American Default Research MCP Server

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American Default Research is answering right now. Last checked 13 min ago. It exposes 6 tools. Last commit 27 Jul 2026.

Read-only MCP for U.S. household distress: 96 indicators, ADI composite, 3,144 counties.

Uptime history 52 days of history

52 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

303 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 27 Jul 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check American Default Research every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 13 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add research --transport http https://mcp.americandefault.org/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "research": {
      "url": "https://mcp.americandefault.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.research]
url = "https://mcp.americandefault.org/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "research": {
      "url": "https://mcp.americandefault.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "research": {
      "url": "https://mcp.americandefault.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 6

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

indicator

get_indicator

Fetch a compact snapshot of an American Default economic indicator by slug. Returns latest value, unit, frequency, direction, pre-computed aggregates (period averages, extremes, sustained runs), editorial prose (when available), and canonical APA / MLA / Chicago / news-copy citations. Raw historical series is NOT included — use https://americandefault.org/api/indicators/{slug}.json for the full data. Slug examples: 'the-buffer' (personal savings rate), 'mortgage-delinquency', 'initial-unemployment-claims-sa'.

get_indicator_v2

Fetch an explicitly versioned compact indicator snapshot. Returns the latest value and canonical citation plus `trend_suppressed` and `series_breaks` comparison-safety fields. Callers must pass `response_version='v2'`; unsupported versions fail closed. The legacy `get_indicator` tool remains pinned to its original v1 shape.

adi

get_adi_composite

Fetch the latest quarterly reading of the American Distress Index (ADI) composite. Returns the composite score (0-100), band (1-5) with its label and the literal reading gloss, the composite's own rank in history, and the five-domain breakdown (Delinquency, Default & Legal, Debt Burden, Labor, Safety Net & Buffer) with domain scores and member component percentiles. Updated quarterly.

county

get_county_scorecard

Fetch a county's County Distress Index (CDI) scorecard by 5-digit FIPS code. Returns composite score (0-100), score label, national + state rank, 5-domain breakdown (Delinquency, Default & Legal, Debt Burden, Labor, Safety Net & Buffer), key findings, and pre-baked APA / MLA / Chicago / news-copy citations. Accepts 4-digit FIPS with implicit leading zero. 3,144 counties available.

cross

get_cross_correlations

Fetch statistically-validated leading/lagging relationships for an indicator. Source: the five-filter leading-indicator scanner (cross-correlation → first-differenced CCF → multi-crisis validation → Granger causality → out-of-sample validation). Returns two lists: `as_leader` (pairs where this indicator precedes its follower) and `as_follower` (pairs where another indicator precedes this one). Only fully-validated pairs are included — partial matches are not surfaced. Most of the 103 indicators return empty lists; only a handful of pairs clear the full gauntlet.

indicators

search_indicators

Search the 103-indicator registry by keyword. Returns ranked matches (up to `limit`, default 10, max 50) with slug, branded name, underlying name, category, and canonical URL. Scoring is substring+prefix over slug, branded_name, name, and category — e.g. query 'savings' returns both The Buffer (personal saving rate) and The Safety Net (emergency savings survey). Use this when you want to discover which slug corresponds to a concept before calling `get_indicator`.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://mcp.americandefault.org/mcp	streamable-http	answering	207 ms	13 min ago

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American Default Research — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can American Default Research do?

It exposes 6 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_adi_composite, get_county_scorecard, get_cross_correlations, get_indicator, get_indicator_v2, search_indicators. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is American Default Research working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 303 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect American Default Research?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does American Default Research need an API key?

No. American Default Research completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 6 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is American Default Research?

It answers our handshake in 303 ms on average, which is faster than 53% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is American Default Research open source?

We cannot say either way: written in Python and 0 stars on GitHub, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.