Cobalt Intelligence MCP by usefulapi MCP Server

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Cobalt Intelligence MCP by usefulapi is answering right now. Last checked 13 min ago. It exposes 5 tools. Last commit 8 Nov 2026.

Search US business records by name and read Secretary of State filings in Cobalt Intelligence.

Uptime history 4 hours of history

4 hours agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

13 of 13 checks

Tools

read from the server

253 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 8 Nov 2026

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Today is the operative word: we check Cobalt Intelligence MCP by usefulapi every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 13 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add cobalt-intelligence --transport http https://cobalt-intelligence.usefulapi.io/mcp

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

https://cobalt-intelligence.usefulapi.io/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.cobalt-intelligence]
url = "https://cobalt-intelligence.usefulapi.io/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cobalt-intelligence": {
      "url": "https://cobalt-intelligence.usefulapi.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "cobalt-intelligence": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://cobalt-intelligence.usefulapi.io/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.

cobaltintelligence

cobaltintelligence_get_business

Get the Secretary of State record for one business name in one state. Add city or zip to narrow a common name. A slow search returns a retryId; check it with cobaltintelligence_get_search_result. Cobalt API: GET /v1/search. Entity records only. Not a consumer report under the FCRA. Do not use it to screen, score or decide on any person's employment, credit, insurance, housing or tenancy.

cobaltintelligence_get_business_by_sos_id

Get the Secretary of State record for one filing id (SOS id) in one state. Use the id from cobaltintelligence_search_businesses or a previous record. A slow search returns a retryId. Cobalt API: GET /v1/search?sosId=. Entity records only. Not a consumer report under the FCRA. Do not use it to screen, score or decide on any person's employment, credit, insurance, housing or tenancy.

cobaltintelligence_get_search_result

Check a search that returned a retryId. Makes one call and does not wait. Call again later if the status is still Incomplete. Cobalt API: GET /v1/search?retryId=. Entity records only. Not a consumer report under the FCRA. Do not use it to screen, score or decide on any person's employment, credit, insurance, housing or tenancy.

cobaltintelligence_list_states

List the state names the other tools accept, from Cobalt's search index. Call this first to pick a valid state. Cobalt API: GET /v1/search/index.

cobaltintelligence_search_businesses

Find business entities in one state whose name matches search_query. Returns candidate matches; pick one, then call cobaltintelligence_get_business or cobaltintelligence_get_business_by_sos_id. Cobalt API: GET /v1/search/list. Entity records only. Not a consumer report under the FCRA. Do not use it to screen, score or decide on any person's employment, credit, insurance, housing or tenancy.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://cobalt-intelligence.usefulapi.io/mcp	streamable-http	answering	237 ms	13 min ago

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Cobalt Intelligence MCP by usefulapi — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Cobalt Intelligence MCP by usefulapi do?

It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: cobaltintelligence_get_business, cobaltintelligence_get_business_by_sos_id, cobaltintelligence_get_search_result, cobaltintelligence_list_states, cobaltintelligence_search_businesses. 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 Cobalt Intelligence MCP by usefulapi working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 13 of 13 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 253 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Cobalt Intelligence MCP by usefulapi?

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 Cobalt Intelligence MCP by usefulapi need an API key?

No. Cobalt Intelligence MCP by usefulapi 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 Cobalt Intelligence MCP by usefulapi?

It answers our handshake in 253 ms on average, which is faster than 55% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is Cobalt Intelligence MCP by usefulapi open source?

The code is open source: it is published under the MIT licence, written in JavaScript, 1 stars on GitHub and 1 open issue. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at cobalt-intelligence.usefulapi.io, which runs on its operator's own terms.