# AQICN Air Quality

> Use this tool when you need to retrieve real-time air quality data for environmental monitoring, public health, or urban planning applications. It provides a standardized interface for accessing global air quality metrics by city name or coordinates, and offers tools for searching monitoring stations. The AQICN Air Quality tool accepts location-based inputs and returns up-to-date air quality information, enabling AI assistants to incorporate environmental data into their decision-making processes.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/mattmarcin-aqicn-air-quality  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/mattmarcin-aqicn-air-quality

## Description

This MCP server, developed by mattmarcin, provides integration with the World Air Quality Index (AQICN) API for retrieving real-time air quality data. Built with Python and leveraging libraries like FastMCP and Pydantic, it offers tools for querying air quality information by city name or coordinates, as well as searching for monitoring stations. The implementation focuses on providing a standardized interface for accessing global air quality metrics, enabling AI assistants to incorporate up-to-date environmental data into their responses. It's particularly useful for applications in environmental monitoring, public health, and urban planning, allowing for easy integration of air quality considerations into AI-driven decision-making processes without requiring direct interaction with the AQICN API.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.50
- **Verification tier:** unverified

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** monitoring
- **Updated:** 2026-04-25

## Source

- **Source listing:** [PulseMCP](https://www.pulsemcp.com/servers/mattmarcin-aqicn-air-quality)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/mattmarcin/aqicn-mcp>

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "mattmarcin-aqicn-air-quality"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/mattmarcin-aqicn-air-quality` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/mattmarcin-aqicn-air-quality/pull`

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