Connect PermitReporter — US Building Permit Intelligence and your agent gets 8 tools, among them create_permit_watch, fetch, get_contractor_leads. It answers at https://permitreporter.com/mcp over streamable HTTP, and it listed its tools to an anonymous client, so no sign-in was needed for that. Our probes reached it 10 of 10 times since 5 September 2026; the last check, on 18 October 2026, succeeded.
Source-linked building-permit search across 34 US states and DC, with county-level coverage.
Description as the publisher wrote it.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
create_permit_watch | Create a pending email watch only after the user reviews the exact email, search query and optional county, explicitly authorizes this request and confirmation email, and accepts https://permitreporter.com/terms and https://permitreporter.c Inputs: county, email, query, submission_id, terms_and_privacy_accepted, user_authorized |
fetch | Fetch one reviewed PermitReporter guide or one collected permit record returned by search. Permit records retain source, record date, collection timestamp and coverage limits. Inputs: id |
get_contractor_leads | Return recent, source-linked collected permits classified by trade and project scope for contractor research. Classifications are editorial signals, not official fields or guaranteed work. Inputs: county, days, limit, trade |
get_county_coverage | Return the current source route, issuer, cadence, lag, through-date, collected record count, sources and statistical floor for one covered US county. Call this before interpreting a missing county result. Inputs: county |
get_permit_record | Retrieve one privacy-minimized collected building-permit record by PermitReporter record ID, including its canonical citation, official source link and collection timestamp. Inputs: record_id |
get_statewide_snapshot | Return current PermitReporter counts, route-status boundaries, record-date range and latest collection timestamp without returning personal data. Pass `state` with a two-letter code to get that one jurisdiction's collected coverage, includi Inputs: state |
search | Search PermitReporter reviewed guidance and privacy-minimized collected building-permit records. Returns canonical URLs for citation. Call fetch with a returned ID for the full source. Inputs: query |
search_permits | Search privacy-minimized collected building-permit records by public text, US county, city, PermitReporter trade classification or record-date range. Coverage spans 34 states and the District of Columbia; name a county bare for Georgia ('Co Inputs: city, county, date_from, date_to, limit, query |
Every block below points at https://permitreporter.com/mcp. Pick your client and copy.
claude mcp add --transport http permitreporter-us-building-permi https://permitreporter.com/mcp
{
"mcpServers": {
"permitreporter-us-building-permi": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://permitreporter.com/mcp"]
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"permitreporter-us-building-permi": {
"url": "https://permitreporter.com/mcp"
}
}
}{
"servers": {
"permitreporter-us-building-permi": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://permitreporter.com/mcp"
}
}
}{
"context_servers": {
"permitreporter-us-building-permi": {
"url": "https://permitreporter.com/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"permitreporter-us-building-permi": {
"serverUrl": "https://permitreporter.com/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"permitreporter-us-building-permi": {
"url": "https://permitreporter.com/mcp"
}
}
}name: PermitReporter — US Building Permit Intelligence
version: 0.0.1
schema: v1
mcpServers:
- name: PermitReporter — US Building Permit Intelligence
type: streamable-http
url: https://permitreporter.com/mcp{
"mcpServers": {
"permitreporter-us-building-permi": {
"httpUrl": "https://permitreporter.com/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"permitreporter-us-building-permi": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://permitreporter.com/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"permitreporter-us-building-permi": {
"url": "https://permitreporter.com/mcp"
}
}
}goose://extension?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpermitreporter.com%2Fmcp&type=streamable_http&id=permitreporter-us-building-permi&name=PermitReporter%20%E2%80%94%20US%20Building%20Permit%20Intelligence
It answered our last check on 18 October 2026 in 121 ms. Over 10 checks since 5 September 2026 it answered 10. Status here comes from Neuronto's own probes, not from the publisher.
Yes. It is published by permitreporter.com and served from permitreporter.com, the vendor's own domain: https://permitreporter.com/mcp.
8, as returned by the server's own tools/list on 31 August 2026: create_permit_watch, fetch, get_contractor_leads, get_county_coverage, get_permit_record, get_statewide_snapshot, search, search_permits.
It answered our last check on 18 October 2026 in 121 ms. Over 10 checks since 5 September 2026 it answered 10.
Put the server under mcpServers in ~/.cursor/mcp.json with the URL https://permitreporter.com/mcp. The exact JSON is above, with the same setup for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, VS Code, Windsurf, Zed, Gemini CLI and the rest.
It listed its tools to an anonymous client, so reading the tool list needs no key. Individual tools can still ask for credentials in their own inputs.
Publisher: com.permitreporter. Endpoint host: permitreporter.com. ARD identifier: urn:air:com.permitreporter:mcp:us-building-permits.
First indexed 31 August 2026. The tools are exactly what the server returned; nothing on this page
is inferred from its name. Ranking in Neuronto search is never for sale.