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SOS.city public record MCP Server

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SOS.city public record is answering right now. Last checked 10 min ago. It exposes 20 tools.

Public records for every city: permits, alerts, wildfires, laws and funding, linked to the source.

Uptime history 11 hours of history
11 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
38 of 38 checks
20
Tools
read from the server
138 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check SOS.city public record 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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Connect this server

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 sos-city --transport http https://api.sos.city/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://api.sos.city/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.sos-city]
url = "https://api.sos.city/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sos-city": {
      "url": "https://api.sos.city/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "sos-city": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.sos.city/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 20

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

compliance
get_compliance_changes
Buildings and facilities added to, taken off, or changed on a compliance list since a day (default the last 7 days), from the agency's own data. Counts are free; the first 10 rows are free, then credits per 100 rows. Off the list means the agency's data no longer lists the item, not proof the work was done.
get_compliance_items
Rows of one compliance list (address, ZIP, dates, status, the agency's id, a link to the original, and other lists the same address is on). The first 10 rows are free; more cost credits per 100 rows (see get_store). Filter by zip, address (q), status, type, since (YYYY-MM-DD) or stacked=true (addresses on more than one list).
list_compliance
Buildings and facilities that owe a legally required inspection, filing or fix (SB 721 balcony inspections, LA energy benchmarking, open code cases, soft-story and concrete retrofits, industrial stormwater permits), read from the agency's dataset and refreshed daily. Free: what each law requires, who may sign, how many are on each list, by ZIP and status. For the firms that do this work. Not for finding or profiling people.
list_compliance_watches
The account's compliance watches: what each covers, how it's delivered, when it last went out and what it did, and its tracked items open and closed.
bank
get_bank_access
Free. How many bank and credit union branches a ZIP, county or state has today, how far the nearest bank branch is, closings and openings in the last 120 days, ZIPs left with one bank or none, and the top lenders already there. From FDIC BankFind, the NCUA call report and Census files, rebuilt daily. Give zip, county (5-digit FIPS), place (a county or state place id) or state; none gives the US.
list_bank_gaps
ZIPs where a branch closing left no bank, one bank, or a 10+ mile trip to the next branch, with the bank that left and the nearest one still open. Free: the last 30 days, 25 rows. full=true returns the whole 120-day window (100 credits from the API key, or free with a watch for that state).
city
get_city_pack
Every source that covers one place (with publisher, original link, licence and reuse terms) plus a year of records whose sources allow reuse. Costs 2900 credits from the API key's balance. Without credits, use buy (product city_pack) or the REST URL with x402.
get_city_risk
Free. FEMA National Risk Index for the county of one of the 30 largest U.S. cities: overall rating and score, every hazard's share of the risk, rating, score and expected annual loss, plus (for verified cities) the federal disaster declarations and the official emergency alert sign-up. Omit city for the list. Every result names its source; FEMA rates counties, not cities.
buy
buy
Starts a one-time purchase and returns a Stripe Checkout link for the person who pays, plus a status_url to poll. product: credits_1k ($10), credits_10k ($79) or city_pack ($29, needs place). The person must agree to the data-use terms (no screening or profiling people): pass agree_data_use=true only after they have.
departments
list_departments
The 15 departments (shelves) every source sits on, with what each covers.
gaps
list_gaps
Records people need that the library doesn't hold yet, or that no agency publishes. Check this before telling a user a record doesn't exist.
lenders
find_lenders
Every bank and credit union with a branch in one county, with branch counts and assets. 25 credits from the API key (free with a watch for that state). Organizations only.
library
search_library
Find public-records sources (datasets, portals, registers, reports) by question or keywords. Use `place` to include everything covering a place, from the city up to federal and global sources. Returns the publisher, how to get the data (API endpoint or page), update rate, last update, licence and whether we verified it. Not for finding, profiling or screening people.
order
order_bank_report
Start a checkout for a Bank desert watch (state, regional, national, closing soon, branch sites) or a one-time report (market brief, acquisition screen, merger impact). Returns a Stripe link for the person who pays. See get_store for prices.
places
list_places
The atlas: world, countries, states, counties and cities, with their ids. Filter by parent id (e.g. 'us' for US states) or kind.
records
search_records
The records SOS.city reads from agencies' open data, one row each: building permits, code-enforcement cases, inspections, certificates of occupancy, new business registrations, grants, weather alerts, earthquakes, US wildfires (NIFC), SCE power shutoffs, satellite fire detections (NASA FIRMS), bank branch openings, closings and mergers (FDIC), current drug shortages (openFDA) and county night-light drops that estimate power outages (NASA Black Marble). Filter by place, kind, ZIP or street address. Each row links to the agency's original. History depends on the plan (Free: 30 days, 100 rows). full_history=true (1 credit) and limit over 100 (1 credit per extra 100 rows, up to 1,000) are paid from the API key's credits; see get_store.
request
request_record
Ask SOS.city to find a public record that isn't in the library. It joins the gap board; give an email to hear back. Never for locating or profiling a person.
source
get_source
Full details of one source by id: publisher, original link, API endpoint, formats, update rate, last update, licence, location detail, check status and notes.
store
get_store
The SOS.city data store: what's free, what costs credits (1 credit = 1 cent), credit packs, city data packs, building records and deep searches, and every way to pay (credits with an API key, x402 USDC, or a Stripe link for a person). Shows the caller's credit balance when an API key is sent.
watch
watch_compliance
Save a watch on one compliance list (ZIPs, status, type, stacked) and get what changed daily or weekly by email and/or a signed webhook. Pass track (item keys) to follow items one by one: each closes on its own when the agency's data no longer lists it. Needs an API key. Rows past the first 10 in each delivery cost credits per 100.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://api.sos.city/mcp streamable-http answering 196 ms 10 min ago

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SOS.city public record — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can SOS.city public record do?
It exposes 20 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: buy, find_lenders, get_bank_access, get_city_pack, get_city_risk, get_compliance_changes and 14 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 SOS.city public record mostly used for?
Its tools cluster around compliance, bank and city. 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 SOS.city public record working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 38 of 38 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 138 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect SOS.city public record?
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 SOS.city public record need an API key?
No. SOS.city public record completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 20 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is SOS.city public record?
It answers our handshake in 138 ms on average, which is faster than 84% 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.