🐦 WingIt-MCP

An MCP server that helps birders wing it — generating personalized target checklists for new lifers.

WingIt-MCP is a Go-based Model Context Protocol server that combines your personal eBird checklists with recent community sightings to recommend nearby species you’ve never seen — your next lifers — in a ready-to-use field checklist.

WingIt-MCP is written in idiomatic Go and implements the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to make its tools and resources discoverable to AI hosts like Claude Desktop.

Roadmap

v0.2.0 – Live eBird data + MCP polish

Planned improvements for the next release:

• Live eBird API support for recent nearby sightings (env-gated)
• Simple caching to reduce API calls and improve demo repeatability
• Clear runtime mode selection:
  • offline fixtures via WINGIT_RECENT_JSON
  • live API via WINGIT_EBIRD_TOKEN
• MCP integration smoke test (tools / prompts / resources)
• Friendlier output formatting (frequency bands: high / medium / low)

Track progress in the GitHub milestone: v0.2.0 – Live eBird data + MCP polish.