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USASpending Federal Contracts & Grants Intelligence MCP Server

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USASpending Federal Contracts & Grants Intelligence is answering right now. Last checked 10 min ago. It exposes 28 tools.

Query USASpending.gov federal contract awards, grants, and government contractor recipients.

Uptime history 46 hours of history
46 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
28
Tools
read from the server
231 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

What changed 1

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 6 November 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

6 Nov a tool appeared agent_url_to_clean_markdown

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check USASpending Federal Contracts & Grants Intelligence every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 10 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add usaspending-federal-awards --transport http https://ceadigital.io/mcp/usaspending
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://ceadigital.io/mcp/usaspending
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.usaspending-federal-awards]
url = "https://ceadigital.io/mcp/usaspending"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "usaspending-federal-awards": {
      "url": "https://ceadigital.io/mcp/usaspending"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "usaspending-federal-awards": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://ceadigital.io/mcp/usaspending"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 28

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

agent
agent_base_tx_simulate
High-velocity Agent Operational Primitive ($0.005 USDC on Base): Pre-execution Base L2 (eip155:8453) calldata simulator & wallet drain guard via eth_call + eth_estimateGas + unlimited ERC-20 approve detection.
agent_clean_web_grounding
High-velocity Agent Operational Primitive ($0.008 USDC on Base): Fast, token-optimized real-time web grounding & clean Markdown synthesis stripped of HTML bloat, ads, and scripts for LLM context windows.
agent_compliance_notary_attest
Tamper-evident SHA-256 hash-chained Agent Decision & Compliance Notary for EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, and SOC2 autonomous agent audit trails.
agent_token_intel_and_honeypot
High-velocity Agent Operational Primitive ($0.005 USDC on Base): Real-time DEX pool liquidity, 24h volume, buy/sell execution symmetry, Base bytecode check, and deterministic 0-100 Honeypot & Anti-Rug Safety Score.
agent_url_to_clean_markdown
High-velocity Agent Operational Primitive ($0.005 USDC on Base): Live URL-to-Clean-Markdown extractor competing with Firecrawl/Jina. Fetches any public URL via SSRF-safe HTTP + LegalTDMGuard and returns clean, prompt-injection-scrubbed Markdown.
cfpb
cfpb_complaints
Query US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) complaint database (17 U.S.C. § 105 public domain).
cisa
cisa_kev_exploited_vulns
Query US CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog for active in-the-wild exploitation, mandatory federal patch due dates, and ransomware usage.
corporate
corporate_kyb_and_risk_dossier
5-Source Parallel Composite Dossier: Joins GLEIF LEI + SEC EDGAR + CFPB Complaints + USASpending Federal Awards + FDIC in <400ms with a 0-100 Counterparty Verification Score.
crtsh
crtsh_cert_recon
Query Sectigo Certificate Transparency logs (crt.sh) for issued SSL/TLS certificates and subdomains.
cyber
cyber_supply_chain_security_dossier
5-Source Parallel Security Dossier: Joins crt.sh SSL Certs + Google deps.dev OpenSSF Scorecard + FIRST.org EPSS + CISA KEV + OSV.dev CVEs in <400ms with a 0-100 Security Posture Score.
depsdev
depsdev_openssf_scorecard
Query Google Open Source Insights (deps.dev) and Linux Foundation OpenSSF Security Scorecard (0-10) for any GitHub repository or package (#1 in MCP Registry).
dexscreener
dexscreener_token_audit
Real-time DEX liquidity, price, pair volume, and market cap analytics via DexScreener.
epss
epss_exploit_score
Query FIRST.org Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS) for 30-day real-world exploit probability.
fdic
fdic_bank_health
Factual public supervisory bank health and branch metrics compiled from FDIC under 12 CFR Part 328.
gcp
gcp_catalog_search
Sub-millisecond FTS5 search across 17,671 Google Cloud, Vertex AI, and A2A service records.
github
github_repo_pulse
Extract repository activity pulse (stars, forks, open issues, license, last push) with ETag caching.
gleif
gleif_lei_kyb
Query Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) registry for corporate KYB and LEI records.
npi
npi_medical_registry
CMS NPPES NPI Registry lookup for healthcare organizations and facilities (NPI-2 only, HIPAA safe harbor).
nyfed
nyfed_sofr_reference_rates
Query Federal Reserve Bank of New York official Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) benchmark rates, percentiles, and daily repo volume (#1 in MCP Registry).
openalex
openalex_citation_graph
Academic citation graph metadata and scholarly network metrics from OpenAlex (CC0).
package
package_health_pulse
Parallel health pulse inspection across NPM and PyPI ecosystems.
provision
provision_free_developer_key
FREE Self-Serve API Key Generator: Instantly mints a 50-call free starter `cea_live_` Bearer token with copy-paste snippets for Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, ElizaOS, and Coinbase AgentKit.
sec
sec_edgar_cik_lookup
SEC EDGAR company submission facts, quarterly filings, and CIK lookup under Lowe v. SEC Publisher's Exclusion.
security
security_cve_audit
Audit package vulnerabilities and CVE advisories via OSV.dev database.
submit
submit_feedback_or_rate_quote
Free interactive MCP feedback, feature requests, and custom rate quote negotiation (alias: submit_mcp_feedback_or_request).
usaspending
usaspending_awards
Query USASpending.gov Federal Awards and Contractor Intelligence (17 U.S.C. § 105 public domain).
usgs
usgs_seismic_hazard
Seismic activity and earthquake risk profiles from USGS GeoJSON services.
vault
vault_knowledge_search
FTS5 search across 36,628 video transcript chunks and 106,308 knowledge graph triples in vault.db.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://ceadigital.io/mcp/usaspending streamable-http answering 199 ms 10 min ago

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USASpending Federal Contracts & Grants Intelligence — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can USASpending Federal Contracts & Grants Intelligence do?
It exposes 28 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: agent_base_tx_simulate, agent_clean_web_grounding, agent_compliance_notary_attest, agent_token_intel_and_honeypot, agent_url_to_clean_markdown, cfpb_complaints and 22 more. 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 USASpending Federal Contracts & Grants Intelligence 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 231 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect USASpending Federal Contracts & Grants Intelligence?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does USASpending Federal Contracts & Grants Intelligence need an API key?
No. USASpending Federal Contracts & Grants Intelligence completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 28 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is USASpending Federal Contracts & Grants Intelligence?
It answers our handshake in 231 ms on average, which is faster than 62% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.