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PermitReporter — US Building Permit Intelligence MCP Server

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PermitReporter — US Building Permit Intelligence is answering right now. Last checked 7 min ago. It exposes 8 tools.

Source-linked building-permit search across 34 US states and DC, with county-level coverage.

Uptime history 48 days of history · worst day 76%
48 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
92 of 92 checks
8
Tools
read from the server
96 ms
Response time
average over 24h
authentication required
Access
streamable-http

What changed 9

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 5 September 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

5 Sep 5 tool descriptions were rewritten fetch, get_contractor_leads, get_permit_record and 2 more
5 Sep 3 tools changed the parameters they ask for fetch, get_contractor_leads, search_permits
5 Sep a tool changed version

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check PermitReporter — US Building Permit 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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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 us-building-permits --transport http https://permitreporter.com/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "us-building-permits": {
      "url": "https://permitreporter.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.us-building-permits]
url = "https://permitreporter.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "us-building-permits": {
      "url": "https://permitreporter.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "us-building-permits": {
      "url": "https://permitreporter.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

This endpoint answered with an authorization challenge. The server is running, but it did not say what kind of credentials it expects.

Available tools 8

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

permit
create_permit_watch
Create a pending email watch only after the user reviews the exact email, search query and optional county, explicitly authorizes this request and confirmation email, and accepts https://permitreporter.com/terms and https://permitreporter.com/privacy. This additive action stores the email and search for alerts; it does not file a permit or prove coverage. The address must confirm before alerts begin. Reuse submission_id for safe retries.
get_permit_record
Retrieve one privacy-minimized collected building-permit record by PermitReporter record ID, including its canonical citation, official source link and collection timestamp. Costs 0.005 USDC via x402; a missing record is unbilled.
contractor
get_contractor_leads
Return recent, source-linked collected permits classified by trade and project scope for contractor research within the last days ending today (default 30). Costs 0.01 USDC via x402; empty results are unbilled. Classifications are editorial signals, not official fields or guaranteed work.
county
get_county_coverage
Return the current source route, issuer, cadence, lag, through-date, collected record count, sources and statistical floor for one covered US county. Call this before interpreting a missing county result.
fetch
fetch
Fetch a guide:ID for free, or a permit:ID for 0.005 USDC via x402. Permit records retain source, record date, collection timestamp and coverage limits.
permits
search_permits
Costs 0.005 USDC via x402; empty results are unbilled. Search privacy-minimized collected building-permit records by public text, US county, city, PermitReporter trade classification or record-date range. Coverage spans 34 states and the District of Columbia; name a county bare for Georgia ('Cobb') or state-qualified elsewhere ('Los Angeles, CA'). Returns no raw payloads or party arrays. An empty result means no matching record was collected, not that no permit exists.
search
search
Search free PermitReporter reviewed guides and coverage guidance. Returns guide IDs and canonical URLs. Use the paid search_permits tool for collected permit records.
statewide
get_statewide_snapshot
Return current PermitReporter counts, route-status boundaries, record-date range and latest collection timestamp without returning personal data. Pass `state` with a two-letter code to get that one jurisdiction's collected coverage, including an explicit answer for states where nothing has been collected yet.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://permitreporter.com/mcp streamable-http needs auth 77 ms 7 min ago

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PermitReporter — US Building Permit Intelligence — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can PermitReporter — US Building Permit Intelligence do?
It exposes 8 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: create_permit_watch, fetch, get_contractor_leads, get_county_coverage, get_permit_record, get_statewide_snapshot and 2 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 PermitReporter — US Building Permit Intelligence 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 96 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect PermitReporter — US Building Permit Intelligence?
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. You will need your own credentials: it refuses anonymous clients.
Does PermitReporter — US Building Permit Intelligence need an API key?
Yes. Every time we knock, PermitReporter — US Building Permit Intelligence answers with an authorization challenge instead of its tool list — that is how we know it is running and gated rather than broken. Bring your own credentials and it will talk.
How fast is PermitReporter — US Building Permit Intelligence?
It answers our handshake in 96 ms on average, which is faster than 85% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.