Nobel Prizes Skill

The tool

Let your agent look up Nobel laureates. Call it as an MCP tool to search winners by name, category and year with their citations.

Once your client is connected to the VerveKit MCP server, this appears in its tool list as NobelPrizesSkill. It is read-only and open-world: it fetches, it never mutates anything on your side, so most clients will call it without asking you to confirm.

{
  "name": "NobelPrizesSkill",
  "arguments": {}
}

Connecting

One server URL covers every skill in the catalog, including this one. Authorization is OAuth — the client opens a browser once and there is no key to paste into a config file.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vervekit": {
      "url": "https://api.vervekit.com/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}

https://api.vervekit.com/v1/mcp

Per-client setup — Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, ChatGPT — is on the MCP setup page.

Arguments

These are the properties on the tool's inputSchema, so a well-behaved client validates them before the call is made.

What the model gets back

The result carries a structuredContent object matching the tool's declared outputSchema, so a client can read fields without parsing prose. status is "ok" on success and error is null; a null field means the value wasn't available for that input, not that the call failed.

{
  "status": "ok",
  "error": null,
  "data": {
    "count": 1,
    "filteredOn": [
      "firstName",
      "lastName",
      "category",
      "year"
    ],
    "nobelPrizes": [
      {
        "firstName": "Albert",
        "lastName": "Einstein",
        "born": "1879-03-14",
        "died": "1955-04-18",
        "countryborn": "Germany",
        "countrybornCode": "DE",
        "born city": "Ulm",
        "diedCountry": "USA",
        "diedCountryCode": "US",
        "diedCity": "Princeton NJ",
        "gender": "male",
        "year": "1921",
        "category": "Physics",
        "motivation": "for his services to Theoretical Physics and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect",
        "organization": "Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut (now Max-Planck-Institut) für Physik",
        "organizationCity": "Berlin",
        "organizationCountry": "Germany"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Fields

Failure modes

Errors come back as tool errors with a sentence the model can act on, not a bare status code.

Other ways to use Nobel Prizes Skill

Set up Nobel Prizes Skill on VerveKit, or reach the same source a different way. Your VerveKit account and credits work on all of them — one key, one balance.

Frequently asked questions