Oravan is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 5 tools. Last commit 22 Sep 2026.
Nonpartisan U.S. Congress data: bill decodes, rep lookup, bilingual EN/ES, read-only, no accounts.
Uptime history
51 days of history · worst day 0%
51 days agonow
2.2%
Uptime 24h
2 of 91 checks
5
Tools
read from the server
774 ms
Response time
average over 24h
1
Stars
last commit 22 Sep 2026
Oravan does not always answer
Over the last week it answered 0.5% 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.
run in your terminal
claude mcp add mcp --transport http https://oravan.org/api/mcp/mcp~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp": {
"url": "https://oravan.org/api/mcp/mcp"
}
}
}~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.mcp]
url = "https://oravan.org/api/mcp/mcp".cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp": {
"url": "https://oravan.org/api/mcp/mcp"
}
}
}.vscode/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp": {
"url": "https://oravan.org/api/mcp/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.
bill
get_bill
Get the full plain-language decode of a federal bill by slug (e.g. "hr-2701-119") or citation (e.g. "H.R. 2701" - resolves to the most recent Congress on a match). Returns the AI-generated summary (headline, tl;dr, what/who/why/cost - automatically checked before publish and clearly labeled when present), the official status in plain language, an urgency band, sponsor, key dates, the official Congress.gov page, and an act_url to Oravan's on-site call flow. This tool never drafts a phone script - script generation happens only on-site, where the caller reads and can edit the script before dialing; that is not available over this API.
bills
search_bills
Search Oravan's bilingual federal bill corpus by free-text query, issue topic, status, or active-only. Returns short teasers (headline, status, urgency) for matching bills, most urgent first.
lookup
lookup_representatives
Look up a person's U.S. House member and two Senators by 5-digit ZIP code. Returns each member's name, party, phone, official website, portrait URL, and district office phone numbers - the number a constituent should actually call. Some ZIP codes span more than one congressional district (needs_address: true, all candidate districts returned); this tool does not perform address-level refinement itself in this release - point the person to the response's reps_url, where a stateless, unlogged Census-geocoder proxy narrows it to a single district from a street address that Oravan never stores. When a House seat currently has no member, `vacancies` lists the empty seat(s) (state + district) explicitly - the departed member is never returned as if still serving, and no election timeline is implied.
representative
get_representative
Get full details for one member of Congress by bioguide ID (e.g. "W000797"), plus their 5 most recently active sponsored bills. Facts only: no scorecards, ratings, or vote grades.
whats
whats_moving
What's moving in Congress recently: active, plain-language-decoded bills that cleared Oravan's 'act now' urgency bar within the last N days (default 7), optionally filtered by topic. Returns an honest empty list with quiet_week: true when nothing has cleared the bar - this tool never pads the list to look busier than Congress actually is this week. If the list is empty because Oravan's own data sync looks stale rather than Congress being quiet, data_stale is set instead so that distinction is never lost.
Endpoints
| URL | Transport | State | Latency | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://oravan.org/api/mcp/mcp | streamable-http | answering | 460 ms | 7 min ago |
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Oravan — questions
Answers built from our own checks of this server.
What can Oravan do?
It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_bill, get_representative, lookup_representatives, search_bills, whats_moving. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README.
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Is Oravan working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 2 of 91 checks got a reply (2.2%), average response time 774 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
The registry lists Oravan 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 Oravan?
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 Oravan need an API key?
No. Oravan 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 Oravan?
It answers our handshake in 774 ms on average, which is faster than 16% 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 Oravan open source?
Yes — it is published under the AGPL-3.0 licence, written in TypeScript, 1 stars on GitHub and 8 open issues. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.