# UNESCO UIS — Education, Science & Culture Statistics (provenance-first) (npm · uis-mcp-server)

UNESCO UIS statistics (education, science, culture) with full provenance and fixed releases.

- Trust score: 71/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-09-20

## Components

- remote · `uis.sidneybissoli.com`: 86/100, [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/sidneybissoli-uis-mcp-server/uis.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/sidneybissoli-uis-mcp-server/uis)
- npm · `uis-mcp-server`: 71/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/sidneybissoli-uis-mcp-server/uis-mcp-server.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/sidneybissoli-uis-mcp-server/uis-mcp-server)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `npm`
- Package: `uis-mcp-server`
- Version: `0.4.0`
- Transport: `stdio`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically from public evidence about the published package, including repeated runs of it in an isolated sandbox, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-09-20.

- **Supply Chain Security**: 99/100
  - No malware found by supply-chain analysis.
  - No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.
  - No install/post-install scripts declared.
  - 1 of 5 dependencies flagged as unhealthy.
- **Provenance & Transparency**: 45/100
  - Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL.
  - Provenance check failed: no build-provenance attestation is published.
  - Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).
  - Actively maintained (last published 2 days ago).
  - Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 80/100
  - 100% of prompts and resources have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the item's name).
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 1577 tokens (~197/item across 8 items; 5 tools + 3 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 0/100
  - Stability not yet verified: not enough scan history yet (needs a 30-day window).
- **Tool Coverage**: 100/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 100% of tool parameters carry a description.
  - Structured output schemas are declared (100% of tools); any adoption earns full credit.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 5 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 7 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

**Unverified: 1 category.** A category scored 0 because we could not verify it: a data source with nothing on this package, evidence we could not reach, or a check we could not run. We only credit what we can confirm.

## Install

### How do I install the UNESCO UIS — Education, Science & Culture Statistics… MCP server?

UNESCO UIS — Education, Science & Culture Statistics… runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y uis-mcp-server. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add sidneybissoli-uis-mcp-server -- npx -y uis-mcp-server
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sidneybissoli-uis-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "uis-mcp-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "sidneybissoli-uis-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "uis-mcp-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add sidneybissoli-uis-mcp-server -- npx -y uis-mcp-server
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "sidneybissoli-uis-mcp-server": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "npx",
        "-y",
        "uis-mcp-server"
      ],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add sidneybissoli-uis-mcp-server --command npx --arg -y --arg uis-mcp-server
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  sidneybissoli-uis-mcp-server:
    command: "npx"
    args: ["-y", "uis-mcp-server"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "sidneybissoli-uis-mcp-server": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "npx",
      "Arguments": [
        "-y",
        "uis-mcp-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add sidneybissoli-uis-mcp-server -t stdio -c npx -a -y uis-mcp-server
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sidneybissoli-uis-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "uis-mcp-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-09-17 (score 71)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (5)

### `uis_search_indicators` (~309 tokens)

Search UNESCO UIS indicators

Search the UNESCO Institute for Statistics catalogue of ~5,000 indicators — education, science/R&D, culture and communication — by keywords in the name or code, optionally filtered by theme. All terms must match (AND, case-insensitive), so start with 2–3 words and drop terms if you get 0 results. Everyday and US wording is resolved to the UIS's own (enrollment→enrolment, spending→expenditure, preschool→pre-primary, university→tertiary, graduation→completion, girls/boys→female/male); when that happens the response says so in vocabulary_notes. Returns indicator codes to use with uis_get_data, plus each indicator's data availability (years, record count). Searches the catalogue only — it does not return statistical values (use uis_get_data); ILO labour statistics live in the sibling ILOSTAT MCP server.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer): Maximum results (default 20)
- `offset` (integer): Results to skip, for pagination (default 0)
- `provenance_mode` (string): Provenance verbosity: 'concise' (default — source, url, vintage, retrieval date, citation, license) or 'detailed' (full canonical block with dataset, dimension key and notices)
- `query` (string, required): Keywords, matched against indicator name and code, AND between terms (e.g. "literacy rate youth")
- `theme` (string): Restrict to one UIS theme

Output parameters:

- `attribution` (array)
- `has_more` (boolean)
- `hint` (string)
- `indicators` (array)
- `next_offset` (number)
- `offset` (number)
- `provenance`
- `showing` (number)
- `total_matches` (number)
- `vocabulary_notes` (array)

### `uis_list_geo_units` (~192 tokens)

List UNESCO UIS geo units

Valid geographic codes for uis_get_data: 462 geo units — countries (NATIONAL, ISO alpha-3 codes like BRA) and regional aggregates (REGIONAL). Filter by name/code and type. Does not return statistical values; these codes apply only to uis_get_data, not to other statistical servers.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer): Maximum results (default 100)
- `offset` (integer): Results to skip, for pagination (default 0)
- `provenance_mode` (string): Provenance verbosity: 'concise' (default — source, url, vintage, retrieval date, citation, license) or 'detailed' (full canonical block with dataset, dimension key and notices)
- `search` (string): Case-insensitive filter on name, or exact code (e.g. "BRA")
- `type` (string): Only countries (NATIONAL) or only regional aggregates

Output parameters:

- `attribution` (array)
- `geo_units` (array)
- `has_more` (boolean)
- `next_offset` (number)
- `offset` (number)
- `provenance`
- `showing` (number)
- `total_matches` (number)

### `uis_get_data` (~266 tokens)

Get UNESCO UIS data

Statistical records from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics Data API, filtered by indicator codes (from uis_search_indicators, up to 25), geo unit codes (from uis_list_geo_units) and year range. Set include_footnotes for per-record source notes. Returns raw UIS records only — it does not aggregate, convert or otherwise transform values; ILO labour statistics live in the sibling ILOSTAT MCP server. Broad queries are rejected with the record count — narrow by geo unit or years.

