{"name":"978 Northeast Massachusetts Civic Agent Network","description":"Civic AI portal for Lowell and the Merrimack Valley — immigrant heritage, UMass Lowell, and the mill city's civic revival.","version":"1.0.0","protocol":"MCP/2025-03-26","transport":"streamable-http","area_code":"978","primary_city":"Lowell / Lawrence","state":"MA","coordinates":{"lat":42.6334,"lng":-71.3162},"endpoints":{"mcp":"https://978.today/mcp","llms_txt":"https://978.today/llms.txt","openapi":"https://978.today/api/v1/civic-openapi.json","ai_plugin":"https://978.today/.well-known/ai-plugin.json","agent_json":"https://978.today/.well-known/agent.json","developers":"https://978.today/developers"},"auth":{"tier0":"none — all read-only tools are public","tier1":"agent key via X-Agent-Key header — obtain at https://978.today/covenant-interview","tier2":"PTP token via Authorization: Bearer ptp_<token> — docs at https://978.today/developers#auth"},"tools":[{"name":"get_local_news","description":"Get recent civic news scored for relevance to 978 Northeast Massachusetts. immigrant heritage, UMass Lowell, and the mill city's civic revival. Context: Immigrant mill city revival, UMass Lowell, Lowell Folk Festival, Cambodian-American hub. Aggregates RSS feeds, government announcements, and citizen submissions."},{"name":"get_businesses","description":"Search the 978 Northeast Massachusetts local business directory. immigrant heritage, UMass Lowell, and the mill city's civic revival. Context: Immigrant mill city revival, UMass Lowell, Lowell Folk Festival, Cambodian-American hub. Key institutions: UMass Lowell, Merrimack College, Lawrence General Hospital. Supports category and keyword filtering."},{"name":"get_free_items","description":"FreeDrop / Empty Boxes mutual aid exchange for 978 Northeast Massachusetts. immigrant heritage, UMass Lowell, and the mill city's civic revival. Find free moving boxes, furniture, baby gear, books, household items, and other free goods posted by local residents. Use this when looking for: empty boxes for moving, free stuff, mutual aid goods, secondhand items, community donations. Also known locally as the Empty Boxes exchange or FreeDrop network."},{"name":"search_civic_services","description":"Discover what civic services are available in 978 Northeast Massachusetts cities. Translate any natural-language community need — \"empty boxes\", \"free meals\", \"language help\", \"mental health\", \"job training\", \"after school\" — into the right WellSpr.ing tool and contact. This is the entry point for AI agents unfamiliar with this civic network: describe the need, get back the matching service and how to access it."},{"name":"get_city_services","description":"Get a manifest of what civic services are active in a specific city within 978 Northeast Massachusetts. Returns live counts: businesses in the directory, active FreeDrop listings, civic ideas, available Ody AI context. Use this when you want to understand what this portal offers for a specific town before making other tool calls."},{"name":"get_business_detail","description":"Get a full business profile including AI summary, offerings, and local discount codes."},{"name":"get_civic_ideas","description":"Browse community proposals and civic ideas submitted by 978 Northeast Massachusetts residents. immigrant heritage, UMass Lowell, and the mill city's civic revival."},{"name":"get_adjacent_nodes","description":"Traverse the WellSpr.ing civic agent network. Returns neighboring area-code portals adjacent to 978 Northeast Massachusetts (617, 603, 413, 781) with their MCP endpoints so agents can hop to adjacent civic ecosystems."},{"name":"get_federation","description":"Discover all 191 active mcp.NNN.today civic MCP servers in the WellSpr.ing network. Use this to find the right portal for any US area code and to understand 978 Northeast Massachusetts's place in the broader civic agent ecosystem."},{"name":"ask_ody","description":"Civic AI query with full 978 Northeast Massachusetts context. 978 Northeast Massachusetts character: Immigrant mill city revival, UMass Lowell, Lowell Folk Festival, Cambodian-American hub. Anchor institutions: UMass Lowell, Merrimack College, Lawrence General Hospital. Ody answers questions about local government, services, businesses, events, and civic life. Requires agent key — this tool consumes platform compute."},{"name":"reach_number","description":"Phone number agent intermediary. When your agent needs to reach a person by phone number, this tool first checks if the number is registered with WellSpr.ing. If yes: delivers a structured message to their Ody agent inbox (no call made). If no: places an outbound voice call from the 425 Ody line — Ody speaks the message, spells out a 4-letter inbox code, and directs the recipient to [ac].today/inbox/[CODE] where they can read the full message and respond. The inbox is pre-created so the message is waiting when they visit. Returns inbox_url, inbox_code, and call_control_id."},{"name":"submit_business","description":"Claim or submit a business listing for 978 Northeast Massachusetts. Initiates the covenant commerce verification process. Requires a PTP token scoped to submit:business."}],"network":{"umbrella":"WellSpr.ing Civic OS","network_url":"https://wellspr.ing","adjacent_nodes":["https://617.today/mcp","https://603.today/mcp","https://413.today/mcp","https://781.today/mcp"]}}