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Permit Scouter MCP Server

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Permit Scouter is answering right now. Last checked 10 min ago. It exposes 6 tools.

Daily Tampa Bay, Southwest and Central Florida permits with job value and contractor. Pay via x402.

Uptime history 22 days of history
22 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
6
Tools
read from the server
421 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Permit Scouter 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 10 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add permits --transport http https://api.permitscouter.com/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://api.permitscouter.com/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.permits]
url = "https://api.permitscouter.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "permits": {
      "url": "https://api.permitscouter.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "permits": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.permitscouter.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 6

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

contractor
contractor_history
Every permit a contractor has pulled, with total job value and counts by trade. Price: $0.10 per call (x402, USDC on Base).
coverage
coverage
Free. Cities covered today, permit counts, date range and last update time.
permit
get_permit
One permit and every change recorded to its status, value or issue date. Price: $0.01 per call (x402, USDC on Base).
permits
search_permits
Search new building permits by trade, job value, date, zip or city. Newest first, up to 25 per call. Price: $0.02 per call (x402, USDC on Base).
property
property_history
Every permit recorded at one street address, newest first. Price: $0.05 per call (x402, USDC on Base).
sample
sample_permits
Free. Three recent permits, to see the record format before paying.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://api.permitscouter.com/mcp streamable-http answering 454 ms 10 min ago

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Permit Scouter — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Permit Scouter do?
It exposes 6 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: contractor_history, coverage, get_permit, property_history, sample_permits, search_permits. 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 Permit Scouter working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 421 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Permit Scouter?
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 Permit Scouter need an API key?
No. Permit Scouter completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 6 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Permit Scouter?
It answers our handshake in 421 ms on average, which is faster than 30% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.