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entropy-compute

station__entropy-calc__entropy-compute external (needs EXECUTION_BACKEND_URL) entropy-calc non-pv Constructa Configa

normalized or conditional entropy from probability distributions or counts.

Taxonomy

Linnaean classification joined from the algovigilance taxonomy index via the parent config's rank.

Rank	Value
domain	`Substrata`
kingdom	`Constructa`
phylum	`Configa`
class	`station-config`
order	`entropy`
family	`mcp-tool-config`

Characteristics:

substrate: config
domain: pv
lifecycle: continuous
authority: read
compounding: producer
io: agent-request → tool-response

Input schema

base stringrequired
distribution_p arrayrequired — Primary probability distribution P (required for all modes). For "mutual" and "conditional", this is a flattened joint distribution matrix in row-major order.
distribution_q array
from_counts booleanrequired
joint_rows integer
mode stringrequired — Computation mode - "shannon": Shannon entropy H(X) from distribution P - "cross": Cross-entropy H(P,Q) from two distributions - "kl": KL divergence D_KL(P||Q) - "mutual": Mutual information I(X;Y) from joint distribution - "normalized": Normalized entropy H(X)/H_max in [0,1] - "conditional": Conditional entropy H(Y|X) from joint distribution

Example call

POST /api/mcp
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "station__entropy-calc__entropy-compute",
    "arguments": {
      "base": "",
      "distribution_p": [],
      "from_counts": false,
      "mode": ""
    }
  }
}

How to invoke from a client

From any MCP-aware client, add https://algovigilance.com/api/mcp as an MCP server, then call this tool by name. From a raw HTTP client, send the JSON-RPC body above to /api/mcp.

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