GovGazette MCP Server

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GovGazette is answering right now. Last checked 3 min ago. It exposes 11 tools. Last commit 28 Oct 2026.

Find federal contracting opportunities, research awards and vendors, and review exclusion evidence.

Uptime history 7 days of history · worst day 96%

7 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

415 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 28 Oct 2026

What changed 6

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 28 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

28 Oct 6 tools disappeared create_saved_search, delete_saved_search, delete_saved_search_workspace and 3 more

GovGazette does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 99.2% 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 3 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add govgazette --transport http https://govgazette.com/api/v1/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://govgazette.com/api/v1/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.govgazette]
url = "https://govgazette.com/api/v1/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "govgazette": {
      "url": "https://govgazette.com/api/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "govgazette": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://govgazette.com/api/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 11

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

exclusion

exclusion_changes

Compare two retained snapshots. No longer observed does not mean reinstated; enrichment-only changes are excluded.

exclusion_context

Retrieve an exclusion with agency explanation, named restriction references, source evidence, explicit source-age warnings and supported business links.

exclusions

check_exclusions

Check 1 to 20 identities against a dated active SAM snapshot. Pass identities as an array of objects, not a record ID or page URL. Each identity needs a name, UEI, CAGE, or NPI. Exact identifier matches and name-only possible matches remain distinct. Read coverage.freshness; stale or unknown-source empty lookups report unavailable with snapshot_status no_match_in_snapshot. No match is not clearance.

search_exclusions

Filter active exclusion records by agency, program, classification, geography and dates. Limit is a maximum; large records can produce a smaller page with page_size_limited true. Continue with next_cursor and unchanged filters and limit. Preserve generation and read coverage.freshness for source age and warnings; results are dated evidence, not clearance.

detail

detail

Retrieve a public record using the exact collection and id returned by search, never a page URL, title or slug. Supply the returned generation for a consistent result.

document

document

Read official record text using the exact collection, id and generation returned by search. Start at offset 0 with length 1 to 16,000 characters, then use next_offset unchanged for the next chunk. Does not fetch arbitrary URLs or paths.

explain

explain_match

Explain deterministic primary NAICS overlap between a registered vendor and opportunity. Not an eligibility determination.

freshness

freshness

Report actual source dates, coverage, record counts and SHA256 provenance.

opportunities

search_opportunities

Find official opportunity records by keywords, industry, set-aside, state, agency and source status. Active does not imply the deadline is open.

research

research_opportunity

Build a cited research brief with retained notice requirements, exact award-number candidates and same-industry comparisons. Does not infer an incumbent or eligibility.

search

Search public opportunities, vendors, awards, exclusions, or reference collections. Results include provenance and a generation-pinned cursor.

Tools removed

Tools this server used to expose. Anything built against them stopped working on the day they went.

create_saved_search

removed 28 Oct 2026

delete_saved_search

removed 28 Oct 2026

delete_saved_search_workspace

removed 28 Oct 2026

get_saved_search_events

removed 28 Oct 2026

list_saved_searches

removed 28 Oct 2026

rotate_saved_search_feed

removed 28 Oct 2026

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://govgazette.com/api/v1/mcp	streamable-http	answering	429 ms	3 min ago

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GovGazette — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can GovGazette do?

It exposes 11 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: check_exclusions, detail, document, exclusion_changes, exclusion_context, explain_match and 5 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 GovGazette mostly used for?

Its tools cluster around exclusion and exclusions. 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 GovGazette working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 415 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

Did GovGazette ever remove tools?

Yes. create_saved_search, delete_saved_search, delete_saved_search_workspace, get_saved_search_events and 2 more are no longer exposed — we recorded the date each one disappeared. A tool vanishing usually means a breaking change for anything that depended on it.

How do I connect GovGazette?

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 GovGazette need an API key?

No. GovGazette completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 11 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is GovGazette?

It answers our handshake in 415 ms on average, which is faster than 31% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is GovGazette open source?

The code is open source: it is published under the MIT licence and 0 stars on GitHub. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at govgazette.com, which runs on its operator's own terms.