PermitInfoBroker MCP Server

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answering

PermitInfoBroker is answering right now. Last checked 14 min ago. It exposes 9 tools.

Daily US building permits for 30 cities and counties. Free counts; records paid per call via x402.

Uptime history 13 days of history · worst day 16%

13 days agonow

50.5%

Uptime 24h

46 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

556 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

What changed 14

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 27 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

29 Oct 3 tool descriptions were rewritten4 times that day count_permits, list_coverage, search_permits

29 Oct 2 tools changed the parameters they ask for3 times that day count_permits, search_permits

29 Oct 2 tools appeared sample_permits, top_contractors

27 Oct 3 tool descriptions were rewritten permit_history_for_address, search_permits, weekly_permit_report

27 Oct 2 tools changed the parameters they ask for count_permits, search_permits

and 2 more, back to 27 October 2026

PermitInfoBroker does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 31.7% 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 14 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add permits --transport http https://permitinfobroker.com/mcp

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

https://permitinfobroker.com/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.permits]
url = "https://permitinfobroker.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "permits": {
      "url": "https://permitinfobroker.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "permits": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://permitinfobroker.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 9

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

permit

permit_history_for_address

Every known building permit at a street address in any covered area. Costs $0.10 in USDC (x402; Base, Solana, Polygon or Arbitrum); no charge when nothing matches.

permit_stats

Count building permits issued in the last N days (1-90) by category, for one area or all. Free.

permit_trends

Daily permit counts and the busiest cities and zip codes for one category over the last N days. Free.

count

count_permits

How many permits match a search (area, category, city, zip, distance, multi-trade projects, dates, minimum value) before paying for the records. Free.

coverage

list_coverage

List covered US cities and counties (ids, names, permit counts, newest permit date, and how often their records include zip, location, job value, contractor and phone), permit categories and prices. Free.

permits

search_permits

Newly issued building permits with address, permit type, description, contractor, job value and issue date, filtered by area, category, city, zip, distance from a point or zip, multi-trade projects, dates and minimum value, newest first or sorted by job value or urgency. Up to 100 per call. Costs $0.40 in USDC (x402; Base, Solana, Polygon or Arbitrum); no charge when nothing matches.

sample

sample_permits

Three real permit records from 30-60 days ago for one area (optionally one category), to see the data before paying. Free.

top

top_contractors

The busiest contractors in one area over the last 7-90 days, optionally for one permit type: permit counts, total declared job value, mix of work, busiest zip codes and business phone where the city publishes it. Costs $5.00 in USDC (x402; Base, Solana, Polygon or Arbitrum); no charge when nothing matches.

weekly

weekly_permit_report

All building permits issued in the last 7 days for one area, with counts by category. Costs $4.00 in USDC (x402; Base, Solana, Polygon or Arbitrum); no charge when nothing matches.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://permitinfobroker.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	548 ms	14 min ago

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PermitInfoBroker — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can PermitInfoBroker do?

It exposes 9 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: count_permits, list_coverage, permit_history_for_address, permit_stats, permit_trends, sample_permits and 3 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 PermitInfoBroker working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 46 of 91 checks got a reply (50.5%), average response time 556 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect PermitInfoBroker?

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 PermitInfoBroker need an API key?

No. PermitInfoBroker completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 9 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is PermitInfoBroker?

It answers our handshake in 556 ms on average, which is faster than 20% 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.