Open Emirates Intelligence

Official UAE open data, as MCP tools any agent can call — hosted or self-hosted.

A standalone MCP server that gives any MCP client (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor) source-cited access to official UAE open data — with direct-contact PII redacted, every server-side fetch SSRF-guarded, and both stdio and HTTP transports in one package.

It is self-contained: no dependency on any private or sibling service. Ships in two flavors at feature parity — a Python implementation (this directory) and a TypeScript / npm port (ts/), published as uaemcp (v0.2.0). Both expose the same 11 MCP tools, resources, and prompts.

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Two ways to use it

Open source under the MIT license — use the instance we host, or run your own.

1. Use our hosted instance — zero setup

A public instance is live at https://uaemcp.zad.tools. Point any MCP client at its endpoint — nothing to install:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "uae-intelligence": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://uaemcp.zad.tools/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Or just open the dashboard: https://uaemcp.zad.tools

2. Self-host it — run your own, anywhere

• npm, no install: npx uaemcp (stdio) · npx uaemcp http (HTTP at /mcp)
• Docker: docker build -t uaemcp . && docker run -p 8080:8080 uaemcp uaemcp http
• From source: clone this repo (Python below, or the TypeScript port in ts/)

Self-hosting gives you full control: add your own sources, set a write token, and keep every fetch on your own infrastructure.

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Quickstart

Fastest — via npm (no install)

npx uaemcp            # stdio MCP server
npx uaemcp http       # Streamable-HTTP server at /mcp

Latest release: v0.2.0 — published to npm with provenance via GitHub Actions OIDC (no tokens). npx uaemcp always fetches it.

Local (stdio) — for an MCP client

The published npm package is the easiest way to run it in a client:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "uae-intelligence": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "uaemcp"] }
  }
}

To run the Python implementation from source instead:

pip install -e .
uaemcp stdio

Remote (HTTP) — landing page + REST + MCP endpoint

uaemcp http --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8080

• Landing page: http://localhost:8080/
• REST API: http://localhost:8080/api/v1/... — full API reference → APIs.md
• MCP (Streamable): http://localhost:8080/mcp
• Observability: /health · /ready · /metrics (Prometheus) — plus cheap /healthz, /readyz

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Showcase

The hosted dashboard is bilingual (EN / العربية) and styled with the official Dubai Font:

Interactive API docs — Dubai-Font-themed Swagger UI at /docs:

Tools

Tool	Kind	Description
uae_sources_list	read	List every registered official source
uae_source_get	read	Full metadata for one source
uae_source_health	read	Live, timeout-bounded health probe
uae_source_datasets	read	Discover datasets inside a portal (CKAN/ODS/ArcGIS)
uae_source_records	read	Live, redacted, cited records (per dataset)
uae_search	read	Federated bilingual search across the catalog
uae_source_geo	read	Spatially-filtered records as GeoJSON (maps)
uae_source_aggregate	read	group_by + count/sum/avg/min/max
uae_market_snapshot	read	Counts by emirate / area / product
uae_dashboard_summary	read	Concurrent, cached health across all sources
uae_source_add_metadata	write	Add a metadata source (token required)

Every data-returning tool wraps results in { ok, data, error, meta } and attaches source_id, license, citation, fetched_at, and a data_quality { confidence, warnings, validation } block. Multi-dataset portals expose their datasets via uae_source_datasets; pass a returned id as the dataset argument to uae_source_records.

Source status (honest by design)

32 official sources are registered. Data is never fabricated — each source is typed by what it can actually return:

• Live records, no key: MOIAT industrial licenses (http_json) and Ajman (ods, 211 datasets). Any ArcGIS FeatureServer you wire works too.
• Key-gated official APIs (requires_api_key): Dubai Pulse / DLD real-estate transactions, Abu Dhabi Open Data — supply a developer key to enable them.
• Metadata / discovery-only: everything else — a portal with no reachable machine API returns an actionable error, not empty-looking success.

