io.github.andrewschristison/pondlog

Pondlog Nature Briefing

Is the Pondlog Nature Briefing MCP server down? No. It answered initialize and tools/list in the probe of 2026-10-30.

Seven nature sources in one MCP: iNat, eBird, NOAA, USGS, NPN, Mushroom Observer, night sky.

alive probed 2026-11-15 · unchanged since 2026-10-30

5tools

3.6ktokens in Claude Opus 5.5

1.8 %of Claude's 200k window

1.4×the median server

1.1 sto initialize

10 msto list tools

Run it: npx -y @pondlog/mcp-pondlog@0.4.0 (stdio, probed in a container with the network off)
Host: npmjs.com
Reports itself as: pondlog-mcp-pondlog 0.4.0
Capabilities: tools
Instructions: none
Of a 1M window: 0.4 % of a 1M context window
Count: 3.6k tokens in Claude Opus 5.5, exact, measured 2026-10-16. With the Claude Code prefix mcp__…__ on each tool name: 3.6k. The o200k_base estimate is 2.1k. Counted again when the tool definitions change. Method.
Repository: https://github.com/andrewschristison/pondlog
Registry: active, updated 2026-10-09 · registry entry

Most expensive tools

The Claude column scales the o200k estimate of each tool by this server's ratio of exact to estimate, 1.67×.

Tool	≈ Claude tokens	o200k estimate	Share of this server
get_nature_briefing	1 192	714	33 %
get_nearby_wildlife	676	405	19 %
get_water_conditions	631	378	18 %
get_phenology	564	338	16 %
get_tonight_sky	506	303	14 %

Other registry entries on npmjs.com, the ones next to this name; all of them.

io.github.andretaki/hazmat-cfr-mcp · alive
io.github.andrewbabu/loggly-mcp · alive
MissingLinkz io.github.andrewlamamills-tech/missinglinkz · alive
io.github.andrewnexa-hub/guildbook-mcp · alive
Pondlog eBird io.github.andrewschristison/pondlog-ebird · alive
Pondlog Garden (Deprecated) io.github.andrewschristison/pondlog-garden · crashed on start
Pondlog iNaturalist io.github.andrewschristison/pondlog-inaturalist · alive
Pondlog Mushroom Observer io.github.andrewschristison/pondlog-mushroomobserver · alive

Servers that mention pondlog or briefing or nature.

Pondlog USGS Water io.github.andrewschristison/pondlog-usgs · alive
Pondlog Phenology (USA-NPN) io.github.andrewschristison/pondlog-npn · alive
Agentic News ai.agentic-news/mcp · needs auth
AI-Portal Enterprise GenAI Briefing ai.ai-portal/ai-portal · alive
Drone Intelligence ai.droneintelligence/drone-intelligence · alive
SACS.ai MCP — California School District Financial Data ai.sacs/sacs-mcp · alive
Human for AI ai.yourhuman/human-for-ai · alive
SignSimple app.signsimple/signsimple · alive

The result of the latest probe, the tool count and the token cost. The feed has an entry for every probe that changed them.

Stops answering, comes back, tool set or cost changes. One confirmation mail first, a stop link in every mail.