whoislicensed — state license lookup MCP Server

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whoislicensed — state license lookup is answering right now. Last checked 7 min ago. It exposes 2 tools.

Verify a contractor, real estate or cosmetology license in 12 US states from the boards' own files.

Uptime history 11 days of history

11 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

144 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check whoislicensed — state license lookup 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 7 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add lookup --transport http https://whoislicensed.com/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "lookup": {
      "url": "https://whoislicensed.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.lookup]
url = "https://whoislicensed.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "lookup": {
      "url": "https://whoislicensed.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "lookup": {
      "url": "https://whoislicensed.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 2

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

license

list_license_types

Which states and license types whoislicensed.com carries, with what each license covers and the page URL. Use it to pick a state and an optional license_type for verify_license.

verify

verify_license

Look up a contractor, tradesperson, real estate, cosmetology or nursing license in a US state's own published license file by name, business name or license number. Returns up to 25 matching records with type, number, expiration date and status, the issuing board and the date of the copy. Covers 12 states: TX, CA, FL, VA, WA, OR, MN, IL, CT, CO, VT, DE. Always tell the user to confirm on the board's own lookup before hiring.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://whoislicensed.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	101 ms	7 min ago

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whoislicensed — state license lookup — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can whoislicensed — state license lookup do?

It exposes 2 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: list_license_types, verify_license. 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 whoislicensed — state license lookup working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 144 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect whoislicensed — state license lookup?

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 whoislicensed — state license lookup need an API key?

No. whoislicensed — state license lookup completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 2 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is whoislicensed — state license lookup?

It answers our handshake in 144 ms on average, which is faster than 81% 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.