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Enforcement Database MCP Server

ai.argushq/enforcement-database
not responding

Enforcement Database is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 5 tools.

Search Argus HQ public FDA enforcement data: warning letters, recalls, approvals, 483s.

The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private.

Uptime history 39 hours of history · worst hour 0%
39 hours agonow
0.0%
Uptime 24h
0 of 91 checks
5
Tools
read from the server
196 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

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.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add enforcement-database --transport http https://argushq.ai/api/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "enforcement-database": {
      "url": "https://argushq.ai/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.enforcement-database]
url = "https://argushq.ai/api/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "enforcement-database": {
      "url": "https://argushq.ai/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "enforcement-database": {
      "url": "https://argushq.ai/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 5

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

company
get_company_history
Every FDA warning letter, recall, approval, and 483 citation Argus HQ has recorded for a given company, by its Argus HQ company slug (e.g. "pfizer-inc").
enforcement
search_enforcement
Full-text search across all 1,000+ Argus HQ FDA enforcement pages (warning letters, recalls, approvals, 483 inspections) by keyword, product name, or company name.
recall
get_recall_by_lot
Finds every FDA recall record that references a specific product lot number.
recent
list_recent_actions
The most recent published FDA warning letters, recalls, approvals, and 483 citations across all streams.
warning
get_warning_letter
Direct lookup of an FDA warning letter. Accepts either the FDA reference number printed in the letter itself (e.g. "320-26-65") or the fda.gov URL slug ID for the letter.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://argushq.ai/api/mcp streamable-http answering 196 ms 13 min ago

Enforcement Database — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Enforcement Database do?
It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_company_history, get_recall_by_lot, get_warning_letter, list_recent_actions, search_enforcement. 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 Enforcement Database working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 0 of 91 checks got a reply (0.0%), average response time 196 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
Is Enforcement Database still maintained?
The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private. We show this because it changes what you can expect: an unmaintained server may keep answering for months and then stop without warning.
The registry lists Enforcement Database as active — why does it not respond?
The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.
How do I connect Enforcement Database?
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 Enforcement Database need an API key?
No. Enforcement Database completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.