Civiq MCP Server

io.github.civdotiq/civiq

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Civiq is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 47 tools. Last commit 4 Aug 2026.

U.S. civic data for AI agents: reps, votes, bills, finance, lobbying, cited gov sources. 47 tools.

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last commit 4 Aug 2026

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Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 1 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add civiq --transport http https://civdotiq.org/api/mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "civiq": {
      "url": "https://civdotiq.org/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.civiq]
url = "https://civdotiq.org/api/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "civiq": {
      "url": "https://civdotiq.org/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "civiq": {
      "url": "https://civdotiq.org/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 47

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

district

get_district_banking_profile

Banking landscape for a congressional district: FDIC-insured institutions, total deposits/assets, recent bank failures, and representative's Banking/Financial Services committee membership.

get_district_consumer_complaints

Consumer complaints aggregated by congressional district using ZIP-district mapping. Shows top complained-about companies, products, and issues for a district.

get_district_disaster_history

Disaster history for a congressional district: FEMA declarations, recurring hazard types, total assistance amounts. Cross-references with USASpending disaster relief in the district.

get_district_education_profile

Higher education landscape for a congressional district: colleges/universities by state with outcomes data, representative's Education committee membership, and relevant education policy context.

get_district_environmental_profile

Environmental profile for a congressional district: regulated facilities, active violations and toxic releases, all scoped to the district by county FIPS. Superfund sites are returned STATEWIDE, not per district, because the EPA layer serving them carries no county FIPS. Includes serving representative.

get_district_healthcare_profile

Healthcare infrastructure for a congressional district: CMS hospitals and nursing homes with quality ratings, representative's Health committee membership, and pending health legislation context.

get_district_housing_profile

Housing affordability profile for a congressional district: HUD Fair Market Rents and income limits for district counties, representative's Housing committee membership, and relevant housing policy context.

get_district_info

Get comprehensive information about a congressional district including demographics, economics, and representative.

get_district_research_profile

NIH-funded research in a congressional district: grants by state, top institutions, top-funded topics, total award amounts, and representative's Science/Health committee membership.

analyze

analyze_consumer_protection_influence

Cross-reference top complained-about companies in a state with lobbying registrants (entity resolution fuzzy match) and campaign contributions to the district representative. Checks rep votes on Finance-related legislation. Shows correlations only — not causation.

analyze_district_comprehensive

District representative info combined with STATE-level context across domains: environment (EPA), safety (FEMA, CFPB), health (CMS), economy (EIA, education, research, banking). Domain counts are statewide aggregates — these sources do not publish district-level rollups.

analyze_energy_policy_influence

Cross-reference state energy profile with energy sector lobbying registrants (entity resolution fuzzy match), Energy/Commerce committee membership, campaign contributions, and energy legislation votes. Shows correlations only — not causation.

analyze_environmental_influence

Cross-reference EPA violations in a district with lobbying and campaign finance. Maps facility SIC codes to sectors, finds lobbying in those sectors by the district rep, checks EPA-oversight committee membership overlap, and identifies environmental legislation votes.

analyze_industry_regulatory_landscape

For a given industry sector: all regulatory actions (EPA, FDA, NHTSA), lobbying filings, campaign contributions, and committee jurisdiction. Maps sector to agencies and oversight committees.

analyze_policy_area_ecosystem

For a Congress.gov policy area: related agencies, industry sectors, lobbying activity, committee oversight, and Federal Register keywords. Uses policy-area-map as the cross-domain join hub.

analyze_vote_prediction

ML-based vote prediction analysis. Returns independence score (how often a legislator votes against their donor-predicted position), SHAP factors, and notable deviations.

federal

get_federal_debt_context

Current federal debt with context: total public debt outstanding, debt held by public vs intragovernmental holdings, and record date. Useful for fiscal policy discussions.

get_federal_fiscal_data

Federal fiscal overview from Treasury: national debt, monthly revenue by category, and spending by category. Returns current figures and fiscal year totals.

get_federal_register

Search Federal Register for rules, proposed rules, notices, and executive orders.

get_federal_spending

Get federal contracts and grants for a congressional district from USASpending.gov.

state

get_state_climate_profile

Climate profile for a state: NOAA climate normals, severe weather event history, and the state delegation's Environment committee membership for climate policy context.

get_state_energy_profile

State energy profile from EIA: total consumption, production, electricity generation, renewable percentage, and top energy sources. Returns production mix and trends.

get_state_public_safety_profile

State crime trends with national comparison, Judiciary committee memberships from the state's congressional delegation, and relevant policy area context for criminal justice legislation.

list_state_delegation

List all federal legislators for a state (both senators and all House representatives).

vehicle

search_vehicle_complaints

Search NHTSA consumer complaints about vehicles by make, model, and/or component. Returns incident details including injuries, deaths, crashes, fires, and complaint summary.

