Enforcement Database MCP Server

by argushq Your server? Claim it

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 51 days of history · worst day 0%

51 days agonow

1.1%

Uptime 24h

1 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

474 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Enforcement Database does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 0.3% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 7 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

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

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://argushq.ai/api/mcp	streamable-http	answering	309 ms	7 min ago

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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 1 of 91 checks got a reply (1.1%), average response time 474 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.

How fast is Enforcement Database?

It answers our handshake in 474 ms on average, which is faster than 33% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.