Usage examples

Ask your MCP client (natural language)

Once connected, just ask — the client picks the right tool:

• "List UAE industrial factories licensed in Abu Dhabi." → uae_source_records
• "Find official UAE datasets about real estate." → uae_search
• "Map licensed factories within 60 km of Abu Dhabi." → uae_source_geo
• "Break down industrial licenses by emirate." → uae_source_aggregate
• "Which official UAE open-data sources can you access?" → uae_sources_list
• "Is the Dubai Land Department data source up right now?" → uae_source_health

Call a tool over HTTP (Streamable-HTTP MCP)

# initialize → grab the mcp-session-id header, then call tools/list, tools/call
curl -s -X POST https://uaemcp.zad.tools/mcp/ \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'Accept: application/json, text/event-stream' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call",
       "params":{"name":"uae_market_snapshot","arguments":{"topic":"industry","limit":50}}}'

Or hit the REST mirror directly

# 32 registered sources
curl -s https://uaemcp.zad.tools/api/v1/sources | jq '.meta.total'

# live, PII-redacted records from the MOIAT industrial-licenses API
curl -s 'https://uaemcp.zad.tools/api/v1/sources/moiat_industrial_licenses/records?limit=2'

# discover datasets in a multi-dataset portal (Ajman = OpenDataSoft, 211 datasets)
curl -s 'https://uaemcp.zad.tools/api/v1/sources/ajman_data_portal/datasets?limit=5'

# then fetch live records from one of those datasets
curl -s 'https://uaemcp.zad.tools/api/v1/sources/ajman_data_portal/records?dataset=developed-crossroads&limit=3'

# federated bilingual search (deep = also search live portal datasets)
curl -s 'https://uaemcp.zad.tools/api/v1/search?q=real%20estate&deep=true'

# GeoJSON for map apps — factories within 60 km of Abu Dhabi
curl -s 'https://uaemcp.zad.tools/api/v1/sources/moiat_industrial_licenses/geo?near=24.45,54.37,60'

# aggregate: licensed factories grouped by emirate
curl -s 'https://uaemcp.zad.tools/api/v1/sources/moiat_industrial_licenses/aggregate?group_by=EmirateNameEN'

# export records as csv | geojson | xlsx | json
curl -s -OJ 'https://uaemcp.zad.tools/api/v1/sources/moiat_industrial_licenses/export?format=geojson'

Full parameter tables + real response examples for every endpoint are in the API reference (APIs.md).

// sample record (contact fields are redacted by default)
{
  "CompanyName": "…",
  "EmirateNameEN": "Abu Dhabi",
  "AreaNameEN": "Musaffah Industrial",
  "ContactPhone": "[redacted-open-data-contact]",
  "ContactEmail": "[redacted-open-data-contact]"
}

Interactive API docs (Dubai-Font themed Swagger UI): https://uaemcp.zad.tools/docs

Security model

• Writes gated. Reads are open; mutating tools require UAEMCP_WRITE_TOKEN. No token set → writes are disabled entirely (safe default).
• SSRF guard. Every fetch resolves the host and rejects private, loopback, link-local, and cloud-metadata addresses. See core/ssrf.py.
• PII redaction. Phone/email fields are redacted by name and by value pattern before any record leaves the server.
• Bounded fetches. Browser-like User-Agent (so bot-mitigated portals don't hang), strict timeouts, capped redirects and response size.

Design notes — what this fixes vs. the prior version

• No auth on writes → token-gated writes, disabled by default.
• SSRF surface → mandatory validate_url on every egress.
• stdio-only → real remote MCP at /mcp.
• dashboard-summary stall → checks run concurrently with a strict per-source timeout and a browser UA, served from cache, with DNS resolved off the event loop so the fan-out truly overlaps. Worst case is the slowest single source, not the sum of all.
• Cold-start 502 → /healthz and /readyz do no upstream work.

Development

pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest -m "not network"     # offline unit tests (ssrf, redaction, dashboard)
pytest                      # include live-endpoint integration tests
ruff check . && mypy src

License

MIT. Data served is open government data — verify each source's terms before redistribution.