Input parameters:

- `end_year` (integer): Last year, e.g. 2024
- `geo_units` (array): Geo unit codes from uis_list_geo_units (e.g. ["BRA","ARG"]); omit for all
- `include_footnotes` (boolean): Include per-record footnotes (source notes); default false
- `indicators` (array, required): Indicator codes from uis_search_indicators (e.g. ["CR.1"])
- `provenance_mode` (string): Provenance verbosity: 'concise' (default — source, url, vintage, retrieval date, citation, license) or 'detailed' (full canonical block with dataset, dimension key and notices)
- `start_year` (integer): First year, e.g. 2015

Output parameters:

- `attribution` (array)
- `columns` (array)
- `provenance`
- `rows` (array)
- `rows_count` (number)

### `search` (~241 tokens)

Deep Research Search

Searches the UNESCO UIS statistics (≈5,000 indicators: education — enrolment, completion, literacy, teachers, spending, SDG 4 —, science/R&D (SDG 9.5), culture (SDG 11.4) and demographic context) catalog and returns up to 10 matching documents as { id, title, url }, ordered by relevance (an empty list means nothing matched).

This tool exists for the OpenAI Deep Research contract: ChatGPT deep research, company knowledge and research workflows over the Responses API require exactly the tools `search` and `fetch`. Pass one of the returned ids to `fetch` to read the document.
For direct questions and for data (values, series, rankings) prefer the `uis_*` tools, which return the actual data with provenance — this is a catalog index, not a data query.

Query: natural language or keywords, Portuguese or English; accents and case are ignored.

Behavior: read-only and idempotent — the catalog comes from the public source and is cached in memory.

Input parameters:

- `query` (string, required): Search terms, natural language or keywords (accents and case are ignored)

Output parameters:

- `attribution` (array)
- `provenance`
- `results` (array): Matching documents, in relevance order

### `fetch` (~190 tokens)

Deep Research Document

Returns the full document for an id obtained from `search`, as { id, title, text, url, metadata }: `text` is the readable content (Markdown) and `url` the canonical public page to cite.

Companion of `search` in the OpenAI Deep Research contract, over the UNESCO UIS statistics (≈5,000 indicators: education — enrolment, completion, literacy, teachers, spending, SDG 4 —, science/R&D (SDG 9.5), culture (SDG 11.4) and demographic context) catalog. Only ids returned by `search` are valid; an unknown id returns an error.
The `uis_*` tools remain the tools for data queries.

Behavior: read-only and idempotent — a live GET against the public source when the document needs it.

Input parameters:

- `id` (string, required): Identifier of a document returned by `search`

Output parameters:

- `attribution` (array)
- `id` (string): Unique identifier of the document on this server; what `fetch` takes
- `metadata` (object): Additional key/value pairs about the document (kind, source, period…)
- `provenance`
- `text` (string): Full readable content of the document (Markdown)
- `title` (string): Human-readable title of the document
- `url` (string): Canonical public URL of the document — ChatGPT's citation depends on it

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/sidneybissoli-uis-mcp-server/uis-mcp-server#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-09-20: 71
- 2026-09-19: 71
- 2026-09-18: 71
- 2026-09-17: 71

## Common questions

### What is the UNESCO UIS — Education, Science & Culture Statistics… MCP server?

UNESCO UIS — Education, Science & Culture Statistics… is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.SidneyBissoli/uis-mcp-server. UNESCO UIS statistics (education, science, culture) with full provenance and fixed releases. This page covers its npm package (uis-mcp-server).

### Is the UNESCO UIS — Education, Science & Culture Statistics… MCP server safe to use?

UNESCO UIS — Education, Science & Culture Statistics… scores 71 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 20 September 2026. It declares no install or post-install scripts. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the UNESCO UIS — Education, Science & Culture Statistics… MCP server expose?

UNESCO UIS — Education, Science & Culture Statistics… exposes 5 tools: uis_search_indicators, uis_list_geo_units, uis_get_data, search, fetch. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 1,198 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the UNESCO UIS — Education, Science & Culture Statistics… MCP server still maintained?

UNESCO UIS — Education, Science & Culture Statistics… is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 20 September 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

### What licence is the UNESCO UIS — Education, Science & Culture Statistics… MCP server under?

UNESCO UIS — Education, Science & Culture Statistics… declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.

## Links

- npm package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/uis-mcp-server
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/npm/package/uis-mcp-server
- Repository: https://github.com/SidneyBissoli/uis-mcp-server
- Website: https://uis.sidneybissoli.com/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/sidneybissoli-uis-mcp-server/uis-mcp-server.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/sidneybissoli-uis-mcp-server/uis-mcp-server.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/sidneybissoli-uis-mcp-server/uis-mcp-server