# `us.govtube/govtube` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/us.govtube/govtube
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/us.govtube/govtube
- Version: 0.1.0 (active)
- Publisher: us.govtube (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T18:55:44.960Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
GovTube
Search what U.S. officials said on camera, with timestamps and citations. Not a government site.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T19:21:44.832Z over streamable-http.

**7 tools: 7 only read.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 0 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 0 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 7 | allow |

## Findings

No check matched anything in these tool definitions.


## Only reads (7)

Looks things up and changes nothing. Claude Code: allow.

### `govtube_get_coverage`

- The name "govtube_get_coverage" says "get": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Totals for the whole index, video and official transcripts counted apart: video sessions, hours and
        words transcribed; official transcripts (text, no timing); each source; date ranges, last update, items
        awaiting review and known gaps. Cite this with any count. For the list of sessions use
        govtube_list_sessions.
```

### `govtube_get_transcript_window`

- The name "govtube_get_transcript_window" says "get": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Return speaker turns overlapping [start_ms, end_ms] with their text, for checking context.

        A turn with cluster null and speaker "No speaker label" holds words no voice was found for. The words are as
        heard; don't attribute them to a neighbouring speaker.

        Not available for official transcripts without timing (timing_granularity "document"): read those at the
        result's document_url, or resolve the citation for the surrounding turns.
```

### `govtube_get_video`

- The name "govtube_get_video" says "get": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Metadata, speakers, playback asset and the rights and use restrictions of the video's source.
```

### `govtube_list_sessions`

- The name "govtube_list_sessions" says "list": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Every indexed item, one page at a time: video sessions and official transcripts (White House transcripts,
        Congressional Record speeches, one item per speech). Newest first; on the same day, video sessions before
        official transcripts. Each has title, date, source, length, words, whether it plays, and how many speakers
        are confirmed. `total` matches govtube_get_coverage's counts for the same source.
```

### `govtube_list_video_instances`

- The name "govtube_list_video_instances" says "list": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Page through one video's matches by passage, in time order.

        A passage is a run of instances whose excerpts overlap, shown as one quote. `offset` and `limit` count
        passages; `next_offset` is null on the last page. `passage_count` and `instance_count` cover the whole
        video. With detail="full", `instances` also lists every instance of the page one by one.
        
```

### `govtube_resolve_citation`

- The name "govtube_resolve_citation" says "resolve": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Check that a cited instance still says the quoted words after corrections, and return its context.

        The result has a share_url to link. gd2./gd1. ids cite words in an official transcript: the result has
        positions instead of times, citation_text to paste, document_highlight_url, and `certifies` saying what is
        (and is not) certified.
```

### `govtube_search_instances`

- The name "govtube_search_instances" says "search": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Find spoken instances of words or a phrase across official videos and White House transcripts.

        Returns one small page: counts for the whole result, then up to 5 videos (newest first, or most instances
        first with sort="most_instances"), each with up to 3 passages (quotes; overlapping instances merged), each
        passage listing its instances with citation id and share_url. `notes` and `more_passages` say what else
        there is: use `next_cursor` for more videos, govtube_list_video_instances for the rest of one video, and
        detail="full" for larger pages. White House transcripts have no timing (`timing_granularity` "document",
        null times, a `position` and a `document_url`).
        
```

## Claude Code permissions

For `.claude/settings.json`, assuming the server is installed as `govtube`:

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__govtube__govtube_search_instances",
      "mcp__govtube__govtube_list_video_instances",
      "mcp__govtube__govtube_get_transcript_window",
      "mcp__govtube__govtube_get_video",
      "mcp__govtube__govtube_resolve_citation",
      "mcp__govtube__govtube_get_coverage",
      "mcp__govtube__govtube_list_sessions"
    ],
    "ask": [],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```