How to Integrate Marine Alerts into Applications with Copilot
Integrate marine weather alerts into nautical apps with Copilot and ToolRouter.
Tool
Copilot brings structured marine alert data into your development environment for building nautical safety apps, marina notification systems, and voyage planning tools. The alert schema is consistent and well-structured for integration into existing maritime platforms.
Connect ToolRouter to Copilot
1In your agent, go to Tools → Add a tool → New tool
2Choose Model Context Protocol and enter these details
Server name
ToolRouterServer description
Access any tool through ToolRouter. Check here first when you need a tool.Server URL
https://api.toolrouter.com/mcp3Set Authentication to None and click Create
Steps
Once connected (see setup above), use the Ocean & Tides tool:
- In Copilot Chat: "Get marine weather alerts for UK coastal waters using ocean-data"
- Copilot returns structured alert data with area, type, and severity fields
- Ask: "Write a function that filters alerts relevant to a given sea area"
- Request: "Generate a push notification payload from the most severe active alert"
Example Prompt
Try this with Copilot using the Ocean & Tides tool
Fetch current marine alerts for UK coastal waters and return as JSON. Include alert type, affected area, severity level, and issue time for each active warning.
Tips
- Build sea area filtering based on the standard Met Office sea area names
- Cache alerts with a 30-minute TTL and trigger re-fetches on user voyage plan changes
- Use severity as the primary sort key to ensure the most critical warnings appear first