Transport reliability check

A point-in-time snapshot of how services are running now. It cannot show history or trends; it only reports what the live feeds return at the moment of the call. Use commute-weather for a journey plus weather.

Related projects: Ghost Buster (Oliver Moran), Bus Cancellations Dublin (Unknown), No-Show Bus Tracker (Dublin Inquirer), Live Dublin Trains (Jake McDermott), EZ Commute IE (Rituraj Sambherao). Not affiliated; see ../_shared/inspirations.md.

Calling the tools

Steps name each operation as source/operation (e.g. irish-rail/rail_get_departures), using the typed tool name as the operation. On the default surface, run it with ireland_call, for example:

{ "source": "irish-rail", "operation": "rail_get_departures", "args": { "station": "Connolly", "minutes": 60 } }

If an argument shape is unclear, call ireland_describe with { "source", "operation" } first; it returns the schema and an example. search, fetch and nearby are top-level tools. If the server was added with ?toolsets=<ids> or ?toolsets=all, the typed tool can be called directly with the same args.

Steps

1. Rail. Call irish-rail/rail_find_station if the station name is ambiguous, then irish-rail/rail_get_departures with { "station", "minutes": 60 }. Count trains, those with late_min of 5 or more, and the maximum lateness. Note "No Information" statuses separately.
2. Luas. Call luas/luas_get_forecast with { "stop": "<name or code>" }. Report the message verbatim (it carries disruption notices) and the next arrivals each way. Use luas/luas_list_stops to find a stop code.
3. Bus and network-wide (if configured). Call nta/nta_get_realtime_summary with { "limit": 20 } for routes with the most cancellations and delays. For one route or stop, nta/nta_get_trip_updates with route_id or stop_id (a GTFS id, e.g. "8220DB000007"). If the response is NOT_CONFIGURED, say that live bus data is not available on this server and continue with rail and Luas.
4. Stops near a point (optional). tfi-static/tfi_static_search_stops with { "lat", "lon", "radius": 500 } for nearby stop names; NaPTAN AtcoCodes are not guaranteed to equal GTFS stop ids.
5. Timestamp everything. Give the time of each call; a snapshot ages within minutes.

Output format

Illustrative layout; the values are examples, not data.

## Running now — 13:38, 26 Oct 2026
**Dublin Connolly (next 60 min):** 8 trains, 1 running ≥5 min late (max 6 min), 1 with no information
**Luas Abbey Street:** "Sunday operating hours & frequency today" — next Connolly 3 min, Saggart 1 min
**Bus (NTA):** not available on this server (NTA real-time not configured)
Sources
- Irish Rail realtime API; TII Luas Forecasting API (CC BY 4.0); NTA GTFS-Realtime (CC BY 4.0)

Rules

• Follow ../_shared/citations.md; live feeds can be delayed or empty.
• Report counts, not judgements ("unreliable", "ghost bus"). A trip missing from a feed is not proof it did not run.
• No historical claims (e.g. "worst this month"); this skill sees only the current snapshot.