# UNESCO UIS — Education, Science & Culture Statistics (provenance-first) (remote · uis.sidneybissoli.com)

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

- Trust score: 86/100 (high trust)
- Change this week: 0
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-09-20

## Components

- remote · `uis.sidneybissoli.com`: 86/100 (this document), [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, [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

- Endpoint: `https://uis.sidneybissoli.com/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `0.4.0`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, 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.

- **Endpoint Security**: 74/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **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**: 100/100
  - No destabilizing schema changes in the last 30 days.
- **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 current MCP spec version (2026-07-28).

## Install

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

UNESCO UIS — Education, Science & Culture Statistics… is a hosted endpoint at https://uis.sidneybissoli.com/mcp, so there is nothing to install locally. 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 --transport http sidneybissoli-uis-mcp-server 'https://uis.sidneybissoli.com/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sidneybissoli-uis-mcp-server": {
      "url": "https://uis.sidneybissoli.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "sidneybissoli-uis-mcp-server": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://uis.sidneybissoli.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.sidneybissoli-uis-mcp-server]
url = "https://uis.sidneybissoli.com/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "sidneybissoli-uis-mcp-server": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://uis.sidneybissoli.com/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add sidneybissoli-uis-mcp-server --url 'https://uis.sidneybissoli.com/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  sidneybissoli-uis-mcp-server:
    url: "https://uis.sidneybissoli.com/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "sidneybissoli-uis-mcp-server": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://uis.sidneybissoli.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add sidneybissoli-uis-mcp-server -t streamable-http -u 'https://uis.sidneybissoli.com/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sidneybissoli-uis-mcp-server": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://uis.sidneybissoli.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## 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 86, 0)

- [security] The server rewrote its instructions, which are the text every model session reads
- [security] Tool “uis_search_indicators” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [functional regression] Schema quality: 179 → 197
- [functional] Server version: 0.3.1 → 0.4.0
- [functional] Server version: 0.2.0 → 0.3.1
- [cosmetic] “uis_search_indicators” reworded the description of “query”

### 2026-09-07 (score 86, 0)

- [security] Stability: 0.97 → pass

### 2026-09-06 (score 86, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 93 to 97. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 28 days of observed history at the previous scan, 29 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-04 (score 85, +1)

- [security] The server rewrote its instructions, which are the text every model session reads
- [functional regression] Schema quality: 161 → 179
- [functional] Server version: 0.1.0 → 0.2.0
- [functional] New tool “search”
- [functional] New tool “fetch”

### 2026-09-03 (score 84, +5)

- [security improvement] HTTPS: unverified → pass

### 2026-08-31 (score 79, +4)

- [functional improvement] Schema quality: 265 → 161
- [functional] The server now declares the “resources” capability
- [functional] First check of Schema quality: 100
- [functional] New resource “uis-guide”
- [functional] New resource “uis-key-indicators”
- [functional] New resource “uis-provenance”

### 2026-08-29 (score 75, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 67 to 70. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 20 days of observed history at the previous scan, 21 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-08-27 (score 74, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 60 to 63. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 18 days of observed history at the previous scan, 19 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

## 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: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/sidneybissoli-uis-mcp-server/uis#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-09-20: 86
- 2026-09-19: 86
- 2026-09-18: 86
- 2026-09-17: 86
- 2026-09-16: 86
- 2026-09-15: 86
- 2026-09-14: 86
- 2026-09-13: 86
- 2026-09-12: 86
- 2026-09-11: 86
- 2026-09-10: 86
- 2026-09-09: 86
- 2026-09-08: 86
- 2026-09-07: 86
- 2026-09-06: 86
- 2026-09-05: 85
- 2026-09-04: 85
- 2026-09-03: 84
- 2026-09-02: 79
- 2026-09-01: 79
- 2026-08-31: 79
- 2026-08-30: 75
- 2026-08-29: 75
- 2026-08-28: 74
- 2026-08-27: 74
- 2026-08-26: 73
- 2026-08-25: 72
- 2026-08-24: 71
- 2026-08-23: 71
- 2026-08-22: 70

## 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 hosted endpoint (https://uis.sidneybissoli.com/mcp).

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

UNESCO UIS — Education, Science & Culture Statistics… scores 86 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. 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.

### Does the UNESCO UIS — Education, Science & Culture Statistics… MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to UNESCO UIS — Education, Science & Culture Statistics… without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### 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.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://uis.sidneybissoli.com/mcp
- 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.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/sidneybissoli-uis-mcp-server/uis.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/sidneybissoli-uis-mcp-server/uis