signal
**The adaptive health-messaging engine for apps and agents — federally-sourced, audience-safe facts, lists & tips, keyless to try.** Call `lookup_health_fact` from any MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, the OpenAI Agents SDK) with no API key and no signup, and get a CDC/NIH/USPSTF/SAMHSA-sourced fact, list, or tip with its source link. The full Signal API — sequenced cued-message streams over a 16,500+ library of federally-sourced facts, lists & tips that advance on each patient's response, each with a receptivity score + audience-safety verdict — is a free sandbox key away. Display-mode, no PHI. Not medical advice. Try it → https://uphealth.us/signal/try
How to connect
https://signal--uphealth.run.tools
tools/list returns the expected tools before relying on them in production.Tools
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lookup_health_factZero setup — NO key required. Returns ONE already-public federal health fact, list, or tip for a question or topic (e.g. "high blood pressure", "sleep", "type 2 diabetes"), with its federal source (CDC / MedlinePlus / NIH) and a link to the public uphealth.me page. Free + rate-limited. For adaptive, patient-specific message sequencing — receptivity-scored cues + audience-safety verdicts over the full library of federally-sourced facts, lists & tips — get a free Discovery key at https://uphealth.
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create_patient_streamCreate a Signal cued stream for one patient and get the first cue back synchronously. Every cue is federally-sourced, audience-safety-checked, and sequenced on the patient's prior response — so your agent never fabricates health content. Choose a template_id from the signal://catalog resource and pre-satisfy its required audience_tags + patient_context (clinical templates 422 without them). Display mode renders in your app: no PHI, no BAA. Each later cue MUST submit the prior message's feedback
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get_next_cued_messageSubmit the patient's response to the prior cue and get the next one — federally-sourced, audience-safety-checked, and re-sequenced on that feedback. REFUSES WITHOUT PRIOR-MESSAGE FEEDBACK (the moat): the engine will not advance a stream blind, returning 409 if you skip it. response_action is one of the accepted cue vocabulary (see the signal://catalog resource). Same idempotency_key + same feedback returns the cached cue; conflicting feedback under the same key returns 409.
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read_stream_stateRead a stream's current state, its current cued message, and event count. Read-only — does NOT advance the stream or consume a cue. Use it between feedback turns to inspect where a patient is in their federally-sourced, audience-safety-checked sequence.
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list_sandbox_topicsList the curated sandbox topic labels that define the free Discovery corpus — every topic federally-sourced and audience-safety-checked. Use it to preview what content domains exist before creating a stream. Does NOT enumerate messages — the corpus stays internal. For the full live template catalog + gating contract, read the signal://catalog resource.