search_vehicle_recalls

Search NHTSA vehicle recalls by make, model, and/or year. Returns campaign number, affected component, safety summary, consequence, remedy, and whether to park the vehicle immediately.

bill

get_bill_details

Get detailed information about a specific bill including sponsor, cosponsors, committees, actions, and policy area.

campaign

get_campaign_finance

Get FEC campaign finance data for a legislator including total raised/spent, PAC contributions, and industry breakdown.

climate

get_climate_data

NOAA climate normals for a state: average temperature, min/max temperatures, precipitation, and snowfall from 30-year normal period. Requires NOAA_TOKEN.

colleges

search_colleges

Search College Scorecard for higher education institutions by state and/or name. Returns admission rate, graduation rate, average net price, median earnings, median debt, and size.

committee

get_committee_info

Get detailed information about a congressional committee including members, jurisdiction, and subcommittees.

compare

compare_legislators

Compare multiple legislators side-by-side. Returns profiles for each bioguideId.

consumer

search_consumer_complaints

Search CFPB consumer complaints by company, product, state, or date range. Returns complaint details including issue, response, and timeliness.

crime

search_crime_statistics

FBI UCR crime statistics by state and offense type. Returns actual counts, rates per 100,000, clearances, and national comparison. Offense types: violent-crime, property-crime, HOM, RPE, ROB, ASS, BUR, LAR, MVT, ARS.

epa

search_epa_facilities

Search EPA-regulated facilities by state, ZIP, or SIC code. Returns facility name, address, compliance status, violations, and penalties.

fdic

search_fdic_institutions

Search FDIC-insured banks and financial institutions by state, name, or city. Returns total assets, deposits, number of offices, charter class, and regulator.

fema

search_fema_disasters

Search FEMA disaster declarations by state, year, or type (DR=Major Disaster, EM=Emergency, FM=Fire Management). Returns declaration number, dates, programs, and designated areas.

healthcare

search_healthcare_providers

Search CMS hospitals and nursing homes by state with quality ratings. Returns overall star ratings, safety/mortality comparisons for hospitals, and inspection/staffing ratings for nursing homes.

housing

get_housing_affordability

HUD Fair Market Rents and income limits by county FIPS code. Returns rental rates by bedroom count and income thresholds (very low, extremely low, low) by household size.

influence

get_influence_chain

Trace lobbying money through contributions, committee assignments, and votes for a legislator. Shows the path from lobbying org to legislative outcome.

legislation

search_legislation

Search for bills in Congress. Provide `query` for full-text keyword/topic search (e.g. "broadband", "veterans healthcare") via GovInfo's full-text bill index; results include a congress-type-number id you can pass to get_bill_details. Without `query`, returns the most recently updated bills (optionally filtered by type).

lobbying

search_lobbying

Search Senate LDA lobbying filings from the complete corpus — every quarterly report (LD-2) in the covered window, not a sample. Returns registrant, client, spending amount, issue codes and the committees each filing touches, plus exact totals. Filter by quarter, by organization, or both. Amounts are plausibility-gated (income <= $5M, expenses <= $50M per filing).

lookup

lookup_representatives

Find federal legislators by full street address (most accurate) or by state. A full address resolves the exact congressional district via Census Geocoder. Returns bioguideId, name, party, state, district, chamber.

nih

search_nih_grants

Search NIH-funded research grants by state, institution, or topic. Returns project title, principal investigator, award amount, NIH institute, and organization.

representative

get_representative_profile

Get detailed profile for a specific legislator including committees, social media, biography, and contact info.

vote

get_vote_record

Get details about a specific House roll call vote including all member positions. Note: only House votes are available via this tool.

voting

get_voting_history

Get a legislator's recent voting record. Returns vote ID, bill info, position, result, and date.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://civdotiq.org/api/mcp	streamable-http	answering	48 ms	1 min ago

Civiq — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Civiq do?

It exposes 47 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: analyze_consumer_protection_influence, analyze_district_comprehensive, analyze_energy_policy_influence, analyze_environmental_influence, analyze_industry_regulatory_landscape, analyze_policy_area_ecosystem and 41 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 →

What is Civiq mostly used for?

Its tools cluster around district, analyze and state. That is what this server is built to work with — the grouping comes from the actual tool names, not from a category we assigned.

Is Civiq working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 13 of 92 checks got a reply (14.1%), average response time 916 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

The registry lists Civiq 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 Civiq?

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 Civiq need an API key?

No. Civiq completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 47 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Civiq?

It answers our handshake in 916 ms on average, which is faster than 7% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is Civiq open source?

Yes — it is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, written in TypeScript, 0 stars on GitHub and 6 open issues. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.