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Natural Gas Prices API v1

Generated from core.contract.describe_natural_gas_prices_v1() and checked fixture-backed examples. Do not hand-edit the example JSON files.

Capability

What It Can Answer

Represented Facts

Data Point Contract

Does not answer:

REST Surface

MCP Surface

Local MCP Setup

Some MCP clients launch servers from the user's home directory or ignore a configured cwd. Use uv run --directory so the server always starts from the repository project.

{
  "command": "uv",
  "args": [
    "run",
    "--directory",
    "/absolute/path/to/OSINT",
    "python",
    "-m",
    "core.mcp_server"
  ]
}

Leave EXASCALE_PARQUET_BASE / EXASCALE_RAW_BASE unset: the one server hosts every data point's tools, and with no override it resolves each block's promoted snapshots and raw archive from the repository layout. Setting either env var points ALL tools at one directory — a per-block path breaks every other block's tools. They exist only for single-source sandboxes and tests.

Request Schema

Filters:

Group by:

Date range parameters:

Controls:

Ranking (how order_by / top_n / order join — order_by ranks groups by a metric, never a group_by dimension; top_n needs both a group_by and an order_by):

{
  "no_ranking": "Omit order_by and top_n to return all groups in group-key order.",
  "order": {
    "default": "desc",
    "valid_values": [
      "desc",
      "asc"
    ]
  },
  "order_by": {
    "accepts": "one of output.metrics",
    "note": "Ranks the groups by a metric (a measure). Not a group_by dimension \u2014 rows already come back grouped by each group_by field.",
    "requires": [
      "group_by"
    ],
    "valid_values": [
      "avg_price",
      "min_price",
      "max_price",
      "reported_price_count",
      "missing_price_count",
      "source_record_count"
    ]
  },
  "top_n": {
    "note": "Keeps the top N groups by order_by; the rest fold into one (other) remainder (additive metrics sum into it, non-additive ones are nulled) so the result still reconciles to summary.totals.",
    "requires": [
      "group_by",
      "order_by"
    ],
    "type": "positive integer"
  }
}

Output Schema

Aggregate metrics:

Metric groups:

{
  "price": [
    "avg_price",
    "min_price",
    "max_price"
  ],
  "records": [
    "reported_price_count",
    "missing_price_count",
    "source_record_count"
  ]
}

Response summary fields:

Accepted fact policy:

Metric metadata:

Metric Category Unit Aggregation Additive Across Groups Authoritative Total Definition
avg_price price source physical unit average false summary.totals.avg_price Average, minimum, or maximum EIA price within a single-unit result scope. Mixed $/MMBtu and $/Mcf scopes return null.
min_price price source physical unit minimum false summary.totals.min_price Average, minimum, or maximum EIA price within a single-unit result scope. Mixed $/MMBtu and $/Mcf scopes return null.
max_price price source physical unit maximum false summary.totals.max_price Average, minimum, or maximum EIA price within a single-unit result scope. Mixed $/MMBtu and $/Mcf scopes return null.
reported_price_count records count conditional count true summary.totals.reported_price_count Count of EIA records with a numeric value.
missing_price_count records count conditional count true summary.totals.missing_price_count Count of EIA records whose source value is null.
source_record_count records count count source records true summary.totals.source_record_count Count of EIA series-period records in scope.

Rollup rules:

Detail record fields returned when include_records is true:

Row-level citation fields:

Aggregate citation fields:

Codebooks

Field Coverage Codes Examples Note

The complete machine-readable codebooks are included in capability-schema.json.

Checked Examples

Agent question Request params Checked output
What was the daily Henry Hub spot price over the latest requested window? {"atom": "henry_hub_daily_spot", "date_from": "2026-07-22", "date_to": "2026-07-24", "group_by": ["date"]} henry-hub-daily.json
What average natural-gas price did the Texas electric-power sector pay by month? {"atom": "state_electric_power_monthly", "group_by": ["date"], "state": "TX"} texas-electric-power-monthly.json
Which state-month electric-power prices are explicitly unavailable? {"atom": "state_electric_power_monthly", "include_records": true, "price_status": "source_missing"} explicit-missing-state-month.json
Return one Texas state-month price with exact archived API-record evidence. {"atom": "state_electric_power_monthly", "include_records": true, "limit": 1, "month": "2026-04-01", "state": "TX"} gas-price-detail-with-citation.json
Verify the raw workbook row behind a returned citation citations[ref].verify (aggregate) or records[0].citation (detail) source-row-evidence.json
Dogfood the tool sequence as an agent list -> describe -> query -> evidence agent-dogfood-transcript.json

The checked schema output is capability-schema.json.

Agent Workflow

  1. Call list_capabilities_v1 and select natural_gas.prices.
  2. Call describe_natural_gas_prices_v1 to inspect valid filters, groupings, metrics, and citation fields.
  3. Call query_natural_gas_prices_v1 with bounded JSON params.
  4. If the answer needs proof, pass a returned row-level citation object to get_source_evidence_v1.
  5. Answer with the resolved as_of and relevant citations. Present returned metrics as authoritative for their declared source, snapshot, grain, and aggregation.
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