: The meaning of the boolean argument filters.has_media is unclear.
- `list_cluster_partners`: 42 / 100
  - Major: Says nothing about when to use it, or when not to.
  - Minor: No `required` list, so every argument is optional.
  - Minor: Says nothing about what it returns.
- `get_institution`: 43 / 100
  - Major: Says nothing about when to use it, or when not to.
  - Minor: No `required` list, so every argument is optional.
  - Minor: Says nothing about what it returns.
- `search_persons`: 45 / 100
  - Major: Says nothing about when to use it, or when not to.
  - Minor: Arguments without a description: offset.
  - Minor: No `required` list, so every argument is optional.
  - Minor: The description mentions none of its 3 or more arguments.
  - Minor: Says nothing about what it returns.
- `get_snapshot_changes`: 47 / 100
  - Major: Arguments without a description: from_id, to_id, corpus, offset.
  - Minor: No `required` list, so every argument is optional.
  - Minor: The description mentions none of its 3 or more arguments.
- `list_categories`: 47 / 100
  - Major: Says nothing about when to use it, or when not to.
  - Minor: Arguments without a description: offset.
  - Minor: The description mentions none of its 3 or more arguments.
  - Minor: Says nothing about what it returns.
- `get_entity_graph`: 48 / 100
  - Major: Says nothing about when to use it, or when not to.
  - Major: Arguments without a description: seed, types, edge_id, snapshot_id, offset.
- `get_person`: 48 / 100
  - Major: Says nothing about when to use it, or when not to.
  - Minor: No `required` list, so every argument is optional.
  - Minor: Says nothing about what it returns.
- `get_research_section`: 48 / 100
  - Major: Says nothing about when to use it, or when not to.
  - Minor: No `required` list, so every argument is optional.
  - Minor: Says nothing about what it returns.
- `list_years`: 48 / 100
  - Major: Says nothing about when to use it, or when not to.
  - Major: Arguments without a description: filters.keyword, filters.subject, filters.location, filters.country, filters.contributor, filters.location_id, filters.project_id, filters.research_section, filters.university, filters.resource_type, filters.genre, filters.collection, filters.language, filters.year_from, filters.year_to, filters.has_media, filters.added_since, filters.modified_since, offset.
  - Minor: No `required` list, so every argument is optional.
  - Minor: The meaning of the boolean argument filters.has_media is unclear.
- `get_publication`: 49 / 100
  - Major: Says nothing about when to use it, or when not to.
  - Minor: The description mentions none of its 3 or more arguments.
  - Minor: Says nothing about what it returns.
  - Minor: Required identifiers whose description does not say where the value comes from: id. Name the tool or the place that returns it, or models look it up first.
- `list_institutions`: 49 / 100
  - Major: Says nothing about when to use it, or when not to.
  - Minor: Arguments without a description: offset.
  - Minor: No `required` list, so every argument is optional.
  - Minor: The description mentions none of its 3 or more arguments.
  - Minor: Says nothing about what it returns.
- `list_research_sections`: 49 / 100
  - Major: Says nothing about when to use it, or when not to.
  - Minor: Says nothing about what it returns.
- `search_publications`: 50 / 100
  - Major: Says nothing about when to use it, or when not to.
  - Minor: Arguments without a description: year_from, year_to, offset.
  - Minor: No `required` list, so every argument is optional.
- `get_podcast`: 51 / 100
  - Major: Says nothing about when to use it, or when not to.
  - Minor: The description mentions none of its 3 or more arguments.
  - Minor: Says nothing about what it returns.
  - Minor: Required identifiers whose description does not say where the value comes from: id. Name the tool or the place that returns it, or models look it up first.
- `get_project`: 51 / 100
  - Major: Says nothing about when to use it, or when not to.
  - Minor: Says nothing about what it returns.
  - Minor: Required identifiers whose description does not say where the value comes from: id. Name the tool or the place that returns it, or models look it up first.
- `get_research_item`: 51 / 100
  - Major: Says nothing about when to use it, or when not to.
  - Minor: Says nothing about what it returns.
  - Minor: Required identifiers whose description does not say where the value comes from: id. Name the tool or the place that returns it, or models look it up first.
- `list_publication_facets`: 52 / 100
  - Major: Says nothing about when to use it, or when not to.
  - Minor: Arguments without a description: facet, year_from, year_to, offset.
  - Minor: The description mentions none of its 3 or more arguments.
- `search_research_items`: 53 / 100
  - Major: Says nothing about when to use it, or when not to.
  - Minor: Arguments without a description: offset.
  - Minor: No `required` list, so every argument is optional.
  - Minor: Says nothing about what it returns.
- `search_podcasts`: 54 / 100
  - Minor: Arguments without a description: offset.
  - Minor: No `required` list, so every argument is optional.
  - Minor: The description mentions none of its 3 or more arguments.
  - Minor: Says nothing about what it returns.
- `search_videos`: 54 / 100
  - Minor: Arguments without a description: offset.
  - Minor: No `required` list, so every argument is optional.
  - Minor: The description mentions none of its 3 or more arguments.
  - Minor: Says nothing about what it returns.
- `get_text_passages`: 56 / 100
  - Major: Arguments without a description: keyword, radius, offset.
  - Minor: Required identifiers whose description does not say where the value comes from: ids. Name the tool or the place that returns it, or models look it up first.
- `get_video`: 56 / 100
  - Minor: The description mentions none of its 3 or more arguments.
  - Minor: Says nothing about what it returns.
  - Minor: Required identifiers whose description does not say where the value comes from: id. Name the tool or the place that returns it, or models look it up first.
- `search_projects`: 56 / 100
  - Major: Says nothing about when to use it, or when not to.
  - Minor: Arguments without a description: offset.
  - Minor: No `required` list, so every argument is optional.
  - Minor: The description mentions none of its 3 or more arguments.
- `get_collection_overview`: 57 / 100
  - Major: Says nothing about when to use it, or when not to.
- `resolve_entity`: 59 / 100
  - Major: Arguments without a description: query, type, limit, offset.
  - Minor: The description mentions none of its 3 or more arguments.
- `get_data_quality`: 60 / 100
  - Major: Says nothing about when to use it, or when not to.
- `find_related`: 61 / 100
  - Major: Says nothing about when to use it, or when not to.
  - Minor: The description mentions none of its 3 or more arguments.
- `search`: 66 / 100
  - Major: Says nothing about when to use it, or when not to.
  - Minor: The description mentions none of its 3 or more arguments.
- `fetch`: 67 / 100
  - Major: Says nothing about when to use it, or when not to.

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