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UNESCO UIS Education Statistics MCP

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

Read only

5 tools: 5 only read.

Scanned Oct 21, 2026

No check matched anything in the tool definitions. No finding is not a safety guarantee. How the checks work.

claude mcp add --transport http uis https://uis.sidneybissoli.com/mcp

Tools

Open a tool for its reasons and full description. Descriptions are the publisher's own words, shown as they are.

5 tools

Only reads 5Claude Code: allow
  • fetchReturns 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 …No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "fetch" says "fetch": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    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.

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • destructiveHint: false
    • idempotentHint: true
    • openWorldHint: true
  • uis_get_dataStatistical 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) …No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "uis_get_data" says "get": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    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. A code that does not exist is an error carrying the UIS API's own wording, never an empty result: zero rows means the codes are real and the selection has no data, and the hint then relays what the UIS reported (including the indicator's available year range). When only SOME of the requested codes exist, the matching rows are returned with `warnings` naming the rest. Values are those of the release named in data_vintage: a new UIS release can revise past years. On a record, `magnitude` says what the value shown means (e.g. NA = not applicable, shown as 0; SUPP = withheld, blank) and `qualifier` says how it was obtained (national or UIS estimate); the provenance notices count them in plain words; both are null when the UIS publishes no flag. The UIS publishes no unit field: the unit usually closes the indicator name in parentheses ("(%)", "(number)", "(years)"), but not always — a parenthesis can also name a parity index (GPIA), an estimate type or an education level, and some names have none.

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • destructiveHint: false
    • idempotentHint: true
    • openWorldHint: true
  • uis_list_geo_unitsValid geographic codes for uis_get_data: 462 geo units — countries (NATIONAL, ISO alpha-3 codes like BRA) and regional aggregates (REGIONAL).No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "uis_list_geo_units" says "list": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    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.

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • destructiveHint: false
    • idempotentHint: true
    • openWorldHint: false
  • uis_search_indicatorsSearch 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…No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "uis_search_indicators" says "search": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    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.

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • destructiveHint: false
    • idempotentHint: true
    • openWorldHint: false

This is not a safety rating, and no finding is not a safety guarantee. The groups and findings come from fixed checks of the tool definitions the server returned on the date shown, not from its code or what it does when called. How the checks work.

Install

Pinned to version 1.8.0. Values in angle brackets are yours to fill in.

claude mcp add --transport http uis https://uis.sidneybissoli.com/mcp

Run in a terminal.

Claude Code permissions

Allow the reads, ask before a change, deny the deletes. Paste into .claude/settings.json.

.claude/settings.json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__uis__uis_search_indicators",
      "mcp__uis__uis_list_geo_units",
      "mcp__uis__uis_get_data",
      "mcp__uis__search",
      "mcp__uis__fetch"
    ],
    "ask": [],
    "deny": []
  }
}

Tools that only read are allowed, tools that change things ask first, tools that delete or cancel are denied. It assumes the server is installed as uis. Review it before you use it.