Joooook/12306-mcp

12306-mcp capitalizes on the momentum of Anthropic's Model Context Protocol to solve a high-friction, regional problem: programmatically accessing China's railway data. With 775 stars and 136 forks in a year, it has significant traction within the Chinese developer community as a 'killer app' for local LLM agents (like Cursor or Claude Desktop). Defensibility is rated a 4: while the integration logic for 12306 is non-trivial due to the platform's aggressive anti-bot measures and complex API structures, the project is ultimately a wrapper. Its 'moat' consists entirely of maintaining parity with 12306's internal changes. Frontier risk is low because Western labs (OpenAI, Anthropic) are unlikely to build deep, specialized integrations for regional state-owned infrastructure. However, platform domination risk is medium because major Chinese ecosystem players (Alipay, WeChat, or Baidu) could easily release official or superior agentic plugins for 12306. The displacement horizon is set at 1-2 years, as the trend moves toward unified travel booking agents rather than single-source scrapers. The project's value currently lies in its role as a reference implementation for how to bridge legacy, high-friction APIs with the modern MCP ecosystem.