search_sources
Find curated water, environment, terrain and civil engineering source summaries as the recommended starting point for discovery. Understands UK place names and water/civils synonyms; location_hints provide approximate coordinates for live station tools. Unmatched queries return suggestions with a note. Returns paginated summaries (default 20, maximum 50); use get_source for full evidence and enrichment. Query also matches use cases and audience; use_case and audience filters match case-insensitive substrings. Returns separate sponsored and organic arrays plus organic pagination; sponsored placements are pinned and explicitly flagged, and may include coming-soon placeholders. Region includes global sources. TerraMCP is a Wrench AI service. Discovery needs no API key or signup. Open-data router anonymous limits: 60 calls/hour and 300/day per IP and session.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| kind | No | Source kind to include. | |
| sort | No | Default discovery for browsing; Discover keeps text queries ranked by relevance. Quality and Newest explicitly override relevance. | |
| limit | No | Maximum organic summaries per page; default 20, maximum 50. | |
| query | No | Plain-language source or evidence query; empty to browse. Place hints are approximate, not confirmed site coordinates. | |
| offset | No | Number of organic results to skip for pagination. | |
| region | No | Region filter; global sources are also included. | |
| audience | No | Case-insensitive substring of the intended audience. | |
| category | No | Category slug from list_categories. | |
| official | No | Include (default), exclude, or show only government / regulator publishers. | |
| use_case | No | Case-insensitive substring of the source use cases. | |
| live_only | No | Only sources queryable through TerraMCP router tools; sponsored placements remain separately labelled. | |
| min_score | No | Minimum evidence-quality score from 0 to 100. |