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   "date": "2026-09-14",
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   "tier": "declared"
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   "tier": "declared"
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   "date": "2026-09-14",
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   "date": "2026-09-14",
   "fact": "modalities.api.auth[0]",
   "note": "wolframscript documents -auth/-authenticate with Wolfram ID and password for cloud operations.",
   "source": "https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/program/wolframscript.html",
   "tier": "declared"
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   "date": "2026-09-14",
   "fact": "modalities.api.auth[1]",
   "note": "Cloud objects accept PermissionsKey[\"key\"] as a documented access control, alongside Public, Private, and Authenticated.",
   "source": "https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Permissions.html",
   "tier": "declared"
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   "date": "2026-09-14",
   "fact": "modalities.api.coverage",
   "note": "HTTP APIs are user-deployed functions, not a product-wide Mathematica admin API.",
   "source": "https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/APIFunction.html",
   "tier": "declared"
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   "date": "2026-09-14",
   "fact": "modalities.sdk.exists",
   "note": "Wolfram Engine documentation lists official Python wolframclient and C/C++ WSTP interfaces.",
   "source": "https://www.wolfram.com/engine/",
   "tier": "declared"
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   "date": "2026-09-14",
   "fact": "modalities.sdk.languages[0]",
   "note": "Official Python client is documented for the Engine runtime used with Local MCP.",
   "source": "https://www.wolfram.com/engine/",
   "tier": "declared"
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   "date": "2026-09-14",
   "fact": "modalities.sdk.languages[1]",
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   "tier": "declared"
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   "date": "2026-09-14",
   "fact": "modalities.mcp.first_party",
   "note": "Wolfram's agent guide documents hosted Cloud MCP at https://agenttools.wolfram.com/mcp and Local MCP via PacletInstall[\"Wolfram/AgentTools\"] and InstallMCPServer.",
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   "tier": "declared"
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   "date": "2026-09-14",
   "fact": "modalities.mcp.verdict",
   "note": "Wolfram documents Wolfram Cloud MCP as its hosted MCP product and distinguishes it from Wolfram Local MCP for installed Mathematica, Wolfram|One, or Engine.",
   "source": "https://www.wolfram.com/artificial-intelligence/mcp/cloud/",
   "tier": "declared"
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   "date": "2026-09-14",
   "fact": "modalities.cli.exists",
   "note": "wolframscript runs Wolfram Language locally, in the cloud, or against deployed APIs, including Wolfram 15 kernel examples.",
   "source": "https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/program/wolframscript.html",
   "tier": "declared"
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   "date": "2026-09-14",
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   "note": "Opened Wolfram's first-party agent guide with tool list, Cloud MCP URL, and Local MCP install commands.",
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   "date": "2026-09-14",
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   "date": "2026-09-14",
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   "date": "2026-09-14",
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   "tier": "declared"
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   "date": "2026-09-14",
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   "note": "Opened the Wolfram Cloud MCP page.",
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   "date": "2026-09-14",
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    "permissions-key"
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   "exists": true,
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   "import": []
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    "custom-mcp-servers"
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   "webhooks": "unknown"
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   "n8n": "unknown",
   "power_automate": "unknown",
   "zapier": "unknown"
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    "desktop-native"
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    "python",
    "cpp"
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  "windows",
  "macos",
  "linux",
  "web"
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   "matlab"
  ],
  "our_products": []
 },
 "schema_version": 1,
 "score_version": 1,
 "status": "active",
 "vendor": "Wolfram Research",
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   "cli": 7,
   "computer_use": null,
   "integrations": null,
   "mcp": 7,
   "overall": 7,
   "rpa": null
  },
  "summary": "Wolfram Mathematica is automatable today through first-party MCP. This record is the Mathematica / Wolfram Language product, including Local MCP built into Version 15 of Mathematica or Wolfram|One and hosted Cloud MCP. It is not MATLAB and not standalone Wolfram|Alpha website use. Cloud MCP is at https://agenttools.wolfram.com/mcp and is documented as a free limited remote service for clients that do not have a local Wolfram product. Local MCP requires Mathematica, Wolfram|One, or a licensed Wolfram Engine and can evaluate Wolfram Language, query Wolfram|Alpha, read and write notebooks, and install into Claude, Cursor, and other clients via InstallMCPServer. wolframscript is the official CLI for local, cloud, and deployed API evaluation, with -authenticate and -permissionskey. HTTP APIs exist as CloudDeploy[APIFunction[...]] endpoints, not as a desktop-control REST admin API. Official Python and C/C++ WSTP clients are documented on the Engine page. Computer-use viability is unassessed. MCP and CLI both score 7; MCP is the best path because Cloud MCP is the lowest-friction agent connector and Local MCP is built into Version 15.\n"
 }
}