Metis · News Radar — Update Today Board
update_today_boardFills a Today board (outbreaks, events, or funding) with web-found items, preserving manual entries and re-routing misfiled items to the correct board.
Instructions
Fill a Today-surface board (Outbreaks, Events or Funding) with items you found on the web.
Use this after web-searching for the researcher's field. The Outbreaks board is
modelled on WHO's Disease Outbreak News: the handful of outbreaks that MATTER
right now, each with a location and a date — not a mirror of any one
publisher's feed. (WHO retired the DON RSS feed; the page is the reference,
and ECDC's Communicable Disease Threats Report covers the gap.) The Events
board holds upcoming scientific congresses/conferences/symposia; the Funding
board holds open or upcoming research funding calls, grants and fellowships.
All three are curated — no RSS feed writes to them — so this tool is how
Claude Desktop (on the user's subscription, no API
rate limit) keeps them current — the dashboard's "Update" buttons open
a chat that calls this tool.
Replaces the previously tool-filled rows on that board; items the user curated or
added by hand are preserved.
EVERY ITEM IS CHECKED AGAINST THE BOARD IT CLAIMS. A congress or a committee
session sent to Outbreaks is filed under Events instead; a call for proposals
goes to Funding; a newsletter, bulletin, quarterly report or declaration
belongs on no board and is recorded as turned away, with the reason, rather
than silently dropped. So the saved count may be lower than the number of
items passed, and some may appear on a different board — the return value
says how many of each.
Args:
board: "outbreaks", "events" or "funding".
items: list of objects, each {"title": str, "url": str, "date": str (optional,
event date or application deadline), "description": str (optional, one short
sentence)}. Only include real items with a working http(s) URL.
Returns:
dict: {ok, board, saved, re_routed, not_a_board_item} on success, or
{ok: False, error} on failure.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| board | Yes | ||
| items | Yes |