Bva Corpus is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 10 tools.
900,000+ Board of Veterans' Appeals decisions: VA outcomes, grant rates, PACT Act, ratings.
Uptime history
51 days of history · worst day 23%
51 days agonow
23.1%
Uptime 24h
21 of 91 checks
10
Tools
read from the server
385 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http
What changed 6
Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 5 September 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.
21 Sep
3 tool descriptions were rewritten
find_similar_appeals, get_condition_report, list_conditions
21 Sep
a tool changed the parameters it asks for
find_similar_appeals
5 Sep
a tool description was rewritten
get_condition_report
5 Sep
a tool changed the parameters it asks for
explain_appeal_options
Bva Corpus does not always answer
Over the last week it answered 36.2% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.
Connect this server
Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 6 min ago.
run in your terminal
claude mcp add bva-corpus --transport http https://www.veterans-rights.com/api/mcp~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"bva-corpus": {
"url": "https://www.veterans-rights.com/api/mcp"
}
}
}~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.bva-corpus]
url = "https://www.veterans-rights.com/api/mcp".cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"bva-corpus": {
"url": "https://www.veterans-rights.com/api/mcp"
}
}
}.vscode/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"bva-corpus": {
"url": "https://www.veterans-rights.com/api/mcp"
}
}
}Available tools 10
Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on.
If a tool disappears, we record the date.
accredited
find_accredited_rep
Find a VA-accredited representative to help with a disability claim or appeal. By law only accredited people may represent veterans: VSO (Veterans Service Organization) representatives — who help FREE — plus accredited claims agents and accredited attorneys. This tool leads with free options first. Returns representatives filtered by state, city, type, and language. Attorneys/agents may only charge fees after an initial VA decision, per 38 CFR. Not legal advice; not affiliated with the VA.
bva
search_bva_decisions
Search real U.S. Board of Veterans’ Appeals (BVA) decisions by keyword, claimed condition, disposition (granted/denied/remanded), toxic-exposure basis, service-connection theory, PACT Act, and date. Returns vetted decisions with a plain-English summary, the deciding factor, and a link to the full decision. Use to ground any claim about how VA appeals have actually been decided.
claim
get_claim_process
Plain-English guide to the 8 stages of a VA disability claim, from Intent to File through the C&P exam, the rating decision, the three AMA review lanes, the Board of Veterans’ Appeals, and the 120-day CAVC court deadline. Call with no arguments for an overview of all stages with typical durations; call with a stage number (1-8) for a deep dive on that stage: what to expect, how long it takes, the key tip, and do/don’t guidance. Use this whenever a veteran asks what happens after filing, where they are in the process, what a C&P exam is, or what to do at their current stage. Educational only, not legal advice.
condition
get_condition_report
For a single condition (by slug like "ptsd" or "sleep-apnea", or by common name/alias like "PTSD", "acid reflux", "ringing in the ears"), return a full corpus-grounded report: how Board decisions mentioning it turned out (whole-decision granted / partly granted / remanded / denied), decision-level service-connection theory labels, an explicit decision-level attribution limitation and a notice that unverified extracted ratings are withheld, and — when available — a plain-English, source-cited summary of how the VA defines and rates the condition. The richest single call for "tell me about VA claims for <condition>". Educational statistics, not a prediction or legal advice.
conditions
list_conditions
List the standardized conditions the Veterans’ Rights corpus organizes Board of Veterans’ Appeals decisions under, each with the number of vetted decisions, grants, and remands (full-corpus counts) and the body-system category. Use this to discover which conditions have data, to get the exact slug for get_condition_report, or to see which conditions occur in this collection. Counts describe whole decisions mentioning each condition, not condition-specific wins or individual chances. Counts reflect only quality-filtered, publicly visible decisions.
corpus
get_corpus_stats
Return live statistics about the Veterans’ Rights corpus: the number of vetted Board of Veterans’ Appeals decisions analyzed, the distribution of outcomes (granted / denied / remanded / mixed), the date range the decisions cover, and the number of accredited representatives in the directory. Use this to establish the scale of the data behind an answer, or when someone asks "how much data do you have / how current is it". Counts reflect only quality-filtered, publicly visible decisions.
estimate
estimate_combined_rating
Calculate a veteran’s VA combined disability rating from individual ratings, using the official whole-person formula (38 CFR § 4.25) — ratings do NOT add (e.g. 50% + 30% combines to 65% and rounds to 70%, not 80%). Supports the bilateral factor for paired-limb disabilities (§ 4.26). Returns the exact combined value, the final rating rounded to the nearest 10, and a step-by-step breakdown. Deterministic estimate for education; VA controls the official rating.
explain
explain_appeal_options
Explain a veteran’s options after a VA decision under the Appeals Modernization Act (AMA): the three review lanes — Higher-Level Review, Supplemental Claim, and Board Appeal — and the three Board dockets (Direct Review, Evidence Submission, Hearing). Returns what each is, whether new evidence is allowed, who reviews it, when each is the best fit, and the general 1-year deadline. Optionally tailors a suggested starting point based on whether new evidence exists or a hearing is wanted. Educational only, not legal advice.
presumptive
check_presumptive_conditions
Check whether a condition may be a PRESUMPTIVE service connection for a veteran — meaning VA presumes it is service-connected for qualifying service/exposure, so no medical nexus needs to be proven. Covers Agent Orange/herbicides, PACT Act burn pits & airborne hazards, Camp Lejeune water, ionizing radiation, and Gulf War illness. Returns who qualifies, the legal basis, representative conditions, and how many vetted BVA decisions granted on this basis. Lists are representative, not exhaustive; educational only.
similar
find_similar_appeals
Find source-linked recent Board decisions mentioning one or more canonical conditions. Resolves exact names, slugs and aliases; inspects at most the 50 most recent indexed decisions per condition, then applies optional decision-level filters. Results are research examples, not a representative sample, complete filtered cohort, condition-specific outcomes or chances of winning. Grant rates are withheld. Verify each issue against the original Board decision.
Endpoints
| URL | Transport | State | Latency | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://www.veterans-rights.com/api/mcp | streamable-http | answering | 107 ms | 6 min ago |
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Bva Corpus — questions
Answers built from our own checks of this server.
What can Bva Corpus do?
It exposes 10 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: check_presumptive_conditions, estimate_combined_rating, explain_appeal_options, find_accredited_rep, find_similar_appeals, get_claim_process and 4 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README.
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Is Bva Corpus working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 21 of 91 checks got a reply (23.1%), average response time 385 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
The registry lists Bva Corpus as active — why does it not respond?
The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.
How do I connect Bva Corpus?
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.
Does Bva Corpus need an API key?
No. Bva Corpus completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 10 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Bva Corpus?
It answers our handshake in 385 ms on average, which is faster than 42% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.