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Orah MCP by usefulapi is answering right now. Last checked 9 min ago. It exposes 25 tools. Last commit 8 Nov 2026.

Read students, rolls and attendance; create and update students, contacts and houses in Orah.

Uptime history 34 hours of history

34 hours agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

250 ms

Response time

average over 24h

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last commit 8 Nov 2026

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Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 9 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

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

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

https://orah.usefulapi.io/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.orah]
url = "https://orah.usefulapi.io/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "orah": {
      "url": "https://orah.usefulapi.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "orah": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://orah.usefulapi.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 25

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

orah

orah_create_contact

Create a contact (parent or guardian) for one student. Give the student's Orah id or SIS id. Orah route: POST /open-api/contact/create.

orah_create_house

Create a house (a student grouping). Orah route: POST /open-api/house/create.

orah_create_student

Create a student record. first_name and last_name are required. Creates a real student in the school's Orah. Orah route: POST /open-api/student/create.

orah_get_leave

Get one leave record (a student's planned or past absence) with its time, status, type, location and note. Orah route: POST /open-api/leave/get-single.

orah_get_roll

Get one roll with its codes and every student's mark, reason and note. Orah route: POST /open-api/roll/get-single.

orah_get_staff

Get one staff member by Orah id or SIS id. Orah route: POST /open-api/staff/get-single.

orah_get_student

Get one student with contact-relevant fields, house and dietary or medical notes. Give the Orah id or the SIS id. Orah route: POST /open-api/student/get-single.

orah_list_current_locations

List the current location record of each student (one per student; a new student may have none). Limit to some students with ids or SIS ids. Orah route: POST /open-api/location-record/get-current.

orah_list_daily_attendance

List the daily attendance status per student for a date window (the same status the Orah dashboards show). The window is required: start_date is inclusive, end_date is exclusive and optional (omit it for one day). Maximum 12 months. Orah route: POST /open-api/daily-attendance/timeline.

orah_list_groups

List groups: academic classes, advisories, athletics, activities and more. Filter by type, e.g. 'Academics', to find classes. Orah route: POST /open-api/group/list.

orah_list_houses

List all houses (student groupings) at the school. Use the ids in the student filters. Orah route: POST /open-api/house/list.

orah_list_leave_types

List the active leave types (for example absence categories) and their short codes. Orah route: POST /open-api/leave-type/list.

orah_list_location_records

List check-in and in-transit location records in time order, for all students or one student, within an optional time range. Paged. Orah route: POST /open-api/location-record/timeline.

orah_list_locations

List the school's location tree (zones, buildings, rooms, floors, outdoor facilities) with each location's state (on grounds, off grounds, home). Orah route: POST /open-api/location/tree.

orah_list_pastoral

List pastoral entries (discipline, merit, health and other student events written by staff), in date order, for all students or one student. Sensitive entries show only to staff with extra rights. Paged. Orah route: POST /open-api/pastoral/timeline.

orah_list_reason_codes

List the school's attendance reason codes (for example 'Tardy Unexcused'). Use them to read reasons on attendance and roll records. Orah route: POST /open-api/reason-code/list.

orah_list_roll_types

List roll types (Daily, Emergency, Attendance) with whether each is manual or automatic and active. Orah route: POST /open-api/roll-type/list.

orah_list_rolls

List rolls (completed by default) in a time range, without per-student marks. Use orah_get_roll for one roll's marks. Paged. Orah route: POST /open-api/roll/timeline.

orah_list_scheduled_classes

List the scheduled class attendance items for one UTC date, optionally for one staff member, group or student. Orah route: POST /open-api/classes/scheduled.

orah_list_staff

List staff members. Set deactivated to true to list suspended staff. Orah route: POST /open-api/staff/list.

orah_list_student_contacts

List the contacts (parents, guardians) of one student. Give the student's Orah id or SIS id. Orah route: POST /open-api/contact/list-by-student.

orah_list_students

List students with optional filters (house, group, year level, student type, deactivated). Without filters it returns all active students; set page_size to page the list. Orah route: POST /open-api/student/list.

orah_update_contact

Update a contact's details. Give the contact's Orah id, or its SIS id together with the student's id or SIS id. Orah route: POST /open-api/contact/update.

orah_update_house

Rename a house or change its SIS id. Give the house's Orah id or SIS id. Orah route: POST /open-api/house/update.

orah_update_student

Update a student's fields (names, year level, house, dietary or medical notes, contact details). Find the student by student_id or current_sis_id; sis_id sets a new SIS id. To hide a student from active lists, set deactivated to true. This server does not offer Orah's student delete route. Orah route: POST /open-api/student/update.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://orah.usefulapi.io/mcp	streamable-http	answering	179 ms	9 min ago

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Orah MCP by usefulapi — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Orah MCP by usefulapi do?

It exposes 25 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: orah_create_contact, orah_create_house, orah_create_student, orah_get_leave, orah_get_roll, orah_get_staff and 19 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 Orah MCP by usefulapi 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 250 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Orah 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 Orah MCP by usefulapi need an API key?

No. Orah MCP by usefulapi completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 25 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Orah MCP by usefulapi?

It answers our handshake in 250 ms on average, which is faster than 54% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is Orah 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 orah.usefulapi.io, which runs on its operator's own terms.